May be worth watching?

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

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.

[jason udallParticipant @jasonudall57142]

Thanks for the headsup..those two are at least watchable..lets keep fingers crossed for content

[Geoff RogersParticipant @geoffrogers81118]

thanks JasonB

lets hope it has more focus on the content rather than the presenters.

[Kevin FParticipant @kevinf]

I'm watching it

[jason udallParticipant @jasonudall57142]

Shallow but entertaining

[Russell EberhardtParticipant @russelleberhardt48058]

Anyone else notice that the governor was not connected on the beam engine they were running?

Russell.

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

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

[jason udallParticipant @jasonudall57142]

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

[RobboParticipant @robbo]

"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.

[Gordon WassParticipant @gordonwass]

2 fat hairy Geordies pissing about with a spanner , sounds like me serving my time ( except I'm not fat).

[Geoff RogersParticipant @geoffrogers81118]

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.

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

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

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

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.

[JoParticipant @jo]

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

[JoParticipant @jo]

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

[OH CHUFF!Participant @ohchuff]

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.

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Just watched "Metal" … glad we recorded it; I think it's a "keeper".

MichaelG.

[Roderick JenkinsParticipant @roderickjenkins93242]

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

[OuBallieParticipant @ouballie]

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.

[OuBallieParticipant @ouballie]

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.

[Cornish JackParticipant @cornishjack]

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

[OuBallieParticipant @ouballie]

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!

[RobboParticipant @robbo]

"Metal" – now you're talking, that's a real programme for grown-ups. Four star value.

Phil

[Gray62Participant @gray62]

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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