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Anthra Kx
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 Posted - 10/03/2010 : 20:56:16
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we have a big high pressure jetting rig (up to 14,000 bar) at work mounted on a trailer run by a big turbo deisel engine. on the back it has a little hydraulic system which is there only to wind and unwind the high pressure hose from the drum. This part has not been operational for a few years, and the hose, as long as I've known it, has been wound on by hand. so today we dusted it off and discussed whether to remove it completely and weld a straightforward handle on the drum or have a shot at fixing it up again.
what the hell, lets a least see if she'll run, we have nothing to lose, so we fire up the engine and start working the system, but its seized and very very reluctant to move. after about an hour fiddling with the pipework, hoses, oil, pumps etc, it looks like we're getting somewhere, engine at maximum revs, engage the hydraulic drive and BANG the pumps blows up, spits out the seal and ejaculates its load of high pressure oil. The chap I was working with took it right in the belly, it near bowled him over and the oil sprayed a good 20/30 yards out of the workshop and across the car park, completely dousing the site manager's car, the van belonging to the local mechanics next door and a nice shiny new bmw belonging to one of their customers just in for a service...
It was quite exciting. |
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Captain Bubble
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Posted - 10/03/2010 : 21:05:43
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Sounds great, wish I had seen that (as long as no-one was hurt).
When my business partner was still an airline Captain they had a suspected pressure leak on his 767. Got to home airport, unloaded passengers, then moved the plane a little across the apron for a pressure check, all doors shut and taped, pressure hose connected. Herb stood there watching, and for a moment was not concerned by the routine approach of the sewage bowser, or the 2 men unwinding the hose as usual. A the last instant he suddenly realised the implications, but as he started to shout "No" and run to stop them, the valve blew open. The men had to be given several weeks "compassionate" leave while the blue dye in the sewage faded from their entire bodies. |
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mully
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Posted - 10/03/2010 : 21:07:45
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Originally posted by Anthra Kx
we have a big high pressure jetting rig (up to 14,000 bar) at work mounted on a trailer run by a big turbo deisel engine. on the back it has a little hydraulic system which is there only to wind and unwind the high pressure hose from the drum. This part has not been operational for a few years, and the hose, as long as I've known it, has been wound on by hand. so today we dusted it off and discussed whether to remove it completely and weld a straightforward handle on the drum or have a shot at fixing it up again.
what the hell, lets a least see if she'll run, we have nothing to lose, so we fire up the engine and start working the system, but its seized and very very reluctant to move. after about an hour fiddling with the pipework, hoses, oil, pumps etc, it looks like we're getting somewhere, engine at maximum revs, engage the hydraulic drive and BANG the pumps blows up, spits out the seal and ejaculates its load of high pressure oil. The chap I was working with took it right in the belly, it near bowled him over and the oil sprayed a good 20/30 yards out of the workshop and across the car park, completely dousing the site manager's car, the van belonging to the local mechanics next door and a nice shiny new bmw belonging to one of their customers just in for a service...
It was quite exciting.
No ejaculating on workmates' bellies on the forum.
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Anthra Kx
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Captain Bubble
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OriginalAnimal
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 10/03/2010 : 22:40:38
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Whilst rtraining some guys on a very large, modern dairy farm, the irrigation system that took the animal waste and spread it directly onto the fields clogged
a couple of guys were sent to clear the blockage with high powered pumps, when they located the blockage, and connected one pump up, they got no results, so unbeknown to the guy by the valve, a second pump was hooked up!!
2,000 gallons of animal waste emptied itself onto the hapless worker , and then as he was already covered, he was sent to another farm to clear their blockage, before he got changed |
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Captain Bubble
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Posted - 11/03/2010 : 08:21:42
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^ Oops, sounds like that episode of Father Ted, when Ted and Dougal get blasted.
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Bazarre
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Posted - 11/03/2010 : 10:36:55
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Originally posted by Anthra Kx
we have a big high pressure jetting rig (up to 14,000 bar) at work mounted on a trailer run by a big turbo deisel engine. on the back it has a little hydraulic system which is there only to wind and unwind the high pressure hose from the drum. This part has not been operational for a few years, and the hose, as long as I've known it, has been wound on by hand. so today we dusted it off and discussed whether to remove it completely and weld a straightforward handle on the drum or have a shot at fixing it up again.
what the hell, lets a least see if she'll run, we have nothing to lose, so we fire up the engine and start working the system, but its seized and very very reluctant to move. after about an hour fiddling with the pipework, hoses, oil, pumps etc, it looks like we're getting somewhere, engine at maximum revs, engage the hydraulic drive and BANG the pumps blows up, spits out the seal and ejaculates its load of high pressure oil. The chap I was working with took it right in the belly, it near bowled him over and the oil sprayed a good 20/30 yards out of the workshop and across the car park, completely dousing the site manager's car, the van belonging to the local mechanics next door and a nice shiny new bmw belonging to one of their customers just in for a service...
It was quite exciting.
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teethmeister
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Captain Bubble
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machinedrum
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 11/03/2010 : 11:39:57
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One of the funniest things I have ever seen was when I was in the Air Force and one of the large transport aircraft arrived for a quick turn-around. The ground guys had to really get a move on to get the aircraft back out as soon as possible and just as the aircraft wheels stopped they hooked up the toilet service truck. They applied the vacuum from the service truck (about 1.5 psi) opened the aircraft valve and ....let her go !
What they didn't know was that one of the crew members had dived in the toilet as soon as they had landed. Now 1.5 psi isn't much vacuum - but, it is a big area to which it is applied !
Result was, crew member got quite a surprise as he fought to not get sucked through the toilet waste pipe, he came out ranting and shouting and when we learned what had happened we literally fell about laughing which made things worse !
Rumour was he had a ciggy on at the time and it burned down in about one second flat like in a cartoon !
Just thought i would share !
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beezerk
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Posted - 11/03/2010 : 12:35:51
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When I worked near Worksop in the mid 90's there was an ambulance outside the hydraulics firm which was next to my workplace as I turned up in the morning. I didn't really think much of it until a few days later when I found out one of the workers had unscrewed a bolt which was pressurised, it shot out, went through one of his eyes and lodged itself into his brain, he died a day or so later.
Not a very nice story but it's what I think of straight away when someone mentions hydraulics. |
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Captain Bubble
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Posted - 11/03/2010 : 13:05:46
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Originally posted by machinedrum
One of the funniest things I have ever seen was when I was in the Air Force and one of the large transport aircraft arrived for a quick turn-around. The ground guys had to really get a move on to get the aircraft back out as soon as possible and just as the aircraft wheels stopped they hooked up the toilet service truck. They applied the vacuum from the service truck (about 1.5 psi) opened the aircraft valve and ....let her go !
What they didn't know was that one of the crew members had dived in the toilet as soon as they had landed. Now 1.5 psi isn't much vacuum - but, it is a big area to which it is applied !
Result was, crew member got quite a surprise as he fought to not get sucked through the toilet waste pipe, he came out ranting and shouting and when we learned what had happened we literally fell about laughing which made things worse !
Rumour was he had a ciggy on at the time and it burned down in about one second flat like in a cartoon !
Just thought i would share !
Paul
When I were a wee lad living in Montevideo we went out to Carrasco Airport once because my Dad was detailed to meet an Ambassador and his wife, and escort them. She had sat on the loo on take off in an un-pressurised or inaccurately pressurized plane (possibly a DC3 Handley Page Hastings, or Vickers Viscount).
She had got wedged in, and while we waited a crew was sent in with curtains and a hacksaw, and then she made her way across the apron towards us covered in the curtains, and we had to drop her of at the hospital on the way.
I was about 4, and it was the funniest thing I had seen, apart from a lion at Montevideo zoo turning his back on a fellow near us and giving him an astonishing soaking! |
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