May be worth watching?

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8 August 2013 at 08:20 #22755
JasonB
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8 August 2013 at 08:20 #126436
JasonB
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Saw a trailer for this yesterday, bit of stationary steam, traction engines, locos , etc. I will have a look at the first one to see what its like.
8 August 2013 at 08:37 #126437
jason udall
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Thanks for the headsup..those two are at least watchable..lets keep fingers crossed for content
8 August 2013 at 09:49 #126444
Geoff Rogers
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thanks JasonB

lets hope it has more focus on the content rather than the presenters.
11 August 2013 at 21:45 #126743
Kevin F
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I'm watching it
11 August 2013 at 22:29 #126745
jason udall
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Shallow but entertaining
12 August 2013 at 07:53 #126758
Russell Eberhardt
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Anyone else notice that the governor was not connected on the beam engine they were running?

Russell.
12 August 2013 at 08:01 #126759
JasonB
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I also wonder if that was the first time that boiler had been fired foir 60yrs, I think they would have had the boiler inspector round beforehand.

Also the first time I've heard the term "Barn Engine" used before? were they different those used in mills and factories!!

J
12 August 2013 at 09:06 #126765
jason udall
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Also noticed ..when fitting the exhaust. ..who sorted out the misalignment about one bolt dia ?…then as if by magic…
Aw well.Still better than most
12 August 2013 at 09:32 #126770
Robbo
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"Barn engines" are smaller stationary engines, though sometimes mounted on wheels. I think the term originated in the US.

Programme was the usual "Ooh look at me with a spanner", 2 fat hairy Geordies pissing about basically.

But the one with glasses could be useful, you could use his hair to grease axles.

Hopefully it will get some publicity for the restoration projects and lead to some (usually much-needed) income for them.
12 August 2013 at 10:49 #126781
Gordon Wass
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2 fat hairy Geordies pissing about with a spanner , sounds like me serving my time ( except I'm not fat).
12 August 2013 at 11:36 #126783
Geoff Rogers
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I found the programme as expected, but it was interesting.

I now know that mine winding engines have a connector rod rather than a connecting rod – so I learnt something.

The rivets on the 'barn engine' boiler looked nice and shiny so it must have been ok, unless it was a dummy end of course.
12 August 2013 at 12:36 #126787
JasonB
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Well I have come to the conclusion that "Barn Engines" are specific to Hollycombe. If you put "barn Engine" into google the only steam ones that come up are at Hollycombe, there are the odd old hit and miss engines but I expect Google is throwing them up due to a combination of "barn find" and "engine"

Also the engine featured worked in a tannery as part of its past life, was it a barn engine then?

J

Edited By JasonB on 12/08/2013 12:38:37
12 August 2013 at 12:53 #126789
Bazyle
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ME had a design for a 'dairy engine' about 20 years ago as asmall steam engine on wheels. I would associate 'barn engine' with IC engines as there was probably a reluctance to run a steam plant in a barn.
12 August 2013 at 14:19 #126798
Jo
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Sounds like they are using that term because Hollycombe have it running farm equipment and they need something to differentiate it from their other steam engines. Around that time you could purchase similar small beam engines from many suppliers for a relatively modest cost in comparison with other types of steam engine and hook it up to what ever you fancied. From about the 1840's most farms would have purchased portable engines for agricultural use.

As entertainers I wish the two of them would come across a little more natural and not make it sound like they were reading off a script.

One day I should go and visit Hollycombe as it is on my door step .

Jo
12 August 2013 at 18:02 #126813
Jo
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For information the egg ended boiler running the "Tulk & Ley" Beam engine is a modern replica.

The Beam engine was discovered in the Tannery in Whitehaven in 1958 where it had been used to drive line shafting. Newcastle University rebuilt it in 1968. It seems to have had a rod added since its days at Hunday when both the condensor rods and the condensor were missing… It is a cute little thing: 9ft beam, 11" bore 25 1/4" long.

Jo
12 August 2013 at 20:10 #126823
OH CHUFF!
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Don't know if already posted but. BBC4 tonight at 8.pm episode 1 0f 3, Metal, how it works. Presented by a scientist chappie so no ooohs and aaahs.
12 August 2013 at 21:48 #126828
Michael Gilligan
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Just watched "Metal" … glad we recorded it; I think it's a "keeper".

MichaelG.
12 August 2013 at 22:04 #126829
Roderick Jenkins
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Good to see it again. The use of a pigtail to choose a single crystal on a turbine has always struck me as being an amazing bit of lateral thinking.

Rod
13 August 2013 at 12:30 #126855
OuBallie
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Thanks JasonB and MichaelG for the heads up.

Will be watching them tonight on BBC iPlayer.

I don't watch live TV, so can't record.

Geoff – Girding ones loins to do battle with the stick welder.
14 August 2013 at 09:14 #126911
OuBallie
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Watched 'Metal' last night.

Now I knew RR made their turbine blades from a single crystal, but not how that crystal was grown.

Seeing metal 'moving' when viewed with that super microscope had me sitting up! Flipping heck.

Facinating, and the presenter was actually interested in presenting

Well done BBC.

Geoff – As expected, my stick welding is abysmal.
14 August 2013 at 11:12 #126915
Cornish Jack
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Also watched 'Metal' and enjoyed the tech content, but Oh! the camera work!!!

Were I able to, I would nail the director, cameraman/men and editor by their ears to a vertical board and make them watch 'Rififi' for a week until they learned the value of STATIC camera work! The constant micro second shots and idiotic, unstable panning made my eyes hurt and spoiled a potentially interesting programme. Seems to go with the territory nowadays.

Exit left, ranting.

Rgds

Bill
14 August 2013 at 11:23 #126917
OuBallie
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The modern world we live in Bill.

There MUST be continuous action, no matter what.

Didn't bother me for once this time though.

Geoff – Gardening GRRRR I've got better things to do!
14 August 2013 at 19:15 #126939
Robbo
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"Metal" – now you're talking, that's a real programme for grown-ups. Four star value.

Phil
14 August 2013 at 19:45 #126940
Gray62
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Thoroughly enjoyable, took me right back to my days working at the Redcar Iron and Lackenby BOS (Basic Oxygen Steelmaking) works.

The Bessemer process was tought in college as the forrunner to the BOS method used at Lackenby
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