All the cool jobs around and the travel some do is amazing.. Guys flying around fixing aircraft etc is just cool... I have a lot of mechanical ability and so is where I found the most fun..
Was going through my "fail" pile hunting for that thermochiller and started to think about the stuff I had worked on over the years.. beside racing and spending way too much $$ I had to earn a living.. I had an automotive repair shop in Scottadale and detail shops in Mesa...
I also used to keep the "Big Flush" working in Tempe AZ (BigSurf).
I had to learn hydraulics, Industrial staitionary power units (1500CID natural gas, aftercooled Cat motors) with 40,000GPM pumps.
Also had to work with 5 giant sand filters and the 28000 gpm pump that they needed.
Learned how to maniupulate 1 ton cylinders of pure clorine and 400lbs of soda ash a day (1.7M gallons of water). Water treatment is pretty complicated and all I got was the PH/CL figured out.. Turbidity etc was pretty easy and learning about what chemicals cause the "stuff" to congeal etc.. (ammonium sulfate I think I used?)
Also entailed around 20 hours a week of diving to check gates and bearings.. (also found an average of $100 a day laying in bottom of back resevoir ) I was there for around 6 years.. just an incredible amount of stuff to learn every month..
and also worked the Ice rink next door doing ice (driving Zamboni) and fixing the stupid thing.. you have not had fun till you spend an entire night on the ice cutting down the ice to lay new stripes (sand bed rink).. Suks big time..
Add to all that lawn equipment etc, plumbing, painting (clorinated rubber) and also food service work (yea I slung hamburgers)
now what kind of odd ball stuff have you worked on?
Was going through my "fail" pile hunting for that thermochiller and started to think about the stuff I had worked on over the years.. beside racing and spending way too much $$ I had to earn a living.. I had an automotive repair shop in Scottadale and detail shops in Mesa...
I also used to keep the "Big Flush" working in Tempe AZ (BigSurf).
I had to learn hydraulics, Industrial staitionary power units (1500CID natural gas, aftercooled Cat motors) with 40,000GPM pumps.
Also had to work with 5 giant sand filters and the 28000 gpm pump that they needed.
Learned how to maniupulate 1 ton cylinders of pure clorine and 400lbs of soda ash a day (1.7M gallons of water). Water treatment is pretty complicated and all I got was the PH/CL figured out.. Turbidity etc was pretty easy and learning about what chemicals cause the "stuff" to congeal etc.. (ammonium sulfate I think I used?)
Also entailed around 20 hours a week of diving to check gates and bearings.. (also found an average of $100 a day laying in bottom of back resevoir ) I was there for around 6 years.. just an incredible amount of stuff to learn every month..
and also worked the Ice rink next door doing ice (driving Zamboni) and fixing the stupid thing.. you have not had fun till you spend an entire night on the ice cutting down the ice to lay new stripes (sand bed rink).. Suks big time..
Add to all that lawn equipment etc, plumbing, painting (clorinated rubber) and also food service work (yea I slung hamburgers)
now what kind of odd ball stuff have you worked on?
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