A bad few weeks *self sightings*

[blas]

Ok, don't throw anything remember that I AM a natural blonde and I'm German and we're known for this kind of thing.....

The other week at work, the censor went off at work, declaring that the air supply for all the vaccuums at work (meaning machines controlled by vacuuum air) were low. The alarms promptly went off.

I, in my infinite wisdom, proceed to ask "Where does the air come from?"

Then, a few days later, we had our Christmas potluck. Too many people brought Rice Krispie treats. I noticed all different sizes and kinds. I picked a little of all.

Chef Ramsay yelled at me "NO, blas! Those little ones are for the diabetics!"

I sat down and said to my coworker Dylan "I didn't mean to grab the diabetic treats..."

Dylan said to me "Blas, there is NO SUCH THING as Rice Krispie treats for diabetics!"

I is idiot.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

At least you didn't fall for the "left-handed screwdriver" gag. Or the "snipe hunt" gag.

Yeah, I fell for both of those. I can be such a pinhead sometimes.

[jedimaster91]

Dangit, you mean Lowe's sold me a righty screwdriver?! I SPECIFICALLY asked for a lefty one!

[PepperElf]

I, in my infinite wisdom, proceed to ask "Where does the air come from?"

Call me stupid but this does not really strike me as a dumb question. If I'd heard someone ask it, I'd just assume they were asking where the compressor intake was at.

and... i understand it was a joke but...chef strikes me as a bit of a pompus asshat... am I incorrect on that?

[Pagan]

At least you didn't fall for the "left-handed screwdriver" gag. Or the "snipe hunt" gag.

Yeah, I fell for both of those. I can be such a pinhead sometimes.

Well, would you like to go on a haggis hunt next?

[Imogene]

Or the "snipe hunt" gag.

I know the snipe hunt is an impossible task, but what exactly is a snipe?

[Lingering Grin]

I know the snipe hunt is an impossible task, but what exactly is a snipe?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snipe

[TOLady]

I still can't believe we suckered newbies* into painting the stripes onto straws at the Golden Arches

Cruel, but by Gord - take minute and think about it... sheeeep

*BTW - they got me as a newbie , which is why I can laugh about it baaaaaa

Oh so long ago, and yet, I still find the lessons I learned there hold true today!

[Mister]

Actually, (besides the question where air comes from) I'm intrigued. What apparatus which is vacuum controlled needs an air supply? If something is powered by the lack of air, surely that thing does not need a supply of air. So please, what's your work and what's that apparatus?

Beside that point, being Dutch and having been corrected in my English many times:
A Censor is "an official who examines materials (as publications or films) for objectionable matter" (Merriam-Webster)
The thing that went of is a Sensor.

[wolfie]

Actually, (besides the question where air comes from) I'm intrigued. What apparatus which is vacuum controlled needs an air supply? If something is powered by the lack of air, surely that thing does not need a supply of air. So please, what's your work and what's that apparatus?

I'm guessing, but it might be that the vacuum operated machines run off a single vacuum pump/resevoir system which was in a "non-sucky" mood that day .

[Chromatix]

Compressed air can be used to drive lots of things, including vacuum pumps. Seems like an inefficient way to do it, though, unless air is the primary source of mechanical power in a particular workshop.

On steam locomotives, a vacuum can be made quite easily by passing steam through a strange device (with no moving parts) known as an ejector. This vacuum was used to operate the brakes on the train. Very similar devices called injectors are used to pump water into the boiler.

Furthermore, some locomotives (normally diesel) are capable of driving both vacuum and air brakes on the train. In these cases, the vacuum brake is usually easier to control manually, so the vacuum level is used to control the air brake. Thus you have a vacuum-controlled device with a compressed-air supply.

[roguesqd]

we had a college student come in looking for "elbow grease", because when she called her father that's what he told her she needed

[blas]

I'm really not exactly sure, but I do know that several machines use vaccuums and therefore, the entire plant was affected when this happened.

Vaccuums to hold things up or down, suction cups in machines that pick things up, etc etc...

[Chromatix]

Ah, so you probably had the inverse of an air compressor somewhere, usually called an exhauster. It would have had a pressure tank attached to it as a reservoir.

Vacuum really does work very much like compressed air, except backwards - and there's a hard limit on how much "pressure" you can physically get.

That limit is the main reason why railways tend to use air brakes now rather than vacuum brakes - vacuum was used earlier because it was so easy to make a vacuum with an ejector.

[Boggles]

I was thinking vaccuums like in a wood shop sucking away dust/shavings.

One a related note, when i was a naive and gullible saturday kid i did go to the local hardware store and ask for a tin of tarten paint!