Good news is the oil change is now half way done, you got at least half of it out. Question is if this is original oil, or a replacement oil, because if it is original oil it has lasted really well, and might not be oil from a well, but oil from another source. Going to need a lot of the kitty litter to get that all picked up, and a not minor amount of barber clippings either.
@@jackoliver7506more then likely it’s whale oil & they will need to replace it with, drumroll please! whale oil, it’s hands down unparalleled in quality & durability
Thanks for sharing those 3 points of suspension on the rotor, good to see. Yeah if that's just gear box oil then it's probably higher viscosity than what I work with, which is electrical insulating oil. Do they have an idea how to clean it up? Coffee filter sandwiched between 2 funnels? Worst spill I ever dealt with was when a gasket broke at the output of a vacuum dehydration purifier, oil sprayed about 10 feet, but in a small stream, and no person was in its path thankfully. But it's a lesson in why its worth epoxying floors because the concrete floor in our lab just loves to suck up that oil like sponge and leave a permanent stain to let you know where you messed up.
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I bet there was some pretty colourful language said at the time of removing the bolt and the oil spilling, it reminds me of years ago when I got my old Leyland mini Clubman and changed the oil and it was very old manky stuff. Anyway lost my balance stepped back into the old oil catch container and it shot up the back of my leg and all over had lots of rags near by to mop up, but it would have been only a few Litres of the stuff.
Every maintenance guy/ trades guy learns that lesson early on. Extra underwear & a change of clothes is always in the rig. Out of town jobs that come up or just a bad day on the job..At least you have something clean to ride home in.
I used to work on transformers and yeah, vermiculite and oil absorbent pads are going to be your friend. Try not to tread it around the rest of the shop too much!
If the turbine is adjustable pitch the oil is the source for the power like an automatic prop on a piston engine aircraft. Doubt it's EPA compliant. Something like she'll areo
Surely you could just lift the turbine up and bring in a 500-ish gallon tank to drain the waste oil into. I just don't think buckets are the safest or cleanest way to do it.
Tech manuals for something 100years old! Good joke. Didn’t exist back then, lucky if you had a drawing - more than likely that the only copy is locked in the area supers office.
So who was the poor oily guy who had to jump in their truck and run down to get some vermiculite? Hey Chris any word on ideas to clean those field windings?
Anyone want to sing the osha song with me? ;) Come with me and you’ll see a world of osha violations! You guys are doing a great job seriously. Without removing that completely from the hole not sure how you’d do it any other way. And I suspect without removing the roof you can’t get that all the way back out. Thanks for sharing a look inside this is cool.
No way that's 8 foot circumference... assuming it's 8 foot diameter that's a circle with an area of 7238 square inches. If the average depth of oil is 3 inches, that's 21,714 cubic inches of oil, which is 94 gallons.