Where’s the kettle?

Where’s the kettle?

This topic has 7 replies, 4 voices, and was last updated 22 October 2019 at 06:38 by Speedy Builder5.

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21 October 2019 at 13:25 #434169
David Capewell
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Hi all,

I work as a maintenance engineer in the rural energy sector and am interested in all things mechanical, machines, casting or anything that’s taken time and effort to build or maintain……
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21 October 2019 at 13:25 #40641
David Capewell
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21 October 2019 at 16:38 #434186
Phil Whitley
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Hi David, welcome to the forum, your interests match mine almost exatly, I had many happy years in electrical engineering. Enjoy!

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21 October 2019 at 16:52 #434193
David Capewell
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Hi Phil,

I'm no electrical engineer, I would have already retired if I was at that pay grade I run a small maintenance/ installation company specialising in a specific biomass drier. Dirty work that has me upside down replacing bearings and shafts!!
21 October 2019 at 17:18 #434206
Phil Whitley
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Well I have installed a few grain dryers in my time, in the first year of my apprenticeship (1967), the company I worked for installed 24! Biomass dryer? is that for burning, pelleting or digesting? tell me more!
21 October 2019 at 21:52 #434233
Neil Wyatt
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Welcome to the forum David,

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21 October 2019 at 22:44 #434246
David Capewell
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I say biomass driers but that’s not strictly true. Some of my customers dry waste plastic that goes for pyrolysis but 95% of the driers are used for woodchip, sawdust, paper mulch and digestate. In this country it’s linked in with the ‘renewable heat incentive’ so most driers are heated using CHP heat or woodchip boilers. I have one customer who heats his drier using a huge steam boiler. It’s about 12ft high!!
22 October 2019 at 06:38 #434257
Speedy Builder5
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Once or twice I have been asked to mend one of those toilet digester things and have to say that I don't understand them !!
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