Post by: Stand_watie on May 20, 2005, 04:54:03 PM
So who can beat that? I'll bet we've got some roofers or steel mill guys here that can top it.
Post by: jefnvk on May 20, 2005, 06:00:30 PM
SO VERY GLAD I didn't become a welder
Post by: Azrael256 on May 20, 2005, 06:15:04 PM
Post by: Antibubba on May 20, 2005, 06:37:28 PM
Post by: DJJ on May 20, 2005, 10:13:27 PM
Post by: mtnbkr on May 23, 2005, 09:45:07 AM
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The A/C went down in the server room one time. It was about 20 outside, but it was approaching 200 when we got everything shut down.
BTDT, except that we "only" got up to 150 before the right people were paged and we had beucoup fans sucking the hot air out. Fortunately, we could fail over to our DR site and shut the room down to speed up cooling.Chris
Post by: jefnvk on May 23, 2005, 09:55:25 AM
Thinking about this again, my new guess would probably be firefighters.
Post by: OEF_VET on May 23, 2005, 10:17:44 AM
Post by: Old NFO on May 23, 2005, 11:21:03 AM
As a volunteer firefighter, I've been in 800-1200 degree fires albiet for a VERY short period of time, but still had face shield and radios melt and run after less than 2 minutes...
Post by: spacemanspiff on May 24, 2005, 11:30:23 AM
Post by: cordex on May 24, 2005, 12:02:09 PM
Used to do field work that was unpleasant on some hot, still days, but nothing all that miserable.
Post by: Azrael256 on May 24, 2005, 03:25:35 PM
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Server guys, did you actually go in the room approaching 200?
Yup, ran right in. I yanked the power out of the switches that connected us to the rest of campus while two other guys started shutting down whatever they could remotely. Their offices are adjacent to the server room, so it was pretty toasty in there, too. I only had to take down two machines from the console, and I started their shutdown process and then came back a few minutes later to check that it had finished. I probably only spent a total of ten minutes in there over a half hour. We weren't about to let anybody stay in there for more than a minute or two at a time. Servers are cheap, heatstroke is not. I was soaked in sweat when we finished, so I went outside for a roll in the snow... with no shirt on. It felt gooooood. Compared with firefighting, I think my experience rates as a frosty day on the north pole.Since air is no longer effective as a coolant at around 150, as 150 is rapidly approaching the redline on the equipment, nothing was able to dump heat for about the last twenty minutes. Two processors cooked off. Amazingly, they were in separate dual processor machines. Their sequential serial number counterparts survived. Fortunately all the disks were recoverable. We backed them up and trashed the old ones. No sense in trying to find out how much longer they'd last. We're building a new server room with a liquid cooling setup. We can vent the heat exchanger to chilled air inside or outside (if it's cold), so it will have much more air volume over which to dissapate the heat should the chiller go down. It will buy us an extra half hour (according to the manufacturer) and won't get the server room so hot.
Post by: caseydog on May 24, 2005, 04:36:50 PM
Look at a road paver sometime , between the two operators positions there is a huge stack going up , this is in case a sudden rain shower or water line/water truck break hits while paving , it's a steam vent to buy the operator a few seconds to stop the machine and bail off so he doesn't get steamed like a clam.
Then you go back a few days later and seal the edges with a vat of 400° elastomeric sealer , hot time in the city !
Ray
Post by: mfree on May 25, 2005, 04:05:29 AM
Sunday mornings we'd have both forced-air convection ovens going full-tilt boogie since we made on line of 400 medium pizzas over 3 hours. They were set at 500, iirc, and had no recirc so that air came out, through the cutting station, then up the vent. Anything metal within 3' of the oven became too hot to touch.
The building was old and the A/C for the kitchen really inadequate, and it was a pretty constant 115-125 degrees on station Sundays, with really wet air. I smelled like pizza for 3 months after I left
Post by: XLMiguel on May 25, 2005, 07:17:48 AM
Post by: Winston Smith on May 26, 2005, 03:20:54 PM
Post by: Azrael256 on May 26, 2005, 03:29:44 PM
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Mike, is that 8 to 10 POUNDS?
Yeah, that's about right. It comes to roughly a gallon of water, which you can easily lose if you're sweating like a pig for 8 hours.
Post by: DustinD on May 26, 2005, 09:15:19 PM
Post by: Stand_watie on May 26, 2005, 11:43:31 PM
Post by: TNGO on May 27, 2005, 08:04:06 PM
Not the hottest job in the world, but enough for me.
Post by: XLMiguel on May 29, 2005, 04:20:07 PM
Post by: M67 on May 30, 2005, 04:21:32 PM
We cheat, though, to keep ourselves amused in the winter. You should try a sauna. A real one, not one of those barely above body temperature things that some people mistake for a sauna. The warmest I know I've tried was 115 degrees. A few minutes in there and then out into -20 for a nude snow ball fight. Repeat every few minutes until bored or out of beer. In degrees Fahrenheit that should be around 240 and sub zero, respectively. I have rolled in the snow in below -30 F, but at those times the temperature in the sauna has been no more than 200 or so, so the temperature difference has been less. But as I said, that's for fun. You'd have to be touched in the head to do something like that for a living.
Post by: Iapetus on May 31, 2005, 01:56:31 AM
Post by: Stand_watie on May 31, 2005, 04:39:45 AM
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It hit 31C (88F) in London on Friday. Not as hot as some of you guys are getting, but its hot for the UK at this time of year. I felt real sorry for the guy in the lion costume handing out flyers outside a store.
I'll bet it was humid too.
Post by: Sean Smith on May 31, 2005, 05:17:23 AM
But for overall heat + all-around awfulness, I worked at a plant that made vinyl siding briefly. Horrible smells and hot as hell. That, combined with having a mental midget for a boss, made it easy to leave that profession.
Post by: Stetson on May 31, 2005, 10:23:26 AM
Post by: DustinD on June 01, 2005, 01:58:24 AM
Oh well, if all goes well in a few years I should be occasionally working in a -90F enviroment in the winter, testing airplanes at high altitute. I am not sure if or how well that will work out though. Yes the airplanes will be heated.
Post by: atek3 on June 01, 2005, 08:15:58 PM
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