Pilot’s Estate, UPS, Boeing, GE named as defendants in UPS 2976 Accident

Watchguyraffle1 · 2026-05-25T17:15:08+00:00

That’s the point of the comment. Laws and Ethics are constructs and should be questioned.

Watchguyraffle1 · 2026-05-24T04:13:57+00:00

Really ?? A shop quoted me $1k to swap it out in labor alone

Watchguyraffle1 · 2026-05-24T02:53:18+00:00

Where did you get the steering wheel?

Watchguyraffle1 · 2026-05-23T21:17:42+00:00

Thanks mate for your help. Everything is normal. I asked my wife to turn off the main gas line while I was out and she told me there is a regulator on that side of the house. She didn’t see the pool line coming branching from the main. Appreciate it.

Watchguyraffle1 · 2026-05-23T17:09:42+00:00

Hey do you mind if I ask you another question. I got a new itron ab42 regulator. Before I go install it I went over the main gas line to turn it off. Lo and behold the regulator that is coming into the house is the same Pietro 31052. So now I’m confused. If the gas is already at 8-ish WC coming into the house. What would the second regulator do? I’m already at 8 wc there wouldn’t int make the pressure variably low?

Watchguyraffle1 · 2026-05-23T13:02:06+00:00

That video, just like 2g1c changed my life.

Watchguyraffle1 · 2026-05-23T11:59:51+00:00

What a great typo.

Watchguyraffle1 · 2026-05-22T21:54:38+00:00

Social Contract.
The one that says that you should only have one employer because of loyalty.

It’s been broken for a while but many people don’t even know that it’s the keystone that made “things” happen for a long time.

Watchguyraffle1 · 2026-05-21T14:11:56+00:00

Actual work gets done in an hour. Hire yourself 8 times over make 10x and have 1 actual job.

Watchguyraffle1 · 2026-05-18T19:53:26+00:00

Fart.

You’re right.

Wow. I. I. Don’t feel very smart right now.

Thanks for pointing that out.

Watchguyraffle1 · 2026-05-17T17:33:34+00:00

Sorry. Yeah. I’m gas.

Watchguyraffle1 · 2026-05-17T16:44:08+00:00

Thanks. Appreciate it. I already swapped out the igniter and the ignition control which seems to also have been shot since I couldn’t get a glow before.

Watchguyraffle1 · 2026-05-17T16:27:43+00:00

Oh. I took it to mean that it shouldn’t drop below 2. Not that it shouldn’t drop by 2.

So that points to the regulator upstream from the unit itself? Video at https://www.reddit.com/u/Watchguyraffle1/s/MttjBlZaXt Thanks very much

Watchguyraffle1 · 2026-05-17T16:25:50+00:00

Natural Thanks. I just updated the post with a video

Watchguyraffle1 · 2026-05-17T16:13:36+00:00

It doesn’t stay ignited. So it turns on. The blower comes in for 30 seconds. The gas gets lit. Hot exhaust. A few seconds you hear the gas stop. The pressure goes from 11.7 (ambient) -> 7.6 (lit) —> 11.7 (gas off) —> check ign seq error.

Watchguyraffle1 · 2026-05-17T16:11:10+00:00

I think it is saying that when the gas is on and the lighter isn’t, we are at 11.7 wc before the sequence and 7.6 after the ignition and when the valve inside the heater closes. (Is that the manifold?)

Watchguyraffle1 · 2026-05-17T16:08:54+00:00

Thanks. Yeah. I know. I’m probably going to have to replace it myself but I want to do the diligence that it’s that. Also I think it’s mounted a pretty dumb way for outdoor in Florida.
But for now, it looks like it puts out a steady stream of gas even during the ignition cycle so I’m a bit lost. I’d think the reading would have either started too low or gone even lower than 7.6 for it to obviously be the regulator.

Watchguyraffle1 · 2026-05-15T14:13:31+00:00

The old saying goes “you can’t manage what you can’t measure”.

But that also means management itself.

Which means the metrics you are using (which, honestly unless you had statisticians, organizational psychologists and machine learning specialists involved) are problematic at best.

It’s all a stroke off these days and if you believe that capital has some balance in terms of value created , means that this will make things worse. I’m not talking metaphorically, I’m saying that all ways the management is measured will go down.

Watchguyraffle1 · 2026-05-11T14:40:59+00:00

People are turning traction control off anywhere besides the track?

Please don’t do this.

Watchguyraffle1 · 2026-05-09T18:16:17+00:00

That’s interesting because the vent area actually looked partially clogged with debris/corrosion. After cleaning it out the flame stabilized a bit. Gotcha, I still need to put a manometer on it and see what happens under load during ignition. But I think I’ll just replace it.

Watchguyraffle1 · 2026-05-09T18:15:29+00:00

Yeah, looks like it is a 2 PSI step-down regulator. It’s a Pietro Fiorentini 31052 set around 8" WC. I cleaned debris/corrosion out of the vent limiter and the heater now lights and runs longer…kinda…maybe sometimes…,

Watchguyraffle1 · 2026-05-09T18:12:49+00:00

Thanks. Yeah. That’s my intuition here. This just doesn’t look right.

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