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Gary H Phillips

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Subject : I'm back...
Posted : 2009-12-07 9:12 AM
Post #35795
Hi everyone,

Well, after a brief period of moving and setting back up we are running in a new location. Our roof in the rented building collapsed on January 28th, 8:45 PM. We were not there. We had a 2" snowstorm and then 2" of rain later that night, and in about 1 hour! It was too much for the old roof. It was also not in our area but the building was condemned and we had 2 weeks to pack up and get out... No lights, no heat and no water. Not fun, been there done that, it's over now we move on.

What was fun was moving the vacuum table, and the Altendorf, both are not easiliy moved! The riggers' forklift made short work of the partitions... :~)

Regarding the table, Darryl had sent me new "T" molding to hold in the membrane, and also a new set of the new design of pressure bars, both work wonderfully. The only issue with the "flip top" is that the foam gasket was rather short when we applied it and it seems to be pulling up on the corners. I'm thinking that perhaps I might have to replace the gasket at some time in the future. I've restuck them down with double sided tape in those areas. Any ideas of what to glue it down with? Perhaps we should have a gasket made a little longer? After all, we did have to stretch it out quite a bit to fit when we built up the assembly.

We ran some manufactured lumber core plywood through the press this weekend and now just put 4, 4 x 8 sheets (2, 1/4 and 2, 3/4 to make up on inch thick stock. We are getting around 45 minutes between "pumps" with the total air system. I'm very happy with this all. it works like a charm!



Cheers
Gary

PS, I'm rather pleased that the article I authored regarding the buidling of this table and membrane assembly was printed in the national journal of the AIO (American Institute of Organbuilding). I've gotten quite a few possitive comments about it...


 
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Don Stephan

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Subject : RE: I'm back...
Posted : 2009-12-07 6:56 PM
Post #35796 - In reply to #35795
Can't believe you went through roof collapse, forced move of that huge table, and still sound positive? What's in the water there?


 
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Gary H Phillips

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Subject : RE: I'm back...
Posted : 2009-12-08 8:02 AM
Post #35797 - In reply to #35796
Don, you don't really know the half of it. The collapse wasn't in our area but at 8:44:55 they literally "cut" the power to the building, all 3000 amps at 208 volts of it! We had no heat, lights nor water. Not only did we have that to deal with, we had to hire an engineer to come in and certify the buidling was safe to go into otherwise wait till spring for the snow to melt. We had 21 days to get things packed and everything moved...even to a temporary space. If we had any amount of snow, all bets were off...so we had to move and move quickly! We had two HUGE shipping containers and 2 smaller pods plus all our machines were stored at the rigger's facility. This turned out to be a bad thing, all of it got rusty in the short time it was there. Anyway... I will never forget the first full day of packing, I thought I was going to go crazy...it was cold, dark (besides Coleman type lamps) and nothing is as cold as a building with no heat! The sprinklers (wet system) kept making creepy sounds, like someone dying in another part of the building... When they moved the stuff out, they crashed the partitions with the forklift so it was easy to get things out. The owner was ****ed but tough titty as we didn't have time to play games.

We have very good insurance, and that is SO important if you have a shop. We came out better than we were. We worked very well with the adjuster and kept things in line and they paid for it all. We even ended up witha 3000 pound Nissan Fork Lift for $1500 from the owner of the building. What a deal that was. The machines fit just wonderfully. The vacuum table gets lost in the shop.

In the end, it was worth all the anguish...the running around looking for buildings all this while packing and getting out in 21 days or less... We found one and the three companies (us and two others) who were going to move in together in some kind of a condo system ended up doing just that so we are all happy.

The building has around 1600 amps at 480, we have very good heat and excellent ac units (HVAC) Air lines were in the shop already as well a 25 HP screw air compressor which we don't use yet as we have a smaller one which works.

I'm happier than I ever was before so the 3 months of stress...and I mean stress...with a capital F(!) was worth it all. I can send along some pictures at some point of the set up.


Cheers
Gary
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