Thread: Front Power Log 3800 S/C

well you haven't lived until you've welded on a smelly dumpster with maggots in it...lol
or for that matter worked under a garbage truck and watch maggots drip from it. when i wasn't working on dumpsters i was doing service and tire work . the horrors i've seen and the smells i've smelled ...

When you said that I thought about the dumpster we got when we moved locations. It must have been from a restaurant or something because it was bad. We had to raise a stink to get them to change it out.....

they were like well it's a dumpster what do you expect? I told them that I expected to not smell it from my office near the front inside the building when it's located in the other end of the building. Then explained we were an office and after a little arguing and telling them they were going to pick it up and replace it or because we switched companies. We had a new one the next day.

you're a better man than me, I couldn't do it. I get sick in a chicken slaughterhouse. I've been to companies where they make gelatin and that's a bad smell, I've been to a paper mill and that's a pretty bad smell, but you sir, my hat is off to you.

Originally Posted by EHB

well you haven't lived until you've welded on a smelly dumpster with maggots in it...lol
or for that matter worked under a garbage truck and watch maggots drip from it. when i wasn't working on dumpsters i was doing service and tire work . the horrors i've seen and the smells i've smelled ...

disco rice man. it takes a while to build up the gag factor. its a amazing what you can get used to tho. i did a commercial packer route for a while, restaurants and dinners are the worst in summer.

and ive been close to a box or 30 getting welded, the stink from the burning slop is bad lol

used to haul food waste too. 40 yard roll off box filled with rotting crap. fruits veggies, you name it. truck would weigh out at over 80,000 every damn time. my all time high was 103.000 in a tri axle with a gvw of 80,000

one week out of the year we'd get contracted to haul "sludge"... what is sludge you ask ? human waste from the treatment plant. that's right..they spread human waste on crops grown for animal consumption...funny if you think about it. they spread animal **** to grow our food , and spread human **** to grow animal food.
we had like 7 roll off trucks and they all parked in the garage ALONG WITH 5 FRONT END LOADERS AND 2 REAR END LOADERS ... WITH the boxes that they hauled sh*t in all day. the truCks were covered with crap and we still had to service them, change tires, whatever...that was THE WORST EVER.

oh joy lol

Wire brush on a wheel with a motor attached? What kind of brush did you use, as that is kind of important. Because this is what happens to stainless when you use a contaminated tool for finishing or grinding of stainless steel.



Jeff

It isn't, but that means I would have to regrind the material and polish it so it doesn't look like the 3 day old install of a system that was washed one time and placed into an air conditioned room I posted.

I'll contact you

Jeff

I made my offer, it was declined, you guys go for it.

Jeff

What's the offer that was refused? Too lazy to read.

It was a PM

Thanks

Bless your heart you don't understand. That picture is of a junction that one of the helpers ground down the welds using a 5" flapper disk. The same disk he just used to grind down the corners and weld on a mild steel frame. This causes cross contamination of the material and embeds mild steel into the stainless, that sir is what rusts. Now this picture is from a cheap 2 mp camera on an old LG Chocolate that was my old work phone. What you cannot see is the small dots where the mild steel is embedded into the I took this picture. He also used a contaminated sanding belt on our Dynisher (sp) that is basically a 7" disk grinder with the head rotated 90* with an inflatable tube that holds a small 4" wide and 6" round sanding belt that is used to grain and polish the steel it's a bad picture, but I took it years ago so that I could reinforce keeping anything used for mild steel away from what is used for stainless. Now since this picture was taken so long ago I have yet to see the another system that has had an issue. If you notice most of the rust is located at the joint and weld area. And yes I am fully aware of cheap Chinese and Taiwanese "shinny mild steel" our company requires ASTM sheets on all material that come in.

Also reread page 3 and figure 1, that shows rust as a piece of mild steel has been rubbed into it probably from someone leaning something against it, but you are talking about just a piece of steel, not a contaminated piece of abrasive material that is rubbed all over the metal.

My whole point is that just the other day one of these Plogs was brand spanking new still in the box sold for $125 shipped. Yours is a year old, has been wrapped with header wrap AGAINST the manufacturers advice warning against it, then on top of that you take a mild steel wire wheel and try to clean it up contaminating a surface that is going to be exposed to high heat and water over time and if not taken care of is going to look like trash, that I can guar-on-tee. Then you want full price for it like its brand new? I made a fair offer, you refused. That was it, but if you want to test my knowledge on this subject, go ahead but it's not going to help your sale.

Regards,

Jeff