WTF? o.O
Okay, so I'm going to try and explain this in major lamen's terms because I studied the shit for four years and even I still find it confusing.
So there's this valve. Imagine that it is a three-foot-long cylinder. Inside the cylinder, at either end, are two-inch-thick circular disks that fill the whole of the inside of the cylinder. If you pump air behind one disk, it pushes forward, causing the valve to open. If you pump air behind the other disk, it pushes forward, forcing the air out from behind the first disk, and causes the valve to close. Easy enough, right?
So Johnny and I are working on this valve at work. It's a very important valve because it determines whether or not the refiner can run and if the refiner doesn't run, eventually the whole plant goes down. Additionally, Stores doesn't stock either the parts for the valve OR a replacement. Why the fuck would they not store parts or a replacement for a valve that's so important? ANYWAY.
So we're working on the valve. Basically it's open and won't close. So we try all the usual things and can't get the damn thing to close no matter what. So eventually we start tearing it apart. We take apart one side of the cylinder...okay, there's the disk and the seals and all the other junk that's supposed to be there and they all look find. So we take apart the other side of the cylinder.
And here's where the "WTF?!" comes in:
There was no disk.
Bafflement.
Okay, cause first of all, where the fuck did the disk go? Supposedly we're the first ones to have worked on this particular valve, and I find it a LITTLE hard to believe that the manufacturer shipped it to us this way. Second of all, how the fuck has it been working up till now?! It only started giving them trouble, like, last week. The valve has been there for four years. If that disk isn't there, then no matter how much air you apply, the thing isn't going to move! How have they been getting it closed all this time?!
So we called up our supervisor. Johnny's exact words were, "So yeah, um...you're probably not going to believe us, but...um...the piston is missing." (I assume you've reasoned it out yourself, but the piston is the disk thingy.) I was standing three feet away and could audibly hear the "WHAT?!" on the other end of the line.
Don't know what we're going to do with it now, seeing as they don't stock the freakin' parts, but I guess we'll just have to see. ^___^;;;;;
So there's this valve. Imagine that it is a three-foot-long cylinder. Inside the cylinder, at either end, are two-inch-thick circular disks that fill the whole of the inside of the cylinder. If you pump air behind one disk, it pushes forward, causing the valve to open. If you pump air behind the other disk, it pushes forward, forcing the air out from behind the first disk, and causes the valve to close. Easy enough, right?
So Johnny and I are working on this valve at work. It's a very important valve because it determines whether or not the refiner can run and if the refiner doesn't run, eventually the whole plant goes down. Additionally, Stores doesn't stock either the parts for the valve OR a replacement. Why the fuck would they not store parts or a replacement for a valve that's so important? ANYWAY.
So we're working on the valve. Basically it's open and won't close. So we try all the usual things and can't get the damn thing to close no matter what. So eventually we start tearing it apart. We take apart one side of the cylinder...okay, there's the disk and the seals and all the other junk that's supposed to be there and they all look find. So we take apart the other side of the cylinder.
And here's where the "WTF?!" comes in:
There was no disk.
Bafflement.
Okay, cause first of all, where the fuck did the disk go? Supposedly we're the first ones to have worked on this particular valve, and I find it a LITTLE hard to believe that the manufacturer shipped it to us this way. Second of all, how the fuck has it been working up till now?! It only started giving them trouble, like, last week. The valve has been there for four years. If that disk isn't there, then no matter how much air you apply, the thing isn't going to move! How have they been getting it closed all this time?!
So we called up our supervisor. Johnny's exact words were, "So yeah, um...you're probably not going to believe us, but...um...the piston is missing." (I assume you've reasoned it out yourself, but the piston is the disk thingy.) I was standing three feet away and could audibly hear the "WHAT?!" on the other end of the line.
Don't know what we're going to do with it now, seeing as they don't stock the freakin' parts, but I guess we'll just have to see. ^___^;;;;;