4500# high Pac air compressor relief
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Topic: 4500# high Pac air compressor relief
Posted By: Sewer Pipe Snipe
Subject: 4500# high Pac air compressor relief
Date Posted: 17 Aug 2019 at 6:53pm
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I seemed to always be the one of those that got blessed with rebuilding the Ingersoll Rand piston air compressor at sea. This run we were doing one in the Hipac Bay ERLL. It was the Port one we were disassembling. We had a newly qualified ERLL Watch Stander. They ordered up a 2 compressor charge. I was half in the bilge, forward side trying to loosen the flare nut. So the watchstander checks his lineup and starts the Hipac. Shortly thereafter the relief lifts on the high pressure side. That had to have been about the loudest sound I ever heard. I wound up with some torn up knuckles, a good head bump and shook up nerves. I often wondered why we never heard from sonar. I would have thought they would have definitely detected that. After that, I always kept a careful eye on what the watchstander was doing while I worked on a Hipac. ------------- Walt, Had I done everything right throughout my life, the World wouldn't have noticed. |
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Posted By: SaltiDawg
Date Posted: 17 Aug 2019 at 8:16pm
Just curious. If an Air Charge was ordered, why would Sonar have contacted you? Seems actually the COW would have alerted Sonar. |
Sewer Pipe Snipe wrote:Posted By: Sewer Pipe Snipe
Date Posted: 18 Aug 2019 at 12:05am
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I didn't mean the air charge, I meant the noise from that relief lifting. My ears rang for several days. ------------- Walt, Had I done everything right throughout my life, the World wouldn't have noticed. |
Posted By: Tom McNulty
Date Posted: 18 Aug 2019 at 11:40am
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We had a union coupling crack on one of the missile tube 4500# air lines. That sound certainly caused a couple weeks of being hard of hearing. I know what you went through. It was loud enough to almost make one puke. ------------- SSBN599B,SSBN600B,SSBN611G USNR Beaumont, TX, USSVI Life Member Mid Atlantic Base Holland Club |