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Can any one spare a band-aid?

Al Corelli
Al Corelli Member Posts: 454
in THE MAIN WALL
I think the idea is to keep adding fresh toxins, so there is something to sweat out.


Works for me.

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  • Darin Cook_5
    Darin Cook_5 Member Posts: 298
    No pretty pump panels

    Somehow I have got myself on a run of tin jobs. My hands look like they have been dragged through broken glass. Although I do not cringe anymore sticking my arm up a length of flex duct to pull the inner liner out of the nasty insulation. I think the heat of Iraq prepared me for the intense heat of the attic. Nothing like sweating all of those bad toxins out of the body!! I can only hope a nice boiler is in my future!!!!!!!!








    Darin
  • singh
    singh Member Posts: 866
    Darin

    Keep on knockin' !

    I noticed the new name, and someone told me of the new co.
    Is this a subsidiary of CHT. Or a new venture?
    Slow or busy?


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  • S Ebels
    S Ebels Member Posts: 2,322
    Flex duct

    Ever notice how the insulation in flex duct smeels indentical to dead mice?
  • Supply House Rick
    Supply House Rick Member Posts: 1,399
    Here's your band aid

    Bob Geldolf, Wham, Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet, Bananarama, Sting, The Thompson Twins and Boy George hope you feel better soon...

    *Darin, the question is-Do They Know It's Christmas Time At All?
  • Unknown
    Unknown


    More like mouse excrement...
  • Unknown
    Unknown


    Yup, I've already started my sweating for the season, here we go again! ;)
  • Darin Cook_5
    Darin Cook_5 Member Posts: 298
    New Venture

    Running my own show now. Still best buddies with Mark just time to move on. So if you need any help on a project give me a shout. I have been working in Catskill and Acra as of late, just on the other side of the river!!




    Darin
  • Wayco Wayne_2
    Wayco Wayne_2 Member Posts: 2,479
    Yeah

    I'm on a run of heat pump installs, all lined up so I can't turn them down. Good stright installs with a good profit. I turn down anything with larger ducts anymore. After 30 years of knocking tin my right forearm is a tendonitis mess. After 3 months of PT I can work but not too much tin knocking. I've got a few boilers waiting until after the first cooling season rush. WW

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  • Tombig_2
    Tombig_2 Member Posts: 231
    Band Aid??

    I always get a few nicks when starting back doing some tin work but nothing compared to the mangled mess our fingers and forearms are now after plating and pulling multicor through open web trusses for the past two weeks. Good thing the other workers on site aren't aids-phobic if you know what I mean.

    At least you're using flex. All our work is insulated metal ducts. Insulating is worse than running the duct.
  • Brad White_172
    Brad White_172 Member Posts: 53
    So, Darin...

    When do you want the duct sizing Boot Camp? :)

    Send me your snail-mail address and I will send you a duct calculator then grill you over the phone...

    Let me know!

    Best of luck in your new endeavors!

    Brad
  • Tombig_2
    Tombig_2 Member Posts: 231
    Hey Brad

    I just retired my old "ductilater" for a newer model. Friction? FPS?...ahh I'll just go by rule of thumb..they're the only digits not bleeding right now. Honestly, I restocked the truck with band-aids this week. We were down to McDonald's napkins and electrical tape:)
  • Darin Cook_5
    Darin Cook_5 Member Posts: 298
    Brad

    I would be happy to share a beer with you better yet actually learn something!! I will get you my address and take a duct-u-lator beating! Thanks again.








    Darin
  • BillW@honeywell
    BillW@honeywell Member Posts: 1,099
    Back in my saftey equipment days...

    there were kevlar gloves, designed to prevent the kind of injuries inflicted by razor-sharp sheet metal. Any safety equipment store should have them, even some distributors, or try a company called "Direct Safety", a catalog house. No sense suffering when you don't have too! Good luck on the new venture.
  • Steve Ebels_3
    Steve Ebels_3 Member Posts: 1,291
    A standing joke is

    If at least one of us isn't bleeding, we haven't been working. You work with steel, you get cut. It's that simple. :)
  • Tony_23
    Tony_23 Member Posts: 1,033
    Our standing joke

    We always say we hope no one ever gets "whacked" at this house because we leave DNA on every jobsite.

    So far so good :)
  • Jerry_15
    Jerry_15 Member Posts: 379


    Yeah, but everything those guys inhale smells like cod. It's always Christmas.
  • mtfallsmikey
    mtfallsmikey Member Posts: 765
    Gloves and band-aids

    Just don't get it when tin-knockin!..please substitute band-aids with paper towels and electrical tape, preferably Scotch 33. Also, better in the attic than wrestling metal in a crawl space...good luck, be safe, make money!...mfm
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