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MCAS Meat Inhibition Logic
cmon how entertaining would a ‘choooo-chooooo’ be before a boiler pops inside a building
If I worked for you monitoring one of those rentals (you don't leave them unattended do you?) I would want a whistle to announce the change of shift when I took over from the other engineer. A horn would be better, but a whistle would work. I have a desk sized steam turbine with an electric boiler I restored a few years ago. It has a pulley that could provide power for something but I never hooked it to anything. It also has a whistle, when the whistle stopped working I stopped playing with it. Maybe it's time for another more in depth restoration. It's a funny little old antique, little wooden knobs and glass tubes, a little water tank with all of the fury 110vac can bring and most importantly spinny things. Maybe it's time to revisit that 'toy".Well, there’s an alert bell for when the burner is about to do an unscheduled shut off for a problem but otherwise no, we don’t have any cool on-demand sound making equipment sadly. However, it would be very easy to fab one up and now I’m thinking about it lol. A simple accumulator with a steam trap would work nicely.
It’s always fun to find one of the old riveted units, you’re really stepping back in time with those things. It’s amazing what they put together that was so functional over 100 years ago before welding technology really took off. Then the asbestos people walk in and ruin all the fun
Choo Choo is the noise the engine makes, he's not renting engines, he's renting boilers.cmon how entertaining would a ‘choooo-chooooo’ be before a boiler pops inside a building
Depends on the facility. Some places require stationary engineers 24/7, some don’t. The equipment will run on its own regardless and we do have remote monitoring capability, it just comes down to local/federal regs and insurance requirements for personnel on site.If I worked for you monitoring one of those rentals (you don't leave them unattended do you?) I would want a whistle to announce the change of shift when I took over from the other engineer. A horn would be better, but a whistle would work. I have a desk sized steam turbine with an electric boiler I restored a few years ago. It has a pulley that could provide power for something but I never hooked it to anything. It also has a whistle, when the whistle stopped working I stopped playing with it. Maybe it's time for another more in depth restoration. It's a funny little old antique, little wooden knobs and glass tubes, a little water tank with all of the fury 110vac can bring and most importantly spinny things. Maybe it's time to revisit that 'toy".
And yes, it’s a giant bomb that will level a building but it’s almost always a low water issue from poor maintenance or safety shortcuts when that happens. Throw some cold water on your hot grill and just imagine that effect in a contained vessel. But we call them “disturbances” or “puffs” since explosion is rather dramatic and tends to make people nervous and is extremely rare. These things don’t just fail or runaway on their own, there are multiple safety devices in place to ensure that doesn’t happen and when well cared for are as reliable as a good hammer.
“Stupid thing keeps shutting off”Some buds of mine in college lived in a fraternity house with a very old boiler in the basement. One day it did exactly that, when we were all in class. Nearly completely leveled the entire 3 story building. It was just gone when they got home. That is some scary •.
Just like the F-117 after it got the F-16 FBW flight control system to make it a manageable airframe and rid itself of that horrible nickname.
@MikeD did they specifically recruit out of the A-10 pilot group for the F-117 or was that just a coincidence?
“Stupid thing keeps shutting off”
“Well we gotta have hot water and heat” and/or “keep the plant running so we don’t get yelled at”
“Here’s the problem, this solenoid keeps shutting the damn thing off”
“Aha, we can jump that, it’s just a couple wires and the boiler will keep running”
“perfect, let’s get some coffee”
*boiler runs out of water, burner keeps burning because the safety has been jumped out of the loop, Mcdonnell Miller valve hits the bottom and dumps a rush of feed water into a red hot furnace and ^boom^
Like any equipment, love them, maintain them, and operate them the way they were designed and they’ll reward you with good, safe performance.
Just like the F-117 after it got the F-16 FBW flight control system to make it a manageable airframe and rid itself of that horrible nickname.
@MikeD did they specifically recruit out of the A-10 pilot group for the F-117 or was that just a coincidence?
I'll get it running properly again. It makes cool noises as it warms up and the wheel makes a cool noise when it spools up, I'd guess it probably makes .0000001 HP at full steam but that's not the point. It's an antique Bing steam toy. If I plugged it in it'd probably still work. When I was farting around with it I never ran it in the house or even the garage. Like I said steam is scary.Depends on the facility. Some places require stationary engineers 24/7, some don’t. The equipment will run on its own regardless and we do have remote monitoring capability, it just comes down to local/federal regs and insurance requirements for personnel on site.
I actually have a little steam tractor that will drive itself once you get some pressure up, think shoebox size. That has a whistle which is awesome. Miniature steam systems are a real hobby and are very cool, you should absolutely keep that thing running and functional
Came across this today and thought it was fascinating. @MikeD did they get anything glaringly wrong?
View: https://youtu.be/1zjcnnx7igc?si=ccqUjLYwQ8kQBLti
The bombs we carried were of the Paveway II class, namely the GBU-10 and GBU-12, 2000lb Mk 84 and 500lb Mk82 bomb versions, respectively. We couldn’t initially carry the Paveway III series of bombs such as the GBU-24 Mk84 2000lb because the Paveway III tail kit was too large for the F-117 bomb bay.
^^ first time I ever carried a GBU-24B/B (Paveway III) on a legacy Hornet, I was blown away by how giant it looked. It was truly cartoonish when mounted on our little stub wings. The pilot-vehicle-interface for that weapon (PWIII) was truly garbage, and it was never really a practical weapon to use other than a few very specific scenarios. It is kinda funny they bit off on it with Top Gun 2.......it was such a niche weapon, though its singular use was fairly accurately represented in the movie at least. It was a real handful to correctly employ, very much fully manual unlike the Paveway II, and unlike (as I understand it) with the F-15E which fully and properly integrated the weapon. I'd imagine the F-117 was another?
@MikeD was the EGBU-27 also referred to as the DMLGB? I'm getting a bit fuzzy, but I remember the Navy's interest was very half hearted in my time. It existed in the inventory, but we never once trained to it in my experience. Of course by the time I flew operationally, we had basically the opposite guidance priority, in the GBU-54, which we used extensively in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. Pretty good weapon, a GPS guided variant of the GBU-38 500# JDAM that had a laser terminal guidance mode if you were talking a BOT sort of scenario (the main time you'd ever use it).