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Re: Stuff and Nonsense
By: prof-pat-pending Date: July 3, 2013, 3:33 pm
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keep them comming :thumbs: :thumbs:
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Re: Stuff and Nonsense
By: SteamPunk Date: July 20, 2013, 1:11 pm
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HTML http://www.azprocede.fr/Schema_GC/picture.php?/874/categories
My next four months. We get full time Inmarsat so you won't get
rid of me. >rcker<
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Re: Stuff and Nonsense
By: Calum Date: July 20, 2013, 4:14 pm
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Superb! Lovely machinery and good to see it cared for.
This is being restored just down the road from me (which being
steam, is fantastic!!). The boiler house and engine house were
spared from demolition when the rest of the site was flattened
for new "town houses" or whatever they call those very small
houses with a garage large enough for the wheelie bin. Either
way, glad it (and the chimney) survived and are being restored
back to their former state!
HTML http://s0.geograph.org.uk/photos/52/81/528153_c76c467c.jpg
Two clips of it running in the 70s just before closure:
HTML http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Kkxy624yUQ
HTML http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqptTMCSNu0
Hopefully I'll try and get down for a nosey of my own soon....
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Re: Stuff and Nonsense
By: SteamPunk Date: July 20, 2013, 4:52 pm
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That looks dead smart :) These mill engines are non-existent in
my part of the world :(. I will have to get some phots of the
Beam Engine on here to try and compete :thumbs:
'Our' engine is owned and operated by the council museum
service, so funding is at zero level and volunteers are rare
because they try and treat them like employees. ('we need you in
the dickens birthplace museum this weekend' I like the books
but, well, fuck off.)
In my line of work I really ought to get my arse onto the
Shieldhall :)
How this for impressive though. . .
HTML http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.shipsnostalgia.com%2Fguides%2FWilliam_Doxford_and_Sons%23The_Manufacturing_Process&h=GAQHbTt1p
Ho Hum, Once we were men. . . . :-\
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Re: Stuff and Nonsense
By: Calum Date: July 20, 2013, 5:55 pm
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Haven't seen that page in a long time! Fantastic shots. Makes
some of the stuff we do at work look like toys.
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Re: Stuff and Nonsense
By: SteamPunk Date: July 21, 2013, 3:41 am
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There is an absolutely fantastic apprentice model of one on
Doxford's opposed piston diesels in the workshops at Warsash
maritime academy, it really is something. But to look at those
pictures I would have said they were taken between the wars, not
approaching the 60's. They must already have been suffering from
a lack of cash. Most of the older Chiefs I come across seem to
remember the engines with fondness, although how much
rose-tinted nostalgia is at work here I couldn't say ::)
Apparently there are still a few Doxfords out there pushing
ships around.
Calum, do you still get to enjoy a job which involves
making/mending things? :)
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Re: Stuff and Nonsense
By: Calum Date: July 21, 2013, 3:46 pm
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Indeed! I am fortunate enough to do something I enjoy for a
living. I work at a locomotive engineers. We restore and
maintain steam locomotives!
As for the Doxford photos, I reckon they are post-war. The
machines look 40s/50s to me. Being a bit of a nerd when it comes
to engineering machinery, I can see on the photograph that shows
a large bank of lathes (just after the plumbing shop) a Dean
Smith & Grace round-topped lathe in the bottom right, probably a
Type 17 by the looks of the size and the control layout on the
headstock. On the bottom left of the photograph is the reverse
of another DSG, probably a Type 15. I don't think these sort of
lathes were even manufactured until the 40s at least.
[/anorak off]
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Re: Stuff and Nonsense
By: SteamPunk Date: February 1, 2016, 1:02 pm
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Can you guess what it is yet? :smilewide:
[URL=
HTML http://s1318.photobucket.com/user/R_Kane/media/20151202_221156_zpsfhtp3g6m.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1318.photobucket.com/albums/t655/R_Kane/20151202_221156_zpsfhtp3g6m.jpg[/img][/URL]
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Re: Stuff and Nonsense
By: strang Date: February 1, 2016, 2:23 pm
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A model trench whacker?
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Re: Stuff and Nonsense
By: Peter de Dawg Date: February 1, 2016, 2:34 pm
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In Kent..Crossness pumping station is worth checking out. It's
run by a confederation or enthusiasts and the like ( or was )
I did a bit of welding for 'em years ago, it's fuckin massive.
The few times I had access I could just wander about freely,
....oddly rather than the luvly steam stuff, the bit that
fascinated me was a truly enormous chamber that went into the
bowels of the earth and contained some of the biggest diesel
engines I'd ever seen, dating from 1918 or something as I
recall.
..they were all derelict unfortunately and the whole chamber had
been pumped full of slurry, subsequently dug out again, when
decommissioned, doubtless still well worth a visit, though you
prob have to walk round with some boring dick these days
:toothless:
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