What new tools have you got lately?
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Trusty-Cook deadblows are red, they also have green and blue.
They are also made in the USA.
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15 or so years ago I was one of the technical leads for a planned radial bearing replacement on an Allis-Chalmers reactor coolant pump motor. These machines are vertical motors, 13,200 volts, around 10,000 HP and about 65 tons. Near the end of the job a technician went to smack a large spanner nut with a dead blow and the dead blow broke, spilling God knows how many little lead balls into this machine.
Cost the utility millions in lost generation as they were forced to tear into the motor to retrieve all the lead shot.
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Was on a job with a farm mechanic Tuesday. 1 ton flat bed shorty decked out with boxes welders the works. He opened the side box to reveal a well organized box full of hanging wrenches on hooks. I start laughing, he says what gives? I say your 10mm is missing. I get the F u and he walks off. That made me laugh harder.
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Talk about a bad day, bet there were lots of 4 letter words said that day. I've had 2 dead blows break on me like that, one just sent the shot all over the garage floor. The other sent it into the transmission case of the Formula Atlantic I was refreshing for the next race. That cost me about 4hrs pay to tear it back down to clean out.
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For the ^ above stories with dead blows and fod.
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Yep! There is a huge focus in the nuclear world on Foreign Material Exclusion (FME). On a job like this all tools and parts are logged in and logged out of the work area (or in the case of parts, listed as Installed). This episode showed that no matter how careful you may be, Murphys Law will find a way to teach you a lesson.
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To give you an idea, this is a reactor coolant pump motor being assembled in our shop. This particular motor is a Westinghouse machine versus an Allis Chalmers. It’s about 15 ft tall. Lots of parts. And lots of hidey holes for a bunch of lead shot to find. Lol
You can see the FME zone, which is the top of the motor at this point in assembly. Once this guy is done torquing down the thrust bearing housing they’ll close it up and install the flywheel, which is about 8 tons of forged steel.
You can see the FME zone, which is the top of the motor at this point in assembly. Once this guy is done torquing down the thrust bearing housing they’ll close it up and install the flywheel, which is about 8 tons of forged steel.
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Worked on a job years ago where they had to run a new large water service for the fire suppression system on the building. The water line pressure were a bit low so they in a million dollar pump system for the building system During testing when the initiated the pump it pulled a spud wrench into the pump that a worker had left laying the end of one of the pipe sections the next section was bolted on. needless to say there a few clunks and grinding before a million bucks went up in smoke and a sad utility contractor when the remains of the wrench were found.
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Won this fan at our Christmas party yesterday. Works well. Especially when the ac isn't working in the shop. Only bad thing is no battery or charger for it in the box. I don't think I'll spend the money on them either.
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Woahhhhh. How does one get into that industry? That's fascinating
