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    Laugh or cry... meh



    Got called out of the compressor room to sign the delivery of 2000 Kg of *****...

    head up and ashore to find a truck with 185 10.8 kg bottles of R-404a...

    I laughed



    Made a manifold so we could charge 8 bottles at a time, then I laughed some more


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    Re: Laugh or cry... meh

    Time for BEER I think

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    Re: Laugh or cry... meh

    Now thats a lot of gas!!!!!

    Bet you had a great time that day....lol

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    Re: Laugh or cry... meh

    Apart from getting 2kgs less than ordered I would expect your wastage to go up as well.

    Do you think that they were having a 'warehouse sale' and you came along ?
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    Re: Laugh or cry... meh

    Me: envy.

    Hvilket firma jobber du for?

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    Re: Laugh or cry... meh

    Quote Originally Posted by Big SturL View Post
    Me: envy.

    Hvilket firma jobber du for?
    To answer the Norwegian first, jobber for MMC Kulde på Valderøya


    Unitor had 48 kg bottles, but they were a tad more expencive... My bet is they spent whatever they saved on having one of us on shore changing bottles for three days but then again we were in Chile, the sun was shining straight down, no shadow to be found... no shadow to be found ANYWHERE. and we charged almost the whole plant without starting the compressors due to the temperatrure difference
    -Cheers-

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    Re: Laugh or cry... meh

    Hi had the same type of job in the past when we moved a large blast freezer, we needed to add 7tons of Ammonia into the system for the new pipe work and replace what was removed for the freezer move. Someone who made out the order got in 67Kg. cylinders and not the 1ton. cylinders that we wanted. But same as you it was in the summer time so 14 hrs. later, 3 of them on over time we compleated the system recharge and started up the rest of the freezers for the start of new production run on green veg. and chips.
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    Re: Laugh or cry... meh

    The beginning, I'm wearing blue coveralls, a black t-shirt, the sun is beating down from almost straight up and the ozon layer is close to non existant... I'm not amused


    The rig we made, eight bottles connected to a 7/8 pipe that again connects to a 3/8" dual layer hydraulic hose (we use these for everything) 10mm inner diameter, sight glass for good measure, the loss of refrigerant was very low. (i think )




    Almost there... a sea of orange bottles

    Last edited by Tycho; 24-04-2007 at 10:21 PM.
    -Cheers-

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    Re: Laugh or cry... meh

    Forgot to add, the "after" picture is in my avatar
    -Cheers-

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    Re: Laugh or cry... meh

    Thanks for the update Tycho, glad to see that it's almost done.
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    Re: Laugh or cry... meh

    Quote Originally Posted by Brian_UK View Post
    Thanks for the update Tycho, glad to see that it's almost done.
    Oh, it was done a month ago just finally managed to get the pictures off my laptop and onto the big rig at home

    Not that I'm complaining, three months in South America basking in the sun, while some of the worst snow storms and bad weather in ages hits Norway
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    I know, it's tough at the bottom isn't it?
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    Re: Laugh or cry... meh

    Ooo you poor thing! escaping the snow, must have been so disapointed eh

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