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Adam Frisch

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Re: Stepping up to old 680V turbine...
« Reply #465 on: March 10, 2023, 08:59:23 pm »
No, I didn't touch the drains. It was already stuck open somehow. Maybe the maintenance guys had touched it before.
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Re: Stepping up to old 680V turbine...
« Reply #466 on: March 11, 2023, 12:05:27 pm »
I had a drain on my C340 stick open once. Nothing would fix it; we had to wait until the tank was empty to leave. Fortunately it was the 3rd aux tank, so it only changed my range by 40 minutes or so.

When we disassembled the valve we found the ring of a drilled-out pop rivet stick inside it. The last recorded maintenance on the tank was 11 years earlier.
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