No Wonder Pubic Works has problems

[Hugh R]

Can anyone spot what's wrong with this depiction on a City of Burbank water and power building?

[Puka Puncha]

Needs a bigger turbine?:dunno:

[Jims5543]

Turbine is backwards.

[928ram]

Dunno, looks right to me.

[sammyg2]

UUUGGGGT. Oh I'm sorry, that answer is wrong but please see Jay on your way out for some lovely parting gifts.

It is a volute casing from a centrifugal pump and the direction of rotation (CCW) is correct.

I run a service center that repairs and upgrades large industrial centrifugal pumps (it's part of the 5th largest pump manufactuer in the world). At least I do this week, I turned in my notice last Thursday.

[pbs911]

I was going to say there is a severed arm floating in the public water supply.

[Hugh R]

OK, my mistake. Never mind... Nothing to see here move along.

[Wrecked944]

I was going to say it was because the title of this thread refers to "pubic" works and not "public" works...and while I'm not a doctor, those "pubic" works don't look like any I've ever seen...

[sammyg2]

LOL, if it was a water or steam turbine it would be backwards.
And my pubics work just fine, thank you

What's the last thing you hear before a pubic hair hits the ground?

I crack me up.

[Superman]

It's an understandable misimpression, Hugh. Much like the other gubmint bashing that goes on around here. Most of them get away with it because the "rest of the story" is far more complex than Sammy's simple input here. But it's the same thing. It's so easy to point at an isolated incident and, omitting a substantial part of the story out of ignorance, paint "gubmint" as a bunch of losers who couldn't find their butts in the dark using both hands. since almost nobody knows "the rest of the story," gubmint bashers appear temporarily to be intelligent.

[Hugh R]

Actually, Burbank is a small city with its own water and power. When the electrical deregulation fiasco hit CA, they kept their rates pretty consistent. I'm an equal opportunity basher, if I see something I think is a mistake in the private sector I'd lampoon them as well.