- 1. Re: What do you call.........Joes? (score: 1)
- Author: shiples@comcast.net
- Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 17:50:18 -0700
- Though not for working on cars, your pit might be referred to as a vault. Where I work, no one will enter these without testing the atmosphere and rigged so that the person topside can pull 'em out w
- /html/shop-talk/2004-04/msg00053.html (8,720 bytes)
- 2. Re: What do you call.........Joes? (score: 1)
- Author: shiples@comcast.net
- Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:51:05 -0700
- I got 168,000 hits when I googled "Confined spaces safety". You may be perfectly safe with all the ventilation flowing through your garage. Someone else had a close call. Here's the first link I chec
- /html/shop-talk/2004-04/msg00062.html (9,264 bytes)
- 3. Re: What do you call.........Joes? (score: 1)
- Author: "Fred Thomas" <vafred@erols.com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 22:09:07 -0400
- Steve, read the search again, we are talking 2 100% different "pits", one is sealed/enclosed and my pit is wide open, go back and find automotive open pits, quite a bit of difference, anyway, it is v
- /html/shop-talk/2004-04/msg00063.html (7,971 bytes)
- 4. RE: What do you call.........Joes? (score: 1)
- Author: "Randall Young" <Ryoung@navcomtech.com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 19:36:30 -0700
- Interesting link, but doesn't seem relevant to me. The opening into Fred's pit is a whole lot bigger than 3' by 3' and it's never closed. Randall
- /html/shop-talk/2004-04/msg00064.html (7,865 bytes)
- 5. Re: What do you call.........Joes? (score: 1)
- Author: "Karl Vacek" <KVacek@ameritech.net>
- Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 21:59:20 -0500
- Fred Thomas wrote... <snip> Nope - never heard of any around here. Oil Express shops all have pits in this area. I've never seen any ventilators there, and they invite customers down into the pit to
- /html/shop-talk/2004-04/msg00065.html (8,990 bytes)
- 6. Re: What do you call.........Joes? (score: 1)
- Author: David Scheidt <dmschei@attglobal.net>
- Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 22:02:01 -0500
- I know someone who nearly asphyxiated working in a non-vented grease pit. And, yes, he's taller than the pit. The National Electrical Code considers grease pits to be an explosion hazard, requiring e
- /html/shop-talk/2004-04/msg00066.html (8,567 bytes)
- 7. Re: What do you call.........Joes? (score: 1)
- Author: Rush <jdrush@enter.net>
- Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 23:09:26 -0400
- Yes, a local mechanic died when fumes collected in his pit and ignited. He was a friend of a friend. This was around 40 years ago. Sorry, more details I cannot recall. Jon
- /html/shop-talk/2004-04/msg00067.html (8,166 bytes)
- 8. Re: What do you call.........Joes? (score: 1)
- Author: Dave & Marlene <rusd@velocitus.net>
- Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 21:05:54 -0600
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- /html/shop-talk/2004-04/msg00068.html (7,624 bytes)
- 9. RE: What do you call.........Joes? (score: 1)
- Author: "Randall Young" <Ryoung@navcomtech.com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 21:37:05 -0700
- Come to think of it, the muffler shop that put a new muffler on my TR3A for me a few weeks ago has a 3-wide pit. Fellow welds down there and everything. No idea how long the shop has been there, but
- /html/shop-talk/2004-04/msg00069.html (8,146 bytes)
- 10. Re: What do you call.........Joes? (score: 1)
- Author: "Fred Thomas" <vafred@erols.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 07:27:30 -0400
- Some nice point Carl, hope you do finally get your permit, here on the East coast we have "Jiffy-Lube", Wal-Mart, The Grease Monkey and a few large repair shops all with "pits" and none have fans or
- /html/shop-talk/2004-04/msg00071.html (7,972 bytes)
- 11. Re: What do you call.........Joes? (score: 1)
- Author: "Steven W. Reilly" <luckyone@sentex.ca>
- Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 08:08:12 -0400
- Flash burn definitely isn't the only danger here.............I was welding without a hood just this past Saturday. Closed my eyes and turned away after positioning the torch. Since Sunday I've had th
- /html/shop-talk/2004-04/msg00072.html (8,151 bytes)
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