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TheBoozer

Sun Aug 23 2009, 10:56PM

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At work everyone is familiar with power electronics. I took in my rotary gap Tesla coil one day to show it off...

A UPS driver showed up with some packages during the run, he looked over at what was going on and asked:

"What's all that stuff coming off the donut?"....

Obviously this wasn't his field.

Arcstarter

Sun Aug 23 2009, 11:35PM

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How about this one from costumers at my brother's workplace?

":O"

thedatastream

Mon Aug 24 2009, 10:46AM

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"Bangy Bangy!" - the call of a veteran power supply engineer about to do some single fault testing. Highly sensitive software engineers were not amused at the outcome and complained equally loudly.

"Antenuator" - is it an attenuator or an antenna? We just don't know... maybe its a crap antenna.

Nicko

Tue Sept 01 2009, 11:27PM

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&%Â£&%Â£** $*^$*^ !! 86*%*&% (i.e. completely unrepeatable)

...from Colin, now known as "Chopper Colin", after he had cut through a section of a 4" high false floor with a circular saw so that we could look at the concrete slab underneath to do some structural load testing (we are going to put a 2 tonne APC UPS on it)...

...what Chopper hadn't realised at first is that he went straight through the hot water feed to the radiators, and boiling hot water was showering out of the floor at huge speed and flooding the slab....

...and filling up the building plant room directly underneath... 11Kv & several inches of water... You want to know what lots of ozone smells like? I can tell you... I was genuinely scared when I opened the plant room security door and saw what was going on in there...

...so Chopper is there with a club hammer, soaked to the skin and being showered in 60C water, furiously trying to beat the cr*p out of the the end of this pipe to make it flat & stop the water before a major explosion in the plant room...

...it's the closest I've come in the past five years to ordering a building evacuation and invoking DR...

Edit: Having discovered pipework over the plant room, I had it all removed & the floor "tanked" to stop ingress through the slab - new computer suite now installed there has just loads of moisture detectors everywhere.... as does the plant room now...
...don't you just love old buildings... a continual voyage of discovery...

Bored Chemist

Wed Sept 02 2009, 04:59PM

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Re Nicko's post.
Other pipe detectors are available.

Nicko

Wed Sept 02 2009, 05:26PM

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Bored Chemist wrote ...

Re Nicko's post.
Other pipe detectors are available.

There are? I never realised... (irony alert)...

Its more fun using Chopper

... It's fair to say he won't do that again in a hurry...

He'd attacked the floor before any of us could stop him (he was in the room before us).

Arcstarter

Thu Sept 03 2009, 12:56AM

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I do not have a real one, mostly due to the fact that i do not have a job.

But i can imagine Noah Webster or someone else that helped write a dictionary running up and saying "The good news is that i finished writing the last word in the dictionary, the bad news is that the word was dictionary, and the word is now collapsing into itself, up is down, left is right, and orange is stop sign".

Proud Mary

Thu Sept 03 2009, 02:50AM

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Irish scrap metal dealer, on seeing that environmentalists had attached a chain to a Tetra repeater and pulled it down with a Land Rover:

"Ah Jasus, 'tis all f----d to b-----y!

MinorityCarrier

Thu Sept 03 2009, 06:32PM

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When testing the flammability of a supposed fire resistant ablative silicone material being considered for shielding a high temperature diffusion furnace, and the material readily caught fire and supported flames, one of the Line maintenance folks commented "It's not not burning very well"

(I'm not familiar with Irish profanity Harry, metaphorically speaking, what is b-----y?)

Bored Chemist

Thu Sept 03 2009, 07:40PM

Registered Member #193 Joined: Fri Feb 17 2006, 07:04AM
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I think it might be an anagram of "ruby egg".

Incidentally, your post reminds me of the reply I got when I pointed out that the bench coating (which someone had sugested that we used in the labs) exploded when heated to about 250C; "You didn't test it to the aproved ISO/ BS protocol".

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