How's your Friday evening?

"Tristan" (casselts) 10/14/2016 at 21:49 • Filed to: None

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Mine is going jus- oh shit, the eye wash stations are exploding...

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > Tristan 10/14/2016 at 21:51

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Please tell me I’m not the only person here who has ever used an eye wash station.

Tristan > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 10/14/2016 at 21:54

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I’ve never actually had to use one... probably because I’ve worn glasses since kindergarten- it’s definitely not because I’m careful.

S65 > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 10/14/2016 at 21:56

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I have!

jimz > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 10/14/2016 at 21:56

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you’re not. about a month ago, someone tampered with a hydraulic door closer in my office, and when I went to figure out why it was slamming closed, I got sprayed in the face with oil because someone had loosened/taken out the bleeder screw.

Junkrat aka Rick Sanchez: Fury Road Edition > Tristan 10/14/2016 at 21:56

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We’ll fix the audio in post.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > jimz 10/14/2016 at 21:57

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Damn!

Tristan > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 10/14/2016 at 22:04

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I take that back... I doused my eyeball with hydraulic fluid in Qatar so I HAD to use an eyewash station, but I was told not to. Why? Because we had finally gotten non-expired saline packets for our eye wash so QA would stop writing us up... thanks Air Force.

Birddog > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 10/14/2016 at 22:05

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Twice in my life.

Birddog > Tristan 10/14/2016 at 22:06

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Uhm.. I would check your codes. I’m pretty sure they aren’t supposed to have any direct connection at the drain.

comes over to help work on your car and only drinks beer > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 10/14/2016 at 22:13

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Nope, you’re not. Worked at a carwash in college, we learned that the presoak chemical, when applied undiluted to the walls, cleaned the **** out of them. On a rainy evening and bored, I was doing this and watched a drop of it fall behind my glasses and into my eye. Flushed my eye for as long as I could in the eyewash station prying it open myself, ended up driving to the ER with one eye. Next day the phuckwad manager at the time chewed me out for ‘leaving the store unattended’ (I locked up and closed up before I left, and again, it was raining). Thankfully, I was closer with the owner than him and it blew over. Walking out on that jackwagon was my most satisfying end of employment.

Phyrxes once again has a wagon! > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 10/14/2016 at 22:23

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I’ve seen them used occasionally but its an occupational hazard of teaching high school science.

Berang > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 10/14/2016 at 22:25

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I’ve used the other sort of wash station.

MM54 > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 10/14/2016 at 22:31

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When I was in college I tried to use one in one of the labs to get a drink. Never again. That was not fresh water in those pipes...

PyramidHat > Tristan 10/14/2016 at 23:24

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What led to this?

Tristan > Birddog 10/15/2016 at 00:28

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Please elaborate- is the drain supposed to just remain open to the ground/floor? It’s currently plumbed into the storm water drain from the roof. I’ve never heard any rules regarding the drains...

Tristan > PyramidHat 10/15/2016 at 00:30

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The drain is plumbed in to the storm water drain from the roof. We got a big deluge that card the storm drains to back up. It happens every so often, and it makes all the drinking fountains and eye washes into geysers. We added anti-backflow valves to the drains, but they do nothing.

Birddog > Tristan 10/15/2016 at 00:58

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Stand alones like that spill to the floor or can be plumbed with air gap between the drain and the tail piece. Codes vary, most don’t allow a direct connection like that. Mainly for reasons like you pictured there.

Tristan > Birddog 10/15/2016 at 01:03

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That makes a lot of sense. Had I needed an eyewash sitting the deluge, I’d have been SOL. I’m going to have to look up the codes now.

PyramidHat > Tristan 10/15/2016 at 01:07

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Ah....not sure who you could talk to, but someone should put an air gap on the drain line (think having a pipe empty into a funnel that’s connected to the drain)...that way water won’t backstream up into the eyewash...

Tristan > PyramidHat 10/15/2016 at 01:14

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Definitely going to look into that.