Last night, the Supervisor, mandore and boiler man came to my quarters around 1 a.m. They told me that the mill operation has already being ceased due to the leaking of the John Thompson boiler tubes were very bad. They can't rise up the pressure of the boiler more than 150 psi. They already tried to continue the mill operation by supporting with 2 units generator set but failed to fulfill the power requirement.
I asked them "Why can't...last two hours can run what..?” Then my boiler man, Suresh replied in tamil-ay (malay + tamil ) " Itu ayor sudah manyak keluar,.mula-mula satu, lepas tu dua..sekarang hujan sudah mari la tuan!!" I understood what he was trying to explain. So, I said to him "Okaylah, All of you go back to the mill and arrange whatever necessary jobs, I’ll be there a couple of minutes".
I changed my dress and straightly went to the boiler house. Suresh began to show me the leaking area of the boiler. Surprisingly, what he mentioned to me about "air hujan sudah mari" is exactly true.
Actually, I planned to raise up back the pressure of the boiler because maybe they have made a wrong judgment. Anyway, after witnessed the condition of the leaking, I agreed with them.
This morning, our super great engineer, Mr. Sam arrived around 8.00am and shouted at the day shift boiler man, Kumar "Why you all stop the mill?” Then Kumar replied “They stop last night due to the boiler tubes leaking". Mr. Sam not satisfied and asked the boiler man to fire up the boiler again. Kumar referred to me but I said “Let him try first. We see how it will go".
Everybody in the mill knows that Mr. Sam always never respect other people's decision including myself. He can work but can't work as a team mate. May be because he is older, and his service here is longer than me. For me, there is no harm as long as he is doing his jobs.
As expected, he failed in his mission to become a hero today. "Biar Luncai dengan labunya", we prefer to rectify the problems and run the Mechmar boiler.
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