Recent content by Summerpaws

Sounds like you have a handle on the application side. I agree with you regarding the heat exchanger. I am always amazed at how efficient they are. In our power plant we had scores of heat exchangers. Some were condensers and some were used in the plants HVAC and processing. I wish I knew...

Interesting subject. 30+ years ago I had a similar thought. I was given the opportunity to get a free 7.5KW MJDE Onan Marine generator out of an old Trojan Tri Cabin that was being demolished. I brought it home and it ran and produced power with very little work. I was working in a co-gen power...

You have to wonder what the situation was for this generator for it to get so bad. Amazing stuff. At work, we had a Wall of Shame where interesting failures were displayed. In the 32 years I worked there the wall grew from a 10 foot square to a 30X20 area. We had everything from a tube...

No worries! It's related to wet stacking...even if it's extreme...and it seems to me to be a pretty popular subject. Since I joined this forum, I've been picking through the generator section and am on page 250 or so. Wet stacking, fuel pumps, wiring to house seem to be very popular subjects...

I found a Carter pump P74018 is as close to a bolt on as you can get. $46 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000CSWR9M?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details

That's awesome Matthew. Thank you!

You're probably right. Wow. The only engine I've seen close to that was a no start chainsaw. Fuel spark, compression. Pulled the muffler and it was clogged solid. The spark arrestor screen just caught all the oily mix. Never seen a diesel with anything but soot in the exhaust.

I'm not sure about my town. When I built my addition, a friend of mine and co-worker, pulled the permit. He and I went over what I wanted and what the codes dictated. I did most of the wiring and he stopped by to check my work. Because of that, inspection was a breeze. It never entered my mind...

Pretty amazing! I wonder how long it ran to get that bad?

That sounds like a great system. Sadly, being retired on a pretty much fixed income, it is way out of my reach. Looking at the components, it's almost twice what I paid for my 802. While I am electrically educated, having worked in a power plant for so many years and worked with 120 volts to...

And hot. We wore Tyvek suits with respirators for the soot but the boilers were still hot. We had two vertical boilers and we had to stand inside them to punch the tubes. I wore Timberland steel toed works boots and the heat from the tube sheet would seep through the soles until we had to get...

Our big Cats had their exhaust run through a low pressure fire tube boiler. Because they were always at 50% load, we never got and gooky deposits but we did get soot. We did an annual boiler inspection that included punching the tubes. Probably the closest I have ever got to hell while living.

Ray, I read your answer and said to myself, "Duh". I could actually go over 100% for a short time. I like the idea of shutting off the water heater so it's cold. Maybe it would be a good time to flush it so it's really cold. Like Matt said, 100% load is 100% load.

It is a non woven textile manufacturer. It takes polypropylene and polyester resin pellets and extrudes them into fibers. Then it's baled and carded into fabrics. Then they are usually coated and sold to companies to be used in everything from clothes to carpet. When I started there our normal...

That's one job I would not care for. I can imagine all the wonderful stuff that needed to be cleaned. I have done my fair share of nasty jobs. My department was called Plant Services. We gave the plant power, low and high pressure steam, chilled water, hot oil for production and compressed air...