Why I'm back to work!!

I hate to say this but I think he was in Australia...btw it's been a while since I saw him on CCF.
Guess his sucker punching bride has him on a tight leash 😜

Brian are you proposing a theory that just the mear mention of you know who can cause something to break as opposed to you know who actually having to be at the place in question?

Gary,
We had all the plant running within about a week. We brought in 4 temporary chillers, wired them temporarily, laid sch. 10 pipe on the floor hooked up with Victaulic fittings and then hosed to the molders. We are now trying to get clearance from the insurance company to proceed with repairs since it's getting a little warm in the plant. 350 tons of air cooled chillers dumping their heat inside will do that! This time of the year is very busy for us. 24/7 running gas,diesel and kerosene cans. When I started 3 years ago, I had never seen so many. It still amazes me where they all go!!

63 Skier wrote:    You mention this is cooling water. Doesn't your PVC end up looking like spaghetti after a while? I found anything above about 80-90 F and over time, even with closely spaced hangers, the pipe would droop a bit. Didn't seem to affect function at all, just looked sloppy. Maybe we used the wrong type of sch. 80.

Dave,
The set point on both chillers is 42 F. I've never seen return temps over 50 F. The sch. 80 with hangers not exceeding 6', we don't have a problem.

Dave,
Here's my take on the incident: We blew a 2" hose off a barbed fitting inside one of our blow molders. The VFD on the pump sensing the lack of pressure ramped up to the max of 60hz. far exceeding the 5 FPM recommended velocity. Then one of our workers ran to the 3" PVC drop from the main to the blow molder and slammed the ball valves closed. This caused a water hammer (seen in another video) that broke the 3" off the 8" main south loop. Now the "fire drill" started!! Maintenance ran back to the pump skid shutting down power and every valve they could find. This included the north loop which is a separate system and the loop that blew. There are 7 blow molders on the north loop which were idled but their hydraulics were kept running. (yup, HEAT!) When the power was shut down on the pump skid, there's a motorized valve that fails closed. This was part of the purchased system and programmed to shut. This is a major point of concern to the insurance investigation because when closed along with all the other valves, the bladder expansion tank is isolated!!

I've have 4 mechanical contractors in to quote repairs. The lack of a pressure relief has been discussed and 3 said they do not install them on chilled water systems. The 4 said they do. Well, There will be pressure relief's on both loops when repaired.

only to get canned again when the cans start rolling?

OverMyHead wrote: Looks like a good place to start salary negotiations from.

My thoughts exactly get a contract period and a handsome hourly rate   

Remember they did lay you off so do not sell yourself short.

Looks like a good place to start salary negotiations from.

Wow!!

Did this happen when no one was there,looks pretty quiet. And what are those flashing lights on the machines?