Brewday equipment failure..

[sablesurfer]

But no one has run into this one!

 

[Doctor_M]

That sucks. At least it's not a catastrophic end brew day /wasted time and materials failure though. More like a minor inconvenience.

 

[slym2none]

Not on a brew day, no... but having that happen while I was using & holding the sprayer, I know that pain.

 

[TriggerHappy]

No beer was ruined, easy fix, no injuries. just a little sett back

 

[sablesurfer]

easy fix

I tend to wonder about this every once in a while. How easy is it, for the mainstream?

I pulled out the infrared temp reader and batteries dying, so I switch out, nothing, no power. I open back up and notice the crud build up on the contact point...probably cheap design, but scrape that clean, batteries back in, and now I can take temp of beers. How many people really can do that, I would think that out of most people I know directly....3 or 4 out of a hundred or so.

And like the sprayer. I knew right away what part failed, but then again I installed it as a replacement to last plastic piece of junk that failed. (Did you know that there are no metal parts other than the clip inside of these things now a days....gah.) But would it be an easy fix for regular joe/jane work aday in a cube doe?

Just random stuff I wonder about. Seeing has how I have been called out to "no heat we all going to DIIIIIIII!!!" to find the fuse buried inside the heater that needed to be replaced, and then figure out the sequence of breakers that got tripped. And they got that heat back for free, I never even got cookies. LOL.

 

[Teromous]

As hard as it is to believe, I have run into a similar situation. I was filling my carboy with one of those goose neck faucets but it was a bit too low so I had to lift the faucet a bit to get it over the opening to the carboy. The seal in the neck of the faucet became dislodged and it shot water straight out of the sink into my ceiling. It took me a good minute to figure out what was even going on to gather myself and turn off the faucet. Fear not fellow brewer, you are not alone

 

[TriggerHappy]

I guess what I meant was easy fix for someone who brews because we are usually problem solvers/tinkerers/handy which is why we chose this hobby. Those handles are crap, like you said, no metal. the plastic just gets old and breaks, I have replaced a couple of them. As for people, man I see them all the time at my job, which is to help people, and the emergencies I respond to sometimes make you think, how has this person figured out how to survive for this long, Darwin is constantly being proven wrong. We had an emergency the other day where a guy called and had us come out so he could borrow our phone to pay his cell phone bill so he could make a call. But think of all those that aren't calling us for help with every little thing. That keeps me going. That and sometimes we get cookies.

 

[TriggerHappy]

And at least the Carrot people in the background look safe. A little shaken up, but safe.

 

[sablesurfer]

And at least the Carrot people in the background look safe. A little shaken up, but safe.

GF's. LOL. She tried to warn me that flat spaces are like kryptonite to her and she has to cover them all up....sigh. I've lost control of the window sill, and coffee table, and one of bathroom vanity shelves, and parts of countertops at times.

 

[TAK]

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