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Re: Exxos's B-roll blog of nothing in particular
Posted: 31 Jan 2026 15:34
by rubber_jonnie
PhilC wrote: 31 Jan 2026 10:40
@rubber_jonnie @exxos so I would get sent to site when there was a problem. One site had blown the flues off of their boilers due to poor maintenance, it even appeared in a national newspaper as the loud bang prompted a bomb scare.
Worst that happened to me was for a large boiled and I do mean large as I don't work on stuff smaller than a car typically, whilst I was kneeling in front of it, it had a gas explosion, blew me on to my arse, blew my tool box across the room and sent the boiler flue up like a rocket which came back down and lodged itself half way through another part of the factory roof.
And don't get me started on oil explosions, oil that has gasified is far more deadly than gas.
You can have explosions with quite a few different powders in the right circumstances. Typically in bakeries these days you have to reverse park into a parking space, just like at quarries where they deliberately blow stuff up.
If you want to see an interesting video, go on to YouTube and search for steam boiler explosions. There's a few interesting examples of blown up boilers on there. Steam boilers is the industry that I worked in. Incidentally, no explosions at my current/previous employer thanks to better equipment and well trained engineers :D
Interesting stuff.
For a fun steam explosion go and have a look at the Mythbusters hot water tank explosion here:
Failed hot water tank explosion
It definitely surprised me that's for sure.
@exxos You have brought a doom upon us!!!
My wife found our sink overflow had failed and the cupboard under the sink was all wet!!! All fixed now but I had other things I wanted to do!!!
Hopefully after your and
@stephen_usher's escapades that will be three for three and everyone else is safe :dizzy:
Re: Exxos's B-roll blog of nothing in particular
Posted: 31 Jan 2026 18:01
by PhilC
@rubber_jonnie I did watch that episode. Andrews sell those water heaters in the UK
Here's the link for the YouTube video I was talking about.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source= ... TCAqGV9Rk-
Re: Exxos's B-roll blog of nothing in particular
Posted: 31 Jan 2026 21:14
by peters
This reminded me of reading this many years ago.
https://newton-le-willows.com/?p=1730
Re: Exxos's B-roll blog of nothing in particular
Posted: 01 Feb 2026 20:48
by exxos
Seems mother is opting to buy a new one, rather then spend a couple hours to see if it just needs a £25 bearing set :roll: That's womens logic for you!
The repair guy said bearings and maybe spider gone. Bearings cost £25 off evilbay. The spiders varys from like £30 - £100. Guy said it cost £300 minimum to fix. Fair enough due to the work. But it could be a cheap fix.. Worst than could happen is need a new washer.. She's at that point anyway.. So where's the arm in looking :roll:
Been reading up on washing machines a bit. A lot are now using sealed drums that you cannot even change the bearings in anymore.
A good article if anyone cares..
https://www.ukwhitegoods.co.uk/help/buy ... hould-care
The video is good food for thought.
The guy also suspects he's getting spammed by AI bots for calling out the problem manufacturers.
Re: Exxos's B-roll blog of nothing in particular
Posted: 02 Feb 2026 17:13
by exxos
Well things have escalated a little bit...
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Re: Exxos's B-roll blog of nothing in particular
Posted: 02 Feb 2026 17:59
by exxos
Got the durm to bits.. spider snapped in 2 places.. meh. Going by the state of the whole thing, it would need a whole new drum. So not going to bother.
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Re: Exxos's B-roll blog of nothing in particular
Posted: 05 Feb 2026 19:50
by exxos
My current decongestion spray and a rattle on the can. I waited until it was empty before I dismantled it.. The rattle actually stopped by that point anyway..
Turns out the say line solution is in the foil bag and I presume the pressure was between the foil bag and the can itself.. I can only assume that the say line would be isolated from the air pressure inside.. Maybe is cheaper to do it that way than sterilise the air I suppose.....
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Re: Exxos's B-roll blog of nothing in particular
Posted: 05 Feb 2026 21:17
by stephen_usher
That'll be "saline solution", as in sodium salt, not "say line". :-)
Sorry... the mis-spelling felt like someone scraping their nails down a blackboard to me. *shudder* :-)
Re: Exxos's B-roll blog of nothing in particular
Posted: 05 Feb 2026 21:23
by exxos
stephen_usher wrote: 05 Feb 2026 21:17
That'll be "saline solution", as in sodium salt, not "say line". :-)
Sorry... the mis-spelling felt like someone scraping their nails down a blackboard to me. *shudder* :-)
That be the voice recognition....
Re: Exxos's B-roll blog of nothing in particular
Posted: 06 Feb 2026 09:32
by rubber_jonnie
stephen_usher wrote: 05 Feb 2026 21:17
That'll be "saline solution", as in sodium salt, not "say line". :-)
Sorry... the mis-spelling felt like someone scraping their nails down a blackboard to me. *shudder* :-)
Me also, but some of the things voice recognition has done to me do make this a little more bearable...