The north-east work adventure – Tezpur

Day 15 – 5th March 2020

Was awake by 6.15 am. And a breakfast tray came in at 730. A fully laden tray, did not want to fight with the jam again so just had puri bhaji, fruit and some really bad tea again!

Left my phone in the room, and head downstairs to the car by 830.

We reached the gate, and again there was task of getting in at the gate. For some reason they would not allow the taxi in to stay with us till the time we finished our work. Angshuman was able to get permission to get us dropped at the site, and then decided to keep the driver in only and see what happens.

We were at the site by 9.30am. I was very hopeful that we would be able to show them all the equipments and be done by 3pm. If so, we could leave for Guwahati by 5 and be there by 10 pm

The drama started with the air compressor commissioning. The forklift was loaded with the compressor and taken to another building along with the weldng transformer as they didn’t have 3 phase power at the original location.

We wired it up and ready to show it to the person assigned to certify it

The rule is that the person who verifies the installation is correct should not be a user or a person of the same section.

So the guy who was certifying has no idea about the products at all.

He brought with him the entire Workshop to understand the compressor and 15 people kept coming and going asking the same questions and the same doubts. A 15 minute installation took 60 mins!!

Then came the welding machine. They wanted us to weld a nut onto the drain nut of their vehicle, and do that job,v which will work as a demo as well. The brought the vehicle and then none of them knew how to weld. Neither did we. Another round of discussions as to how to do it, where to do it and who would do it.

Finally they decided no one could do it, so they asked us to just show then that is working by welding a tmt bar together.

By this time the compressor was taken back to the old location and placed where a 3 please connection would be provided.

By the time we finished the demo of the welding machine they cut the power to the location citing working on the 3 phase power line.

Now we had no power to run the drill to fix anything, nor power to run the car washer or any other machine.

We had asked for the rest of the items that were missing from the car washer accessories that we had supplied and the impact wrench and drill machines etc.

Along with Anshuman, J and I went hunting for these items in a 3rd building. No sign of the boxes at all.

Had chai and samosa for a break at this new building and headed back to the site.

There, one of the users related having seen the material with one, Sandeep.

He remarked he had kept them safe in the store of the original site

We found most of them material here, except for the hose for the sandstorm machine

There were 3 DG set in the site, but none of them were working. Then finally they had a bright idea of using the generators on one of their airforce vehicles.

We found the tire inflator by the time Power was arranged and J fit it in the wall. There was another discussion before that as to where the inflator would sit.

The grease bucket was in another building which we brought to the site by wheeling it across.

Then there was the debate of how to get water to show the car washer and the submersible pump. We convinced then to give us water in water tank and we will do the rest

It was 2.30pm and Angshuman was pleading with us to get some lunch as we will not get good after 3pm

While we were intent on finishing everything today but we had to eat as well. The driver too was waiting for us. We finally, reluctantly left to eat at the mess

By 4pm we showed them how the car washer worked by getting power from the mobile DG and water from the tank.

The tyre inflator to our bad luck had a leaky connection and it took 40 mins for j and y to get a new hose in place. But soon that too was demonstrated to everyone’s satisfaction.

The diesel pump from mieco was next and we were lucky, that post lunch there were only 2-3 people who were assigned to be waiting for the demo to complete

The sandstorm machine hose and placement of vice and grinder were the only two things pending for tomorrow

Another day in Tezpur!!!!

We headed back to the hotel, all of us were exhausted. Y had a slight fever as well. We dropped off Y to the hotel to rest while J, Angshuman and I went to hunt for hose for the sanding machine.

On visiting 5-6 s shops in the city, We got some pipe fittings but were unable to get the required hose. J figured a jugaad idea that should work tomorrow with the fittings we had

Reached the hotel and bought half a bottle of McD for Jayaram and half an old monk bottle as well. Got Angshuman to join us for drinks and chit chat to Y and J room.

Had veg chowmein for dinner and slept by 11pm

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