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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 08/19/2016 11:45 AM, Stu Midgley
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do i need a rubber suit to even touch anything or lest
ruin my pants everyday?<br>
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<div>No, I never use any protective clothing. My colleagues
sometimes do. It really depends on what your doing.</div>
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<div>The fluid comes out of your clothes with dry cleaning.</div>
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even with lidded tanks do you find the oil aspirates and
gets all over<br>
everything?<br>
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<div>No. The fluid has a really low vapour pressure, so it
doesn't get anywhere unless their is a problem. IF you
get air in the system, you can get large bubbles, which
can splash a little oil... but it usually just falls back
into the tank... no harm done.</div>
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<div>IF you accidentally drop a 1.5m long 20kg fan door from
a shelf 1m above a tank, you can get large waves and get
some fluid over the sides of the tank ;)</div>
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That sounds oddly specific.<br>
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<div>It only takes a few minutes to clean up (we use a cheap
wet-vacuum and then filter the fluid back into the tank).</div>
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But that doesn't that still leave a slippery film on the floor? <br>
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<div>You can get small droplets in the air if you use
something like a gear-pump to transfer fluid into or out
of a tank. Don't use gear pumps.</div>
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does the oil reduce hardware failure to such an extent to
make these<br>
questions negligible?<br>
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<div>Not quite, but almost. We have gone through several
"move every node to another tank" processes... and it
wasn't that bad. We also upgraded every node with more
phi's, which meant taking them out of the tanks, stuffing
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How did you keep the oil from dripping on the floor during this? Did
you put some kind of absorption pads on the floor between the tanks?
What does 'stuffing around' mean? Does that mean wrapping them in
'stuffing' or is that Australian for something else? <br>
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bumped into anyone that could answer those two questions
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a LARGE installation standpoint. but if you've got
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To be fair, 1 drop of fluid does appear to cover the entire
floor, but we use normal absorbent wipes and pads and have
them on the way out of the room. We also wash the floor every
couple of weeks with sugar-soap. Its no big deal.<br>
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Where I work now is extremely safety conscious. That would not go
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Stuart Midgley<br>
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