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    Calculating rolling offsets is an important skill for plumbing, heating, and engineering jobs. A rolling offset refers to the directional changes of a pipe in a system. There are three steps to calculate a rolling offset: [1] Determine the rise (vertical distance) and spread (horizontal distance) of the pipes. [2] Use the equation: Rolling offset = square root of (rise squared x spread squared). [3] For a 45 degree offset, divide the true offset by the cosine of 45 degrees.

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    Calculating rolling offsets is an important skill for plumbing, heating, and engineering jobs. A rolling offset refers to the directional changes of a pipe in a system. There are three steps to calculate a rolling offset: [1] Determine the rise (vertical distance) and spread (horizontal distance) of the pipes. [2] Use the equation: Rolling offset = square root of (rise squared x spread squared). [3] For a 45 degree offset, divide the true offset by the cosine of 45 degrees.

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    Calculating rolling offsets is an important skill for plumbing, heating, and engineering jobs. A rolling offset refers to the directional changes of a pipe in a system. There are three steps to calculate a rolling offset: [1] Determine the rise (vertical distance) and spread (horizontal distance) of the pipes. [2] Use the equation: Rolling offset = square root of (rise squared x spread squared). [3] For a 45 degree offset, divide the true offset by the cosine of 45 degrees.

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    Calculating rolling offsets is an important skill for plumbing, heating, and engineering jobs. A rolling offset refers to the directional changes of a pipe in a system. There are three steps to calculate a rolling offset: [1] Determine the rise (vertical distance) and spread (horizontal distance) of the pipes. [2] Use the equation: Rolling offset = square root of (rise squared x spread squared). [3] For a 45 degree offset, divide the true offset by the cosine of 45 degrees.

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    The key takeaways are that calculating rolling offsets is an important skill for plumbing, heating, and engineering jobs, and that it involves determining the rise, spread, and using the Pythagorean theorem and trigonometry to calculate the offset length.

    To calculate a rolling offset, you determine the rise and spread of the piping system, and enter those values into the formula: Rolling offset = square root of (rise squared x spread squared).

    The steps to calculate a 45 degree rolling offset are to measure the offset and rise, square each value, add the squares, take the square root to find the true offset, and divide the true offset by the cosine of 45 degrees (0.707) to find the rolling offset length.

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    How to Calculate Rolling Offsets


    By an eHow Contributor , last updated March 30, 2012

    How to Calculate Rolling


    Offsets

    Calculating rolling offsets is an important skill to hone if you plan on working in


    plumbing, heating or in any job that requires high-level engineering skills. Rolling offsets
    refer to the directional changes (both vertically and horizontally) that a pipe can make in
    a plumbing or heating system. While calculating rolling offsets may sound like a difficult
    process, it is actually quite simple with the proper instructions. Does this Spark an idea?

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    Instructions
    1.
    o 1

    Determine the rise of the pipes in question. The rise refers to how high
    vertically the piping system goes and is measured by referring to its
    highest point on the grid.

    o 2

    Determine the spread of the piping system in question. The spread refers
    to the total length of the piping system horizontally along the grid and is
    measured by beginning at one end point and continuing until you reach the
    other end point.

    o
    o 3

    Enter the numbers that were calculated for rise and spread into the
    following equation: Rolling offset = the square root of the rise (squared)
    multiplied by the spread (squared). For example, if you were using a
    spread of 4 and a rise of 2, the rolling offset would be equal to the square
    root of 4 multiplied by 16, or 64. Use a calculator to determine the exact
    numerical value of your particular equation.

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    How to Do a 45 Rolling Offset


    By Ryan Menezes, eHow Contributor , last updated October 16, 2011
    Plumbing connectors join
    separate pipes.

    A rolling offset is the length that connects two disjointed pipes. A 45 rolling offset is this
    length of piping that you need when you use 45-degree connectors, the most common
    connector type. This length forms the hypotenuse of a triangle whose other sides are the
    true offset, which is the perpendicular diagonal between the pipes, and a third
    measurement called the setback. Calculate the rolling offset using the Pythagorean
    theorem and trigonometry.

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    Instructions
    1.
    o 1

    Measure the pipes' offset, which is the horizontal distance between their
    center lines. For example, suppose that two pipes have an offset of 14
    inches.
    o 2

    Square the offset. With this example, square 14, giving 196 square inches.

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    o 3

    Measure the pipes' rise, which is the vertical distance between their center
    lines. For example, suppose that the rise is 10 inches.

    o 4

    Square the rise. With this example, square 10, giving 100 square inches.

    o 5

    Add the two squared values together. 196 plus 100 gives 296 square
    inches.

    o 6

    Find the square root of this sum. The square root of 296 is 17.2 inches.

    o 7

    Divide this length by 0.707, which is the cosine of 45.


    17.2 divided by 0.707 is 24.33, or 24 1/3 inches. This is the pipes' rolling
    offset.

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    By Ryan Menezes, eHow Contributor , last updated October 02, 2011
    Pipes often join at angles.

    The offset of a pair of parallel pipes is the distance between their center lines. It describes
    the length of pipe necessary to join the two of them. But when the connecting pipe joins
    the two at an angle, you need to know more than the perpendicular distance between
    them. The pipe may experience separate horizontal and vertical offsets. If it experiences
    both, this counts as a rolling offset, and you must calculate it using trigonometry.

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    Instructions
    1.
    o 1

    Square the pipes' offset. For example, if 12 inches separate the two pipes
    horizontally, square 12, giving you 144.

    o 2

    Square the pipes' rise, which is the vertical distance between them. For
    example, if this rise is 11 inches, square 11, giving you 121.

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    o 3

    Add the two squares together. 144 plus 121 is 265.

    o 4

    Find the square root of the sum. The square root of 265 is 16.28. This is
    the size of the pipes' true offset, which is the perpendicular diagonal that
    joins the two.

    o 5

    Find the trigonometric cosine of the angle of the fittings you plan to use.
    For example, if you use 45 degree fittings, the most common kind, note
    that the cosine of 45 is 0.707.

    o 6

    Divide the true offset by this value. With this example, 16.28 divided by
    0.707 gives a rolling offset of just more than 23 inches.

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