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Time to man up confess your sins,what are your worst disasters for me,2.First drilling through a bundle of 6 bundled pyros in a large office block as an apprentice,my then boss said 3 ft from the wall,not true it was 3 metres,3pyros 4000Amp risers using ESR system second 3 2000A risers DC 3 wire for elevators in Sydney lots of downtown didn't get the AC till 1979.Second,sending a guy to replace a contactor in a Ward Leonard setup said look here the diagram does not agree 6 and 9 are reversed,told him don't worry factory mistake,no no no,resulting in no field on output motor,causing birdcaging,causing catastrophic rotor failure repair costs to us,100000 bucks.ouch.
 
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Just remember one thing, people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones haha. I like your location under your avatar by the way, very funny, made me chuckle :rockon2:
 
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Ha ha, never noticed that :)

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So what are you doing then?
 
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Back end of last year I put a 22mm drill through a wall and hit a pipe! Did'nt do much damage pmsl :rofl:

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The manager of the shop just laughed and nicknamed my "the plumber" after fixing the pipe and wall lol. (first pipe I've hit in 15 years)
 
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MDJ said:
Just remember one thing, people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones haha. I like your location under your avatar by the way, very funny, made me chuckle :rockon2:
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ive no problem with taking flak, i know my limits.
glad u like the location haha
 
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My worst was calibrating a pH probe on a chemical plant once.
I forget to tell the operator I was going to do it, so he could run the process in manual.
It sent his process haywire, totally acidic or alkaliic (?????), took him hours to bring it back under control.
Lordy knows how much that cost!
 
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Archy Styrigg said:
My worst was calibrating a pH probe on a chemical plant once.
I forget to tell the operator I was going to do it, so he could run the process in manual.
It sent his process haywire, totally acidic or alkaliic (?????), took him hours to bring it back under control.
Lordy knows how much that cost!
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ive done that too, causing the effluent outlet pump to start when out of consent.
 
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