Rant time !! pressure washers

[Landslide]

...but I don't suffer fools gladly!

Good thing you don't work in HR then.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Just sack the c*nt

When I was a lad the foreman used to say 'if you don't like it you can clock out and f*ck off' - halcyon days!

 

[Headgardener]

Anything gone 'bang' yet ?

Keep us posted !

T'would seem that gbb is too busy repairing the machinery to reply.

 

[gbb]

Anything gone 'bang' yet ?

Keep us posted !

Ohhhh yesss, i knew it. We (i) had bets on what'd fail...
So, where do i start ?
Its a small conveying / weighing block of machinery. Turned it on....no display on the weighcell programmer. Hmmm
Check the trips in the main panel, all ok.
Open the local control box, first thing i saw was there are no PLCs powered up either. See if there's any fuses in there...yes. 1 fuse blown.
Replace fuse which is a bit of a dead loss really, cos you know its going to go again....and it did.
Replaced again and watch carefully as you start different sections of the machine, see whats operating when the fuse blows.
Just at that point the programmer went off at the same time as the fuse. Ok, we got a problem there (probably). Isolate the programmer, replace the fuse, all the rest of the machine works. So its the programmer. Opened its enclosure, there's water in there.

Now he's going to sweat.
Shrug my shoulders, we havnt got a spare (we have and i know it) He's getting all concerned now. Told him i'd have a look but took my time, had a look on Cyclechat, cup of tea,...maybe 2 hours later...oooh look ive found one

Installed, now all i've got to do is program it up and right now, i havnt got a clue. Never done one before.
44 pages of manual.... ah well, tomorrows works already laid out.

I'd fully expect some bearings to fail in the next few weeks as well


I keep thinking i should have told him again and again...but i already have over the last 5 or so years. Short of doing the job yourself or standing over them...what can you do...i'm a busy man....honest

 

[Dayvo]

I keep thinking i should have told him again and again...but i already have over the last 5 or so years. Short of doing the job yourself or standing over them...what can you do...i'm a busy man....honest

See my earlier post for an easy (and highly satisfying) solution!

 

[simonali]

Sounds like someone needs to make the machine idiot-proof. You get good at it after all the years I've spent working with idiots!

 

[gbb]

Sounds like someone needs to make the machine idiot-proof. You get good at it after all the years I've spent working with idiots!

This almost prompted me to start another thread...working with idiots !!!

I'm not perfect, i certainly dont know everything, i'm not even qualified to do what i do, just trained on site and took a great interest in it all. Electrics, even simple electronics isnt so difficult to fault find if you understand the layout.

Some months ago, they (the company) suggested i had someone i could train to do the basics when i'm not there. (blind leading the blind perhaps )

Out of maybe 60 people on our side of the site...i could think of one guy i could trust to be sensible....just plain sensible is a hard thing to find in people.
The companies suggestions of candidates got an abrupt...NO. I just cant work with idiots, i'd become a gibbering wreck.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

I just cant work with idiots, i'd become a gibbering wreck.

Well in a way you are working with an idiot Have you moved on to the next stage yet

Ah - I see you need more than one idiot

 

[Norm]

No, I missed my vocation, I suppose, but I don't suffer fools gladly!

Good thing you don't work in HR then.

Sounds to me like he is perfectly qualified to work in HR.

Sounds like someone needs to make the machine idiot-proof. You get good at it after all the years I've spent working with idiots!

Idiot proof is there to prove who the idiots are.

gbb, can you not just take the fuse out of the pressure washer? Sounds like this pratt is high on the numpty scale, so he'd never work out what was wrong.

Alternatively, get him to clean the pressure washer with the pressure washer. If he stuff 200psi of water in it hard enough, we should be able to hear the bang from here.

 

[Beardie]

We've got a nice situation at work, where an automated van washer has actually been replaced with two hand-held pressure washer guns. That's the first cockup: the second is that the corner they've been installed in is too small for more than one van at a time, so only one gun can be used at a time. Also, there used to be a hosepipe with a brush on the end, which was much more effective, but people would tear the brush off to use the hose to fill washer bottles and radiator header tanks. That's now beyond repair.

The pressure washer can be fun, though. Some of our van tail-lifts are really rusty and it is interesting to see how large a plate of rust and bubbled paint can be removed with it.

 

[simonali]

They're mostly pretty good at our place. They use the pressure washer for foaming stuff and floors and wash off the foam with a standard hose. Makes my life easy!