The Thread about Nothing....

[flipper]

Got a question for youse... just say an employer was providing sub-standard equipment which had the potential to cause a fatality, had it brought to their attention in no uncertain terms, had OH&S after them etc etc...
Then the employer decides to do very little about it over a 6 month period... and on Friday had it's second (and I'll go with the seppo term) 'catastrophic failure' which could've caused me to be spending new years in the fridge with a toe-tag.

Having spoken to most shiny arses all the way up to state level, and having the belief that there's some shady **** going on, I'm not sure who to contact any more.

Who do you contact for this sort of stuff? Workcare? ministers?

[531Aussie]

Originally Posted by flipper

Got a question for youse...

hmm, sounds like a question for a grown-up, not me.

I've got one for you: why did my 4L EB overheat like total crap and lose 50 tonnes of water on the long drive to Yarrawonga when it was 35 (I had to 'blow' the cap off 3 times and re-fill it), but I didn't lose one drop of water ont he way home when it was 17 to 20 degrees? No airconditioner. I ended up with 14 litres of spare water in bottles.

Could there be a hole that's only exposed when it gets real hot? The temperature normally runs at about a "1/4 up"

[parawolf]

Originally Posted by 531Aussie

I've got one for you: why did my 4L EB overheat like total crap and lose 50 tonnes of water on the long drive to Yarrawonga when it was 35 (I had to 'blow' the cap off 3 times and re-fill it), but I didn't lose one drop of water ont he way home when it was 17 to 20 degrees? No airconditioner. I ended up with 14 litres of spare water in bottles.

Could there be a hole that's only exposed when it gets real hot? The temperature normally runs at about a "1/4 up"

Could be that the EB is a 3.9L and not the 4.0L that arrived until the EB Series II?

That and your thermostat is shot, or you got a build up for gunk caused by running water through your cooling system and something is not allowing the water to dwell long enough to remove head from the important parts back into the radiator for heat exchange.

Think about changing from the pully cooling fans to electric thermo's. Consider a new radiator, consider a flush of your cooling system with something that will clean it out. Try a new thermostat.

[parawolf]

Originally Posted by flipper

Got a question for youse... just say an employer was providing sub-standard equipment which had the potential to cause a fatality, had it brought to their attention in no uncertain terms, had OH&S after them etc etc...
Then the employer decides to do very little about it over a 6 month period... and on Friday had it's second (and I'll go with the seppo term) 'catastrophic failure' which could've caused me to be spending new years in the fridge with a toe-tag.

Having spoken to most shiny arses all the way up to state level, and having the belief that there's some shady **** going on, I'm not sure who to contact any more.

Who do you contact for this sort of stuff? Workcare? ministers?

Workcover - Get an inspector onsite immediately.

[Jono L]

Originally Posted by 531Aussie

and you said: "jeez, you could've chosen something classy"

the retail on the frame alone is so high it must be classy

Who were you talking to on thursday huh? Got spy's everywhere ...I went out to dinner with the rentals to continue porkin up on pizza's

[62vette]

I almost thought I was meeting Hitchy yesterday when a holidaying dude called Chris riding a LOOK 595 with Record and Eurus wheels turned up for our Saturday morning cafe cruise. But it turned out he was an Aucklander down here for the sunshine and the Mount Criterium (3rd in B1 grade).

Nice bike though, and a very handy rider as he holds the vets record for K2

[Jono L]

Time for some laughter
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One evening last week, my girlfriend and I were getting into bed. Well, the passion starts to heat up, and she eventually says, "I don't feel like it, I just want you to hold me."

I said, "WHAT??!! What was that?!"

So she says the words that every boyfriend on the planet dreads to hear...

"You're just not in touch with my emotional needs as a woman enough for me to satisfy your physical needs as a man."

She responded to my puzzled look by saying, "Can't you just love me for who I am and not what I do for you in the bedroom?"

Realizing that nothing was going to happen that night, I went to sleep.

The very next day I opted to take the day off of work to spend time with her. We went out to a nice lunch and then went shopping at a big, big unnamed department store. I walked around with her while she tried on several different very expensive outfits. She couldn't decide which one to take, so I told her we'd just buy them all. She wanted new shoes to compliment her new clothes, so I said, "Lets get a pair for each outfit."

We went on to the jewelry department where she picked out a pair of diamond earrings. Let me tell you... she was so excited. She must have thought I was one wave short of a shipwreck. I started to think she was testing me because she asked for a tennis bracelet when she doesn't even know how to play tennis.

I think I threw her for a loop when I said, "That's fine, honey." She was almost nearing sexual satisfaction from all of the excitement. Smiling with excited anticipation, she finally said, "I think this is all
dear, let's go to the cashier."

I could hardly contain myself when I blurted out, "No honey, I don't feel like it."

Her face just went completely blank as her jaw dropped with a baffled, "WHAT?"

I then said, "Honey! I just want you to HOLD this stuff for a while. You're just not in touch with my financial needs as a man enough for me to satisfy your shopping needs as a woman."

And just when she had this look like she was going to kill me, I added, "Why can't you just love me for who I am and not for the things I buy you?"

Apparently I'm not having sex tonight either....but at least that ***** knows I'm smarter than her.

[parawolf]

Originally Posted by 62vette

I almost thought I was meeting Hitchy yesterday when a holidaying dude called Chris riding a LOOK 595 with Record and Eurus wheels turned up for our Saturday morning cafe cruise. But it turned out he was an Aucklander down here for the sunshine and the Mount Criterium (3rd in B1 grade).

Nice bike though, and a very handy rider as he holds the vets record for K2

Wouldn't be Hitchy, he likes fishing equipment to go on his french frames.

That and he ain't setting any records for hill climbs currently

[parawolf]

Originally Posted by Jono L

Time for some laughter

Read it before, but that is pure gold.

[jock.c]

Originally Posted by Jono L

the retail on the frame alone is so high it must be classy

... or just a rip off like every other overpriced POS.

Damaged the bike in an interestin' way this morning. Woz motoring along in a club race when another attack came off the right of the paceline. Fair dinkum this time, with three trolls motoring at high speed. Noone else seemed interested.

The guy in front of me was stepped out from his wheel by at least 2 foot and trailing by 1.5 bike lengths (fark knows why, but it was only a club race!). To me the gap looked so bloody big I was gonna invite the guy on my left to follow me thru it except he'd just overlapped wheels by a tyre.

So I put a bit of pressure on the pedals and went thru the hole only to find Mr Turtle exactly where he was not supposed to be. The rotten bugger had stepped left as I went right (probably in an effort to correct that abberant 2' lateral lapse of sanity) and the inevitable happened. (Quote: "I never moved!" Right... )

The sound of his front wheel trying to destroy itself on my dereilleur was amplified by his carbon frame. He had two goes at trying to invert himself using my back wheel as a lever before flailing into someone else on my left. His front wheel's quick release had indeed released quickly as it gouged a path between my dereilleur and my skewer's RHS clamp. It wasn't pretty when his wheel parted company with his forks.

The forces running thru his top tube were too much and the thing shat itself right above the BB. It was plain sailing (thru the air) for him after that but he managed to avoid any serious injury save for a scratch on his elbow and a possible busted thumb.

Major damage to my trusty steed: a bent skewer and a slightly bent hanger. How one bends a skewer when it's locked into place I'll never know, but he managed to get it done. Awesome effort.

Not fargin happy, even though I didn't come down.

[matagi]

Originally Posted by flipper

Who do you contact for this sort of stuff? Workcare? ministers?

+1 for contacting Workcover.

Workcover have the power to close a worksite (and also take legal action) so a visit from them is about as welcome as a root canal.

Do you belong to a union? 'Coz they can also be useful in this situation.

[matagi]

Originally Posted by 531Aussie

hmm, sounds like a question for a grown-up, not me.

I've got one for you: why did my 4L EB overheat like total crap and lose 50 tonnes of water on the long drive to Yarrawonga when it was 35 (I had to 'blow' the cap off 3 times and re-fill it), but I didn't lose one drop of water ont he way home when it was 17 to 20 degrees? No airconditioner. I ended up with 14 litres of spare water in bottles.

Could there be a hole that's only exposed when it gets real hot? The temperature normally runs at about a "1/4 up"

When was the last time you drained and flushed the radiator?

Also, check your hoses are tight.

[flipper]

Originally Posted by 531Aussie

I've got one for you: why did my 4L EB overheat like total crap and lose 50 tonnes of water

Lots of things make Falcons overheat... mainly running them
First and most important.. get it pressure tested to find out where it's going. It's best to know as early as possible whether it's just a hose leak or something a bit more involved like a head rather than just taking a guess at this stage.
I don't like the sound of "overheat like total crap" cos the heads go soft on them when you do that. I've done 3 of the buggers recently... all poorly maintained and overheated to death.

If yer coming up this way, I can check it for you. Takes 15 mins.

[flipper]

Originally Posted by matagi

+1 for contacting Workcover.

Workcover have the power to close a worksite (and also take legal action) so a visit from them is about as welcome as a root canal.

Do you belong to a union? 'Coz they can also be useful in this situation.

yeah, I'd thought about Workcover (thanks Para), but I'm not sure if they have any power in a Government dept. I'm not in the union but I grabbed an application last week for the pending ****fight.

[531Aussie]

Originally Posted by parawolf

Could be that the EB is a 3.9L and not the 4.0L that arrived until the EB Series II?

That and your thermostat is shot, or you got a build up for gunk caused by running water through your cooling system and something is not allowing the water to dwell long enough to remove head from the important parts back into the radiator for heat exchange.

Think about changing from the pully cooling fans to electric thermo's. Consider a new radiator, consider a flush of your cooling system with something that will clean it out. Try a new thermostat.

thanks. It's a 4.0L.