George B
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I like the way you think. Why didn’t I think of that? I’m gonna try that tonight. Thanks
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Didn’t get a concrete grinder. Nobody had one local up there. Found one at Home Depot by my brother’s work but it was $185/day and by the time we would get it back it would be 3 days. We’ll come up with something, doesn’t have to be done right now. I may even cut out a 12-18” wide section and just pour new concrete to have a smooth transition between the slabs.
It was where they poured the new slab up to the existing pad and didn’t make sure they were even. They just allowed the concrete to flow up to the bottom of the plywood on the outside wall. Can’t roll a sled on dolly over this hump.
And it’s the entire seam.
So we ended up getting the plywood up on the walls. This side was up before so it went up easy after we cleaned up and dug the plywood out from other garage and carried it over.
The other side was never up because we had the bench, toolbox and shelving in the way. After cutting out holes for outlets and switches, wood went up and stuff came back in.
It was where they poured the new slab up to the existing pad and didn’t make sure they were even. They just allowed the concrete to flow up to the bottom of the plywood on the outside wall. Can’t roll a sled on dolly over this hump.
And it’s the entire seam.
So we ended up getting the plywood up on the walls. This side was up before so it went up easy after we cleaned up and dug the plywood out from other garage and carried it over.
The other side was never up because we had the bench, toolbox and shelving in the way. After cutting out holes for outlets and switches, wood went up and stuff came back in.
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The roof and skylights are done now too. Didn’t get a good picture but you can see the roofers donated a broom that they left on the roof.
The roofing guy called me on Friday while we were heading up. Asked me if I was gonna finish paying him. I said, I was waiting until you gave me a total. Did it end up being what we originally agreed upon or was there anything extra that needed to be added in? I can’t pay if I don’t know how much.
So I ended up sending him the balance. He didn’t have any up charges thankfully. $6800 for a total tear off, disposal, double layer of ice and water, new ridge vent and replaced 2 skylights. I didn’t think that was too bad. Best part, I didn’t have to do it. They even fixed a small drip I had in sled garage around skylight. I think that developed when we moved it.
My brother and I did everything on Saturday, including putting new shocks on his sons sled, replaced the slides, put the skid back in and adjusted the track. We headed for home Sunday about 12:30-1, I got home at 7 so I could head to work at 10:15. Heading back up in a few weeks to get the other sleds ready for season, put them in garage, do something with that floor and get my trailer pulled out from back of property. We couldn’t get the trailer this weekend because it poured on us all weekend and I didn’t want to rut up the yard with the truck and trailer.
The roofing guy called me on Friday while we were heading up. Asked me if I was gonna finish paying him. I said, I was waiting until you gave me a total. Did it end up being what we originally agreed upon or was there anything extra that needed to be added in? I can’t pay if I don’t know how much.
So I ended up sending him the balance. He didn’t have any up charges thankfully. $6800 for a total tear off, disposal, double layer of ice and water, new ridge vent and replaced 2 skylights. I didn’t think that was too bad. Best part, I didn’t have to do it. They even fixed a small drip I had in sled garage around skylight. I think that developed when we moved it.
My brother and I did everything on Saturday, including putting new shocks on his sons sled, replaced the slides, put the skid back in and adjusted the track. We headed for home Sunday about 12:30-1, I got home at 7 so I could head to work at 10:15. Heading back up in a few weeks to get the other sleds ready for season, put them in garage, do something with that floor and get my trailer pulled out from back of property. We couldn’t get the trailer this weekend because it poured on us all weekend and I didn’t want to rut up the yard with the truck and trailer.
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Few things have kept me occupied lately.
At work they finally released some funds to give us some steam this year. Better late than never. And instead of replacing the boiler, we have to upgrade it. We did all the heavy lifting and piping but someone else is coming to do the programming and fine tuning. This thing requires a laptop to program and tune. Above my pay grade.
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Had to add back up safety's to secondary safety’s which was a royal pain and will be even worse once this thing is fired.
At work they finally released some funds to give us some steam this year. Better late than never. And instead of replacing the boiler, we have to upgrade it. We did all the heavy lifting and piping but someone else is coming to do the programming and fine tuning. This thing requires a laptop to program and tune. Above my pay grade.
Burner removed.
Had to add back up safety's to secondary safety’s which was a royal pain and will be even worse once this thing is fired.
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Had to fix a few things I got wrong. Just where I ran conduit because the print was screwed up and I assumed but that was an easy fix.
Should be testing for leaks and firing it this week. Fingers crossed.
The 3rd and smallest boiler we have is only for heating barged prior to offload. It’s a “portable” boiler that was brought in 28 years ago as a “temporary” fix. Yeah, you read that right.
That boiler was leaning but the trailer wasn’t. It was falling thru the trailer floor. They talked about bringing in a new trailer and transferring everything over. I heard that and was like, oh helllll noooo! So I talked the superintendent into letting me shore up the floor instead of all that work removing, stripping and reinstalling a 60 year old boiler into another trailer. I don’t even think we could safely move this trailer the way it sits. Still sitting on its original tires and the glad hands for the brakes have been long removed and I know these brakes won’t release.
So I spent my nights in the cold and snow for the better part of a week shoring up the boiler. We are sitting on limestone bedrock so I made the entire thing adjustable so I could level it up and make future adjustments if needed. This type of work should be handled on days where there are more bodies and a lot more light but here I am stuck on midnights doing this stuff alone in the dark!
No better feeling than welding I-beam while laying next to and most times on top of a 2” rusty gas line that feeds the boiler. I just kept telling myself it wouldn’t hurt if it blew up. I probably wouldn’t even feel it.
But it’s back up and level. 2 days after I made the repairs, the boiler blew 2 tubes out and had to get them replaced. I wasn’t gonna do it. They also got rid of a lot of the old controls when it was apart. This boiler used to run on gas and fuel oil. Now only gas.
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This past Wednesday before thanksgiving, we had a pump failure. It was on a circulating pump not a loading pump which is better but still was a mess.
Here’s the inside of the pump house that is attached to the shore tank. The pump on the left is for loading trucks and railcars and it’s suction is directly on the bottom of the tank. The pump on the right is for circulating and heating the product. It’s suction is off the side wall of tank and routed thru a heat exchanger before returning back to the side wall of tank but higher up.
This is the routing of product. As it passes thru the heat exchanger there’s are internal tubes that we open a steam valve and allow steam to pass thru the tubes and that heat gets transferred to the product.
When a tank product gets down to around 85° is when we start the heating process to get the product up to as high as 120° in some cases. With the majority of our tanks being million gallon capacity, typically not always full but normally we are at levels 245-260”. So when we start this process we open the suction and discharge valves and then start the pump. Always pinch down on discharge side to make sure the product is flowing and the pump isn’t air bound, which does happen from time to time. This pump will circulate product thru the exchanger for up to 5 days non stop getting the temp from 85-118°. It takes time.
So this process was started by day shift on Monday. Come Wednesday the pump was off and product was spewing from the backside or the dry side of the pump. This means the basket was breached and who knows how long that leaked for. We usually do a good “walk thru” at the beginning and the middle of our shifts looking for spills, leaks, power failures, heat traces not functioning or any signs of potential problems. Day shift said they checked it at 11am, afternoon guy said he found a lake around the tank at 7pm so who knows how long it was leaking for. Our go to in the industry is 150 gallons is all we lost because that puts us just under the recordable quantity. According to the met-tape reading it was a lot more than that but nothing I’m willing to put into words online.
So it was all hands on deck Wednesday to suck up the product and put into tanker trucks and then “control spill” of dilute scrubber tank acid to neutralize the spill. But I will say, this was all in containment and not a spill or threat to environment.
This was how it looked this morning when I went back to check on it before my shift starts at 11pm where it’s hard to see the whole picture. It has to look presentable before Monday morning when the majority of the company is gonna find out we had an oopsy.
Here’s the inside of the pump house that is attached to the shore tank. The pump on the left is for loading trucks and railcars and it’s suction is directly on the bottom of the tank. The pump on the right is for circulating and heating the product. It’s suction is off the side wall of tank and routed thru a heat exchanger before returning back to the side wall of tank but higher up.
This is the routing of product. As it passes thru the heat exchanger there’s are internal tubes that we open a steam valve and allow steam to pass thru the tubes and that heat gets transferred to the product.
When a tank product gets down to around 85° is when we start the heating process to get the product up to as high as 120° in some cases. With the majority of our tanks being million gallon capacity, typically not always full but normally we are at levels 245-260”. So when we start this process we open the suction and discharge valves and then start the pump. Always pinch down on discharge side to make sure the product is flowing and the pump isn’t air bound, which does happen from time to time. This pump will circulate product thru the exchanger for up to 5 days non stop getting the temp from 85-118°. It takes time.
So this process was started by day shift on Monday. Come Wednesday the pump was off and product was spewing from the backside or the dry side of the pump. This means the basket was breached and who knows how long that leaked for. We usually do a good “walk thru” at the beginning and the middle of our shifts looking for spills, leaks, power failures, heat traces not functioning or any signs of potential problems. Day shift said they checked it at 11am, afternoon guy said he found a lake around the tank at 7pm so who knows how long it was leaking for. Our go to in the industry is 150 gallons is all we lost because that puts us just under the recordable quantity. According to the met-tape reading it was a lot more than that but nothing I’m willing to put into words online.
So it was all hands on deck Wednesday to suck up the product and put into tanker trucks and then “control spill” of dilute scrubber tank acid to neutralize the spill. But I will say, this was all in containment and not a spill or threat to environment.
This was how it looked this morning when I went back to check on it before my shift starts at 11pm where it’s hard to see the whole picture. It has to look presentable before Monday morning when the majority of the company is gonna find out we had an oopsy.
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And yes, I did get paid to go this morning to check on everything. Double time too. I wouldn’t have gone out of the kindness of my heart, I’m not that devoted. But for $80/hr with a 4 hr guarantee, I’ll go check it out. Lol. Was there about an hour just hosing some more down and rolling up hoses.
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I did find a weekend to get back up north and grind that floor down. I picked up a dust collector for 7” and 4” grinders, hooked them up to vacuums and went to town. Grinding wheels weren’t cheap but was still a lot less than renting that stand up grinder. And I have them now.
Made a big difference and now the sleds can roll over that without coming off the wheels. Got the trailer out from behind the house and sleds unloaded and into garage.
Made a big difference and now the sleds can roll over that without coming off the wheels. Got the trailer out from behind the house and sleds unloaded and into garage.
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Looking at this pump, I would say the pump was air bound and got pretty hot which caused the failure. I’ll never say that to anyone at work and throw a fellow worker under the bus. But that’s what it looks like to me.
That setup right there is about $18k before this inflation stuff. I’ll try to show later tonight when I get back to work exactly how these pumps work having a wet and dry side and what “basket” I was referring to. Once you see it you’ll be like, oh ok, that makes sense. Pretty simple setup but industrial chemical pumps aren’t cheap.
That setup right there is about $18k before this inflation stuff. I’ll try to show later tonight when I get back to work exactly how these pumps work having a wet and dry side and what “basket” I was referring to. Once you see it you’ll be like, oh ok, that makes sense. Pretty simple setup but industrial chemical pumps aren’t cheap.
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Is that a Hot Oil (asphalt) plant?
Tonyrodz
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Pretty sure they manufacturer bleach and or bleach products.
adventurenali92
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Out there putting good into the world when so many aren’t! Good for you man! Super impressive and hopefully everything falls into place for you on that!
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Chemical plant. We have big shore tanks of caustic soda, that tank with the spill was potash, we also have hydrochloride acid in a tank that big and 180,000 gallons of storage for sodium hypochlorite (bleach) which we produce.
Thanks. I’m gonna try to do some good this season when I’m not on my sled.
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So I wanted to show you guys how these pumps are put together. Simple and effective. There’s a wet side and a drive side.
Let’s start with the housing itself.
As you can see they are lined with viton or a Teflon. Viton is what we use for bleach and Teflon holds up to caustic, potash and acid.
Inside the housing there is a nose ring that supports the front of the shaft that stays stationary and supports the impeller and impeller drive.
The next part is the impeller and drive.
This is a 5.5” C drive. 5.5 is the impeller diameter obviously and for drives you have A B C or D. That just tells us how long the drive is and how many magnets are in it. Typically there’s 6 8 or 10 magnets in the drives depending on how far the push is and the viscosity of the product it’s pumping.
Here you can see the drive on the impeller. There’s are strong rare earth magnets inside the drive that run the length of it.
Let’s start with the housing itself.
As you can see they are lined with viton or a Teflon. Viton is what we use for bleach and Teflon holds up to caustic, potash and acid.
Inside the housing there is a nose ring that supports the front of the shaft that stays stationary and supports the impeller and impeller drive.
The next part is the impeller and drive.
This is a 5.5” C drive. 5.5 is the impeller diameter obviously and for drives you have A B C or D. That just tells us how long the drive is and how many magnets are in it. Typically there’s 6 8 or 10 magnets in the drives depending on how far the push is and the viscosity of the product it’s pumping.
Here you can see the drive on the impeller. There’s are strong rare earth magnets inside the drive that run the length of it.
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All the above is the wet end. What seperates the wet from the drive ends is the basket. The basket is a fiberglass formed dome that the drive for the impeller rides in. It also supports the back end of the impeller shaft.
The drive rides inside the basket and the impeller sits inside the pump housing. This is them together.
Next is the star shaped ring. That holds the basket to the pump housing so I can pull a motor back off the pump and the wet end stays sealed up.
So the pump sits there with that basket sticking off the back of it with the drive inside the basket. The outer drive is what turns the inner drive by using the magnets. The A B C or D drive designation has to match the outer drive or it does some weird stuff.
This is the outer drive that gets attached to the electric motor.
The drive rides inside the basket and the impeller sits inside the pump housing. This is them together.
Next is the star shaped ring. That holds the basket to the pump housing so I can pull a motor back off the pump and the wet end stays sealed up.
So the pump sits there with that basket sticking off the back of it with the drive inside the basket. The outer drive is what turns the inner drive by using the magnets. The A B C or D drive designation has to match the outer drive or it does some weird stuff.
This is the outer drive that gets attached to the electric motor.
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Here’s kinda a visual showing how the basket and outer drive go together.
It’s kinda neat how it’s a mag drive and no mechanical connection between the motor and pump impeller. Outer magnet drives inner magnet and turns the pump. These magnets are strong!!!! When there’s obstruction or binding in pump, these 480v electric motors can’t turn the pump and it’s only restricted by a magnetic field. And don’t get your fingers between them or you’ll lose em.
It’s kinda neat how it’s a mag drive and no mechanical connection between the motor and pump impeller. Outer magnet drives inner magnet and turns the pump. These magnets are strong!!!! When there’s obstruction or binding in pump, these 480v electric motors can’t turn the pump and it’s only restricted by a magnetic field. And don’t get your fingers between them or you’ll lose em.
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On a side note, an old friend that used to be my riding buddy every winter is getting back into snowmobiling. I asked him if he was still riding and if he wanted to go on a poker run with my brother and I this season and he said the guys that he used to ride with all gave it up, got married and had kids so he sold his sled. I told him I never stopped riding but I didn’t like going up and spending my time belly up to a bar instead of riding. He’s been sober now for 12 years so those days are behind him now. I told him he’s more than welcome to come riding with us and I would even give him a sled to ride. He said he would love to. Called me 2 days later and was asking about track lengths and what I thought was better, a 137” or a 146”. I said going by the 80/20 rule (what you plan to do 80% of the time) which would be trail riding, the 137” track is better. So he bought a brand new sled. $22k and then had to buy a new suit and all the gear which set him back another $3500. Bought a Mission helmet in carbon fiber for another $800 and had to get a tunnel bag and gas can so his sled can carry his stuff. Then bought a GPS unit for it and the holder with the wires in charging cable. He’s probably $30k in and all I did was invite him to go riding again. That’s Nick, my ride or die buddy. lol.
So I tell you this for 2 reasons. 1) now Nick has a brand new SkiDoo 850 turbo sled that I’m not gonna let him show me up on. 2) a good friend who puts on this poker run up in Newberry Michigan in the you pee had a Yamaha Viper like mine last year. On Thursday and Friday before the poker run there’s about 40 of us that meet out on the lake and do drag races and have a bonfire. Before we went last year is when I put the turbo on my Viper. I told Mark I was gonna kick his a$$ and so he had a turbo installed on his. Shouldn’t have said anything. When my brother and I got up there last year I was kicking back, having some drinks and jaw jacking with guys and didn’t race Thursday. I figured Friday was the double elimination money pot day so I was gonna wait to race. Friday it was snowing and blowing so hard you couldn’t see out there on the lake so we cancelled it.
Mark ran into a stump that year buried under the snow and cracked his heat exchanger and twisted his tunnel so his sled was totaled.
Few months ago he called me and tells me he will be ready for this season and he got a Thundercat which has the Yamaha 4 stroke turbo in it and had it tuned, clutched and turned up to 275hp so he’s gonna “show me this year”!!
The ones who know me know that I’m not the one to bring a knife to a gun fight. I didn’t get my engine work done on my Viper this summer like I wanted to so I’ve been scrambling to get my sled together and turned up as much as I can without blowing a head gasket. I can only go to about 10psi and maybe 290hp but it’s gonna be a fine line on reliability and I’d hate to blow it up on drag night and not make the poker run with it. Although we do bring the Yamaha Apex with us just in case something happens. I’m going this weekend to hopefully drag home another sled. It’s a Yamaha Sidewinder XTX LE 137” with a factory turbo.
It’s getting tuned for me this week by Hurricane. It’s gonna have a push button controller for tunes that can be switched on the fly, 240hp trail tune, 270hp extreme trail and a 330hp race tune all on 91 octane. It’ll do 350hp on 110. Hurricane intercooler piping, turbosmart blow off valve, Thunder Products clutching with weights springs rollers and their 911 cover, has a roll over valve delete, sealed relays, driveshaft saver, upgraded thicker drive chain with improved too gear, BOP no ice intercooler cover, Turbo Dynamics muffler, Fox QS3 shocks all the way around, upgraded 15mm sway bar, DuPont hyfax slides, comes with extra windshield, Yamaha windshield bag, the tunnel mounted hard bag, heated shield plug in already installed and a billet fuel cap. Ice scratchers mounted to skis and also the flip down wheels on the skis to save the carbides.
And I’m not saying a word to Mark about it and just gonna show up and whoop his a$$!!!
So I tell you this for 2 reasons. 1) now Nick has a brand new SkiDoo 850 turbo sled that I’m not gonna let him show me up on. 2) a good friend who puts on this poker run up in Newberry Michigan in the you pee had a Yamaha Viper like mine last year. On Thursday and Friday before the poker run there’s about 40 of us that meet out on the lake and do drag races and have a bonfire. Before we went last year is when I put the turbo on my Viper. I told Mark I was gonna kick his a$$ and so he had a turbo installed on his. Shouldn’t have said anything. When my brother and I got up there last year I was kicking back, having some drinks and jaw jacking with guys and didn’t race Thursday. I figured Friday was the double elimination money pot day so I was gonna wait to race. Friday it was snowing and blowing so hard you couldn’t see out there on the lake so we cancelled it.
Mark ran into a stump that year buried under the snow and cracked his heat exchanger and twisted his tunnel so his sled was totaled.
Few months ago he called me and tells me he will be ready for this season and he got a Thundercat which has the Yamaha 4 stroke turbo in it and had it tuned, clutched and turned up to 275hp so he’s gonna “show me this year”!!
The ones who know me know that I’m not the one to bring a knife to a gun fight. I didn’t get my engine work done on my Viper this summer like I wanted to so I’ve been scrambling to get my sled together and turned up as much as I can without blowing a head gasket. I can only go to about 10psi and maybe 290hp but it’s gonna be a fine line on reliability and I’d hate to blow it up on drag night and not make the poker run with it. Although we do bring the Yamaha Apex with us just in case something happens. I’m going this weekend to hopefully drag home another sled. It’s a Yamaha Sidewinder XTX LE 137” with a factory turbo.
It’s getting tuned for me this week by Hurricane. It’s gonna have a push button controller for tunes that can be switched on the fly, 240hp trail tune, 270hp extreme trail and a 330hp race tune all on 91 octane. It’ll do 350hp on 110. Hurricane intercooler piping, turbosmart blow off valve, Thunder Products clutching with weights springs rollers and their 911 cover, has a roll over valve delete, sealed relays, driveshaft saver, upgraded thicker drive chain with improved too gear, BOP no ice intercooler cover, Turbo Dynamics muffler, Fox QS3 shocks all the way around, upgraded 15mm sway bar, DuPont hyfax slides, comes with extra windshield, Yamaha windshield bag, the tunnel mounted hard bag, heated shield plug in already installed and a billet fuel cap. Ice scratchers mounted to skis and also the flip down wheels on the skis to save the carbides.
And I’m not saying a word to Mark about it and just gonna show up and whoop his a$$!!!
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You might have some of our equipment in that plant. If you do continuous blow down on that boiler you may have our heat recovery system for the make up water. And the plant may use our samplers at different points of the process.
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