What`s the strangest thing you`ve worked on?

**glenn1340** · 17-10-2010, 08:11 PM

Just wondering what`s the strangest thing you`ve worked on be it in the fridge industry or otherwise.
Mine has to be in another life testing lifting equipment when I had to proof load test a table to take the weight of a baby elephant that was part of a tv ad for photocopiers.
The most enjoyable had to be removing a fifty ton overhead travelling crane in an old factory, we cut out the two tracks and used an winch to pull it off. That was twenty five years ago and my ears have only just stopped ringing from the crash.

**Brian_UK** · 17-10-2010, 10:00 PM

Commissioning an extract system for a nuclear power plant.

One section was the cooling ponds for the used fuel rods.

Floating around in a rubber dinghy balancing air grilles at the water surface. Passed a day or two before I got it right.

**Tayters** · 17-10-2010, 10:54 PM

Strangest thing pre-refrigeration career - Citroen BX.

Andy.

**cool runings** · 17-10-2010, 11:09 PM

Originally Posted by glenn1340

Just wondering what`s the strangest thing you`ve worked on be it in the fridge industry or otherwise.
Mine has to be in another life testing lifting equipment when I had to proof load test a table to take the weight of a baby elephant that was part of a tv ad for photocopiers.
The most enjoyable had to be removing a fifty ton overhead travelling crane in an old factory, we cut out the two tracks and used an winch to pull it off. That was twenty five years ago and my ears have only just stopped ringing from the crash.

Talking of Elephants.

I once worked in a pet food factory that took animals
and rendered them down to pet food and fertiliser,
anyway they had an elephant that had died in a circus and it was sent for disposal. It was so big it jammed
the crushing, mincing machine and caused no end of problems

.

coolrunnings

.

**Magoo** · 17-10-2010, 11:37 PM

Working and testing the chillers in a medical school autopsy dept., after a major air crash. Boxes of heads , boxes of limbs, you name they had boxes of them. The smell was incredible.
Had friggen night mares for years.

**mikeref** · 18-10-2010, 12:09 AM

Oh, one of the unusual events would be jail cell ventilation, the only occupant was lots of dead bushes in neat piles and they were not tomato plants.. mike

**lowcool** · 18-10-2010, 01:01 AM

calabrese tomato plants i reckon mike

**mikeref** · 18-10-2010, 03:17 AM

Calabrese tomato plants lol, I like Brian's nuclear pond, but try working on a refrigerated container holding portable bee hives. Open the doors to get down to the evaporator when out of nowhere hundreds of wild bees fly in. Totally unprepared for this and about to bolt, the owner(who was also unprotected) just laughed and said not to worry about them and moved in further. They were all over and around me. Apparently if i moved slowly and didn't brush them off, they wouldn't sting. VERY UN-NERVING!!

**coolhibby1875** · 18-10-2010, 09:17 AM

was working on a laser machine for removing tattoos the other day, that was a bit interesting!!

**chemi-cool** · 18-10-2010, 06:58 PM

had to replace an evaporator fan in a hospital morgue.....

It a shame that no one there can give you a hand or at least, hand you a spanner.......

**Quality** · 18-10-2010, 09:46 PM

Ive never been in the armed forces or anything but mine is a nuclear submarine !

**mad fridgie** · 18-10-2010, 10:55 PM

"Women", still looking for a manual on these strange things

**mikeref** · 20-10-2010, 12:41 AM

Originally Posted by Quality

Ive never been in the armed forces or anything but mine is a nuclear submarine !

Wouldn't be Red October?

**james10** · 20-10-2010, 06:20 PM

trying to commision a chiller on a ship docked in the river tyne that was designed to run in africa,condensor water coming on at 5c when it should've been 20+

**Quality** · 20-10-2010, 08:43 PM

Originally Posted by mikeref

Wouldn't be Red October?

Red October

**mikeref** · 21-10-2010, 04:55 AM

Originally Posted by Quality

Red October

Russian sub in the movie Hunt for Red October, yeh i know

.. mike.

**750 Valve** · 21-10-2010, 10:33 AM

Worked on a dishwasher once.... with a Bitzer 4G-20.2Y semi inside on R134a running as a heat pump (+60C condensing temp)

Worked on an ice machine in a brothel.... yes they did ask about fixing the bill up!

**Magoo** · 22-10-2010, 12:44 AM

750 Valve.
come clean [ no pun intended ]. Did you sample the product ?.

**mad fridgie** · 22-10-2010, 02:47 AM

Originally Posted by Magoo

750 Valve.
come clean [ no pun intended ]. Did you sample the product ?.

I think 750 valve did,
The ice was very nice in his coke, and the dishwasher washed high glass after.
And by the way the pro, polished his knob!

**Emmett** · 22-10-2010, 08:05 PM

Enviornmental test chamber two places come to mind
(1) land mine testing facility they actually accidentally blew one up in the chamber, blast was contained very impressive piece of equipment
(2) Military proving grounds, froze guns and ammo down and then opened doors and commenced to firing, took awhile to get used to.

**julius Geezer** · 23-10-2010, 12:39 AM

Uranium enrichment centrifuges , Trident submarine and a very large house owned by a member of the Royal Family who liked to know how things were going , he turned out to be a ****in' good laugh..............!

**yinmorrison** · 29-10-2010, 10:14 PM

Flameproof Heat Pumps for Saddam Hussein's Explosive Shelters during Iran/Iraq war. Possibly eventually used for WMD storage but had exploded before the weapons inspectors could find them!

**mikeref** · 10-11-2010, 11:53 PM

Another one, a Bat hospital. Lots of rainforest in this area and flying foxes(Bats) are protected. So this hospital has staff that go into forests and pick up sick Bats and bring them in for treatment. So they have the Batfridge, Batfreezer, Bat coldroom, Batwoman that runs the hospital and plenty of Bat smell.

**lawrence1** · 11-11-2010, 09:28 AM

So Mike,,,,,who was batman????

**mikeref** · 11-11-2010, 10:54 PM

Originally Posted by lawrence1

So Mike,,,,,who was batman????

Who? Not me. Came across a group of them at a river crossing yesterday, tried to get a photo of them in flight to show on here, then last night, some were at my Paw Paws again, sneaky buggers..

**FEISTY** · 07-12-2010, 05:50 AM

Worked the HVAC systems in a gentleman's club. Never had to look far for second set of hands. Volunteers around the block. The job included crawling thru the ductwork to clean up the fog/smoke/glitter/streamer mess. Then next call was cremetorium working on reefer holding boxes. From warm bodies to cold all in same day.

**Cool Blues** · 21-12-2010, 09:29 PM

Not so much the strangest thing worked on, but certainly one of the most interesting projects, many years ago long before my Space life, I designed and then subsequently installed a blast freezer unit for tank barrel production, which had the novel feature of a rail track system to carry the gun barrels from the heat chambers into the blast freezer chamber,

Happy days

Cheers,

Mark.

**australian tech** · 04-02-2011, 05:40 PM

I was called out to fix a coca cola vending machine on the space station Mir. When i got up there... same old story, some spendthrift russian cosmonaught with a little too much time on his hands , had stuck two aluminium washers together to pose as a 2 dollar coin.
Anyway i fixed the coin mech, then just as i was about to leave ( the shuttle had docked and the captain was reaching through the airlock to grab my toolbag for me), another astronaught ,japanese i think, confronted me and questioned the need for the soda vender to be up here in the space station anyway . He went on to tell me that even when the right coins were inserted and your beverage choice selected, the zero gravity always prevented the cans from falling down into the retrieval compartment...
Well i was getting the " hurry up" signal from Columbia, so i told him i try to get back up next week to take a better look. not sure if i'll go back.I heard Nasa uses 90 day accounts...... Cheepskates !!

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