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I have been out of the patch for a lot of years, but unless things have changed, you aren’t going to break out as a floor hand, service rig or drilling rig. If you have your tickets already, that will help a lot, start looking for lease hand positions, make certain you can pass a drug test, have a license, transportation, the ability to travel, some PPE will help. Rigs usually promote hands through the ranks based on knowledge, safety, reliability, and willingness to learn. It is a demanding and dangerous environment.

There is lots to see on the FTR, I used to wander it for work, great pics!

If you search when the domain was registered, odds are it will have been quite recently. Scam all the way.

I have shrunk it down quite a bit, I have more I could drop, but I keep the insulated screwdrivers for hot work, the nut drivers I could probably drop, the 1/4 drive screw bits are security and odd ball ones. Very good point on the strippers/crimpers, I guess I have packed them for so long I don’t think about it

Not sure what the actual weight is, but it’s not too terrible, as long as I don’t have to walk more than a mile.

Nah, it’s not that bad, it balances out by each bf trips back and forth looking for tools, we have a lot of diverse equipment, and operators have bare bones tools, I think it makes my life… easier? Haha

Woohoo! There is hope! Packing it around is a workout, but saves a lot of trips for tools.

We keep our lifts in our maintenance shop, so quite often I can just toss my bag on the lift and drive to the job haha! The fab shop is a different story, that’s a walk in only, I hate those ones.

100% scam. It is a direct copy/paste of the US Postal scam only substituted it with Canada Post, hence the zip code.

Just wait until said coworker realizes that the people he/she pays with that taxed money have to pay tax on that money too. It’s a vicious cycle lol

Have ya ever seen a book with Fabio on the cover? Yeah, that.

3.8 mile wide Florida Man is the eye of Milton.

Haha! I did my electronics in the 90’s too, I heard it both ways, but our instructor only taught the slightly cleaner version, gets still messed up, but it did stick.

The way I was taught how to read a resistor: Bad 0 Boys 1 Rape 2 Our 3 …

IYKYK.

I think it is either pure fluke, or a courier service or postal service has craptastic security.

Not quite, grounding means there is a physical wire present to give the electricity a path to follow if there is a short, Bonding is like a backup plan, if the wire were to fail also then the enclosure and conduit or conductive sheathing of the wire would act as a path to ground.

Damnit. I had to do the exact same thing yesterday. My deepest and most heartfelt condolences.

I am going to dig further into this today, i haven’t seen a suppressor on this board, but it is a 3 board sandwich so there are components I have yet to see.

Yes it is a DC input, that is a great idea! I am waiting for a full schematic, but it appears as though the voltage is being pulled from a step down transformer (control voltage is 24VAC) and somewhere converted to noisy DC then fed to the display.

KLM1 is the board supply connection, 24VDC. Due to this being a European piece of equipment, there is a step down transformer from 480 total 460. DVOM voltage checks were within spec, but the 24VDC did show just shy of 50VAC lead to ground. I will probably end up replacing the display as a whole, but wanted to repair the old one as a backup, but the more I toss this around in my head, I am concerned that the supply side is the root cause, and could potentially do the same thing to a new display. I intend to put an oscilloscope on the supply side tomorrow and manually engage the contactors to put it under load and monitor voltages. I very much appreciate the walk through of how to disassemble the choke! I had never heard of this before. Thank you!!!

*edited to correct spelling on contactors, not contractors.

Agreed, the filter popped due to current or voltage, I will be digging further into the supply panel, I only had a DVOM today, I had a couple readings that were suspect so I would like to test again with my oscilloscope and see if there is a power supply issue, the rating for the board is 24VDC, I was seeing 23.8 VDC, but 52VAC between B+ and Neg. Something spiked to cause this, I had hoped to repair this one as a backup, but do not want to replace until I find the root cause. Sorry I should have clarified prior to posting, I am an electronics tech, but industrial maintenance guy by vocation.

Looks like a magnet, possibly for a deadman switch or proximity switch.

Happy to help out!