Re: ANSUL system?
Fresh out of high school I was a manager at Wendy's. I was on the team of managers that opened a new store, complete with all the whistles and bells. Instead of the normal electric kitchen equipment, the whole place was gas. When we finally opened for business, we got a walkthrough of the store and it's features. One impressive feature was the Emergency Stop Button for the entire kitchen area. If there was ever a problem, hit that button to kill the entire kitchen, problem solved. There was even a valve that shut off the gas.
Circumstances worked against me, and a series of events compounded one slow evening, when I decided to pull the chili stove and clean behind it. I reached back, unplugged the quick-release gas supply hose and was rewarded by an ear-piercing shriek which sent me startled, tripping over the grill. By the time I got my bearings, the miss-installed quick release valve vented enough gas to ignite from the pilot of the fryer beside it, resulting in a very impressive bonfire behind an expensive piece of equipment!
Oh yeah!
The emergency stop button! I jumped over, hit the big red button, and was rewarded with the quiet click of the clocks on the fryers shutting off. Unfortunately, the emergency shut-off valve for the gas was never hooked into the E-stop. Oops.
When the fire was extinguished, my friend hopped behind the chili stove, gas line in hand, hand over the end, and asked in a suprisingly collected tone, "Where does this go?"
[ December 26, 2004, 06:28 PM: Message edited by: georgestolz ]