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GaryKC

Posted 2008-03-18 8:38 PM (#14046)

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Subject: A-1 Alarm Company

Now that I've invested in a home entertainment system and hired a butler to help me around the house; I figgered it was time to protect my new stuff with some sort of high-tech, state of the art alarm system. Bubba came over this morning and installed it... I sure hope it works!

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dex armstrong

Posted 2008-03-19 7:45 AM (#14069 - in reply to #14046)

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Subject: RE: A-1 Alarm Company

Gary, If you have ANY intention of jerking the handle of that sonuvabitch...Go buy your bride the industrial strength, super absorbant PAMPERS...She'll need them. DEX

Coyote

Posted 2008-03-21 11:54 AM (#14147 - in reply to #14046)

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Subject: RE: A-1 Alarm Company

That switch used to weld me to the deck about once a week. Like everything else on Sarda, it was worn out. Sarda was a New London school boat, and made 16 or more dives a day. The O-ring on the handle shaft would wear and admit salt water, which would cause the alarm not to oogah.

So I'd get sent to the bridge with new O-rings, vaseline, and a hair dryer. If I was lucky, the AE Fwd would turn off power to the dang thing, otherwise I'd take off the cover and receive a shock as power went through me to the bridge structure. Then I'd scream to turn off the power and they'd do it.

Then use the hair dryer to dry out the insides, take the handle off the shaft, take the switch off from inside and the old O-ring off the shaft. Put on the new O-ring with vaseline to help seal it, put it all back together, get the power back on and test it. Sounds easy enough, but it wasn't when it was raining and it always rained off New London in the winter.

I was the ship's sonarman; I still don't know how I got responsibility for that switch.

DBF

Regards, Coyote

Flapper

Posted 2008-03-21 5:54 PM (#14162 - in reply to #14147)

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Subject: RE: A-1 Alarm Company

Coyote - 2008-03-21 12:54 PMT{SNIP}
I was the ship's sonarman; I still don't know how I got responsibility for that switch.DBFRegards, Coyote

You got it because they figured an ICman or - God forbid - a regular 'trician's mate, would probably leave a sound-short ... and they figured you'd be careful enough to not cause yourself any further headaches!
(((Ping!)))

Edited by Flapper 2008-03-21 5:55 PM

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