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Posted by Harley1983 on September 29, 2004 at 19:34:24 from (205.188.117.10):
In Reply to: Re: Silly Old Man posted by 51Pony on September 29, 2004 at 18:03:21:
Know what you mean Allan. The older I get the smarter my dad gets. He drilled into my somewhat thick head all my life on the farm to open all valves all the way and then shut them down 1/2 turn. The reasoning was he learned this on a battleship in WWII and when fully opened the pressure of whatever was flowing through the line might put pressure against the open valve and if it had to be closed in a real hurry for some reason it could be stuck tight. For some reason I remembered this one and when I went to Nam in the Brown Water Navy, it just was second nature to do this operation in this manner. One day a Chief Engineman confronted me and said this was the right way to open a valve, but where did I learn it. He wasn't impressed when I told him from a battleship from WWII. Needless to say, he needed an explanation, but the whole point is, it's funny sometimes what we remember from our mentors many years after they tell us something. Later, Harley
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