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Originally Posted by Darth_Emma
Amazing what can be done with blue duct tape.
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Shhhhh, you're not supposed to give away my secrets...
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Originally Posted by PQ
haha, I read the whole post in the character you started with. LMAO
Wasn't the same the last half. 
I LOVE to restore shit. Very nice job. So now they can go abuse it again.  |
Tinkering with stuff is my favorite pastime, and I love running tubing, especially small tedious jobs like this one... The long runs with few bends bore me to tears... give me a little one with lots of tight bends and hard to fit areas and I'm in heaven... It drives one driller and an Asst. Driller nuts... They'll stand there and watch me and when it's break time they want me to go to chop chop... (the galley and food) and I'll usually walk with them, smoke a cigarette in the designated smoking area, and head back to the shop while their still eating... They'll come back out 20 or so minutes later and find me with my MP3 player plugged in listening to New Age (Yanni) or Country (Trisha Yearwood) or Rock (38 Special, Van Halen, Bon Jovi) and having a ball, tuning the whole world out...
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Originally Posted by speedster
Damn, I wish you were around for the rest of the Firebird's hardline. It took me forever to do stainless -3 lines for the brakes and -4 lines for the fire suppression system and some -8 and -10 for the fuel. My biggest problem was getting the -3 brake lines to not leak at high psi. I used a 37 degree flare to keep everything AN compliant. I had to add those little Earl's plumbing aluminum washers to make them seal. Stainless on stainless just never quite sealed for me.
So doing that hardline is an art and then some. Nice job R.  |
I'm not big on flare fittings, preferring compression (swage) fittings and my personal fav is Swagelok fittings. My supervisors in town would stroke the F out if they caught me using a compression washer... I'ld be looking for a job for sure...
We deal with up to 30,000 PSI fittings... Those come pre made for the most part, and I use only Swagelok with tubing going subsea... We also have parker compression fittings but I do not care for them at all... I'll use them for surface applications if I dont have the necessary Swagelok fittings for a specific purpose, but other than that... We make our own hoses with a Parkrimp machine, and subsea guys are the only ones on the rig that are supposed to make them, due to the variations in fittings and hose compatabilities... Too many hoses were blowing apart at the compression fittings and so....
To give you an idea about the problem with mismatched hoses and fittings, a rig may make as much as 500,000 per day... If they are in Ultra Deep water, over 6000 feet, and something happens to a hose, they may have to shut in the well, pull the stack, or at least the LMRP, and recover it to the surface... make the necessary repairs and run it back down... So, 10 minutes to make a 20 dollar hose, fittings and hose included, and it could cost the company literally millions of dollars in down time.... Plug the well if the bad hose is on the stack, rig up to pull the stack is a couple of days. Pulling the stack can take a couple of days, and making the repair takes ten minutes, (swap a hose) testing the function takes a while, and run the stack back down, a couple more days, relatch to the wellhead, test the entire stack... and then drill out the cement plugs... Your looking at a week minimum... 3.5 million, maybe two weeks, 7 mil... It's a problem... we don't take it lightly...