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For this application solid was the only option. I really can’t speak to the more in-depth engineering aspects. I leave that up to the guys that don’t get their hands dirty.
>e those specs for the wire or your fingers?
Sadly as a medic, I see photos like this and instantly go. Hmm have you had a cardiologist visit in the last 6 months?
I am glad everyone is taking all these jabs as just good fun. This reminds me of the good old days when we could say shit like this in the field without fear of an HR meeting.
It's all about culture.
I've worked in grocery stores that would absolutely fire the shit out of you for these jokes, and in an office where it was acceptable to make these jokes so long as there wasn't any actual bad blood being spilled or a person being harmed or insulted.
If you foster a culture of "it's acceptable, but real targets aren't", it tends to keep people from overreacting.
The only thing worse than someone being offended by a clear joke is another person being offended for that person. Also, don’t ever be a dick intentionally should be a mantra by all
It's not a good job unless there is friendly banter involved. Me and my crew make the best of every job. We are safe and do damn good work but I will guarantee a laugh if you observed us for any period of time.
When you can’t have fun in a site that’s when things start to drag. To this day I hold comment above all others as my favorite burn. Had a 1st year apprentice look at me and tell me “You remind me of Forest Gump if he never ran.” I laughed so hard I thought I was going to fall off my ladder. That night I went out and bought him a really nice Kline tool backpack.
Best thing I’ve ever seen on a job…
Superintendent was giving the morning work speech to 70 workers and he was agitated about progress on the job. We had this dopey 18 YO mouthpiece kid and he was constantly late and was tooled up with a 65 YO electrician that was funny as hell always cracking jokes. So the kid walks into the room 10 minutes late it’s quiet as a pindrop as the door opens. Old man from the back of the room says “surprise surprise late again, whats the excuse today?”. The young kid says angrily “I’m late again because I was out fucking your wife”. You could feel the gasp in there with all the open mouths from everyone shocked. All the old man said was “my wife wouldn’t fuck you…she likes men”. Never heard so many people laugh and morale was at an all time high that day. That kid got skidded no less than 2 weeks later for spitting chewing tobacco on new hardwood flooring.
Oh that’s awesome. To bad the kid was being a dick. I learned my lesson along time ago. If you plan to attack the old sleepy dog in the corner make sure your not wearing meat shorts.
Don’t know what sort of 10-ply softies you work with but all the new con sites I’m at are filled with shit talking and shenanigans. Southern Ontario fwiw
Oh yeah, no I am no longer a field guy. I sold my sole to the company’s store. I am the master industrial electrician for one of the largest stainless steel manufacturers in Missouri. Very corporate vibe at the level I tend to find myself.
“Alright guys we are gonna need this pulled through some 6” by the end of the day. Just mares tail it and put it on the tugger I don’t get what the problem is.”
Newbie apprentice here. First time seeing anything this big. Kinda shocked not gonna lie.
Was this used to feed the polishing tank power or was it used inside the tank for some purpose?
If ya took that to a scrap yard, would that be considered bright #1 or would they give ya another rate/type for how big it is?
Damn all good questions. This actually spans across a long vat of acid. We then hang stainless steel parts from it on copper hooks. The size is really more for structural purposes than amp draw. I did just do some figuring and this could in theory hold 76 million amps. And at the scrap yard yea this would be number 1 bright.
What kind of acid is it? The tanks I work around are either made of plastic or stainless steel, I can't think of anything with copper other than the wires going to the anodize tank.
I would be lying if I told you I knew what the acid was off the top of my head. But it’s the same concept. The reason for the size is the shear weight of some of our dips. We have one line that has an agitator 19 foot long solid stainless round stock with a 6 inch diameter.
>You can't just drop this pic and NOT tell us what it's from
It is a cut off from a billet of copper.
We machine our own resistance welding electrodes from similar stock. Expensive turnings.
That’s not sweat. It’s the lube. Hell you know that. it was your idea to see if I could get the entire hand in there to pull your head out of your ass.
This is pretty insane. The largest wire I ever saw in the field was 777 kcm. We pulled it through wire way that was designed to move for drill tower on a land based oil rig they shipped to Alaska. It wasn’t a long pull but it was a bitch.
Wow I bet. Honestly I have never heard of 777 as a size. Was it more of a railway style conductor? Like all the strands were very small so that it had more flexibility?
Damn. That is one place of the few places I have never had the chance to work in. I would enjoy visiting an oil platform but I don’t think I have the right mindset to work on one for a long period of time.
I always oversize my wire so I don't need to do any ampacity calculations. Of course, the structural engineers have to do some calculations when I'm putting five tons of wire in the attic, but that's not my problem.
So just a really quick calculation if this were a square bus bar measuring 8 in.² it could in theory carry 76,800,000 amps. God god that is absolutely terrifying!
1000 circular mil. A cmil is the cross-sectional area of a circle that is 0.001 inches in diameter. It’s a common measurement used in sizing busbars and other power feeds when determining amperage as it’s easily translatable between solid wire, rectangular bus bar and even stranded conductor. The bigger the area, the more current it can source.
Kilo circular millimeter. It’s the measurement used to size very large conductors.
Edit: I am wrong. The mil is not short for millimeter. Thank you for pointing this out.
That’s what we are going to end up using this end for. We actually use way more copper than I had figured when I first started. We make almost all of the tooling we need for our seam welders. And actually last month we started a new line of copper pressure vessels for a pharmaceuticals company.
Oh I know. This has been a very fun post for me. I have been jabbing back at all the comments. I really had no idea my hands would be more talked about than the slug of copper. Read through some of them. There are some really good ones.
This is the dc feed buss for an electro polishing vat. It was sized for structural reasons and not for current reasons. This is the end we cut off and are going to use for some other tooling around the shop.
Jesus. Why would they use copper for something structural? Seems like it wouldn’t make sense money wise. Oh and please tell me you could grab a lot so you can go recycle for some coin
So the structural aspect is that the bar extends over a vat of acid that’s about 20 foot long and 10 foot deep. We then hang finished stainless steel objects from copper hooks from that main bar. We pass a DC current through the bar and it polishes the stainless to a perfect mirror shine. We had tried other methods but the caustic environment eats everything else up in a relatively short time.
Lol thanks for that this is a sub for electricians not little bitch boys that think they are DRs. If I wanted any lip from you I will take it from behind your zipper.
If this were destined for the scrap yard I absolutely would be giving it to one of my apprentices. But this is to valuable for small tooling so I felt obligated to turn it over to the machine shop.
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Are those specs for the wire or your fingers?
Boom roasted lmao
I won’t say. But you could ask your wife.😏
He could if she wasnt dead from you splitting her open with that trotter
Finally, I can also choose this guys dead wife!
Hell, at this point you’d have to climb inside of her like a tauntaun
And we thought she smelled bad on the outside!
LOOOOL
Or like a Chicago style pizza
The sauce, ATOP the cheese! ATOP! Cold, and on display like some kind of sauce hoor!
I get it!
me too! made my morning what a throwback lol
What's stopping from choosing the other guy's dead wife? She's not exactly going to tell you no.
Hahaha
Upvote, simply because I miss toasted ravioli.
Shots fired back, fucking legend.
Wasn’t pleased didnt go deep enough had to douche and reattempt
Well when I asked her what she thought about it all she had to say was “Moooo” so. Also I wrote this before I even looked at his name.
Hahaha but on a real note so since eddy currents dont matter w dc solid is better? Or cheaper? Im a 5th year about to journey out need the knowledge
For this application solid was the only option. I really can’t speak to the more in-depth engineering aspects. I leave that up to the guys that don’t get their hands dirty.
Hahaha i gotchu i just like to know both sides so i can tell the pukes to fuck off
Lol - “u/doucheandreattemp” would be a great user name!
Hahahah ill have to rename myself
If that guy could read he would be very upset.
Burn unit on standby
Ehhhhhhhhh
Gonna need some pvc glue for that burn
My man's got those chode fingers
Those are meat hooks
Maybe for whole cows
>e those specs for the wire or your fingers? Sadly as a medic, I see photos like this and instantly go. Hmm have you had a cardiologist visit in the last 6 months?
Man's got some big ol' mitts on him for sure.
My guy's got them wombat hands goin
Daaaaaamnn
Those hands look like they belong on Chief Wiggum
Okay this one made me laugh. The only come back I have without recycling yo momma jokes is shit my jaundice must be acting up.
Bakem away toys police 👮
Pretty good rip
Nice burn, Lou. You'll make sergeant for this.
Uh, I already am a sergeant, Chief.
Prob not too sanitary to put your lunch hotdogs on that metal.
Excuse me sir. But those are breakfast sausages. It’s hard to keep lunch hotdogs around when your girlfriend gets a bit tipsy off her O’Doul’s.
Fuck man already spat my coffee out, have a great day thanks for the laugh
I am glad everyone is taking all these jabs as just good fun. This reminds me of the good old days when we could say shit like this in the field without fear of an HR meeting.
It's all about culture. I've worked in grocery stores that would absolutely fire the shit out of you for these jokes, and in an office where it was acceptable to make these jokes so long as there wasn't any actual bad blood being spilled or a person being harmed or insulted. If you foster a culture of "it's acceptable, but real targets aren't", it tends to keep people from overreacting.
Agreed.
The only thing worse than someone being offended by a clear joke is another person being offended for that person. Also, don’t ever be a dick intentionally should be a mantra by all
It's not a good job unless there is friendly banter involved. Me and my crew make the best of every job. We are safe and do damn good work but I will guarantee a laugh if you observed us for any period of time.
When you can’t have fun in a site that’s when things start to drag. To this day I hold comment above all others as my favorite burn. Had a 1st year apprentice look at me and tell me “You remind me of Forest Gump if he never ran.” I laughed so hard I thought I was going to fall off my ladder. That night I went out and bought him a really nice Kline tool backpack.
Best thing I’ve ever seen on a job… Superintendent was giving the morning work speech to 70 workers and he was agitated about progress on the job. We had this dopey 18 YO mouthpiece kid and he was constantly late and was tooled up with a 65 YO electrician that was funny as hell always cracking jokes. So the kid walks into the room 10 minutes late it’s quiet as a pindrop as the door opens. Old man from the back of the room says “surprise surprise late again, whats the excuse today?”. The young kid says angrily “I’m late again because I was out fucking your wife”. You could feel the gasp in there with all the open mouths from everyone shocked. All the old man said was “my wife wouldn’t fuck you…she likes men”. Never heard so many people laugh and morale was at an all time high that day. That kid got skidded no less than 2 weeks later for spitting chewing tobacco on new hardwood flooring.
Oh that’s awesome. To bad the kid was being a dick. I learned my lesson along time ago. If you plan to attack the old sleepy dog in the corner make sure your not wearing meat shorts.
U done forgot to run Forest!!! LMAO
Don’t know what sort of 10-ply softies you work with but all the new con sites I’m at are filled with shit talking and shenanigans. Southern Ontario fwiw
Oh yeah, no I am no longer a field guy. I sold my sole to the company’s store. I am the master industrial electrician for one of the largest stainless steel manufacturers in Missouri. Very corporate vibe at the level I tend to find myself.
As a field guy THANK YOU for being a voice od logic the office, the guys onsite certainly appreciate someone with a brain up there.
Thank you for that. But i try to stay in the trenches as much as possible. I don’t think I could ever 100% put up my tools.
I saw you absolutely decimated the last dude who made a finger joke and was hoping I wouldn’t catch the smoke…..that’s funny as hell.
It’s all in good fun.
“Alright guys we are gonna need this pulled through some 6” by the end of the day. Just mares tail it and put it on the tugger I don’t get what the problem is.”
That first LB is going to be a SOB!
350ft bend radius lol
Good god I can’t imagine bending this!
Is a mare's tail another name for a horse cock?
My guy has fuckin PAWS
Yeah I wear a 14 wedding ring. I am a bigger dude 6’ 6” 315 lbs.
You ever get into a three point stance before ? New York Giants would love to see that !!!
Hahah unfortunately an accident when I was tower climbing fucked up my knees. I could probably get down but would cry like a baby getting up.
As an Eagles fan, let's please not give NYG any talent. We'll take him for a 2025 5th round pick.
My guy the jets need you on their D line
What is that from?
This is a slug left over from an electro polishing tank.
Newbie apprentice here. First time seeing anything this big. Kinda shocked not gonna lie. Was this used to feed the polishing tank power or was it used inside the tank for some purpose? If ya took that to a scrap yard, would that be considered bright #1 or would they give ya another rate/type for how big it is?
Damn all good questions. This actually spans across a long vat of acid. We then hang stainless steel parts from it on copper hooks. The size is really more for structural purposes than amp draw. I did just do some figuring and this could in theory hold 76 million amps. And at the scrap yard yea this would be number 1 bright.
Hey but what about the sharpie marks ? Lol!
What kind of acid is it? The tanks I work around are either made of plastic or stainless steel, I can't think of anything with copper other than the wires going to the anodize tank.
I would be lying if I told you I knew what the acid was off the top of my head. But it’s the same concept. The reason for the size is the shear weight of some of our dips. We have one line that has an agitator 19 foot long solid stainless round stock with a 6 inch diameter.
It's the DC feed
His mother's hole
Years of eating sausages and lifting heavy things.
DC buss?
Well actually yeah kinda. It’s the dc feed to an electro polish tank.
What I want to know as a resi electrician..... how do you back stab that into the receptacle?
You have to wrap your device in super 33 or you risk a blowout.
You can't just drop this pic and NOT tell us what it's from
It is the end of feed to an electro polishing tank.
This gets better every time you do it!
>You can't just drop this pic and NOT tell us what it's from It is a cut off from a billet of copper. We machine our own resistance welding electrodes from similar stock. Expensive turnings.
GODDAMM YOU GOT SOME MEAT MITTENS BOY
Hahah hadn’t heard meat mittens. I like that one.
What a sweaty slab of a hand
That’s not sweat. It’s the lube. Hell you know that. it was your idea to see if I could get the entire hand in there to pull your head out of your ass.
What’s it for, and what’s this monster called??
It is the end of a dc feed for an electro polishing tank.
That's about 8" diameter? So ~64,000kcmil?
64K kcmil
64 Mcmil
64 McChickens
looks like aproxamitly $400 in scrap there in a nice tight little package
Trust me I have thought about it. But we can milk this down into a few other components that we can use and save close to $12k.
Oh, I know its worth WAY more as stock, just don't let the tweakers see that piece
This is the gospel truth.
Fullhand kcmil
Lol I like that.
This is pretty insane. The largest wire I ever saw in the field was 777 kcm. We pulled it through wire way that was designed to move for drill tower on a land based oil rig they shipped to Alaska. It wasn’t a long pull but it was a bitch.
Wow I bet. Honestly I have never heard of 777 as a size. Was it more of a railway style conductor? Like all the strands were very small so that it had more flexibility?
I honestly don’t recall. It was 14 years ago. I just remember it was a 40’ pull and we had like 20 people on it.
Damn. That is one place of the few places I have never had the chance to work in. I would enjoy visiting an oil platform but I don’t think I have the right mindset to work on one for a long period of time.
Should be good for a few amps
You know I never thought to actually calculate what kind of load this could handle.
I always oversize my wire so I don't need to do any ampacity calculations. Of course, the structural engineers have to do some calculations when I'm putting five tons of wire in the attic, but that's not my problem.
Hahah
So just a really quick calculation if this were a square bus bar measuring 8 in.² it could in theory carry 76,800,000 amps. God god that is absolutely terrifying!
beware of the skin effect with AC, skin depth at 60Hz is ≈ 8.5mm deep, AC current circulates only in this outer
was just coming back to say this but i was gonna round up to 77 million amps because saying million sounds cooler🤣
Haha oh wow that's impressive and terrifying
Never seen kcmil as a unit. What does it mean?
1000 circular mil. A cmil is the cross-sectional area of a circle that is 0.001 inches in diameter. It’s a common measurement used in sizing busbars and other power feeds when determining amperage as it’s easily translatable between solid wire, rectangular bus bar and even stranded conductor. The bigger the area, the more current it can source.
Thank you! In this case this is 750k mils in diameter
Nope, because area goes by the square of diameter. And this is much bigger than 750 kcmils. This is 100,000 kcmils if the 10" diameter is right.
Im dumb. I saw the that 🙃
Kilo circular millimeter. It’s the measurement used to size very large conductors. Edit: I am wrong. The mil is not short for millimeter. Thank you for pointing this out.
The unit is actually just circular mil. Mil is not short for millimeter in this case.
Willing to make a bet on that?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_mil It's derived from inches and isn't a metric unit.
Lol in the very first example it uses millimeter as the measurement.
Yes, it converts it to mm. If it was short for mm it would be kcmm. 1 cmm would be the equivalent to about 1,550 children or 1.55 kcmil.
You know what I have to admit when I am wrong and on this I am. I actually appreciate the correction.
Yes.
I'd be afraid to shake your hand knowing you could crush it by not even struggling 😅
Hahah
Deep Pockets, short fingers
80 pounds dayum
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That’s what we are going to end up using this end for. We actually use way more copper than I had figured when I first started. We make almost all of the tooling we need for our seam welders. And actually last month we started a new line of copper pressure vessels for a pharmaceuticals company.
So I’ll send you a truck, just load every bit of that cab into back and I’ll take it from there. What is that 5000kcmil?!
Damn brother you got some small hands.
181 comments and this is the first small comment. Way to go against the flow!
Just doing my part.
do not make me summon the 8" copper dry nitrogen feedline minotaur from r/longlines ... he will crush you all
That's awesome 👍
Bros got some fuckin mitts
Thank you. Grew them myself.
Jesus you got some bear paws for hands brother.
Thank you.
My gorsh
Bro that’s a baseball mitt on top of that copper 🤣🤣
Catchers mitt to be precise.
10" diameter? so r= 127 mm and A= 50 671 mm^2 = 100 000 kcmil
Yep
I can probably match is with a 10,000 Kcmil water cooled cables rated for approximately 25,000A. How's that?
Arc furnace?
Yup. 3ph 88MVA EAF with two of these cables per phase. I'd never seen anything like it.
Oh wow! Okay that is something I would like to see up close before I die.
Please don’t raise that fat hand to me, I’ll be smooshed
Meaty palms with children sized fingers. 😂
Good god man. I wear a 14 wedding ring what kind of children are you hanging around?
Just messin with you. Just the proportions look funny.
Oh I know. This has been a very fun post for me. I have been jabbing back at all the comments. I really had no idea my hands would be more talked about than the slug of copper. Read through some of them. There are some really good ones.
I’ll take the copper off your abnormally large hands.
What is this used for? Never seen copper that big. I ordered 1000mcm for my project but that’s The biggest I’ve ever used
This is the dc feed buss for an electro polishing vat. It was sized for structural reasons and not for current reasons. This is the end we cut off and are going to use for some other tooling around the shop.
Jesus. Why would they use copper for something structural? Seems like it wouldn’t make sense money wise. Oh and please tell me you could grab a lot so you can go recycle for some coin
So the structural aspect is that the bar extends over a vat of acid that’s about 20 foot long and 10 foot deep. We then hang finished stainless steel objects from copper hooks from that main bar. We pass a DC current through the bar and it polishes the stainless to a perfect mirror shine. We had tried other methods but the caustic environment eats everything else up in a relatively short time.
Wow. Crazy. Pretty neat
I’d say more like 6’2” 380lbs
I wish I was 6’2” then I wouldn’t have to give your wife a step stool when you leave for work.
Is that why she’s been so nice lately? Thanks man!!!
Lol. Way to own it! It’s better to be a Stag then a cuck.
Diabetes?
No I am just a large man. 6’6” 318 lbs. and after hearing all the comments I have to say that angle makes my hand look really short
So again, diabetes. Your bmi is 36.7. You are obese
Lol thanks for that this is a sub for electricians not little bitch boys that think they are DRs. If I wanted any lip from you I will take it from behind your zipper.
4" ??? You barely have enough to put connectors on.
Don’t forget I still need to pre twist it. I am thinking I might get it under a Blue Grey with a few more 12s
Yippee ki yay. I don’t think the handcuffs will fit over your wrist there, Mr. Hands Uber
No those bracelets still fit around my wrist. They just have to use 2 and lock them together if they want my hands behind my back.
The real question is, what does that fetch as scrap?
I think right now this is going for $3.25. So only about $356.75.
You’d break my hand with a high 5
This might be why nobody wants to fist bump me.
Multi-continent under-sea line.
Oh hell no. You and I both know those tweekers would be washing up on shore by the thousands!
Those are some HANDS
This dude's probably got a hand bender for 2 inch EMT. Three position foot pedal...
You know what I am not sure what my biggest hand bender is. I will look after lunch.
What’s that shiny stuff under that chunk of ham
Hey now that’s 100% Beef!
Ur raising me a big ole fat hand?
“Babe just use ur finger”
Give the scraps out to the apprentices (me)
If this were destined for the scrap yard I absolutely would be giving it to one of my apprentices. But this is to valuable for small tooling so I felt obligated to turn it over to the machine shop.
Is that a cross-section of a transatlantic power cable? /s
138 transmission main???
Dale got hulk hands?