My worst work fear happened today.

[_Sheffjs_]

Lucky there are no shows scheduled until Thursday night at 8pm or I would not have the mind to be writing this right now!  Went out to the chiller room and found water coming out of a 6" water valve actuator and worse flowing through conduit into the main control panel, yea! with 480v inside, and my face when I saw water coming out of a control panel!  1" solid water on the floor! fastest pull of the monster three phase 480v disconnect yet! I shut the valves to isolate chiller #2 and fired up Chiller #1.   Yes, I have a valve in stock      Actuator wires all fried - toast! but as long as the valve is in, it can be manually opened and closed.  Way to many things that can go wrong!     

I want to retire!  The amps running a chiller mixed with water I would be vapor - retired!  And riding a motorcycle is dangerous!      The minions are out wrenching big pipes now.   

[hubcapsc]

There's men on our roof at work right now fixing a leak that almost leaked
into a little room with a computer cluster in it. I was just telling my co-workers
about another leak in another building with a much bigger computer room,
the kind with raised floors. We came in one morning and looked under one
of the floor panels and there was several inches of water under there...

-Mike "nobody got vaporized"

[Bronxboy]

Yikes !! Glad U weren't Vaporized, I would be driving around the woods aimlessly 

[_Sheffjs_]

Yikes !! Glad U weren't Vaporized, I would be driving around the woods aimlessly  

I'm so glad I'm good for something   LOL    

The day got real better at 3:45P  My Hondaline stock studded seats came by brown truck   

[_Sheffjs_]

There's men on our roof at work right now fixing a leak that almost leaked
into a little room with a computer cluster in it. I was just telling my co-workers
about another leak in another building with a much bigger computer room,
the kind with raised floors. We came in one morning and looked under one
of the floor panels and there was several inches of water under there...

-Mike "nobody got vaporized"

I had another building I was Facilities Manager of that had a large DC but not with that type of floors, I have seen that type though.  Did anything short out Mike? 

[hubcapsc]

There's men on our roof at work right now fixing a leak that almost leaked
into a little room with a computer cluster in it. I was just telling my co-workers
about another leak in another building with a much bigger computer room,
the kind with raised floors. We came in one morning and looked under one
of the floor panels and there was several inches of water under there...

-Mike "nobody got vaporized"

I had another building I was Facilities Manager of that had a large DC but not with that type of floors, I have seen that type though.  Did anything short out Mike? 

It was about 30 years ago (we had VAXes in that machine room)... as I remember, everything was still
running when the water was found. There was all  kinds of cables and wires under the floor... we shut everything
down and cut the power is how I remember it.



-Mike

[Flrider]

Jerry

Glad you still remain un-retired and with us   

You know all Nick was thinking was "what is going to happen to the seat rail" 

BTW did you have to change your pants after that?

[_Sheffjs_]

Jerry

Glad you still remain un-retired and with us   

You know all Nick was thinking was "what is going to happen to the seat rail" 

BTW did you have to change your pants after that?

No - Tidy Whitey change needed it all happened too fast and I was pre-occupied with thoughts of having both chillers down for a day or so.  We have two 200 ton water cooled centrifugal chillers never running both at the same time moreover two is just to be redundant. But the flaw in the system and was always my worry is, a simple brake at any point in the closed chilled pipe loop and we are done!! There is only one loop that supplies 8 air handlers all in series. And done on a show night would require the highest BP pills made.  After a good evaluation, having the leak on the chiller tail we were able to shut valves and keep one going. So the building never knew anything.  So technically my worst fear hasn't happened.

[_Sheffjs_]

There's men on our roof at work right now fixing a leak that almost leaked
into a little room with a computer cluster in it. I was just telling my co-workers
about another leak in another building with a much bigger computer room,
the kind with raised floors. We came in one morning and looked under one
of the floor panels and there was several inches of water under there...

-Mike "nobody got vaporized"

I had another building I was Facilities Manager of that had a large DC but not with that type of floors, I have seen that type though.  Did anything short out Mike? 

It was about 30 years ago (we had VAXes in that machine room)... as I remember, everything was still
running when the water was found. There was all  kinds of cables and wires under the floor... we shut everything
down and cut the power is how I remember it.



-Mike

You know that word balloon could be filled with all kinds of sayings.  Sorry Mike, I know the young pictures of me from that same era, the word balloon would have said. Wow man what was in that!

[_Sheffjs_]

Jerry
You know all Nick was thinking was "what is going to happen to the seat rail" 

LOL Jack Attack, I will leave that one for Bx Boy

However you brought it up so it was on your mind.   

Dang that rail would be the best white elephant gift at a VRCC party.  Start a war! 

[Flrider]

Jerry
You know all Nick was thinking was "what is going to happen to the seat rail" 

LOL Jack Attack, I will leave that one for Bx Boy

However you brought it up so it was on your mind.   

Dang that rail would be the best white elephant gift at a VRCC party.  Start a war! 

Yeah, maybe yes, maybe no, but after I seen what you did to Doug on bike delivery date I don't know if I am willing to risk it 

[BF]

I work around 4160.....with a leaky floor above the transformers that sometimes pours down pretty sporty. 

I don't go back there when it's like that.....I've heard one of those go bang before.  Wasn't pretty....but it was pretty loud and it even had a fire ball. 

These days, I just stay in the control room mostly.   

[Grumpy]

It can do some nasty stuff. We had a flash over on the rail system in Las Vegas. 2500 amp track power, vaporized 75 foot of hand rail and 50 foot of walk way along side the guide way. One of the reasons we had to wear heat suits and protective gear any time we were working around the switch gear. Stupid mistake by one of tech's crew had engaged shorting gear on the guide-way for repair and did not lock out the system, another saw the power off and turned it back on. Needless to say both were unemployed the next day. Lucky some one was not killed.  We had a policy at Tampa airport that each person working on the system had a personal lock on the equip, no one could remove some one else's lock. The voltages and amps we worked with do not give you a second chance.

[John Schmidt]

One of the offices I worked in for a time had a leaky roof, would start as a drip and end up a drizzle all over my desk. I notified the mgr. numerous times who in turn notified the dept. head in Tallahassee, all to no avail. Finally one day when it looked like rain I took my huge golf umbrella into my office with me. Before noon it came in handy, I used duct tape and fastened it to my desk and stayed there with plastic over my desk top pc and monitor and covered the majority of the desk. Under the umbrella I was hard at work using the laptop they issued us. When I was all set, I had a fellow employee take some pictures which also showed the 2-3 streams coming down from the ceiling. I sent the pix to the dept. head in Tallahassee and within a week we had a new roof.

Was an expensive lesson for them. If they had OK'd the repairs from the beginning, it would have only needed a patch over a 10' square area. By the time they got around to it, water had leaked underneath  and damaged most of the roof so the entire thing had to be replaced. One guy told me I had cost them a lot of money. I answered him with "no, you cost yourselves a lot of money by not listening to us in the first place."

[Jess from VA]

Gee John, that sounds just like the Fed G too.