Hydraulic hose breaks at 7:30pm

"XJDano" (xjdano) 01/24/2019 at 23:25 • Filed to: Terminator, night shift

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$481 and an hour after a call to Pirtek, new hose and machine is back up and running. 24/7 Service isn’t cheap.

What machine? One like this, but beat up from a few years of laborers abuse.

I asked the tech how much during normal work hours.... $85.

A few more hours and I can drive 5 hours home. 

cbell04 > XJDano 01/24/2019 at 23:43

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Where da hose at? But seriously I'm to lazy to look it up. What does this half Zamboni looking mother effer do?

Urambo Tauro > XJDano 01/24/2019 at 23:44

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Ooh, I know what that machine is. Never had the pleasure of using one though. Our little crew always used hand tools and heaters to loosen the mastic. (EDIT: no wait, scratch that. Ac tually, w e did use a tile shark once. Not the ride-on kind though.)

XJDano > cbell04 01/24/2019 at 23:49

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Floor scraper. Sometimes it works. 

XJDano > Urambo Tauro 01/24/2019 at 23:52

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We had to rent this model and it was great until one of the 6 batteries quit. The head tilts to get a better angle. The one we have just has a blade head and you end up sitting way high up and it hurts looking down all day.

Urambo Tauro > XJDano 01/24/2019 at 23:56

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How wide a blade? Does it have to be changed/flipped/ sharpened very often?

XJDano > Urambo Tauro 01/25/2019 at 00:05

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12 ” I think. Just depends on the material. There are blades like this to cut carpet in strips, but I’ve never had luck with them. Mostly because the carpet is already over tile, and not bare concrete. It’d probably work for that.

I’m fucking off at work right now.

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > XJDano 01/25/2019 at 00:14

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Even $85 during regular hours is an impressively high price. We made hoses at the hydraulic shop back when I turned wrenches for a living. A couple of dollars each for what look like a couple of 90 degree JIC or SAE flare fittings, maybe $10-$15 for the 3000psi hose and call it a .2 of labor to cut the hose, swage the fittings and clean out the inside of the hose when done. We’d have called it about $35 or $40 for that hose.

XJDano > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 01/25/2019 at 00:25

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I remember finding a shop in Dayton Ohio that only charged that much, we would bust lines on skidsteers and walk behinds.

I think of Pirtek as the carmax of the hose guys. They know you need it and you are having them do it, pay for it. 

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > XJDano 01/25/2019 at 00:46

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That makes sense. While we did make hoses, it wasn’t out main thing. We primarily repaired and rebuilt cylinders, pumps and motors, and the owner and I would also do some service calls. I probably made  a handful of hoses a week on average.

Monkey B > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 01/25/2019 at 08:22

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same here, I slung parts at an old school NAPA in a smallish town. Average hose was around $40. $481 is telling me I might need to think about whatever racket that guy is in.

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > Monkey B 01/25/2019 at 10:06

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Exactly. It don’t think it would be that hard to outfit a service van to do that work on-site. There’s like five or six common hose sizes that could be set up on spool rack easily enough, and a rack with a three or four dozen small bins to hold fittings would cover the common ones . Add a chop saw, swaging machine and a small air compressor to clean out the inside of the newly made hose and you’d be in business. I suppose you could also throw a spool or two of pneumatic tubing and keep some PTC connectors on hand to do pneumatic  lines  for stuff like machinery on food production lines.

Brickman > XJDano 01/25/2019 at 22:03

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I wonder if anyone named Conner would get killed by using that machine ;)