Member postings for J Hancock

Time to buy a portable generator ?

News today EDF closing Dungeness B , now, seven years before planned.

But, Hinkley C will be up and running in 2026 .

Bets anyone ?

If you visit a decent electrical distributor , you should be able to buy a two-pack self-setting hard rubber compound that would do that job perfectly.

The question I would like to ask, to all of those who sacrificed their lives for our 'today' , is this.

For what we are today , would you do it again ?

Remember it well , we used to tell the relatives we were living in Cabbagewater , they only came once and understood why the name !

My email address is filling up with notices of every new topic raised on this forum .

Where can I unsubscribe this feature ?

Read Andrew Moyes explanation. Gets my vote for problem you have.

Ah, long gone happy days , all the sons learned to swim at Street and I learned how to eat meatless streaky bacon and tinned tomatoes every morning in a TNPG Nissen hut.

Fire hazard ?

Plastic pipe would fail and over pressure would be relieved by safety valve.

BUT BD got Bridgwater right , not many know that.

So far behind schedule I hear they are employing 1700 'extra' people to speed things up.

1700 x £50,000 = £85,000,000/p.a.

And we need at least another six like this to replace those to be taken out of service soon.

That is very good.

Just be aware though , that over time , water will get to contain more and more rust and perhaps block the ' overhead' route.

A direct blowdown now and then , just to check, is fine.

I'm guessing they broke when the chuck was holding stuff at near maximum diameter ?

With your large compressor , just make sure the air is 'dry' before starting to spray !

As I'm sure many on this forum experienced, until the 'powers that be' , were given the 'one off' present of unlimited oil+gas revenues to squander in the 1970's , we all worked in industries that were starved of investment and still running with 'pre-war' equipment that needed every replacement part to be made in-house. Pipes were rotated top to bottom , boiler tubes plugged, 'waste' did not exist.

Once the oil/gas money started to flow , we died.

Zinc and welding , no, no , no.

I think that Zinc is 'alloyed' below the surface you believe to be clean.

Or , as my old woodwork teacher used to say , " Engineers have to work to within ' a thou ', carpenters have to

be exact."

I 'get' the method now , thank you.

Combine that with a 'triac' plus comms device to switch it 'off' ,' or similar , and you remotely have the means to control the consumers supply. Nice.

Glad I wrote , I don't want my meter' replaced.

I am pre-solid state so can someone please enlighten me how these work ?

A 'computation' of volts x amps x power factor via a disc driven by a magnetic field , je comprend.

Via 'solid state' , I do not.

No details of 'how' can be found on the internet.

I presume they are 'solid state' so that they can be turned off by 5G control, as and when required ?

Don't worry, leave it to SAGE and the politicians , they'll sort it , like they have Covid.

If the hydrogen is derived from the constituent parts of water then no, all should be in equilibrium.

But, if derived by stripping it from a hydrocarbon somehow , then yes, we will all be gasping for 'air'.,like now.