OT Interesting week at work

I spent Monday and Friday this week working on the natural gas compression engines. These are 2 stroke engines, with oil injection. We split out the compression cylinder lubrication from the power (engine) cylinder lubrication. This will reduce the amount of oil that gets pumped out into the natural gas header. The old system had to put enough in for the power cylinders.

I spent the middle of the week adding communications at a smalll power plant to read the meters on each generator, so they know how much each engine is putting out.

Sometimes I get to have some fun.

Tomorrow I am working on splitting a refrigerator assembly line and adding a segment to transition speed.

Always interesting working on 2 strokes. Big or little, they are bizarre. Jim

These are 4000 HP, and are small in the compression industry, we will be working on a bank of 8000 HP next month.

I am going to put a photo in a new thread 2 stroke (I do not have a clue what it is. Jim

I've spent all week trying to remedy the destructive actions of the grease worms that had swarmed a customers machine. Seems they had eaten the bushings nearly all the way out of several joints (that I have found so far) and began feeding on the surrounding parts.

To that end I spend the week getting things torn down, and parts ordered. This weekend I get to begin repair the elongated holes in both ends of a 9" diameter tilt cylinder, and hope to get done with both of them. Monday I'll probably get the machine pressure washed so I can weld the eyes on the machine up without it catching fire, and get everything ready to line bore another day.

The fun part will be telling the customer we need still more pins and bushings for the attachment.

It's amazing, you give the guys good grease, and they still don't use it like they should, only use it when it's convenient for them (on places easily accessible, or where they won't get dirty), or even worse don't use it at all. They got the good grease over a year ago, and I have yet to see any of it on any of the pins I've pulled. Given the situation, I'd almost bet somebody gets fired, or at least gets sent home without pay for a few days, over this ordeal.

On top of this, they have run over so much crap and broken the solid tires down so far in a year, that the rears are now 6 inches larger in diameter than the front, and the right front is another 3 inches shorter than the left front. This means the machine is fighting itself front to rear, causing wear and tear on the transmission. Then it's also fighting itself side to side, putting a strain on the differentials, as well as the center pivot.

In the end, I speak my mind, but learned long ago to view the whole mess as JOB SECURITY......LOL