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Old 20th Mar 2014, 1:48 pm   #67
high_vacuum_house
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Smile Re: Improvising with Household Items.

I had a cracker last night at work.

I had to change a water pump on a 2.5 megawatt gas engine generating set 10pm last night. In the process of removing the pump a rubber washer split and was unusable.

I had to do something otherwise the engine would therefore be offline and all the shops by then closed .
I spotted a mousetrap bait box in the corner of the 11KV switchroom (to stop them nibbling the HV cables) and it had a flexible rubber lid on it so you could fill it with more bait.
I carved up the lid with a stanley knife to make a new washer and reassembled the pump and repressurised the system to 1.2 bar and it held perfectly Hope no one asks why the mousetrap has a new hole in the lid !!

Christopher Capener
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