Car D.I.Y.

[gbb]

We had an oil drain vessel. It would elongate so you could get close and then when it was full, it required connection to an air hose and then through this facility, you could empty it into the waste oil storage tank...
Muggins, at his first attempt, followed the procedure to the letter but there was some sort of air lock towards the last say... gallon(?) and a black volcano erupted upwards all over the service bay. All over the ceiling and the resultant black 'rain' on me.
I was there a while cleaning up but to his credit, the foreman said 'happens to the best of us'.

In engineering teams, such an event would bring so much p1ss taking, oh, everyone would love that
I can see it now, all stood, arms folded, watching laughing...'you dont wanna do it like that'

 

[raleighnut]

We had an oil drain vessel. It would elongate so you could get close and then when it was full, it required connection to an air hose and then through this facility, you could empty it into the waste oil storage tank...
Muggins, at his first attempt, followed the procedure to the letter but there was some sort of air lock towards the last say... gallon(?) and a black volcano erupted upwards all over the service bay. All over the ceiling and the resultant black 'rain' on me.
I was there a while cleaning up but to his credit, the foreman said 'happens to the best of us'.

We had a similar system at the garage I worked at after I got sacked (for not 'babysitting' for the works manager) the job fell to Simon who was lazy.................The waste oil tank was above the tea room/kitchen/ loo and he'd failed to check how full it was so it overflowed, for the next 2 years it was dripping through the ceiling.