Watertender's Marbles ????

[JAYDAWG]

We all know ol' WT is a a half click off center, and figured he is just losing his marbles.
It's worse than that....HE GIVES THEM AWAY!!! :ROFLMAO:
Cheers,
JAYDAWG

 

[Jeepnik]

Jay, you have now entered into the world of stationary engineer humor. You will never be the same.

A well running plant is a thin to behold. But that leaves hours on end. And as the old saying goes " idle hand are the devil's work shop". Not that I have ever done anything like that

 

[T.A. WORKMAN]

"Cats Eye's" to boot!!! (y)

 

[contender]

:D :D :D

 

[XUSNORDIE]

Well hopefully that's all of Carl's marbles! All the local Airedales (4 legged and furry) .....or is it Air Dales (2 legged with wings and brown shoes)....either way they will all be safer around him.....from slingshot distance anyway.......:ROFLMAO:

 

[JAYDAWG]

:ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:

 

[Yaworski]

Jay, you have now entered into the world of stationary engineer humor.

You design writing paper? Cool.

 

[Watertender]

Well hopefully that's all of Carl's marbles! All the local Airedales (4 legged and furry) .....or is it Air Dales (2 legged with wings and brown shoes)....either way they will all be safer around him.....from slingshot distance anyway.......:ROFLMAO:

I have plenty of marbles and tea as well! All of you Airedales better look out!

 

[XUSNORDIE]

:unsure: I'm not too sure why you have such a large supply of marbles on hand...JAYDAWG before you handle those things you better put on gloves, give a good visual inspection of each one.....maybe even a sniff test.....:oops::LOL:

 

[Dan in MI]

We all know ol' WT is a a half click off center, and figured he is just losing his marbles.
It's worse than that....HE GIVES THEM AWAY!!! :ROFLMAO:
Cheers,
JAYDAWG

That may be, but hasn’t lost them. He knows right where they are.

 

[ArizonaTea123]

Guess what's inside a can of spray paint. You shake it before use right?
Cut open an empty spray can. One glass marble inside .

 

[Jeepnik]

You design writing paper? Cool.

Google is y our friend when you don't know something.
https://www.google.com/search?q=sta...U4MjlqMGoxNagCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

 

[Yaworski]

Google is y our friend when you don't know something.

Writing paper is "stationery".

Maybe you should try this
https://www.google.com/search?q=jok...BBzkxMWowajmoAgCwAgE&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
BTW, homophones are not ear buds for gay guys.

 

[Watertender]

Not only do I have the marbles that JAYDAWG is jealous of. I have a real left handed pipe wrench and know how to get a bucket of steam.

 

[Jeepnik]

Writing paper is "stationery".

Maybe you should try this
https://www.google.com/search?q=jok...BBzkxMWowajmoAgCwAgE&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
BTW, homophones are not ear buds for gay guys.

Okay, re read my original post. I spelled it stationAry. Not stationEry. A stationary engineer is the term for what used to just be called boiler operators. But that didn't sound impressive enough so some goof gave them a fancy title. I never met a boiler operator that was insulted by the title. Especially if he had passed the testing from somewhere like Los Angeles or New York.

 

[Yaworski]

Okay, re read my original post. I spelled it stationAry. Not stationEry.

I know. It was what they call a "play on words" using homophones.

Other people got it. Please try to keep up.

 

[Jeepnik]

I know. It was what they call a "play on words" using homophones.

Other people got it. Please try to keep up.

Oh, I got it. I was just trying to educate the unwashed.

 

[JiminMaine]

Okay, re read my original post. I spelled it stationAry. Not stationEry. A stationary engineer is the term for what used to just be called boiler operators. But that didn't sound impressive enough so some goof gave them a fancy title. I never met a boiler operator that was insulted by the title. Especially if he had passed the testing from somewhere like Los Angeles or New York.

I thought Stationary Engineers just sat around all day not moving.

 

[Watertender]

I thought Stationary Engineers just sat around all day not moving.

If things are running well you should have some time to sit down. If they aren't you will be busy trying to keep the place going.
The best days are when you don't see or talk to anyone. Invisibility on a job is a great thing.

At my last job I had 3 computers and 17 alarm panels to monitor in the boiler room office. I also had equipment from the basement mechanical rooms to the rooftop air handling units that were my responsibility.
In the boiler room I had 3 boilers, 3 chillers, 3 cooling towers and 5 diesel generators to take care of. You might look like you are doing nothing but you are constantly monitoring your equipment.

 

[JiminMaine]

If things are running well you should have some time to sit down. If they aren't you will be busy trying to keep the place going.
The best days are when you don't see or talk to anyone. Invisibility on a job is a great thing.

At my last job I had 3 computers and 17 alarm panels to monitor in the boiler room office. I also had equipment from the basement mechanical rooms to the rooftop air handling units that were my responsibility.
In the boiler room I had 3 boilers, 3 chillers, 3 cooling towers and 5 diesel generators to take care of. You might look like you are doing nothing but you are constantly monitoring your equipment.

I understand about if things are running well you might get to sit down.

I have six years of working where NON-stationary power plant where we had 8 Babcock & Wilcox 1200 PSI boilers. They provided steam to drive 4 Westinghouse turbines that turned 4 25' diameter propellers, 8 SSTGs producing 60hz power, 2 SFTGs producing 400hz power, 5 evaporators making 250,000 gal. of fresh water daily, 4 steam catapults for launching aircraft, plus steam for other misc. uses. We didn't have cooling towers, we just had and ocean for cooling water. We only had 3 Fairbanks-Morse emergency diesels.

It was bad enough when everything was going fine, got down right crazy when things weren't.

 

[Jeepnik]

If things are running well you should have some time to sit down. If they aren't you will be busy trying to keep the place going.
The best days are when you don't see or talk to anyone. Invisibility on a job is a great thing.

At my last job I had 3 computers and 17 alarm panels to monitor in the boiler room office. I also had equipment from the basement mechanical rooms to the rooftop air handling units that were my responsibility.
In the boiler room I had 3 boilers, 3 chillers, 3 cooling towers and 5 diesel generators to take care of. You might look like you are doing nothing but you are constantly monitoring your equipment.

At your first job you had computers. Heck mine we had old Bailey pneumatics with feedbacks. 3 to 15 psi was your whole world. I wonder if I still have the touch to get the boiler master on the plant master without a bump. And lord help you if you weren't on the plant master and the boiler masters got to fighting for control.

 

[Watertender]

At your first job you had computers. Heck mine we had old Bailey pneumatics with feedbacks. 3 to 15 psi was your whole world. I wonder if I still have the touch to get the boiler master on the plant master without a bump. And lord help you if you weren't on the plant master and the boiler masters got to fighting for control.

Actually the first boiler I worked was hand fired coal with a water injector for feed water. God forbid if the crown sheet got dry and red hot. On a boiler it ain't the fire that will kill you, it's the water. With an expansion rate of 1600 to 1 you can turn a boiler into airborne shrapnel in a split second. The worst thing I have had happen is a manhole gasket blow on the center steam drum on a B&W Stirling boiler. Miracles do happen and me not being hurt was one of them.

 

[Jeepnik]

Actually the first boiler I worked was hand fired coal with a water injector for feed water. God forbid if the crown sheet got dry and red hot. On a boiler it ain't the fire that will kill you, it's the water. With an expansion rate of 1600 to 1 you can turn a boiler into airborne shrapnel in a split second. The worst thing I have had happen is a manhole gasket blow on the center steam drum on a B&W Stirling boiler. Miracles do happen and me not being hurt was one of them.

Had that happen on the mud drum I had just walked away from the water testing area. The gasket blew. Scary part was the boiler tech tuning the boiler had also just been sitting directly in front of the manhole. God loved us that day as he was getting coffee.
The steam set off the sprinklers. We both needed new computers. They don't swim well.

I actually really liked that plant. But they used to joke about not letting me and one operator alone in there. If something was going to happen it would be while Jun and I were there. The only good thing was they had an extra old boiler guy when it did.

 

[JAYDAWG]

Actually the first boiler I worked was hand fired coal with a water injector for feed water. God forbid if the crown sheet got dry and red hot. On a boiler it ain't the fire that will kill you, it's the water. With an expansion rate of 1600 to 1 you can turn a boiler into airborne shrapnel in a split second. The worst thing I have had happen is a manhole gasket blow on the center steam drum on a B&W Stirling boiler. Miracles do happen and me not being hurt was one of them.

Moderators,
Please change the name of this thread to " How many marbles does it take to run a boiler"

Thank You.

:p :p

 

[Watertender]

Moderators,
Please change the name of this thread to " How many marbles does it take to run a boiler"

Thank You.

:p :p

Actually I used my slingshot with marbles in the Powerhouse to get rid of pigeons.

I found out one of the midnight shift engineers was feeding them. I told him to stop and went to war with the filthy things. They had crapped all over the tops of the big boilers and it was a mess. I had the guy who was feeding them clean the boiler tops and said if he kept feeding them he would be cleaning the entire Powerhouse.

I missed one of the pigeons sitting on a beam once and hit the brick wall behind it. I found out that a marble hitting a brick wall straight on will return to you as fast as it was going when it hit. I had a very interesting knot in the middle of my forehead and I could hear the cathedral bells as the solar system was bouncing around in my head...

 

[Jeepnik]

Sling shot! Amateur. At the shipyard we used one of those early automatic BB gun. Hooked it up to plant air. We could clean off an entire I beam when the roosted at night.
Everything was fine until we missed a few bodies. The the bird brained bird lovers put up a holler. So we chilled for a few weeks and got real careful about body pick up.

 

[Watertender]

I also used to use my slingshot and marbles to discourage dumpster divers. They would scatter stuff all over the service road when they dug through the stuff in the dumpster. I would sit on the roof of the Powerhouse after dark if I was working at night. Man they jump when you get one and they never think to look up to see where it was coming from. The dumpster pad was lit up with floodlights and it was just like a carnival shooting gallery except you didn't win a cigar or kewpie doll.