[rickss69]

The ride into work yesterday was fine, but I didnt anticipate a 16 hour shift. We re-fused and changed out transformers all night and up until 7:30 this morning. Went to start the bike and it would barely turn over...not fast enough to get the fuel injection going. 1 degree temp plus windchill probably jelled the oil so thick it would not let the starter spin the motor fast enough. It has a fresh hot battery and has always been on the Tender...powerpack booster and a truck with jumper cables had no effect. I'll have to push it into the building this evening to warm it up I suppose. I know the limit of the bike now anyway.

[Gunslinger]

Got to stand under a firewater sprinkler this morning to close an isolation valve to the system, we were using steam to thaw a frozen pipe, steam set off the sprinkler system.

Gotta love winter in the south.

And it was 5 degrees F.

[Witchdoctor]

It's so cold the police aren't even pulling speeders over.

Wonder if my 8800 gts will do 900 in this ?

[rickss69]

Very irritating...now I have to deal with two vehicles. Probably end up pulling the trailer to work at some point. Stupid bike...

Hope we both have better luck this evening Gunslinger...stay warm if you can.


EDIT: I just figured out why the jump start didnt work this morning...the inline fuse on the Tender pigtail was blown. I was so tired and frustrated this morning it didnt even occur to me at the time. Pushed the bike into the heated warehouse and have the Tender charging right now. If it fires up later I will likely ride back to the house this evening.

[rickss69]

Bike fired right up after being warmed and I rode it home this evening. Only 13 degrees tonight, but all is right in the world once again. Moral of the story is if I ride it into work again in the cold it will be parked inside while I work hehe.

[Bones]

Originally Posted by Gunslinger

It was around 12 degrees or so, low of 5 tonight.

Work is a disaster, pipes frozen everywhere, the city threatened a natural gas curtailment that would have doomed the plant for sure. Not looking forward to the next few days at all. The real fun begins when shit starts to thaw.

You've got that right, I've already had my fun with it.

Early this morning I found we had one of the feed lines to a cooling water tower on the roof at work freeze up. Had to get it thawed out since the tower's water level was getting low and began running regular water over the affected area of the pipe so it could start refilling the tower as it should to maintain the correct water level.

Got it thawed out all right - When the ice in the pipe let go, it caused a waterhammer that blew out the chem feed meter, looked like a fountain when it came apart, blew the guts of the meter all over the place.
Had to reassemble the meter, then get it back in place on the pipe and hope it didn't let go again which luckily it didn't. I'm also hoping the meter itself will work after all that but at least the tower is up to it's proper level again. If nothing else goes wrong, I'll be happy.

[Gunslinger]

nice, I've got similar issues with the 6 cooling towers we've got. We stopped the chem feeds while it was real cold and bypassed the controllers that had the option.

[PhIlLy ChEeSe]

Three days ago in St. Paul MN, minus 22 degree's no Internet and already working so I can't use it YET!

[Neuromancer]

Originally Posted by rickss69

Not that bad after all... http://pweb.jps.net/~prichins/windchil.htm

I was wondering how that had any effect since, humidity affects evaporation rate. But noticed they added "affect on exposed skin" which would be the evaporation rate they were talking about.


In Jr High school (middle school for most of the country) we performed the wet bulb thermometer experiments.

Spin a thermometer around on a string, then dip the end of the thermometer into a liquid and spin it around. the wetbulb will be below ambient.

I imagine that this would the same affect on human skin (ugly bags of mostly water )


Nice and warm here, smoking outside in a tshirt (currently 42F in AC )

[Kal-EL]

66' here, horrible just horrible