Document LKD7XpqzM3XnYm9vq7ydLoOQg

George Edwards' Scrapbook WATER WELL PRODUCTION RIPLED BY DOWELL SERVICE Chemical treatment removed retarding scale from equipment . . . reduced cost of waterx A salesman's call the other day .reminded me of this famous poem by V Schwab, President of Schwab & Beatty, Inc: I see that you've quite a big'wad of dough To tell me the things you ink l should know. How your plant is so big, so fine and to strong; And your founder had whiskers so handsomely long. So he started the business In old *92! How tremendously int'resting that Is ... to you. He built up the thing with the blood of his life? (I'll run home like mad, tell that to my wifel) Your machinery's modern and oh! so complete; Your "rep" Is so flawless; your workers so neat. Your motto is "Quality" . . . capital "Q"-- No wonder I'm tired of "your" and of "you." So tell me quick and tell me true (Or else, my love, to hell with you!) Lejj--"how this product camo to be"; More--what the damn thing does for me! Wish every talesman would paste this on the wall, right next to that photo of himself holding his big gest fish. Then he might remember that I won't be one of his catch unless he uses the right bait. Last time I was in New York, Ben Skrotzki on Power told me turbine designers gazed into their cryatat ball recently. What did they see? They said a 400000-kw steam turbine-generator unit is just around the corner. I believe 300,000 kw is lops for size now. That's an awful lot of power to be wrapped up in one package. But I still think it won't look bigger to me than the 500-kw job I started up and cut in when I got my first shift engineer's job at 19. I see where they age tool steel quickly now. `Before precision grinding to 0.00005 in., they as sure permanent accuracy of such gages by putting them through five separate heating-freezing cycles in fairly rapid succession. Temperatures range from plus 1300 F to minus 100 F. That process stabilizes 161 metal in hours, preventing further "growth" that otherwise takes place during first two years in life of precision gages. Wonder what old Sam Simcox would say about this if he were alive? Sam was the best tool designer and lathe hand I ever saw. He claimed he could measure o round shaft diameter and know its site within 0.001 in. with a hand caliper. Here is an engineer's sentence of 39 words, most of which ore wasted: "It is assumed ordinarily that in computations of this character it is desirable to arrange the var ious elements of the problem in the form of a lob ulation in order to insure that ovoidoble errors ore reduced to a minimum." Why not eay: "Moat engineers like to tabulate such data to reduce errors." 'From Giving Power to Words, by Philip W Swain, Editor of Power. If it's true that a picture is worth a thousand words, then it's also true that short sentences are belter than long ones. It's hard to believe natural gas* piped through out our country today, supplies five times as much energy os all our electric-generating plants. Tho first American gas line in 1821 was for street light ing in Fredonia, N. Y. Then in 1891, a 600-psi line was laid between Creentown, Tnd. and Chicago, a distance of about 120 miles. If you think 1821 an early date, the Chinese piped gas for fuel more than 2800 years ago. They used hollowed'out bamboo poles and piped gas to salt vats (or evaporating brine. Engineer j[ywell drilled to a tola) depth of 205 feet into Niagara limestone had declined to 70 gallons of puter per minute--a rate far below its capacity to produce. Needless to say, management was quite j^oncerncd about the increasing costs of its water. Rowell Service was called in to survey the job. First torts showed the pump to be clogged badly with iron deposits; Other tests ahowod the entire well ^stem to be fouled with the same material. fAfter a Dowell acidizing treatment, the well pro duced 230 gallons of water peT minute--its original {opacity! Management was so pleased with theso $3u!u that a program of periodic maintenonco treatments was instituted for all its water and wasto disposal wells and auxiliary equipment. How about your equipment? Is it delivering full capacity for you? If there's any question, call in Dowell for a free estimate. Dowell' is equipped to provide chemical cleaning service--with special truck-mounted tanks, mixers, pumps to prepare and deliver necessary solvents . . . and experienced Dowell engineers to do the job for you. For complete information on how Dowell Service can help solve youT production and maintenance problems, call your nearest Dowell office or write to Dowell, Dept. F-23. Tulsa 1, Oklahoma. Dowell Service % Over 100 Office* to Servo You with Chemical Cleaning for: Soflen Condentert Heal Exchangers Cooling Syttemi Pipe line* Piping Syilem Ooi Wadien Procett Tower* Vi Proceu Equipment Evoporalori Filter Bed* Tank* ^ Chemtca/ Servi'cei for Oil, Got and Water Welti DOWELL INCORPORATED TULSA \, OKLAHOMA