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WTF ---

  • From: bmanning
  • Date: Thu Jul 08 22:58:51 2004 
stuff under the floor:
wildlife: common in TX, fireants/bees/arachnids in the vaults
cruft: the nite-shift dirty laundry (clothes & other stuff)
and my personal fave: worked in a shop w/ MGs and a flywheel/genset -in
	the machine room-. One of the power leads was not properly mounted
	and had to be repaired. The electrician did -not- remove all his
	rings (guess he was still junior) and was knocked out - called the
	EMTs and he was transported & revivied.  we found his finger (desicated)
	w/ the ring a year later when we pulled out the 3033's. 

not exactly under the floor:
	The most excitment was the bearings on the flywheel seizing up and 
	the flywheel tearing loose, punching a hole in the wall and into 
	the adjacent clean room. 

ah... the bad ol'days. :)

--bill