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You lot of sick'os remind me of a poem I had to recite at a charity event one night.

Took me ages to learn but once learned I have never forgotten it

Won't bore you with it all but some may remember the great Stanley Holloway:-

I've been very poorly, but now I feel fine.

I went out yesterday for the very first time.

I felt like a lad as i strode down the road.

Then up came old Jones & he said " Well I am blowed"

"My word you do look queer, My word you do look queer"

I said " Don't say that , Its true I've been ill"

He said " I glad you are better but still, I wish there was a thousand for me in your will"

My word you do look queer. My word you do look queer"

Edited By Sam Longley 1 on 13/09/2016 16:06:49

Ok. I made the comment because many people just send an email & then complain of no reply. My experience of emails is that they often get lost in the wash & a simple phone call often solves the problem. Clearly, in this case, that did not work either

Have you tried picking the phone up & calling them ??

Just sailed the boat back from a 34 day holiday in belgium including an 8 day cruise into Holland to Middleburgh, Veere, Zerikzee & Breskens.

Whilst model engineering one often gets a minor burn from hot metal, solder etc. I had a slightly different burn. Whilst sailing in the Veersemere we hoisted the cruising chute which is 64 M2 ( enough to carpet a small single bed flat !!!). A Gust of wind hit us & my crew was helming. He should have turned down wind to make the boat more stable but being inexperienced he did not we took the wind broadside & the decks went awash so I had to let the sheets off a bit sharpish as he started to panic. Unfortunately I slipped & having no lifejacket & not being clipped on i found it difficult to let go of the rope quick enough. In the split second it ran through my hand I had a rope burn & the picture shows the result. I have been sailing for years & have always managed to avoid this. Not this time. They have started to heal fairly quickly & this photo is taken 7 days after the event

The trip back started Ok with a lovely 7kt reach in warm sunshine but the forecast 5-10 kts winds from the Longsand head along the Gunfleet windfarm turned into 20-30kts on the nose & we had 2metre swell & breaking seas for 9 hours. We arrived at Bradwell creek in the pitch black at 03-00 hours after 17 hours totally knackered. They view of the stars at night was great & we did see a few shooting stars.

Overall a great holiday & the end to 11 weeks of cruising for me which has included the Channel islands Normandy & as far as Treguier

So now I am back to my workshop & a bit of model making. Will it hurt if I get swarf in the cuts???????

Edited By Sam Longley 1 on 10/09/2016 19:26:23

Thanks

Hydro electric usually runs on fresh water so the turbine blades have a different marine growth to deal with & i believe that they run quite fast thus throwing anything off before it can fasten itself to the blade

What will be a problem with tidal systems is the gradual build up of marine growth. These turbines run fairly slow so will not shed the slime etc once weed gets a foot hold it will greatly affect performance. This will happen mostly during neap tides.

There are no antifoulling systems currently invented that are safe for the environment that can be used & whilst the designers may have considered this i am sure it will be a major problem

Applogies for going off thread here but it is being suggested that running slow puts a higher load on a variable speed motor- is that correct?

I ask because on my warco 250mv i usually start on slow speed, build up to speed i want then start the cut.

It would seem from the comments above that may not be a good thing on variable speed lathes and that having selected a speed i should stay with it & not keep going back to slow speed and back up again every time i stop

Edited By Sam Longley 1 on 30/08/2016 07:51:18

I always thought it was meant to indicate shouting!!

But clearly the joke has fallen on deaf ears

SHOULD WE TYPE ALL REPLIES IN UPPER CASE FOR ALL THE POOR OLD DUFFERS WITH HEARING PROBLEMS?

I will get my coat

Edited By Sam Longley 1 on 23/08/2016 15:44:45

& i suppose you are one of those poor sad old fells that RTFM before buggering it up.

It is what being a bloke is all about----- especially if the wife is watching!!

Definitely lacking in testosterone

Edited By Sam Longley 1 on 22/08/2016 13:14:33

Edited By Sam Longley 1 on 22/08/2016 13:16:10

Can you imagine the carnage as they all drove aroung holding their iphones up in front of their faces with the latest app showing a 10 second stop watch as they overtook & videoing it on facebook/twitter as they did it to tell their friends that they had just scored 14889 points in an overtaking manover

Edited By Sam Longley 1 on 22/08/2016 11:49:35

Now you are just being b..y sensible. Have to stop that at once

Edited By Sam Longley 1 on 22/08/2016 07:59:26

How would they deliver your 12 mm milling cutter with their 40 ft artic down your street other than between 11pm &. 1 am when all the cars are parked in it? Then knock you up at midnight to sign for it . Then knock you up to collect it when you find they have sent half inch not 12mm

Edited By Sam Longley 1 on 22/08/2016 07:58:11

Have you considered the practice perfectly safe but that it might just be the moronic drivers who are not safe.

Mind you i do sometimes wonder why horse riders cannot just go & gallop round a field instead

Edited By Sam Longley 1 on 21/08/2016 20:25:15

That is a good idea --- a curfew--- nothing like a good old fashioned police state mr Putin,

If we had this police state would we still be allowed this forum or would the moderators chop our hands off first & ban women from looking at computers

Seems the most toxic things might be other people rather than chemicals!!

I would like to ban people who oppose proper free speach as in what you really think rather than what is politically correct or what might upset some liberal t..t

Having had a joinery business for 25 years i used most of the many machines myself but the one i hated was the spindle moulder. These can be bought as part of universal woodworker machines or even stand alone ones for hobby use & unless training is given they are extremely dangerous. I saw my fathers foreman loose 3 fingers & it was horendous. I employed several machinists who had lost digits in saws & spindle moulders

Spindle moulders should not be sold without evidence of training

Edited By Sam Longley 1 on 21/08/2016 07:48:50

Years ago my father won a contract for the bata shoe factory in tilbury to renew the steel supporting the asbestos roof over their chromadising plant. The steel purlins had corroded due to acid fumes & had to be replaced so contract was to replace the steel. They thought he would also replace the roof but he saved money ( & made a tidy profit) by raising the roof & sliding the steel out bit by bit & replacing. Then lowering the roof onto the steel & re fixing the hook bolts.

All done by me and a gang over a holiday. So we worked over an asbestos roof over some 2ft deep tanks that had some 9mm ply sheets over them supported randomly by 3x2 timbers. We were 25 ft above on the asbestos a couple of hammers had dropped through & disappeared into the baths between the gaps in the unfixed plywood

After the job was done & the management were inspecting they started to have the covering removed. I asked what was in the tanks. "Oh they are the acid baths for dipping prior to chromadising"

So much for H & S 45 years ago

Edited By Sam Longley 1 on 20/08/2016 16:43:13