I swear I didn't mean to do it

[rhino]

Re: this topic:

Boy, that escalated quickly. I mean, that really got out of hand fast . . .

--- Ron Burgandy

 

[femurphy77]

Habibi told me the WHOLE story Doc; he said that after the hose blew off you were spraying down the nurses trying to get a wet t-shirt contest going!!

 

[schafe]

Does grunting and pointing count?

I see that you bring skills from your old job to the new. Seemed to work for magnet testing, huh?

 

[Mr. Habib]

When you work with physicists as long as we did, you learn to speak the language.

 

[hoosierdoc]

Update: No new catastrophes!

 

[oldpink]

Doc, I spent three years maintaining and servicing commercial beverage equipment, by the sound of it, basically identical to the dispenser you posted about.
What happened to you was that (as you said) the syrup line let go and the BIB (Bag-In-Box) pump (powered either by an air compressor or a CO2 tank) that feeds syrup to the dispenser nozzle just went bananas, since it's designed to automatically keep pumping until there is back-pressure in the syrup line.
Those Bag-in-Box syrup bags hold over five gallons, so it can make a tremendous mess in a hurry unless you have someone knowledgeable around who knows enough about how the system works to jump back to the pump itself and disconnect either the air compressor or CO2 line that powers the pump.

As an anecdote from several years ago, I did a business in Wapakoneta, OH a big favor by purging out the contamination in their syrup lines, caused by some clueless employee who had replaced the Minute Maid lemonade syrup box with a syrup box of Barq's root beer...on a line that was clearly marked for lemonade only.
That caused a chemical reaction that completely blocked the syrup line from the root beer syrup reacting with the remaining lemonade in the line.
I spent over two hours running hot water through that line to finally clear the blockage.
Ugh! what a mess.

 

[IndyDave1776]

Update: No new catastrophes!

This is good, but...

I swear I didn't mean to do it

...if you don't stop swearing, we're telling your mom!

 

[radar8756]

Did you use your small words? Doc can't understand that technical jargon.

Righty - Tighty ... Lefty - Loosey ???

 

[KoD]

Would have been amusing to see. But that's pretty awful!