Justwannabeme

I see the breakroom is going out in style/with a bang/loose caboose ....

Buck up Fiver Bubby! blue chips are gonna save the day next week.

NEfarmexhaustion, chuckled on yer snail mail. saw some spring calves today, some parts of your job must be enjoyable when the sun shines....


bought whole machine for 800 bucks to get the 3 cyl diesel motor....good people where I live. cleaned up eight months of snow damage.
need w a t e r .......gasp. to clean my Harley of course gonna be 80 tomorrow...

Tallguy67

Top - your situation wins. Plumbing gets you wet, fire gets you dead or takes your entire house
After I was done playing on the interweb this morning, DW suggested I call the small hardware store in the small town about 20 miles east of us. Guess what, the hardware store in the small town had what I needed and what Home Depot in the big city didn't have. Instead of the copper corrugated line from the 3/4inch threaded fitting on the water softener we now have rubber in stainless steel braid. That oughta last!! Problem solved with $50 worth of parts and 30 minutes of my sweat equity. Once I run the water softener tonight we will have suds again BTW - when I refer to suds, I am talking about bubbles from soap not beer.

j_martin

You have oil filled electric baseboards?

Cheapo would have thrown a few sparks and tripped the breaker.

sherod

Spent the day running the Control Room of the Cop Shop for the Thunder over Louisville Air Show. HUGE fireworks tonight, but no thanks...Way too many hundreds of thousands of people. The Blue Angels were here, plus the F-22 Demo team. Few old P-51's and a p-47, plus some friendly Canadians and Germans made an appearance. Many more, but those were the highlights parked on our ramp. I'm pooped and heading for the coffee...

Chrisreyn

Came in for a late cup of coffee, but see someone scrubbed the flavor grass off the inside of the pot, dont you people realize how long it takes to properly season a coffee pot?? whats wrong with you!!
... thats ok, once the dragon uses it for a urinal again, it'll taste like normal DTR coffee..
Dont ask what he does in the Phoo pot...

Sounds like everyone has had a busy day.. we have severe storms forecast for tonight and tomorrow, so crammed the whole weekends to-do-list into today..

Finished putting in and leveling 125 stone edgers for THE BOSS's flower beds, cut her tall grasses down so they can regrow(?), spread 97 2cubic foot bags of black stained mulch( those shoes/gloves will never be the same), laid landscaping fabric and chicken wire in two of her other beds then mulch( chicken wire keeps critters from digging in them), cleaned he chicken coop, moved hay for hte horses and scrubbed out the water tank,
and got 6 of her new plants in the ground...the rest she wants to wait on so they dont get hail damaged tonight..

WOW, didnt feel tired until I wrote all that...

Ok, off to fins some decent coffee and some dinner..

yall b safe..........chris

Lary Ellis (Top)

No oil..these were simply 220 volt electric baseboard heaters era late 70's, the wiring shorted out right where one of the hot leads enters the end of the element...

The breaker did not trip, what it did was arc and start the paneling on fire.....when I killed the power the flame died out, we didn't even have to use the extinguisher although my wife had pulled the pin and was ready to sweep it.

I have no idea why the breaker did not trip but it was replaced when I put a new heater in it's place. I was sitting a foot away when it looked like lightning hit the wall. I replaced all the old heaters at that point just in case.

Chrisreyn

Hydroponic baseboard heat..the worst thing that happens if the base goes outis the floors are wet...
now the 30 yr old rusty boiler is a different story.....

BOOM

j_martin

They usually just pee all over the floor too, but now aways.

I visited a church in Illinois somewhere back in the late 70's. I noticed it looked pretty new in places, old in others. The told me the boiler blew up, blew both ends off the building with a packed house. Nobody was hurt. What they couldn't figure out is why the boiler blew up.

I started asking questions.
1. What was the fuel? .......gas
2. Was it always gas?....... no converted from oil.
3. How much did the gas burner cost?..... about $300, a member of the church got a good deal on it.

Deduction so far. Industrial burner, not commercial. Much less safety controls on it.

4. Did the boiler have any problems, like leaking? ..... yes, it leaked.
5. Was the leak repaired?..... yes, the janitor bought a plug and put it in the hole that was leaking. (had to be the pressure relief)

Burner ran away, and the old cast iron oil boiler probably had over 100 lbs of pressure on it when it bleve'd. Was a miracle nobody got hurt. A piece of the boiler was stuck in a garage door a block away.