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I used to do a lot of TI work including electrical. For one client I had done the industrial part of their electrical installation. Part of this included the conversion of a bunch of ovens from 240v to 480v. Each phase had two elements in parallel so we just put them in series. Their in house electronic engineers converted the controll circuits. Well…they got a maintance guy who decided to “fix” the ovens. He put the elements back in parellel. When the ovens were turned on it blew every one. So he ordered all new elements and did it again. I asked him if he knew the ovens were converted to 480. He had no idea. I asked how he had worked on them without turning off the power. Oh, he hadn’t and he this to me by showing me the switch where he had turned the power off. It was marked 480v in 4″ high letters.
The next guy they hired in this position managed to cut a ground clamp off of a water pipe in order to install a hose bib.
Then when this second guy was installing the air in the factory I lent him my pipe threading stuff. This included a tripod mounted power head and a tripod with a pipe vise on it. I came in one day found the power head on the floor, a length of 1″ iron pipe with a 45 degree bend in the middle and the maintaince guy not talking to me. I finally figured out that in order to thread the pipe he chucked one end in the power head, and instead of resting the other end on the tripod, he clamped it in the vice. When he turned on the power he was trying to twist the pipe in two with 1/2 hp of geared down torque. Something had to give. I’m glad I wasn’t around.
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Was this in Tennessee?
Here, when you walk into a store and ask if you can look at the phone book they say "Well wut numba wuz you lookin fo?"
When you reply "Eleven" they just look at you and blink.
*Sounds more like WV.
*I've got to show this post to my wife--oh yeah, right; like I'm going to share Breaktime with the missus--just to prove to her that it's not just me that runs into stupid people. Except they've changed the rules: now it seems that there are old and dumb electricians.
*...that's laughin' out loud, spittin' on the screen funny! - yb
*That is a TRUE story Bob.Dan
*Hey Dan, man, no foolin', I was readin' instead of eatin' breakfast and that made my day. I am still grinnin' ear to ear. Course, it doesn't hurt that I finally broke down and bought a moisture meter today, and that pine was only 12%. WHEW!! now I can bill it. - ybOh yeh, I am not sure where Nashville is, but I was in Knoxville for a week a few years ago and really liked the feel of it. In fact, that whole Tenn, KY, Eastern Ark., Northern Miss. area has a big place in my heart.