What to do with 15 litres of "personal lube"

Shannow · May 29, 2006

Unique position today, after 16 years as an engineer.

People were using petroleum jelly for a plant related job in our cooling water systems. Not really good for the plant.

I ended up purchasing 15 litres of personal lubricant (animal grade

).

Can't wait for the thought police to track my internet activity researching "water soluble lubricants", and ultimately arrive at my purchase requisition.

Matt89 · May 29, 2006

LOL - "Animal Grade".

Won't be long before the windowless white van shows to pick you up....

Oldmoparguy1 · May 29, 2006

Man oh man! Them sheeps better head for the hills.

Vuser · May 29, 2006

Say, isn't that a camera lens or long range microphone out in the bush across the street?

GROUCHO MARX · May 29, 2006

Shannow, as you can see, you've got some friends here.

TooManyWheels · May 29, 2006

Make a large donation to the local zoo. Maybe they will put up one of those plaques for you - "Welcome to the zoo Mating Pen, funded courtesy of Shannow".

Oh, by the way, why DID you buy 15L of animal lube?

Gary Allan · May 30, 2006

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What to do with 15 litres of "personal lube"

Look up all your "personal" friends

eljefino · May 30, 2006

What did you get, glycerin? And is there any fragrance or aloe or anything added?

As I understand it, that stuff is a byproduct of biodiesel... too bad Bio-T is on the other side of the planet.

Shannow · May 30, 2006

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Originally posted by TooManyWheels:
Oh, by the way, why DID you buy 15L of animal lube?

We've got some leaks on the steam condenser, with cooling water getting into the steam space.

The fitters place plastic sheets over the tubes at one end, and move a candle around the other end. When the flame gets sucked into a tube, that's the one that they plug.

Given the small size of the leaks, they were using petroleum jelly to form a better seal on the plastic. It worked but 20Kg of petroleum Jelly (they have to check 17,000 tubes) is a bit too much to be releasing into the cooling circuit.

Thus the need for something water soluble.

wantin150 · May 30, 2006

Zoo, vet, or farm.

Papa Bear · May 30, 2006

What to do with 15 litres of "personal lube" ??

2nd honeymoon in the outback ??!!

P.B.

Razl · May 30, 2006

Pay to have it shipped home, even it ends up costing more than the purchase price. No way would I risk getting pulled over or involved in an accident [with a news van]

Pablo · May 30, 2006

From Shannow:

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Unique position today....

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I ended up purchasing 15 litres of personal lubricant.....

Pretty much a self solving problem....

Gary Allan · May 31, 2006

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Originally posted by Shannow:
he fitters place plastic sheets over the tubes at one end, and move a candle around the other end. When the flame gets sucked into a tube, that's the one that they plug.

Well, you learn something everyday. When we couldn't just hit a slight amount of steam to the hex and have the offending tube puke out a geiser of vapor, we hired some guy with a "professional" leakdown tester". It took a while, naturally. With two primary exchangers (small) with 200 tubes each ..it was time consuming.

Shannow · May 31, 2006

Gary,
the condensers operate at 6kPa absolute on the steam side, and we can take a half (waterside only) out of service.

The vaccuum leak draws the flame in.

Other techniques that we use are flooding (only out of service, so we don't get much opportunity), or gettinga contractor in to spry SF6 around and monitor the exhaust for gas.

Brett Miller · May 31, 2006

I think you should donate it to Pep Boys. They could send a small amount to everyone they deny a rebate too....

ekpolk · May 31, 2006

Send a jar of it off to that moron who sold the bad computer on eBay???

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