ARSE!
I'll keep the technical talk to a minimum, but...

I am working on a project for a water treatment system. We have a local fabrication shop building the thing. It's a monster- about twenty feet tall and fifteen feet across. Quite the impressive beast.

We are supposed to ship it out on Wednesday. The plan was to fire it up for testing this afternoon. This is why I'm sitting here in my Levis and a sweater- I was expecting to go climbing around on top of this thing and inspect it as it runs.

I just got notified that we have a problem. Of the three motors on the thing, one is supposed to have a torque overload limiter to prevent the motor from burning up if it gets jammed. Turns out that they put the thing on the wrong motor. I don't know if it's something that can be swapped out at the fabrication shop, or if we need to send the motors back.

If this thing doesn't ship by Wednesday, we face liquidated damages- in other words, financial penalties.

For someone trying to get hired on full-time, this does NOT look good, even though it's in no way my doing.

ARSE! FECK!

DRINK!!!
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Mon 12 Jan 2009, 17:06, 6 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

*pours a large measure*
of booze you choose. that doth suck.
( cackers, Mon 12 Jan 2009, 18:18, Reply)

Bugger!
I don't understand a word of it but I get the gist : (
( girlinthehole, Mon 12 Jan 2009, 18:39, Reply)

Like BGB
I didn't understand ... but as one who works in a fuck-up factory myself, you have my sympathy.

*pours Loon a triple measure of Glenmorangie*
(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Mon 12 Jan 2009, 20:39, Reply)

Loon
That is just

BIG GIRLS PANTS

/Father Jack
(Herr Doktor Lemminge Is bored, so cheer me up!, Mon 12 Jan 2009, 21:44, Reply)

Well, I do understand all that you said
And I also send my hopes-that-it's-ok.

If all the motors are similar, it should just be-able to be swapped out surely? Or the two motors just swapped over?

Or if the motors are from the same supplier, there should surely be some sort of standardisation that means the same override can be used with both?
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 0:28, Reply)

Thanks, all.
It turned out that things were even worse than I thought. The motors that arrived were for 360V, not 480, and that the torque limiter was never installed where it was supposed to be. The end result is that the motor supplier is going to have the parts there Wednesday morning and swap them out. As we're supposed to deliver this thing on Wednesday afternoon, this is a bit close.

The good news, however, is that it can't be blamed on me.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Tue 13 Jan 2009, 13:09, Reply)