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I worked at a massive coal plant years back as a student. Once spent a afternoon crawling through a ESP during maintenance. The dust made my hair feel like sand
by ageofwant 10y ago
I worked at a massive coal plant years back as a student. Once spent a afternoon crawling through a ESP during maintenance. The dust made my hair feel like sand, weird gritty sticky eyeballs.
Now this was before health and safety became fashionable. I recall tales of the poor bastard that they forgot about when they tested the plate voltage. The test failed: 64kv was 40kv for some reason, and kept arching, they were still tracing the issue when his wife phoned to ask where John was, he was a few hours late picking up his kid at kindergarten...