Man that guy would have $HIT if he had seen what I did today. I had to hone on the poppet valve bores on a BIG valve block (something like 30 inches long, 20 wide, and 18 thick solid steel) on a metal shear. Unfortunately the instillation was fairely new and there was no factory provision for draining the system neither upstream nor downstream the valve body so the only way to get the oil out was pull the poppets one at a time and let it flow. Fortunately with the application of ALOT of oil dry we were able to contain all of it on the concrete pad where the shear sets and, as such, get it cleaned up. I've got to admit it was the biggest 'spill' I've seen since Valdez...fortunately we had it contained so cleanup wasn't that big of a deal. Needless to say the custyomer plans to put provisions to drain the system in place now that it's dry so this doesn't happen again should the block need work in the future.
I wish all of these environmental nuts would go back where ever they came from. It's funny to think that the majority of them have no idea that the states used to use oil to keep dust down on the road (why isn't every old road bed declaired a hazardous waste site if it was so bad?), don't have a clue how things like open chains, gears, etc get greased/oiled, and most have no idea how much oil their own vehicles can and do leak. I guess we'll just have to educate them one at a time when the opportunity arises........
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