Start an engine with a 12ga round.

[Cooter]

everything we messed with had filters, driers, and oilers on the starter circuit

honestly never had a single starter issue the whole time I was there

[YALE]

I hated all starters on compressors. Air starters were always rusted, clogged with salt, or slugged with water. Electrical starters always had some jack ass operator running the batteries down or managing to melt all the cables and batteries. The classic response was always "I only hit the button for 5 seconds".
I did like the sound of 35000 and 3600 cats.

Do you think you might've been working for shit tier companies, or is that just oilfield operators in general? Anyone else?

[stephen4785]

Do you think you might've been working for shit tier companies, or is that just oilfield operators in general? Anyone else?

Thats just operators in general. We had Devon and XTO contracts and it still didnt matter.

[stephen4785]

everything we messed with had filters, driers, and oilers on the starter circuit

honestly never had a single starter issue the whole time I was there

The bigger stuff was fine but the small hp was a nightmare. The only problem I ever had with the large hp was a few operators figured out where the manual start button was on the start solenoid and they would jog the starter before it stopped causing the nose gear to split in half.

[stephen4785]

Do you think you might've been working for shit tier companies, or is that just oilfield operators in general? Anyone else?

Iv had operators/pumpers do some crazy stuff to equipment. Iv had one back into the running compressor and knock the control panel off the unit. Control panels are bolted down pretty solid so to knock one off you have to be going pretty fast. I got called out several different times for a unit not starting only to find out that the operator turned off the gas to the unit. These compressors have giant coolers on them to cool down the gas after its compressed and louvers to shut to keep the gas warm during the winter. For some reason some operators decide to shut these louvers at random times and then wonder how come the unit keeps shutting down on high discharge temps. One night in particular it was in the middle of July and around 80f @ 2am. The operator was worried it was gonna ice up even though it hadnt had any issues. It shuts down on high temp and he calls it in @ 3am. He had no clue why it shut down.
And the list goes on and on.

[Magnimike1]

Lol....