[R-390] Simple Green from the Dark Side

[rbethman]

Funny thing about "Steam Gennies"!  They are a bit picky about what they 
get fed where!

Burning diesel in them usually lets them play "nice".  Feeding them JP-4 
or JP-5 would be interesting to watch from AFAR!  It is like watching a 
run away diesel..... best seen from a nice distance!

One mechanic had a connecting rod pass between his knees.  He never 
stood as close again under ANY conditions!

Bob - N0DGN

On 2/11/2011 12:53 PM, Tisha Hayes wrote:
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> Back in the old days when I worked in the oil industry the mechanics used to
> use Simple Green and run it through the "Steam Gennie". It would cut through
> the worst grease (and paint and primer....) The Steam Gennie was supposed to
> burn #2 heating oil and had an AC blower fan and a continuous feed of fresh
> water from an outdoor faucet. They had a blending tank to mix the Simple
> Green with the feed water.
>
> One day they "ran out" of #2 heating oil and since we were a pipeline
> operation they pulled a batch of turbine fuel from one of the sample taps
> (turbine fuel just happened to be going through the station at the time). It
> was quite a fiasco, the steam gennie no longer made the nice humming sound,
> as it heated the water coils and made a fairly low pressure steam. Instead
> that thing howled (you could hear it everywhere) as it gulped in large
> quantities of water and Simple Green.
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