Re: Turn over vs. fire

Posted by NC Wayne on June 28, 2005 at 19:46:04 from (205.188.117.66):

In Reply to: Turn over vs. fire posted by Chad Franke on June 28, 2005 at 10:37:40:

As an equipment mechanic your descriptions of each condition is accurate in my experience. I can also say from experience that you've got it easy if having to define "turn over" is the worst problem you have trying to diagnose a breakdown. Working on equipment for a living I can't even begin to count the number of times when I've gotten a call about a machine being down or gone out to a machine and gotten three or four different descriptions of what the machine was or wasn't doing when it quit...often times all from the same operator. Worse yet spend half a day or longer trying to diagnose a problem on a machine that won't run, only to have the operator tell you that "Oh yeah, I forgot, it also did ---whatever--- one time just before it quit" and send everything into a totally different direction making what you've done so far a big waste of time....Then when I get the machine running I find that the one problem that finally shut it down was only one of many cascading problems. I worked on an engine driven compressor awhile back that was running and being used til it quit. When I finally got itrunning again I found diaphrams in the control system busted, wires broke, etc etc etc....the fact that it was running at all was a miracle but when I know it was actually being used and, they said, operating "correctly" I simply can't explain it because it should have died long before it did. But that's what makes the job exciting and challenging and I love it....

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