Sabotage

Steve Frazier

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I'm a department supervisor at one of the local towns as my day job and my best buddy is the chief mechanic at the highway garage. They have a 4 year old Vactor that had started to run extremely hot during our recent heat wave. It has a separate engine to run all the pumps for the Vactor unit and this was the one running hot. My buddy traced the problem to the radiator and found it was only transferring heat at the outer edges of the core using a infrared thermometer. He pulled the aluminum radiator and cut one tank off and found the majority of the core was plugged with what looked like epoxy. It appears someone dumped epoxy into the coolant sometime between now and last summer and it adhered to just the aluminum. The radiator is unique to the machine and cost $3400 to replace! There's probably no way to determine who is responsible for the damage.
 

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Your story brings back a memory of an incident.----A friend that worked at Boeing in the early eighties told me about a scary incident that happened on the 757 lineup.
He arrived to work only to be ushered in to a huge room with the rest of the employees that worked that shift. They were confronted by top Boeing brass, FBI and
Federal Aviation officials. They were told that all of their side cutters were being collected and tested.

One of the inspectors on the previous shift found wiring that had been purposely damaged by someone partially cutting wiring. They brought in a forensic team and
found a pair of side cutters that matched up with the cut marks on the wires. The fellow who did it was pissed because he was passed over twice for promotion.
People!!!-------greed and power. And Boeing never went public with the story.

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