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David G. Axt, CCS, CSI ,SCIP
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Username: david_axt

Post Number: 1908
Registered: 03-2002


Posted on Wednesday, April 13, 2022 - 12:37 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post

When did they stop printing Sweets Catalogs?
David G. Axt, CCS, CSI, SCIP
Specifications Consultant
Axt Consulting LLC
Dan Helphrey
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Username: dbhelphrey

Post Number: 87
Registered: 12-2018
Posted on Wednesday, April 13, 2022 - 01:57 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post

Because internet
Brian Payne
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Username: brian_payne

Post Number: 268
Registered: 01-2014
Posted on Wednesday, April 13, 2022 - 01:58 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post

2012 according to this article.

https://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/the-last-sweets-catalog/
David G. Axt, CCS, CSI ,SCIP
Senior Member
Username: david_axt

Post Number: 1909
Registered: 03-2002


Posted on Wednesday, April 13, 2022 - 02:46 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post

I am teaching a class about specifications research and wanted to mention SWEETS. Many in my class have probably never even seen a SWEETS catalog!

2012?! I thought it was 20 years ago that they stopped printing.
David G. Axt, CCS, CSI, SCIP
Specifications Consultant
Axt Consulting LLC
ken hercenberg
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Username: khercenberg

Post Number: 1448
Registered: 12-2006


Posted on Wednesday, April 13, 2022 - 06:36 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post

They stopped printing?

We used to box and archive a full set every year in case of lawsuits. I can't imagine how much that cost over the years. In the 1990's one firm I knew of paid someone to digitize an entire set of Sweets one year but didn't think to set up a means of searching and retrieving the information so you would have to look through entire disks to find anything since the disks weren't labeled, just numbered sequentially along with everything else digitized that year (project drawings, specs, Code books, etc.). Thousand of hours and hundreds of disks, all useless.
Steven Bruneel, AIA, CSI-CDT, LEED-AP, EDAC
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Username: redseca2

Post Number: 705
Registered: 12-2006


Posted on Thursday, April 14, 2022 - 06:39 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post

First in the 1980's and again in the 1990's, I wanted a set of my own at home so I took home the previous years set when a new one arrived at work. That worked out to one volume per evening carried on the bus from the financial district to my home in the Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco. When it was time to say goodbye, the reverse process was one volume per morning down the 66 stair steps from my home office to the recycle bins. Coming or going, those suckers were heavy.
James Sandoz, AIA, CSI, CCS
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Username: jsandoz

Post Number: 347
Registered: 06-2005
Posted on Friday, April 15, 2022 - 09:58 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post

Steven, it seems, just like project manuals, Sweet's catalogs, due to their considerable weight, had other uses beyond that intended. Acting as a temporary door stop is the first that comes to mind.
ken hercenberg
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Username: khercenberg

Post Number: 1452
Registered: 12-2006


Posted on Saturday, April 16, 2022 - 12:04 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post

Wheel chocks?
John Bunzick
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Username: bunzick

Post Number: 1870
Registered: 03-2002
Posted on Saturday, April 16, 2022 - 02:19 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post

I do remember Sweets being used for dry-mounting and de-curling projects.
Steven Bruneel, Retired Architect
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Username: redseca2

Post Number: 706
Registered: 12-2006


Posted on Saturday, April 16, 2022 - 06:21 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post

A well known, award winning San Francisco Architect once threw a Sweets Catalog at me when I explained that his brilliant idea didn't meet code. I forget which DIVISION.

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