Thread: One for the fridgies

Originally Posted by rick130

False.
Had a few beauties and always healed.
Smells like chicken.

Had a really ripper frostbite burn on a finger once, too, from a post valve gland on a big old Carrier pac unit that let go.
R22 liquid everywhere.
The ladies in the Chemist were suitably horrified. It was black

Yeah, a liquid leak over one's hand always concentrates the mind.

Originally Posted by 4bee

Yeah, a liquid leak over one's hand always concentrates the mind.

Hmm,i had a cracker on my hand one day,we had 1 1/8 liquid lines on 20 of the 22 huge DX systems on the first stage of the Hyperdome.
The other two systems were a bit smaller.Some of the compresser sets came from Expo 88.Most of the gear was Trane.Not my favourite.
Some systems had open drive compressors in tandem,the oil lines between the two would fracture,i remember one broke on a Saturday,and flooded the newsagent store,that was underneath the roof mounted plant room with oil.
The Myers store had a Carrier centrif.

The liquid lines ran almost 30M to the large AHU's in their relevant plant rooms,positioned on the roof.
Each system had huge liquid receivers that were purpose built.
Someone forgot to clean them out before they were installed.

So we were continually replacing driers,then the strainers in the Sporlan TX valves started to block up.

Anyway,one freezing cold winters day,we were doing the rounds,replacing the cores in the driers,it was that cold,we couldn't get any heat in the liquid line to get rid of the liquid,they were covered in ice.I cracked the flange on one of the driers,and the liquid came out and ran all over my hand.Not nice,burnt it pretty bad.
Anyway,you live and learn....

Burns from the oxy,had heaps over the years,not many fridges haven't had quite a few i recon.
The smell of burning skin and flesh is a unique smell one never forgets

Originally Posted by scarry

Hmm,i had a cracker on my hand one day,we had 1 1/8 liquid lines on 20 of the 22 huge DX systems on the first stage of the Hyperdome.
The other two systems were a bit smaller.Some of the compresser sets came from Expo 88.Most of the gear was Trane.Not my favourite.
Some systems had open drive compressors in tandem,the oil lines between the two would fracture,i remember one broke on a Saturday,and flooded the newsagent store,that was underneath the roof mounted plant room with oil.
The Myers store had a Carrier centrif.

The liquid lines ran almost 30M to the large AHU's in their relevant plant rooms,positioned on the roof.
Each system had huge liquid receivers that were purpose built.
Someone forgot to clean them out before they were installed.

So we were continually replacing driers,then the strainers in the Sporlan TX valves started to block up.

Anyway,one freezing cold winters day,we were doing the rounds,replacing the cores in the driers,it was that cold,we couldn't get any heat in the liquid line to get rid of the liquid,they were covered in ice.I cracked the flange on one of the driers,and the liquid came out and ran all over my hand.Not nice,burnt it pretty bad.
Anyway,you live and learn....

Burns from the oxy,had heaps over the years,not many fridges haven't had quite a few i recon.
The smell of burning skin and flesh is a unique smell one never forgets

You'd be really in the **** if you were alone on site with no qualified person to rectify the prob, while your hand fell off, it being deep frozen & brittle although I fail to see how further in the **** you could get. OMFG!

Originally Posted by 4bee

You'd be really in the **** if you were alone on site with no qualified person to rectify the prob, while your hand fell off, it being deep frozen & brittle although I fail to see how further in the **** you could get. OMFG!

Yer all the skin peeled off pretty quickly,just wrapped it up in a dirty rag and keep going,thats just what we did in the day.No such thing as a first aid kit.
These days it would be 3 weeks off,and 4 days in hospital,and 63 forms to fill out.
It did hurt a lot when i did it.

Had another good fridgie at the time with me,so all good,he was in the plant room,resetting the LP,and oil safety to get the ****box Trane compresser to go,so could get the liquid into the receiver.

The other guy used to always have heaps of cash.He was from NZ,did his time at McAlpine Prestcold,i think they were called.He fixed Harley motorbikes on the side,for bikies.Always had bits and pieces of bikes in his van.He used to say they leaked oil worse than Land Rovers.
I used to say to him,don't get on the wrong side of those bastards.....

Originally Posted by Homestar

It isn’t taught in the Electrical trade anymore either - we used to have a whole module in our second year on soldering, silver soldering and brazing and had to complete and pass at welding school as part of the schooling. Brazing exam was checked with a hydraulic press and had to be above a certain strength for the items but can’t recall exactly what that was. snip

Hmm, that's interesting. I probably served my time a good bit before most on here, and we did not have any welding training.

But in the rewinding shop learning how to solder(soft) was a daily ritual, as all the winding coils had both interconnects and also flexible leads bought out to the terminal box that had to be soldered. That involved cleaning the enamel from the winding wires, twisting the conductors together, and then soldering them.

About half way through my time the boss started experimenting with both silver solder and fusing the winding wires using an oxy flame. As the winding wires are solid that worked well and the big advantage it was not necessary to remove the enamel, so a lot quicker. From what I recall we still used silver solder to attach the flexible leads, and I think also if the winding coils had more than one conductor.

Too long ago now, but I do recall a lot of experimenting trying to find the best filler rods to use. Phos Copper sticks in my memory but I cannot recall why.

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Waving an open welding flame around a new motor winding needed your FULL attention!

Originally Posted by scarry

The smell of burning skin and flesh is a unique smell one never forgets

That it is, I immediately smelt it on reading that line

Originally Posted by scarry

Yer all the skin peeled off pretty quickly,just wrapped it up in a dirty rag and keep going,thats just what we did in the day.No such thing as a first aid kit.
These days it would be 3 weeks off,and 4 days in hospital,and 63 forms to fill out.
It did hurt a lot when i did it.

Had another good fridgie at the time with me,so all good,he was in the plant room,resetting the LP,and oil safety to get the ****box Trane compresser to go,so could get the liquid into the receiver.

The other guy used to always have heaps of cash.He was from NZ,did his time at McAlpine Prestcold,i think they were called.He fixed Harley motorbikes on the side,for bikies.Always had bits and pieces of bikes in his van.He used to say they leaked oil worse than Land Rovers.
I used to say to him,don't get on the wrong side of those bastards.....

Oh Yes, thank christ for ****ty dirty old oily rags. Actually it was the oil that kept the blood in. Just had to ignore all the other crap but I never knew anyone that snuffed it for that reason though, so may have been a good thing in a way. Medically speaking.



I was working on a Galv Top Hat Pipe cover years back & somehow I brushed against the new semi-jagged edge of the cut with my left index digit( & before you ask it wasn't the w hole finger but the one next to it ) Anyway as I had cut the tendon I duct taped all the fingers back to my wrist to take the strain off the semi cut Tendon. "Good olde Duct Tape, the handyman's friend"

Rang the Doc, he rang the Plastic Surgeon & I was in Hutt St Hospital an hour later. Sturgeon did a lovely job & my hand/arm was in plaster for about 4/5 weeks.

4/5 Weeks Later.
Practice Nurse came in to "chainsaw" off the plaster as they do & when it fell away I said to her "That is better than an Orgasm" She said "Tell Mr .............." that, with a wink. So I did, & of course Sturgeons being Sturgeons, they sometimes do not have a sense of humour but she knew he would be embarrassed. (Huh?)

Once it healed it was as good as gold & has never given an ounce of bother since. Was extremely careful with Pipe covers from then on & bugger me dead Clipon Lid Plastic ones were on the market a couple of months later. Ho Hum.



NEXT.

Originally Posted by 4bee

Oh Yes, thank christ for ****ty dirty old oily rags. Actually it was the oil that kept the blood in. Just had to ignore all the other crap but I never knew anyone that snuffed it for that reason though, so may have been a good thing in a way. Medically thinking.



I was working on a Galv Top Hat Pipe cover years back & somehow I brushed against the new semi-jagged edge of the cut with my left index digit( & before you ask it wasn't the w hole finger but the one next to it ) Anyway I cut the tendon so I duct taped it back to my wrist to take the strain off the semi cut Tendon. "Good olde Duct Tape, the handyman's friend"

Rang the Doc, he rang the Plastic Surgeon & I was in Hutt St Hospital an hour later. Sturgeon did a lovely job & my hand/arm was in plaster for about 4/5 weeks.

Practice Nurse came in to chainsaw off the plaster & when it fell away I said to her "That is better than an Orgasm" She said "Tell Mr .............." that, with a wink. So I did & of course Sturgeons being Sturgeons, they sometimes do not have a sense of humour but she knew he would be embarrassed. (Huh?)

Once it healed it was as good as gold & has never given an ounce of bother since. Was extremely careful with Pipe covers from then on & bugger me dead Plastic ones were on the market a couple of months later. Ho Hum.



NEXT.

I turned up at the local Doc,just as he was walking out for lunch.

Huge cut on my knee from a piece of metal ceiling grid,don't ask how it happened.It was wrapped up in a large oily rag,with duct tape around the knee to hold it on place..

He took one look at me and said looks like i will be late for lunch.

About 10 stitches later all good,but it was bloody sore.

One of my sons,at the age of about 4 decided to get a glass,turn it upside down and stand on it to reach a book up on a shelf.
Around 14 stitches later,in the arch of his foot,all good.The anesthetic doesn't work well in the arch of the foot,so it took three to hold him down while the job was done.He is still **** scared of needles and stitches today

While all this was happening,i was out on a job