MA91CK billet turbos and weathered engines dont mix Donating Members 1,346 Member For: 12y 6m 10d Gender: Male Location: Wollongong Posted 15/05/14 11:16 PM Share Posted 15/05/14 11:16 PM While I don't really do AC I'm in comms and work with a lot of BIG -48v DC systems, we have to have battery back up for comms rooms in the railway. Building a UPS system to support ~250a @ 48v for minimum 8 hours is a pretty solid task. Removing the old one (rated for 150a) just moving some of the 70mm2 cable slightly out of the way, one Feed was that loose it fell off the switchboard while we were jiggling it on a ladder. The bang it made scared the living sh*t out of me, had to change my undies and nearly fell off the ladder. Put a nice hole in the cover and fried a few things too. How it worked like that I don't know. Some people are dodgy mother f*ckers, you just can't do that sh*t when I comes to electricity. People say mate what would you know about quality work and ethic your only 23, please mate the work I do sh*ts on most older blokes. Because familiarity breeds complacency. People get super relaxed when they have done a job for 49 years, sometimes it needs a fresh set of eyes to double check what they do on autopilot 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MA91CK billet turbos and weathered engines dont mix Donating Members 1,346 Member For: 12y 6m 10d Gender: Male Location: Wollongong Posted 15/05/14 11:18 PM Share Posted 15/05/14 11:18 PM Guess I'm trying to say I'm just lucky things happened away from where I was working, just like T-Rex, and it always pays to check before you work as much of a pain in the arse it is. Not being bothered is not worth your life at work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixy Angel Expert Donating Members 9,132 Member For: 19y 9m 5d Gender: Male Location: North Jamberoo, NSW Posted 15/05/14 11:22 PM Share Posted 15/05/14 11:22 PM Its lucky youre still alive mate. Take photos and ring boss man that sh*ts not acceptable.Like you said sometime a second pair eyes makes a big difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizkets is Drunk? Too heavy needs boost Member 5,929 Member For: 11y 3m 26d Gender: Male Location: Adelaide Posted 15/05/14 11:28 PM Share Posted 15/05/14 11:28 PM that's better then some of the sh*t you see in adelaide railways mate. some of the pits and rooms are death traps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MA91CK billet turbos and weathered engines dont mix Donating Members 1,346 Member For: 12y 6m 10d Gender: Male Location: Wollongong Posted 15/05/14 11:31 PM Share Posted 15/05/14 11:31 PM Aw trust me pixy, you can't fart in this place without getting shot. EVERYTHING is monitored, like literally down to individual ports on switches via our operations centre in Sydney, they knew straight away. Just explained what happened. It's a lot harder to get whacked with lower voltage dc than AC, but if you do you have no chance. Not saying older blokes are useless either, they're like the walking dictionary of the railways, but a lot of they time they just know things so well they over look small details cause we are on the ball and trying to finish multiple things at once. Like any job I guess, easy to overlook the little things Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MA91CK billet turbos and weathered engines dont mix Donating Members 1,346 Member For: 12y 6m 10d Gender: Male Location: Wollongong Posted 15/05/14 11:33 PM Share Posted 15/05/14 11:33 PM This should be in the WPYOT haha. I can imagine bizkets, I got told to smash 6m2 of 'concrete floor sheeting' 3 years ago by a project manager. Guess what it was? Pressed asbestos sheeting. I was using a P1 mask, carting the sh*t out in big buckets and was covered in it For 2 days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizkets is Drunk? Too heavy needs boost Member 5,929 Member For: 11y 3m 26d Gender: Male Location: Adelaide Posted 15/05/14 11:38 PM Share Posted 15/05/14 11:38 PM I used to do concrete polishing and sometimes it was covered in asbestos fibres and was never told. definitely belongs in th WPMO thread lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spyathe Donating Members 872 Member For: 11y 1m 2d Gender: Male Posted 15/05/14 11:52 PM Share Posted 15/05/14 11:52 PM WMMFGT arriving at a mob to find they have 4000l of oil...my daily quota is 6500l Cruisy day for me :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Stripes. All stock bar the k&n panel filter Silver Donating Members 8,061 Member For: 12y 8m 18d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 16/05/14 07:06 AM Share Posted 16/05/14 07:06 AM WMMFGT: being introduced to the android app "MightyText" at work...epic! Office folk should check it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rab WOT? Moderating Team 10,981 Member For: 11y 9m 6d Gender: Male Location: Frankston, 3199 Posted 16/05/14 07:09 AM Share Posted 16/05/14 07:09 AM FRIDAY - QUITTING TIMEFark Yeah!!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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