Something to laugh about to lift the mood.

[wade88]

So i have noticed a fair amount of unhappy posters this last couple of weeks, thought i would throw myself out there as the sacrificial goat of comedy and try to raise some smiles amongst a few of you...

And so, long story cut embarrassingly short, we have this large mixing crucibal here at work 9ft high, 1 tonne capacity, pretty basic stuff, 7.5 kw 3ph motor, 3 heating bands around the mixing bowl on separate phases circa 15kw of heating all in all.

Night shift supervisor comes to me in the morning last week as i get in, bit sheepish, says

"Ben, the control panel to the mixer sort of....well....blew up last night, smoke was pouring from the vents and there was a huge bang" .... *SIGH*

What utter foolishness has one of these numpties done to it now...so i open the panel up and sure enough, the incoming 6mm tails have burnt away, flash burn every where, and the din terminals have completely broken apart like a grenade went off in there. My guess was after the machine has been moved around a bit and this control panel dragged along behind it, terminations came loose and some serious arcing had been occuring until it finally went. So i replaced the tails, replaced the din rails connectors, checked other fuses, ran around with volt meter for a while to just see what was what and all seemed well...

Turn on machine heaters *BANG*.... all goes again, traced voltage back to the point it stops and first phase cartridge fuse downstream of contactor goes down as soon as i select heater band 1....scratched head for a while....figured maybe the SSR took some damage during the initial 'blast' and figured id just replace it from stores anyway. So i disconnect the heaters to take all load of the circuit to see if they were the problem, try again *BANG*, check cable insulation, fine, checked just about everything and was just walking off to get megger when i noticed this......


Now, im ready for the assault here, but in my exp, which we have established lately is limited but i dont feel poor, i am use to the disconnection tab of most MCB's and DIN terminals to be at the bottom, so, when i replaced the damaged DIN T's for the incommers, i automatically just put them in this orientation without a seconds thought, turns out the panel builder had put them in the other way around, so being insulated on one side only and the terminals exposed on the other, i had unknowingly slotted the N incommer terminal next to the first phase of the heaters the other way around so they were just snuggled up, zinc to zinc.....every time i turned it on, dead short and pop.

After some hours, one or two phone calls, and changing over system components that were absolutely fine, it turns out, i was just a massive dork.

Maybe you had to be there...but i had to laugh

 

[FAA Greenie]

I remember going with my dad to pick up a new car when i was about 10 years old. Being a smoker, the first thing he did was push in the ciggarette lighter. When it popped out, he looked into it and declaired that it didn't work, because he couldn't see it glowing. So for some reason he shoved his finger on the end of it. The sizzling noise was unmistakeable and after a few seconds the smell of burned flesh filled the car. I laughed so hard my stomach hurt!!! He spent two weeks with a series of concentric burns on his finger which made me laugh every time i say it!!!

 

[ayjay]

we were rewiring flats in lymington , i found an inspection light the old type with a wire guard but i only had a 150watt bulb so i fitted that, i put it down on the rug next to the bed then smelt burning it burnt right through it
i thought i had better go and tell the elderly lady what had happened but as i approached her she said "did you see my lovely handmade rug, i croched it myself"
i had to tell her that i,d just burned a hole right through it--well embarrasing and costly

 

[Geordie Spark]

I couldn't think of a reasonable answer in time Tony when i was asked what was wrong with it....i just couldn't fabricate a plausible sounding argument fast enough....i buckled....

But now you've got me thinking about it, your right, it was totally the original panel builders fault who put his DT's upside down. What a total idiot, jeez

Repeat after me: "It was all right when I left it" ...... "It was all right when I left it". ............. OK - you got that now??

 

[scotsparky]

last week i was doing a nightshift in a University building.
It was a nice old building and had big old bannisters. It was about 5 in the morning and as usual i was shattered and when i am shattered i get up to mishief. Well i saw the bannisters and thought i want to slide down them. Big mistake. The cleanerers polish them to a glass finnish and i went down them like Eddie the Eagle and flew of the end clattered my head off a wall and giving myself a faint black eye. I got up to see my mate sitting down wetting himself.

 

[dan86]

lol! at least you didn't clatter your ballz!

 

[scotsparky]

i went side ways to prevent that.

 

[markc123]

Haha That's just reminded me of when i was a lad hahaha me and my mate put one of our other mates in a deflated tent in his bedroom, zipped him up and pushed him down the stairs, haha oh i love remembering child hood memories that have somewhat passed to the back of the old noggin.

Actually crying now! To cut a long story short, he broke his nose...was only 10 aswell. My dear god i wish i was back to that age.

 

[scotsparky]

well i am 40 and should have known better

 

[dan86]

it's a bit cold up here in Scotland just now, so have got the fire going.

i always wear gloves when using the companion set, but only put one glove on if turning logs.

got the tongs out to turn a few logs, did it, then without a moments hesitation, touched them with my other hand for some reason.

it didn't tickle