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What's the most expensive thing you ever broke?
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Just remembering the captain's face in Titanic. What a Godawfully depressing movie!
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A $60,000 x-ray tube.
Kinda exceeded the heat rating a bit when doing an aortagram on a particularly large patient. Aortagrams often require 2 or more exposures/second for several seconds after the injection of a contrast media into the aorta by catheter.
Unfortunately the physician involved wanted more than the system could deliver dispite our objections. Nevertheless I did hit the switch.
After about 4 seconds the accumulated heat load caused the tubes anode to fragment with it spinning at 10,000 rpm. A large fragment flew through the glass housing, the vacuum of which caused the failure of its housing seals with the accompanying epulsion of the cooling oil contained within.
To say it was a mess is a world class understatement
Dr. MordridLast edited by Dr Mordrid; 26 November 2003, 01:37.Dr. Mordrid
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An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications.
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Auch Doctor. THAT must have been mezzy....
And Thanx KvHagedorn. A spinnaker.
I was suddenly at a loss, I actually never heard that word before...
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Mezzy? Ever see a 5' high oxygen tank tip over and take off like a rocket after its valve body broke off? You should have seen people scatter out of the changing room when it shot through the wall on its way to the records room. Looked like a scene from the old movie "Silver Streak".
Some moron mounted it in a room without fastening the safety strap. It of course fell, the valve body broke and off it went like a Nike-Hercules missile.
Who says hospital work isn't dangerous?
Dr. MordridLast edited by Dr Mordrid; 26 November 2003, 01:47.Dr. Mordrid
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An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications.
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Nice!!
Rocket science meets health science.Comment
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The deadly combination......If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.
Jeremy Clarkson "806 brake horsepower..and that on that limp wrist faerie liquid the Americans call petrol, if you run it on the more explosive jungle juice we have in Europe you'd be getting 850 brake horsepower..."Comment
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That use to be funpast time back home,
The workers at PortHedland use to grab an oxygen cylinder and aim it across the harbour and then knock the valve off with hammer and watch skim across the harbour....No one was killed that I know of...but feckComment
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A B-52H
It was a POS anyway, in for a complete overhaul from Barksdale AFB"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." -- Dr. Seuss
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What happened?Originally posted by Greebe
A B-52H
It was a POS anyway, in for a complete overhaul from Barksdale AFB
Someone here in OKC did a B-1 by overfilling it with fuel and poping a wing open.
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I'm not gonna say
Lets put it this way, the Buff was in such disrepair that they had to put on a good engine so it would fly... one huge GOD aweful mess"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." -- Dr. Seuss
"Always do good. It will gratify some and astonish the rest." ~Mark TwainComment
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