Warning: My new apprentice tried to use a pipe wrench on a boiler gauge last week

We were on a job in Toledo and he thought the pressure reading was stuck, so he gave it a good crank and the whole glass face popped out like a cork. I spent the next hour calming down the site manager and explaining we needed a whole new assembly. Has anyone else had a helper do something that made you just shake your head?

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angela_dixon10d ago

That reminds me of a guy who tried to free a seized valve with a sledgehammer. He succeeded, mostly in sending the valve stem through a drywall ceiling two floors up. The look on his face was almost worth the repair bill.

sandralee10d ago

Read a story once where a guy did that and the valve shot out like a rocket, @angela_dixon. Some lessons are learned the hard way.