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Old timer taught me something on a job in Bay City last spring
This guy named Frank pointed at my suction gauge and said 'you're running too lean, that pump is gonna cavitate in about 20 minutes' and sure enough it did. He showed me a trick with feathering the throttle and checking the discharge color that cut my fuel use by almost a third. Anybody else pick up a random tip from a stranger on a remote job?
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victorb1722d ago
Whoa. Hold up. Is cavitation really that big a deal on every job? I've run pumps screaming lean for way longer than 20 minutes and they kept chugging along. Maybe that old pump was just junk anyway. And checking discharge color? Could just be the water quality that day.
Seems like a lot of dudes turn small stuff into ancient secrets. Not saying Frank was wrong, just saying people make it sound more dramatic than it usually is.
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hannahs4526d ago
Frank's exactly the kind of guy you don't meet enough anymore. That suction gauge trick is gold but it's the kind of stuff nobody writes down. I had a welder in Odessa show me how to read a puddle by the color of the slag. Saved me hours of grinding bad beads. It's crazy how much knowledge gets passed around on the fly like that. You just gotta be willing to listen and not act like you know everything already.
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Man, @hannahs45 that welding trick reminds me of a buddy who could tell if an engine was about to blow just by the sound of the starter.
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