What Did You Do Today 2019

The megadecibel sound systems of rock bands undoubtedly can inflict hearing damage on performers and engineers and you often see hearing protection being used. A full orchestra in all its glory is quite a fearsome spectacle, the sound created seems beyond the tiny figures listed and hearing damage is a concern for members of an orchestra and I believe hearing protection is used by some players especially some in the firing line of some of the more powerful instruments.

Mike

Wasn't the live verses recorded Gilbert Briggs demoing his latest (at the time) speakers? Worked for Leak/Wharfedale and on a sales team demo, saw how many in an audience picked the same speakers over the latest computer optimised some thirty years later. Having said that, most of the audience were "Sold" a pair of empty boxes on a later demo with various speakers covered with black cloths but having a light above them to show which were live at the time.

One of the amusing pastimes at lunchtimes was reading the bovine excreta in the Hi-Fi comics by the "Exspurt" reviewers. Some could detect "Musicality" (something I can hear but you can't) in speakers that were neutral according to the 1,000,000 pound anechoic chamber we tested them in. When asked, I used to say, only thing to take note of when buying a "System" is a record(??0 you know and a pair of clean ears, buy what sounds good to you and spheroids to the critics. Your money, your choice.

Oh yes, and LOUD is good. Think the most ear damage has been done with lugplugs and the volume turned up to drown normal conversation. Tried having a conversation in a pub/café lately? Even those on a table at the side of you SHOUT at each other.

Regards Ian.

Hi, I went to see Wizzard once in our local Corn Hall, which is quite large. This was the loudest band that I ever experienced. I had to move to the back of the hall and it was still too load for me and I had to leave before the end of the performance because it was hurting my ears so much. Status Quo were also quite load but tolerable, they had a few stacks of WEM slave amps on their stage and numerous speakers.

Regards Nick.

I started cutting some spokes for the minnie, i think the angle grinder is going to have to come out to do the rough cuts its too much with a piercing saw. i need to find some tube for the wheels as well.

I had a stress free - i did not take my loco - day at West Shore in Llandudno driving, being a guard and station master on a public running day with the clubs loco.

Passengers were steady in numbers and the weather was mostly dry

A great day out.

Bri

Went to Carrington steam rally today, spent far too much on metal and tools, did get some good deals. A couple new of end mills and new reamers for £1, each but the real result were; Moore & Wright metric/whitworth thread gauge RRP £50 for £8

And a new dovetail cuter for £8

Followed some good advice received on this forum and ground a new HSS lathe tool to turn down slender arbors for a clock restoration project, then tried it out with very satisfying results.

My son spent the weekend with us and I spent the weekend teaching him how to use my mill. We made a replacement sustain block for his Ibanez Edge Pro guitar. The pot-metal original had stripped a couple of threads and I thought it would be a nice experience to make a replacement in brass. We had a good time together deciding setups and machining steps.

Edited By Gary Wooding on 28/05/2019 12:00:10

cursed, mostly.
And after a long, some would say eventful, "Career" in the oilfield, I have many cusswords, in quite a few languages . .
Decided, (usually a mistake) in order to make "Sprag pins" Bronze load carrying pins.
it would be best to make the threaded ends, then hold the pins by the thread to make the taper on the pins.
(having tried to do the taper then tap the threaded end and had limited success )
So, drill and tap some aluminium bar as a holder.
cue "New and shiny" centre drills (from our favourite far east supplier, the one with a "bang"
jeezo, both ends broke. the one in the work and t'other end in the chuck (it slipped)
Finest "chineesium" not a great thing to make bits from . .

Anyhoo, swap ends, drill and tap as planned, insert shiny (but too long) sprag pin and spin it to size
All went well, for seconds and seconds . .
Followed by loud bang leading to a "What the fark was that?!?" look on my face.
oh, ffs . .
nice shiny, if too long, sprag pin now in two pieces . . definitely short enough now, sadly, not fitting anything.
Have tidied up, washed hands and retired to sulk on the 'puter.
And write to complain to another supplier from East of Norfolk about the awful state of the dies they sent me.
(This from a vendor based in a forest . . . a big forest)
Tho it's 3rd party "drop" shipped.
Unused M10 x 1.5 die, absolute poop.
Have written to complain.
As my workmates used to say.
"It may be sh1te"
"But it's cheap sh1te" . . .
or more accurately as my granny used to say . .
"Roy, yer an ejit"
"Buy cheap, buy twice"

Now, where did the wife hide my emergency reserve bottle of whisky? . .

Ah, sounds like one of my days! Bronze is on my hate list and some varieties are far worse than others. Tough, hard, prone to grab and not straightforward to machine at the best of times. I wish I knew an easy way to grip a taper. Swearing at them doesn't work

Dave

Finished and blued up some tee nuts.

I got a text an hour ago to say that after extensive tests my brother has not got prostate cancer 🙂 he's one of the few people in the world who is glad to have prostatitis.

I texted him back "I bet you're glad the doctor put his finger on it" with a suitable medical diagram...

But seriously - forum members over fifty (there must be one or two) don't be shy - grit your teeth and ask your doctor to give you a check, it could save your life.

Neil

Unused? Seriously?

Are you sure it's not a spare window for an OO gauge church?

After 2.5 hours of running and bending over the tender of my locomotive to reach the floor mounted water valves that feed the injectors i decided i had to change the arrangement so that i can sit upright whilst driving.

So i made these which will be fitted inside the tender tank towards the rear of the tender. I have also increased the pipe size in doing so to get a good flow of water to the injectors. On the original pipe set up the injectors would starve of water and start to blow steam out of the exhaust. This always left me panicking that i might not get enough water into the boiler.

Hope fully they will improve the set up.

There 90 degree turn as well so i can now tell how open they are rather than the screw down type.

Ah--- just read your post on Prostrate Neil. I agree, don't delay - go today. I was diagnosed at 52 with the advise that my three sons should start and have tests when they turn 40 - my dad had it too. I am no 61 after having it removed and i am clear. I would have been dead three years ago by rough calculation as mine was very aggressive so i am happy .

GET A PSA TEST DONE - simple blood test, before you have to bend over!!

Brian

Same here Brian / Neil; Having had a cystoscopy last month ( blood in urine ) had bladder check & at the same time asked consultant to check prostrate while he was 'down there' seems all is ok went & had PSA blood the following week... results came back normal so a happy bunny. Still have to get large kidney stone removed though as this caused bloody pee!, scheduled for 11th June … … so another 'been there got the T shirt' episode.

George.

Recently had a bout of Prostatitis which took 8 weeks of antibiotics to clear, have been prone to bladder and prostate issues ever since service doctors messed up my urinary tract when I was in an RAF Hospital back in the 80’s. After the recent problem cleared had a PSA blood test and it was ok, I can’t stress how important it is to check out any prostate problems, my brother in law had to have his prostate removed because of advanced cancer, not an experience I would wish on anyone.

To digress, this morning I decided to put up the shade sail that I have been nagged about now that summer appears to be hear, well at least it is here in the South East. Part of the installation required drilling the side wall of the house to fix a bracket to take one end of the sail, easy I thought get the step stool and stand on that be able to reach no problem, should have moved a large planted container immediately below but I can reach over that, wrong I was leaning in to the wall and the inevitable happened the step stool decided to migrate from under me and I realised that this is not looking good. Gravity took over and I fell onto the patio, on landing I thought well I am still conscious so I haven’t knocked myself out but I had taken a chunk out of one elbow and landed on my back. I suffer from problems with my spine and when I got up this morning I put on my back support because I knew I would be working in the garden, don’t always put it on just when I know that I am going to need support. Having the support on seams to have given a degree of protection to my back, although it is now beginning to get very sore and my shoulders and hips are becoming painful, didn’t let on to the wife how much it hurts, she was busy baking in the kitchen so didn’t see the full extent of the incident. She is threatening that if I am sore in the morning then she will veto my Sunday morning shooting, have to make sure that she doesn’t realise how sore I really am. Moral of the story don’t cut corners it can end up with unwanted consequences.

Dave W

Had a PSA test about a year ago (I am several years into your target group Neil!).

Told us it could be atypically raised if we had been, how should I put it?, lets say - recently active socially in that department!

Mine was 1.25. The story of my life really!!

Glad I had the test done though.

Dragged the wife and kids around a car boot this morning and picked up a bench grinder £18, bottle Jack £4 and some g-clamps £4 for the 3.

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