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Hi Kawasaki,
I used to service Freds Cobe/Stockert heart lung machines when I first moved over to The Dark Side,great guy,I enjoyed going there.
ATB
Chris

When was that then Chris? Did you work for Cobe with Andy Mosson?

Kawasaki,
Yes I left the NHS after about 10 years service in 1985 and worked for Andy, first as a tech before going into sales at COBE.

Hi Chris
I left the NHS in 1978 after 7 years service and joined Cobe when it first started as their first technician looking after the Cobe/Stockert Heart-Lung machines and the Centry 2 dialysis machines. Andy Mosson joined me at the end of 1978 when we moved the service facility from my spare room to Chancel Close in Gloucester. I left in 1980 to go into sales with B.Braun and then Pall Medical.
I think our paths must have crossed somewhere along the line.

Kawasaki,
I think my mate Bob Brown must have got your job when you left,I got his when he subsequently left,small world isn't it !!!

Just had a funny job at work,

I was asked to have a quick look at a leak on the oxygen at a bed head.

Went to the bed head and there was a hissing noise, i disconnected the flowmeter and it was still hissing.

I disconnected the suction and it still hissed.


So i turned the volumme down on the radio and fixed the problem.

Lee

A hemodialysis nurse just asked me why some connectors are referred to as male or female. I told her because they are anatomically correct. She then said that she thought that was sexist. I am still laughing.

Did she offer any alternative terminology?

"Terminology"! :lol:

very good!

Ok...I'll get my coat.

We had a customer send us a heat sealer for repair. It was an Atrapac Steribar 2 and about 25 years old. It had caught fire overnight and set off the department's fire detection system. Anything, which could burn, did burn for the 35 minutes it was alight for.

The heater bars are brass composite and had begun to melt.

The customer asked for a repair quotation, and was deadly serious.

A week or two ago I came upon this attached to a patient monitor "parked" in the corridor of one of our hospitals. I'm sure we have all seen fine examples of this sort of thing

(BTW, TFMS is the facilities job system not the biomed one so they would have logged the job in the wrong place anyway )