![]() ![]() This was the first time I was going to go into the boiler to actually work on something other than laying down the floor (which I had been lucky enough to do once when I was working on the labor crew). You see, even when I was in the bottom ash hopper when it was being sandblasted, there was a wooden floor that had been put in above the hopper so that you couldn’t see the boiler overhead. You can read about these moments of mania in the posts: “ Bob Lillibridge Meets the Boiler Ghost” and “ Cracking a Boiled Egg in the Boiler and Other Days You Wish You Could Take Back“.ĭuring those times I knew that something was taking place in the “superheat” section of the boiler, but I wasn’t exactly sure what it was. I had worked on shaking tubes in the reheat section and cleaning the clinkers out of the economizer section. when I was on the labor crew, I had been in the boiler during an overhaul. He was a welder, so I think if he had been on labor crew, they had quickly moved him into the welding shop because anybody with welding skills were always in high demand.ĭavid told me that Bill Bennett had told him to ask me to help out with a problem in the boiler. He had only been working at the plant for about 8 months. I think he may have been on the labor crew at the time. Somewhere between the 11th or 12th motor David McClure came into the shop. The transformer had 24 of these motors, so after the first few, the work was becoming pretty routine. Changing their bearings and testing them. I had been removing the fan motors from the large General Electric Transformer for Unit 1. People come from the other plants to help out and get paid a lot of overtime working long hours to complete this feat.Īt this time I was working on motors in the electric shop. The two major areas of repair are the Turbine Generator and the Boiler. This meant that one of the two units was offline and major repairs were taking place to fix things that can only be done when the unit isn’t running. this is one of those stories, with a new twist.Īs I said, we were on overhaul. You may think this is an odd statement if you have read some of my other posts where I have found myself in oddly dangerous situations and my life was in the balance. This is a story about one day in October 1986 during an overhaul while I was a plant electrician, where I entered a world totally foreign to just about anything I had encountered before. I have mentioned a few times that when you drove through the gate to the coal-fired Power Plant in North Central Oklahoma each morning, you never knew what was in store for that day. Working in the Power Plant was a lot like that…. I suppose everyone at some point in their life wishes they could work at Disney World or some other place where there is one wonder after another throughout their day. Favorites Post #15 (posted in no particular order) ![]()
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