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We are going on a 3 month trip starting mid April and I figure the prices will up for us. Never fails.
Hear ya. Thats about the time our season starts as well. We'll probably summer commission the 5er early April and set out for Possum Kingdom the 3rd week of April.
RE: Calling all firefighters.............
22 years petro/chemical/haz-mat. 6 years as an instructor. Retired as Captain.
You and me are almost the same guy.:B
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Valero shutting down Del City.The demand for fuel is flat. Refineries shutting down is never a good thing. Folks not only lose jobs, but the loss of capacity will spike prices down the road when demand picks back up.
Imported gasoline will increase giving those jobs to a country not our own.
Most folks will blame it on greed, but that won't make our pockets any deeper.
I'm still predicting a slide in fuel prices over the next few months, but once they start back up??? Look out, its gonna get ugly.
*praying for those who will lose their jobs.....*
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Where is that taken?
At the Chevron Phillips Beach house in Al-Jabail Saudi Arabia. He and I worked in the same plant in Industrial city SA
This guy turned out to be a great friend. He owns a camel farm. He was born in Mecca. (You don't get no more Arab than this guy) He hates terrorists as much as I do, and had the best sense of humor I ever saw.
He loved his family and worked very hard to give them a better life.
It was a pleasure to work with this man.
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Here's a pic of me and a one of my big oil buddys. He's the one on the right. That is me on the left in the white dress. Purty, ain't it? http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n228/TEAM2CAP/BandarPaw.jpg JUST KIDDIN! I'm the guy with the grey beard
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Anyone else have a 6.4 with 4:10 gears? My milage stinks! I hear it will get better at 30,000 can anyone back that up?
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The Wall street melt down is a classic example of the fox guarding the hen house.
So heres what we did about it.
We put the foxes on steroids, multiplied their numbers, increased their appetite, rolled the big roosters (bankers) up in a TARP and taxed the chickens (US) to pay for it.
I wonder how this gonna play out???
Diesel in Amarillo = 2.69 the other day. (trying to stay on topic)
RE: Brand new Sandpiper dead in the water
Your adapter should split the 120v wall supply. Normally your 5er plug would plug into a four hole receptacle that is supplied by 240v. One prong would have 120v another prong would have 120v, one prong would be ground, and one would be neutral. Each hot leg could carry 50 amps to give you a total of 100. Your wall supply might be a 15amp circuit or even a 20 amp. My coach converter trips a 15amp circuit fairly quickly. It will run fine on a 20amp circuit and even run the air as long as I don't try to make toast or use microwave or electric drip coffee. If you are only reading one leg of 120v into your rig, the converter that charges your batteries may on the leg not getting 120 to operate.
You win! You are RIGHT! I'm a little dense, and didn't get what you were saying at first, but my brother in law the electrician SHOWED me what you TOLD me. He drew me a picture. The adapter was the problem all along.
Thanks Tommy. You da man!
RE: Brand new Sandpiper dead in the water
Did it show 120 voltage on both hot legs to the neutral and the ground?
Sam
Ok, you lost me. I'm not an electrician. But why would it show 110 on each positive? Its not hooked up to a 220 dryer plug. Its only hooked up to a 110 household.
With the black probe stuck in the neutral, the red one showed hot in one side, but not the other.
Thats the way its supposed to be isn't it?
RE: Texas/Oklahoma Tornado Alley.
I've seen a map of the US and its tornado alleys. I believe it showed 9 alleys.
Theres one as far north as Chicago. Theres one that crosses Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia. Theres one north to south in Florida
The Red river alley is one that runs east and west from Ark through Oklahoma into Texas. The west end of that one covers Amarillo. Theres another one that runs diagnal across Nebraska and Kansas down through the OK panhandle and into the Texas Panhandle. The SouthWest end of that one also covers Amarillo. I can't remeber where the others are, but I seem to remember one more in the Dakotas.
I've not seen a map like that one before or since. And its been a while. But like what was stated above, tornados don't know they're supposed to stay in their alleys. I witnessed one in Delaware City Delaware about 20 years ago. Locals said that was the only one they'd ever had.
RE: Texas/Oklahoma Tornado Alley.
There are no guarantees about tonados. The can occur in any state any thime of the year.
BUT, from my experience living in a Tornado alley intersection, I can give you some "Rules of thumb"
Tornados along the corridor you speak of are a lot more frequent in the spring and summer. As a rule, They are fewer and farther between this time of year - UNLESS a huricane strikes and spins the storm north to northeast giving birth to tornados along the route.
We haven't experienced any huricanes along the gulf coast this season yet, so that knocks that fear out.
I would advise keeping it simple, check the forcast infront of your trip, and plan accordingly.
Its been a wet fall here in the Tx panhandle lately. Its raining and thundering RIGHT Now! I washed the truck yesterday...
It's all your fault! You told me how you waxed your RV and I followed your advice yesterday (worked great, incidentally - I answered your PM). Now we will get what you're having in a couple of Austin. It's all your fault!!! But, we love the rain so keep it coming.
I'm thinking about offering RAIN SERVICE! Every time I've washed the truck this year, its rained! Every flippin time. I swung into the car wash at 5:30 this morning after a graveyard shift to knock the dirt back off my new wash job. Went home and sacked out.. Guess what it was doing when I got up? RAINING!
You need rain? Call me. Call me Rain man...;)
Thanks for the pm reply.
RE: Brand new Sandpiper dead in the water
How did you check the adapter?
Sam
I pulled the 20-->50 adapter and trailer cord apart far enough to touch the contacts with the meter probes. Meter showed voltage.
I then pulled the twist lock commection out of the side of the trailer and tested it with meter probes. It showed good voltage.
Open the box that the power cable is coming from in the trailer and check to see if one of the wires has not come loose. It happens.
I've come to the conclusion this has to be the problem. Rather than taking a chance on voiding the warranty, I'll take it to the shop tomorrow.
Thanks all. Still bummed...
RE: Brand new Sandpiper dead in the water
The GFI idea didn't work. I'm still dead in the water.
The adapter wasn't melted and didn't show any signs of being hot. It was just dirty. I have a volt meter, the power is good all the way to the trailer.
I'll take it in tomorrow and let yall know.
what a bummer of a day...
RE: Brand new Sandpiper dead in the water
A crusty old friend that I work with came wandering in here a while ago. I explained my power problem to him, he says "Yer GFI is tripped"
I know what a GFI is, Ground Fault Interupter -- but I didn't know I had one on my fiver.
He says it should be between the plug ins on one of the household outlets. Its a red button and its tripped. According to him, It trips everything, not just the outlet its installed in.
I'm working nights, so I'll check it when I get up after my coma. Any bets as to whether he's right or wrong?
He's usually right, so I'm slapping myself already.. I'll let yall know.
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Paw Paw, sometimes when things go up they end up where the sun don’t shine. I, for one, do appreciate your oil patch experience. Do you have any pipeline or refinery experience? I have wondered about the practice of flaming, you know when the dissolved gases in oil that change back into a gas when processed and are burned off. We saw a huge amount of this when we were around the SW refinery area and I have wondered why this was not recovered or if it was a good return on investment to do it. Looks like it could be used for cogeneration or production of power for usage in the refinery.
I guess by "flaming" you mean Flaring. All refineries and chemical plants have flare stacks that always burn. They have clean sweet gas turned into them all the time to keep them lit.
In an upset condition, you need a place to dump your hydrocarbons. Flares provide that emergency exit for those hydrocarbons. The reason there are several flares is: Some things just don't mix. Any flare that has a potential for sulfur or SO2 has to be monitored for pounds per hour.
Most flares have a steam mask on them as well. If you see white smoke, someone has probably turned the steam mask up, its not smoke. It doesn't really mask anything, it cools the flare tip and provides a dampening effect so smoke (unburned fuel) turns back to mist or particulate and falls back on site. There is also a time limit for smoking. This stuff is taken very seriously. The fastest way to end up on the plant manager's carpet is smoke the flare. Guilty... Once, just once...:S
We are not allowed to burn waste at the flare. We either clean it up and burn it in CO Boilers, Furnaces, or other fuel gas using equipment, or we liquify the waste, clean it up and ship it off for disposal at an approved site.
There is very little waste in our plant. The technology for cleaning that stuff up and using it for something good is outragously successful these days.
That being said, when the plant is in upset? All bets are off. There will be streams of hydrocarbon hitting the flare HARD! When its that or explosion? Burn baby burn!
I've seen our flare melt cheese off the moon before. Deer hunters ten miles away are thinkin,, dog gone is the sun up?
Normally, the gas you see at a flare is sweet gas only. It takes a lot to keep them burning in wind and rain, but its nessasary. If they go out, the EPA will making a visit to collect some of your $$ Then we gotta raise the price of gasoline and I won't get a bonus.
If you see a plant flare smoking? Something has a belly ache. Something is in upset. Usually its a minor equipment failure. If you see a mushroom cloud? We're probably burning gasoline so we can raise the price.
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I did recently buy an ultra short ETF. Mid cap - 3X Bear. I believe the entire market is fixing to take a dive. I'm betting 3 to 1 that it does.
Did yall see the news today? Oh and BTW, I bought the inverse over a week ago. The price of oil made a dive today. Maybe its temp and will jump back up. I stand by my prediction of a down turn.
Brand new Sandpiper dead in the water
My new fiver is dead. Its an 09 Sandpiper 335QBQ
Heres the scoop: I got it winterized and parked for the winter. Plugged in and locked up. Our daughter came home for a weekend and wanted to check it out. We took her over to show it to her and it was dead.
I charged the battery with a shop charger while I checked AC power with a meter.
Found the 50 amp-> 20 amp adapter fouled and not flowing current, Took a small file and cleaned up the contacts, plugged everything back in, Viola! everything worked.
Came back the next day to check it,,, nothing.. Dead again.
Checked the adapter, its good. Checked the plug where it plugs in AT the trailer, and its also good. Opened breaker box and flipped and reset all the breakers. (cept water heater, left it off) Nothing works. Checked 110 sockets, nothing, air won't come on. fridge won't come on, converter won't charge..
Ideas??
Its under warranty, but I hate to drag it all the way over there if its something simple that I'm walking over and not seeing.
Thanks in advance for comments
RE: Texas/Oklahoma Tornado Alley.
There are no guarantees about tonados. The can occur in any state any thime of the year.
BUT, from my experience living in a Tornado alley intersection, I can give you some "Rules of thumb"
Tornados along the corridor you speak of are a lot more frequent in the spring and summer. As a rule, They are fewer and farther between this time of year - UNLESS a huricane strikes and spins the storm north to northeast giving birth to tornados along the route.
We haven't experienced any huricanes along the gulf coast this season yet, so that knocks that fear out.
I would advise keeping it simple, check the forcast infront of your trip, and plan accordingly.
Its been a wet fall here in the Tx panhandle lately. Its raining and thundering RIGHT Now! I washed the truck yesterday...
