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Actually, it was not being clear in procedures. The procedure didn’t make it clear on how to wire the switches.

It’s just pure water depth. Not uncommon to have 2+” of standing water on the interstate and just having deeper tread seems to help.

It’s listed in the original article linked as a “liquid oxygen self-regulating solenoid relief valve.” So regulator and a solenoid operated relief valve. Sounds like a lot of functions in a single valve. My experience is that valves that do one thing are more reliable than those that try to do a lot. But my experience…

I’ve worked on almost all relief valves, but not for space service. The most common design is spring over disk, which is a spring pushing down on a disk with the pressure pushing up. When the pressure overcomes the spring, the valve opens.

Our best male ever was a big golden called Spike (named after the rugrats dog). He was so big, people figured he was 1/2 Great Pyrenes. Late in life, the DNA showed he was 1/2 Lab from the Carolina line (which get 100+ easy), quarter Golden and quarter German Shepherd (from a large line there too). Dude was 120 lbs,…

I think the big thing is that it likely was perfectly safe. When you have a tank that is full as a tick, it’s going to be at high pressure and in the realm where a relief valve might misbehave (anything above 90% of set pressure is not a great place to be with a relief valve).

They are getting them when they are crawling out of the ground and up stuff to molt.

King was awesome. I have a special love for “cop car” dogs (black and whites)

I disagree with the last thing. Elite athletes fade in reaction times in their 30s. True in every sport. Racing used to not require elite athletes and you had older guys with wrinkles and scars on the track. But over time as the forces and speeds got higher, they had to be elite level athletes.

Yeah, there are work arounds on mis-behaving valves. One would be to give it a good pressure surge and really get it to pop. Another is percussive maintenance. I’ve done both on valves in the past.

See now I do believe that Tesla is transition to being an AI company.

We all know how this will work out, we’ve seen the movie.

The most common way I’ve seen for lay offs is the issuing of a new org chart.

In a weird way, I envy Germans. Germans are allowed to be completely weird freaks at times.

I’m just glad I can talk about DONGLES in public without too many questioning stares again.

We have a stupid amount of them at work. I can hear them through a concrete wall behind me and they are 100 yards away in some trees.

Oh I fully get why they have a relief valve. But why is it going off?

Not involved, only looking from the outside in.

It’s the least common denominator.