LOOKING FOR PAST DAN HOLOHAN ARTICLE ON WISH LIST

DennisGeniesse

I'm looking for an article dan wrote an article some time ago about a wish list for American control manufacturs to build more up to date controls, Does any one know where I can find this article.

Thank You

Dennis

jackchips_2

Hi Dennis,

Thanks for the edit.

DanHolohan

Are you sure

it was me? I don't remember writing about that.

chuck shaw

could it have been

in the round table fourm?

Chuck

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Unknown

There was a discussion

a while back on what we would like to see on controls from diffrerent manufacturers. I think I downloaded some of them I will look through my files to see if I have them.

Is that what you are looking for. If I remember the original question was posted by Pat Flaherty from Texas Instruments at that time. Pat is now working for Burnham he may also have that list.

Mark Eatherton1

Heres my Christmas wish list from a few years ago...

No mention of controls though...

All I want for Christmas is…

By Mark Eatherton
Copyright December,1999
First United States Serial Rights released to
Contractors Magazine


Ah Christmas. If you're like me, you've got just a little (yeah right) bit of shopping left to do until you can sit back with your cup of hot cocoa and watch the madding crowds rushing about doing their last bit of Christmas shopping detail. Now, I can relax and think about my hydronic Christmas wish list.

Let's see now, I already got my Rigid 600 portable pipe threader. I'll have to scratch that off the list. How about this…

1. I wish every mechanical engineer was required to serve a minimum of 2 years in the field installing 5 pounds of stuff in a 2 pound boiler room. It would give them a whole new perspective of the real world. It might also teach them that there is more to designing physical plant to fit in a given square. There is also the need for reasonable access for service.


2.I wish that all pump manufacturers would provide new gaskets in their flange packages. I also wish that they would use galvanized or plated bolts in their flange packs. These bolts after all, are probably going to see some moisture during their tenure.

3.I wish that wall hung radiator manufacturers would learn how to manufacture a decent mounting device for their radiators. Not all radiators happen to fall across two perfectly centered studs in the wall.

4.I wish that someone would hurry up and invent a device for doing the 500 pound vertical clean and jerk lift of these heavy foreign boilers that sit on top of storage tanks. Maybe something that's collapsible that could be carried down stairs, set up in the usually tight boiler room, powered by co2 or some other compressed gas.

5.I wish I hadn't lifted all the boilers that I have lifted the way that I did lift them. (Actually, my back wishes I'd never seen a heavy cast iron boiler!)

6.I wish that someone would come out with a tubing stapler that wouldn't shoot the tubing you're trying to put down. Maybe something with an electronic interlock trigger that could sense when you right on top of the tube instead of over it…

7.I wish that someone would come out with an adapter coupling to make the difference between the European Whitworth thread to the National Pipe Thread with the correct taper on the NPT side.

8.I wish that someone would come up with a tool for re-rounding pex-aluminum-pex. Regardless of how careful you are, you will kink it sooner or later, numerous times.

9.I wish that someone would come up with a tubing uncoiler that can be used for vertical as well as horizontal axis output. I also wish they'd put an adjustable counter on it with an audible alarm. This way, I wouldn't spend so much time reading the numbers on the tube and doing math in my head. Buzzzz, time to go home..

10.I wish that someone would come out with a pair of automatically adjustable stilts that you would get into at ground level, then press a button that releases a pressurized gas into the stilt legs and raises you to the desired height.

11.I wish that the American hydronic industry would learn how to price itself in direct proportion to the real value of comfort that we sell.

12.I wish that every contractor, regardless of his trade, understood his true costs of doing business. It would be much easier for me to explain my position to them and hopefully they would understand why I don't work for them under the "market will bear" program. I am a professional and I expect to be compensated accordingly.

13.I hope that when I die, I go peacefully, like my father did, in his sleep, and not kicking, scratching and screaming like all those other people who were in the station wagon with him while he was driving.

Lastly, I wish that everyone could surround themselves with the high quality of family members, friends and co-workers that I have. It has truly been a spectacularly wonderful year. Thank you all!

Merry Christmas everyone. See you next year!