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Offline jsheridan

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Re: wooooooooooooooooooooooo, don't try this at home kids!
« Reply #15 on: February 14, 2014, 01:04:30 AM »
(failed water line or hose in shop = BAD. Long story but I've seen it first hand)

i'll take a weird electrical problem, or a ripped screen in head 3 of a 16 color print with lazy pullers..

Than to deal with water problems.. nothing worse. 


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Offline Evo

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Re: wooooooooooooooooooooooo, don't try this at home kids!
« Reply #16 on: February 14, 2014, 03:08:39 AM »
Picture this...

7000 piece order. Children's sizes. All white fleece pullovers.

Blanks delivered with embroidered fronts, to be screen printed 4 color on backs.

Job is 50% done. Boxes of fleece are all over the shop in various stages of packing/unpacking. Very few on pallets.

Some time early in the weekend, the inlet pipe to the small shop water heater breaks open...


8000 sq ft shop, 8000 sq ft storage, 6000 sq ft office and stock/shipping area, all with about 4-6 inches of water.
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Re: wooooooooooooooooooooooo, don't try this at home kids!
« Reply #17 on: February 14, 2014, 08:34:23 AM »
Water disasters? WE seem to have turned the corner from hot to wet, and since my shop is on my residential property, this may qualify as a work related story.

Wednesday, January 22, just after returning from ISS about 4:00 am, I wake to a sound like a jet engine or something.
I jump up to investigate, to hear it coming from the kitchen, and immediately step into 1/2" of hot water on the floor.
The sound is coming from under the sink, and when I open the cabinet door, water is blasting from the shut-off valve. The stem and handle had broken off!
I, of course raced to the shut-off at the water heater, and spent the next 30 minutes sweeping and vacuuming the water out.

All I could think was what if this happened when I was not here? This was not like us leaving the water on to the pressure washer, or even not shutting off the water supply to a washing machine to prevent a burst hose. Who the hell thinks about a valve failing this way? Even with the damn plastic stems?
That rug really tied the room together, did it not?