From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V7 #150 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Friday, August 2 2002 Volume 07 : Number 150 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: Another pic and a saga (OT) [ Subject: Alloy: Another pic and a saga (OT) Hi all, sorry I haven't been contributing much recently. I've been busy, busy, busy. But I thought you might like to see what my office building looks like right now. You may know that Manchester is hosting the Commonwealth Games. Our landlords were approached by someone on the city council about putting up a very large poster, advertsising the games, on the end of our building, facing out into the newly refurbished Piccadilly Gardens. The first we knew about it was when there was a lot of drilling going on, which turned out to be guys in bosun's chairs, putting bolts into the walls outside to attach the thing. Then the poster appeared. I say 'poster' but it's made of some canvas type material and it covers almost the whole side of the building, as you will see. Unfortunately, it covers the air conditioning vents in my server room, and the AC unit couldn't cope with the restricted air flow, and tripped over night mid-week a couple of weeks ago. I was actually on leave at the time, but got a panic call from my co-manager asking if I knew the contact for serviceing the AC unit, as the temp in the server room was hovering around 30 degrees, and the servers and phone switchgear are likely to trip at about 32 degrees. There followed a row with the landlords about lack of consultation, and they called in the poster contractors to cut a hole in the poster to allow the air to flow into and out of the vents. When I got back the following Monday there was still no hole in the poster and we had some portable AC units in the server room, but with nowhere to vent them they weren't really doing a lot of good. The poster guys turned up and cut a hole, supposedly around our vents, but the AC unit tripped every time we reset it. We got the AC engineer in, and he had a look from outside and saw that they'd cut the hole too high, so only half the vents were exposed. Also, the electrical plant room on the floor below was pumping out warm air which was being deflected off the back of the poster into our cold air intake. So the poster guys came back and had to make the hole bigger. We reset the AC unit again, but the room was so hot that it tripped by trying too hard to bring the temp down. Luckily we had a cooler night and it was able to cope the following day. And now, the point of the story. If you look at my pic site again (http://community.webshots.com/user/bhargreaves) and look at the last pic in the 'Off to work' section, entitles 'CG poster and Fountains' you can see the poster and the new fountains in Piccadilly that is often full of kids getting completely soaked. If you look at the poster, you can see where they've cut the hole, which is right under the athlete's leading foot and between the upraised arms of the central figure on the logo. It's been cleverly cut at an angle underneath so as to make it less obvious. Bill PS Sorry about the iffy quality, it's scanned in from our local newspaper. ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V7 #150 ***************************