A personal "best".
A personal "best".
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Well, I should probably call it a 'personal worst'.
I stumbled upon this beauty. Note the wood wire-insulator. The complaint is that it has all devolved into needing additional work with a pencil in thru the 'port' to get it to engage.

Keith Cress
kcress - http://www.flaminsystems.com
I stumbled upon this beauty. Note the wood wire-insulator. The complaint is that it has all devolved into needing additional work with a pencil in thru the 'port' to get it to engage.

Keith Cress
kcress - http://www.flaminsystems.com





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EDMS Australia
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I believe you may be correct on the coat hanger.
Yes, that's a cardboard enclosure cover because, well.. after the forklift had its way with the original cover this was what they repaired it with. Note the black tape hanging down by the urpppped-up flex, available for reinforcing the cover if needed.
Keith Cress
kcress - http://www.flaminsystems.com
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I never took pictures, but once I was called to rebuild the “control system” for an aggregate plant. It was an old Air Stream travel trailer with plywood screwed to the walls, then they nailed open type motor starters to the plywood and wired up everything with SO cord for power, zip cords (lamp cord) for the controls, wire nuts and black tape for most of the connections and a bunch of desk fans blowing on it all to try to keep it cool. I wanted to document it for a “before and after” shot, but they wouldn’t let me. I think they were afraid of lawsuits.
" We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know." -- W. H. Auden
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Muthu
www.edison.co.in
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Walt
After making this post, I found MacGyverS2000 on another forum. No personal reference was intended!
Walt
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I knew you folks would crack me up.
Ah Jeff!! That would've been so cool to see. I'd have waited till I was alone then got the shot. Course I needed a picture so in-case my replacement doesn't work we can return this to service...
27. Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
Keith Cress
kcress - http://www.flaminsystems.com
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Looks like you could saw it in half, and have two screwdriver demagnetizers.
STF
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True story.
Many years ago I working at the Pacific National Exibition in Vancouver. I was next to an electrician in the cafeteria lineup.
I struck up a conversation;
"Well, what are you up to today?"
Electrician;
"We're working on a ride at the midway. We have a hot ground and we've been testing all morning trying to find it."
I knew that there wasn't much test gear available.
"That's interesting. What are you using to test with?"
Electrician;
"We're using a welder to test it."
Offhand I couldn't imagine how to use a welder to test for a hot ground. Maybe I can learn something.
"How do you test a hot ground with a welder?"
"Simple. We change some connections and then holler 'It's alright now.' The welder picks up his grinder and grabs the steel frame of the ride. He screams and drops his grinder."
"Just a minute."
WE change another connection and shout;
"It's okay now."
"The welder picks up his grinder and grabs the steel frame of the ride. He screams and drops his grinder."
Pause.
"That guy's crazy. I wouldn't trust us!"
I see he has another job now. grin
Bill
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Jimmy Carter
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Didn't see that one coming, but that's rich!
Reminds me of an incident with my now deceased partner. We were working at Boeing on the overhead cranes, and there are duct-o-bars running across the bridges that power the hoists. He and I had a procedure for locking out the power to those rails when we were working on the cranes, because even though we were working on PLCs and VFDs, we didn't want anything powered. But we started our days 2 hours before the electricians would arrive (to get around union rules), so the electricians never saw that we had a Lock Out/Tag Out procedure. One day one of the young ones asked us how we knew which of the bars was which phase. Without hesitating, my partner licked his fingers and grabbed two bars, then started twitching and shaking. He let go and said to the kid, very matter of fact; "See that? I was jerking to the right, so it was A-B-C. Had I jerked to the left, it would have been C-B-A."
We almost got thrown off the job for that...
" We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know." -- W. H. Auden
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STF
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Some time after that, the whole thing burnt down. The police arrested a young girl, for no apparent reasons - and then let her go with excuses and a bundle as a compensation. They never found the reason for the fire. What do you think?
Gunnar Englund
www.gke.org
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Half full - Half empty? I don't mind. It's what in it that counts.
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In my house there was a corded wall clock in the kitchen. There was no socket and the cord disappeared into a small hole in the wall. I went into the attic and found they had scraped the insulation off a wire, cut the plug from the clock, and wrapped the stripped back clock wires on the exposed conductors. A little of that garbage electrical tape as applied to keep the wrapping secure.
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I found a unique splice in an attic. Someone drove a small nail through one side of the Romex, through one of the conductors and into the ceiling joist. About 1/4 inch was left protruding.
They drove another nail through the other conductor into the next ceiling joist.
They then fed the branch circuit by winding one wire around the top of each nail.
Bill
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Jimmy Carter
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Huh, images still not working I guess.
https://i.imgur.com/RYGnsGm.jpg
" We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know." -- W. H. Auden
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Bill
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Jimmy Carter
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Gunnar; It looks like they brought the power there down that white door-bell wire stapled to the ceiling trim. Lovely. Freak'in lovely!
Jeff bet I know what this is...
The contactor was starting to buzz. Corrosion and build-up on the armature. The "spring and lipstick" is a subtle 'helper' to provide that wee extra that was needed to get a full armature seating to kill the buzzer.
Keith Cress
kcress - http://www.flaminsystems.com
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Today I get back there and they've taken a hack-saw to the motor shaft and cut the shaft off above the blower coupling. I was now looking at a motor with two NonDriveEnds! Looked pretty peculiar. I got two new contactors installed and the new motor installed and asked, "Where's the blower?"
A guy called "Butter Cup" brought it out. The big shaft, about an inch in diameter, had all the set screws drilled completely out. New holes were drilled and tapped. One was vaguely radially oriented and the second one was... a chord. The new "set screws" were grade 0, one inch long 5/16" bolts. They informed me that the shaft and come off a crumbled plate that had been riveted to the back of the squirrel cage. They'd then welded the shaft/collar directly to the blower back - as close to centered as they could get it..
We put it on and when I turned on the motor the 6foot x 6foot x5footH oven shook like a constipated dog.
I condemned it. As I loosened the radial bolt with a 4 inch long 7/16" wrench the setscrew-bolt twisted off at the collar surface..
Keith Cress
kcress - http://www.flaminsystems.com
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" We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know." -- W. H. Auden
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Have you never heard of "washing machine races"?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dpqfu-OaEk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_PLnInsh7E
STF
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