"XJDano" (xjdano)
04/26/2018 at 23:05 • Filed to: Worklopnik
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"XJDano" (xjdano)
04/26/2018 at 23:05 • Filed to: Worklopnik | 5
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SharkBite fittings are the best. This is the biggest I’ve ever used at 2”. That and and the adapter to go to a 1/2” for the hose bib was $75.
Job is to demo 2 old boilers in a small hospital that became a county facility building. The water line that fed the abandoned boilers was still live, although the valves at the boiler were off. And when we got there 4 weeks ago and hot water/ steam was backfed one of the boilers because the valve didn’t hold. Upon cutting the last sections it fell against the water line and snapped it 10’ in the air. Luckily I scouted out the shutoff prior.
This job sucked, but we should be done next week.
Harbor freight winch, works still.
Enough about stupid work. Tomorrow is Friday and our schedule is cleared for Saturday. May just Take the family on a hike. The van is not clacking anymore. Yay!
shop-teacher
> XJDano
04/26/2018 at 23:25 |
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I’m tempted to put a small harbor freight winch on the Metro for the next Gambler.
She did real good this weekend. Birddog drove her too, so she handled like 18 competition laps without missing a beat.
smobgirl
> XJDano
04/26/2018 at 23:29 |
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Very unrelated, but randomly reminded me of a conundrum we had years ago at work. We were bidding on asbestos sampling for a very old, historic church. Problem was, people were buried beneath the church floor, but there was something asbestos-related beneath the floor as well - wrapped pipes or insulation or something. Archaeologists wouldn’t look at the site until the asbestos was abated and none of our employees wanted to go in a crawl space full of skeletons. Since I formerly worked in archaeology and was small enough to fit in the crawl space I got elected. Thankfully the job got cancelled.
Have you ever run across any old mercury pressure regulators in your work? I know what the Honeywell ones look like in residential systems but I’m curious about commercial ones. It seems like there was a lot of room for creativity in old boiler systems.
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XJDano
> smobgirl
04/26/2018 at 23:55 |
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After I threw the gas meters in the scrap dumpster I noticed there was. The mercury tubs in them. Pulled them out and set aside. Just like a home thermostat though on a spiral spring.
Also a pre-demo of a medical office building had 18 of the old mercury blood pressure gauges on the wall. That cost about $2,700 extra for the school district. Got all 18 in a cardboard box and it was pretty heavy.
I also did a church similar to that. Rumor was there was bodies under there, because of a Jesus picture and some melted candles (catholic church). I didn’t see anything suspicious. If there was anything white it got bagged as aerocell that was on the pipes.
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XJDano
> shop-teacher
04/27/2018 at 00:07 |
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I probably would for that. But I have a warn on my jeep.
This one is a 1500 and it’s slow, but 115v. I had one 2 years ago on a different job and worked the shit out of it. Over heated it constantly and tripped the reset on it.Seen below mounted to a 2x4 to keep it from spinning, drug all that crap out the penthouse onto the roof to get lowered down.
Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
> XJDano
04/27/2018 at 00:29 |
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Shark bites have saved my ass more than once . You can’t sweet copper or glue pvc when the water is flowing uncontrollably.
Urambo Tauro
> smobgirl
04/27/2018 at 14:27 |
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Spooky... Sounds like it would have been an interesting job.