Posted by NCWayne on June 02, 2014 at 14:19:43 from (173.188.169.54):
In Reply to: Ooooo, I hate that! posted by Notjustair on June 02, 2014 at 13:30:13:
Customer had a new hose made up for his machine some years back. The line was a one inch main line off the main hydraulic pump, and carried about 25 gpm. To complete setting the stage it was a PC150 Komatsu excavator with a sliding glass in the back right corner of the cab.
Guy said he had just started back to work and felt something strange on the back of his neck, and then started feeling fluid raining down all over him. It took him a few seconds to realize what was going on. Seems the end of the new hose had blown out of the fitting, and the curve or it had laid it right through the sliding window. What had happened was the place that made the hose neglected to crimp the end properly, so it pushed out when the system pressure got high enough. The end result was he was getting the full flow from the pump splashing around in the back of the cab and all over him.
Realizing what was happening, he bailed out of the cab before he got any more oil on him than he already had. He said the only thing about that was just about the time his feet hit the ground he had a thought...."Hey dummy, you"ve got to get back into the cab to cut the machine off". Needless to say between the initial drenching, and the additional he received getting back into shut the machine down, he looked like a drowned rat.
In the end I guess he got cleaned of just fine, and the place that made the hose had to foot the bill to have the interior of the machine cleaned and/or replaced...along with remaking the hose they had screwed up and replacing the oil lost as a result.
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