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What’s the biggest mess you’ve ever had at the windstone factory? Like…have you ever spilled a truckload of plaster or something like that? Break a whole pallet of dragons? etc etc. I know once there was a big wax spill at the candle factory I worked at….it had to be allowed to dry, then scraped tediously up off the floor. There was also an occasion when around 100 jar candles crashed to the floor off of one of the assembly lines…I’d never seen so much broken glass. 😯
Probably the move with all the boxes and clearing out… or the sorting and unpacking in the new location! Oye! That’s my guess! 🙂
purplecat wrote:What’s the biggest mess you’ve ever had at the windstone factory? Like…have you ever spilled a truckload of plaster or something like that? Break a whole pallet of dragons? etc etc. I know once there was a big wax spill at the candle factory I worked at….it had to be allowed to dry, then scraped tediously up off the floor. There was also an occasion when around 100 jar candles crashed to the floor off of one of the assembly lines…I’d never seen so much broken glass. 😯
Gosh, we haven’t really had a major disaster… even the Northridge earthquake didn’t break anything. (I hope I am not asking for bad luck by saying that)
we have had entire truckloads of bad gypsum but that is a different kind of disaster. Not visible. The most spectacular thing that happens here is when a whole bottle of paint falls off of a rolling cart onto the floor and splashes all over an entire cart of pieces… That has happened more often than I care to think about. Occasionally an airbrush cup will come loose, swing around upside down and drench one’s leg and shoe with paint, that’s always fun. We have had silicone spills in the shop, where we would come in the next morning to find a five gallon sea of blue gunk on the floor, but that isn’t too hard to clean up, you mix it with the setting part and it hardens up. I will probably think of lots of other catastrophes now, ones which I have been trying to forget…Melody wrote:Gosh, we haven’t really had a major disaster… even the Northridge earthquake didn’t break anything. (I hope I am not asking for bad luck by saying that)
Wow, that’s impressive. I was living in Burbank when that happened, and we lost a few dishes. I remember walking to the grocery store and seeing whole isles in shambles, and the isle next to it would be perfectly fine. Earthquakes are odd that way…
(I also remember being irritated that they made us go to school the next day! I was in elementary, and we spent the whole day in earthquake drills…duh.)
We had a lovely disaster on Tuesday.
I work in a fish processing plant and the fish are sucked out of the ponds and sent through pipes to land in hoppers where they are then chuted into the tubs for the machines that clean and gut the fish.
On Tuesday, the big pipe, which is about 8 ft off the floor decided to snap off. This pipe is a 8 inch PVC pipe with hose clamps and rubber seals, so it weighs a fair amount, thankfully it missed the hopper operator, whew!
But the result of the pipe breaking was 1000 lbs of fish dumped out all over the floor in a huge 10 ft wide circle, and no way to stop it, just wait to run out of fish. Though I did manage to grab a couple big tubs and catch some, by the time I thought of it and got into position I was only able to stop about 300 lbs from reaching the floor.
It took 6 of us scrambling around on the floor for about 15 mins to pick them all up and the mechanics another 45 mins to fix the pipe. Anyway, it was a spectacular mess, but not too horrible to clean up.
Kyrin
I bet the silicone was fun….mine has to be mixed half and half…so you’d have to dump just as much of the setting agent in it. It’s expensive stuff too! 😯
siberakh1 wrote:Probably the move with all the boxes and clearing out… or the sorting and unpacking in the new location! Oye! That’s my guess! 🙂
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purplecat wrote:I bet the silicone was fun….mine has to be mixed half and half…so you’d have to dump just as much of the setting agent in it. It’s expensive stuff too! 😯
Yes THAT was a disaster money-wise. Silicone costs a fortune. We got some nice puddles of set silicone to slap around though. They stick to windows real well.
This wasn’t at Windstone, but I once had a job working at a sand painting factory, and we had some spectacular disasters there. One day a whole shelf collapsed under about seventy finished sand paintings (these were those sand paintings done in glass containers). The shelf also took out all the sand paintings on the shelves under it. Whee! so pretty, piles of colored sand everywhere. What a mess.
Melody wrote:purplecat wrote:I bet the silicone was fun….mine has to be mixed half and half…so you’d have to dump just as much of the setting agent in it. It’s expensive stuff too! 😯
Yes THAT was a disaster money-wise. Silicone costs a fortune. We got some nice puddles of set silicone to slap around though. They stick to windows real well.
I can imagine they would be pretty fun to play with! Very expensive toys though! 😆
Melody wrote:This wasn’t at Windstone, but I once had a job working at a sand painting factory, and we had some spectacular disasters there. One day a whole shelf collapsed under about seventy finished sand paintings (these were those sand paintings done in glass containers). The shelf also took out all the sand paintings on the shelves under it. Whee! so pretty, piles of colored sand everywhere. What a mess.
What is sand painting? I’ve never heard of it before.. ❓ Sounds neat.
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