don't even get me started on pre-delivery inspection procedures at customer premises.......... I don't know how I ended up in this industry but after a recent trip to a audit a prospective sovents tank farm in Poland i wished I'd run away and joined a circus...... then seeing all the clowns in action I thought perhaps i had ! The highlight was a small room where they filled 5 litre cans with " Nitro Fuel" for model cars etc, the boss proudly explained he had fitted an antistatic floor and issued earthing shoes to his employees:............who of course were standing on cardboard to keep the floor clean  2009 GS Auto Zermatt Silver - Sold June 21 after 10 years of ownership

2016 Subaru Outback SE 2.0 diesel SE Premium Lineartronic Sold 2024 after 8 years and 80k miles . Best Car I ever owned !

2023 Toyota Hilux invincible X 2.8 Auto .

Don't get me started? one day I will, I'm sure we both have some great stories

how did you get the MDI in a tanker? , Im sure they complained a bit

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Very good For the chemically challenged Methylene diphenyl diisocyanate

That would be MDD, crazy chemists you just complicate things so laymen think you clever At work
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Agree. It would react very violently with your ammonia if you can find a use.

my nose reacts very badly with Ammonia At work
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And caravans

chicken george wrote:

my nose reacts very badly with Ammonia

years and years ago when "blueprints" were normal, eons before plotters were introduced, 880 ammonia was used for developing dyeline printing, the in the drawing office (of a certain vehicle radiator manufacturer in Leeds) used to clear their noses by sniffing the residual ammonia collected in a catch bottle which was much much weaker, one of their favourite tricks was to do this in front of guillable young trainees ( yes me ) then invite them to do the same but using the neat 880 on the " feed" side ! Oh how they would laugh as you fell to the floor with all you mucous membranes burning and your eyes steaming and bloodshot, it made being sent to the engineering stores for a " Long Stand" or being left 5 metres in the air on the business end of a forklift over lunchtime seem almost harmless. It's a bloody good job some things have changed at work over the years 2009 GS Auto Zermatt Silver - Sold June 21 after 10 years of ownership

2016 Subaru Outback SE 2.0 diesel SE Premium Lineartronic Sold 2024 after 8 years and 80k miles . Best Car I ever owned !

2023 Toyota Hilux invincible X 2.8 Auto .

Know what you mean. I vaguely remember having to clean out the glass tube on one of those machines because I was the youngest. It’s funny because the Friday night guys were talking about all the pranks that would happen in the “old days” in work that are not allowed now but were character building and were good for team building. Now everything is politically correct and they have to send people away for team building. Happy days

John

Team building

Wear this fluorescent jacket and don't run on the grass...it's slippery.

I was caught out with a £40,000 control panel at Dounreay, The bas ds had wired a theatrical thunder flash and smoke bomb in the workings, the armed guard over my shoulder nearly shat himself and was not impressed. I ended up swapping perfectly good thyristors around to make it look like I had cocked up to cover for them.

Thyristors, now we’re talking. We had I guy who would always take a leak at the side of the brew cabin instead of going to the nearest loo. He never did it again after we rigged up a connection to a Megger

Thyristors excellent bits of kit, I had 8000 amps through 6 of them at British Gas, Partington, starting a fan
Fortunately all was well.

MartynB wrote:

well I thought it couldn't be worse but today at 9.06 am there was an earthquake, not a massive thing but enought to shake the factory and warehouse for 10 seconds ore more..... I'm going home , there are only floods and plagues left and with my luck