What Did You Do Today (2017)

[duncan webster 1Participant @duncanwebster1]

Posted by robjon44 on 27/06/2017 10:54:53:

If I may hark back to the earlier posts about CO2 cylinders escaping into the wild, a chap that I worked with was in his garden dead heading a few flowers as one does, when he heard a very loud bang & a high pitched scream, fearing his next door neighbour was being murdered he ran round to find that the lady in question had run out of gas in her Sodastream machine & had screwed the new cylinder in cross threaded, upon pressing the button it was ejected from the machine, travelled the length of the kitchen & the threaded brass fitting on the top had gone through a wall tile & embedded its full length into the brick behind! A lucky escape from what could have been a very nasty accident, is it true that the latent vapour pressure in a CO2 cylinder is around 2500psi?

about 880 psi at 22C according to wikipedia. Of course of you heat it up (not a good idea!), the pressure increases

Edited By duncan webster on 27/06/2017 12:18:50

[John Stevenson 1Participant @johnstevenson1]

Yesterday I had to pop into the hospital for a blood test because of this pesky ingrowing toe nail,

Been before a few times but never noticed the sign on the door before.

Sign blown up from a pretty crap camera phone.

Blood Taking Room.

I wonder if Urology has a similar room ??

[Dave SpicerParticipant @davespicer27262]

John, Was one of the nurses a Nurse Leech?

Dave

[Anonymous]

Yesterday I was certified for another year. Civil Aviation Class 2 medical that is, involving a drive to Stansted and back. The doctor told me in no uncertain terms that I need to take pictures of the workshop and of progress on the traction engines next year.

Yesterday afternoon, today and this evening I've been working. So much for the three day week I agreed, although it is better than the Ted Heath variety.

Andrew

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

When I had done 20 years at one employer I got a silver tray (plate) and after 10 years at another I got a voucher for a sort of day out. After 25 years with his employer my vicar laid on a service with a great choral performance and a champagne reception this evening for around 150 people. wheeeeee Hic ! I may have had a glass or two more than my usual half of cider. Now drinking coffee but have to be up at 6am to face the M25.

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by Swarf, Mostly! on 21/06/2017 11:38:00:

A bit off-topic: à propos screens, motorbike rather than car. Someone I knew who had done National Service as a despatch rider, riding the rough bits of Salisbury Plain, was very derogatory about the adoption of windscreens on motorbikes. He said that the screen occupied/obstructed the very space through which he was trained to dive if it became necessary to 'abandon ship'!

I don't know about being trained but my dad nearly ended up on a charge for 'bending her Majesty's property' after doing just that on one of the rough bits of Salisbury plain… fortunately some helpful sappers 'found' some spare bits so he could get on with his job of stopping people driving Sherman tanks across people's front lawns.

Neil

[Harry WilkesParticipant @harrywilkes58467]

I have been needing a bit more storage in the workshop (posh for shed) so yesterday I was forced into going to IKEA and whilst in there I noticed this draw unit link in black, now the wife had a credit note which she kindly said I could use so I purchased one. Today was assembly day the unit was nicely flat packed but would it got together without me loosing my sanity or temper well I have to say how easy it went together it had been well thought out and was assembled before I'd finished my coffee.

H

[Curtis RutterParticipant @curtisrutter61973]

Posted by Andrew Johnston on 27/06/2017 21:18:10:

Yesterday I was certified for another year. Civil Aviation Class 2 medical that is, involving a drive to Stansted and back. The doctor told me in no uncertain terms that I need to take pictures of the workshop and of progress on the traction engines next year.

Yesterday afternoon, today and this evening I've been working. So much for the three day week I agreed, although it is better than the Ted Heath variety.

Andrew

I notice you're cambridge based Andrew, when I move that way in a couple of months going to start my PPL, any recommendations?

[RobboParticipant @robbo]

Harry

Those IKEA drawer units are ideal for storing magazines, I have 2 of them full of my complete collection of Model Engineers' Workshop, plus another in the workshop.

When originally introduced they were sold ready made, with welded joints, nowadays self assembly. This earlier type is my workshop one, a bit sturdier than the modern type.

Edited By Robbo on 30/06/2017 23:44:33

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

I just rescued a 1GB SD card from the jaws of Doom (Doom being a labrador…)

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

Had a good morning down at the Guildford show, back tomorrow afternoon

Just need to check with Neil if I get any reward for finding him another the other member for the lonely mans Adept club.

Edited By JasonB on 01/07/2017 20:24:32

[MWParticipant @mw27036]

Posted by Neil Wyatt on 01/07/2017 20:13:50:

I just rescued a 1GB SD card from the jaws of Doom (Doom being a labrador…)

I find the only true solution to save the object is to replace it with another on offer that's far tastier.

Michael W

[Frances IoMParticipant @francesiom58905]

there was another super ‘super adept’ at Guildford on one of the trader’s stands – complete with all extras and mounted on a neat wooden frame

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

Posted by Frances IoM on 01/07/2017 20:40:20:
there was another super 'super adept' at Guildford on one of the trader's stands – complete with all extras and mounted on a neat wooden frame

Typical, just like busses

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by JasonB on 01/07/2017 20:23:53:

Had a good morning down at the Guildford show, back tomorrow afternoon

Just need to check with Neil if I get any reward for finding him another the other member for the lonely mans Adept club.

Edited By JasonB on 01/07/2017 20:24:32

Nice bit of threading work there, must take a lot of skill to turn the leadscrew at just the right rate…

[John Stevenson 1Participant @johnstevenson1]

Out of interest Jason, how much was it?

[Frances IoMParticipant @francesiom58905]

I recall ?140 if my memory serves.

[john carruthersParticipant @johncarruthers46255]

>>Nice bit of threading work there, must take a lot of skill to turn the leadscrew at just the right rate…<<

I thought that was the usual finish….

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

That one was not for sale, apparently the guy bought a boxford and that was in the cabinet, presumably ballast is all they are good for. The bit of threaded rod sticking out is the same as the spindle nose so if he saw a chuck for sale could take that and check the thread. Same chap had a nice little watch makers lathe that the man at the local tip came across and saved for him.

Did not spot the one Frances mentions

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by Michael-w on 01/07/2017 20:34:24:

Posted by Neil Wyatt on 01/07/2017 20:13:50:

I just rescued a 1GB SD card from the jaws of Doom (Doom being a labrador…)

I find the only true solution to save the object is to replace it with another on offer that's far tastier.

Michael W

One advantage of a labrador is that you can stick your fingers in their mouths we a reasonable expectation of being able to take them back out in one piece.

Woke up this morning to the sound of the same dog pulling the stuffing out of the other dog's bed…

Another carload of rubbish removed from the workshop today and taken to the recycling. Breaks my heart to throw out pieces of plywood, kitchen unit hinges (I found four with soft closers, they can stay!), full set of bathroom taps, empty woodglue bottles, various electrical bits of no practical use whatsoever and coax network cables from the days when all computers were wired up with BNC plugs! (I remember thinking wireless would never catch on, far too slow…)

Neil

Edited By Neil Wyatt on 02/07/2017 16:36:54

[Peter HallParticipant @peterhall61789]

Posted by John Stevenson on 27/06/2017 12:21:18:

Yesterday I had to pop into the hospital for a blood test because of this pesky ingrowing toe nail,

Been before a few times but never noticed the sign on the door before.

Sign blown up from a pretty crap camera phone.

Blood Taking Room.

I wonder if Urology has a similar room ??

I collected my wife from a hospital appointment where she was waiting in a room labelled as the Discharge Lounge. I was going to ask the lady on reception if it had anything to do with the sperm bank, but bottled it.

Pete

[SillyOldDufferModerator @sillyoldduffer]

[charadamParticipant @charadam]

"anything to do with the sperm bank, but bottled it"

Snigger snigger.

[Anonymous]

Posted by Curtis Rutter on 30/06/2017 22:54:36:

I notice you're cambridge based Andrew, when I move that way in a couple of months going to start my PPL, any recommendations?

Hi Curtis,

There are a number of options.

The most obvious is Cambridge Airport (Marshalls). Here there are two options, the Cambridge Aero Club and the Cambridge Flying Group. The aero club is conventional, ie, Cessnas, and at the more expensive end of the market. The flying group (where I learnt) use Tiger Moths. Prices are similar to the aero club. Of course the Tiger Moth is a more demanding aeroplane, no brakes and b*gger all steering for a start. It is simple, but relatively underpowered and draggy so requires a degree of finesse to fly well. No starter either, so you need to be comfortable hand swinging a propellor. But if you can fly one, you can fly anything. It's also much easier to convert from taildragger to tricycle than vice-versa. Cambridge is a fairly busy airport with larger (military) aircraft coming in for maintenance and a lot of private jets bringing in people for the horse racing at Newmarket. It has tower and approach frequencies and may well have aircraft in an instrument hold; all of which means more attention is needed to the radio than at smaller airfields.

Sadly the Rural Flying Corp at Bourn, next to me, have recently given up flying training and are now simply an aero club. This is due to the ****** council threatening to build on the airfield thus limiting their options for runways.

If I recall you were moving to the north of the county? Nearer to Peterborough, but a bit south, is Conington. I've not been there, but it has longish concrete runways. Some of our tug pilots have learnt there and rate it as good and friendly. Prices are somewhat cheaper than Cambridge.

West of Peterborough is Sibson. There are two possible disadvantages, one it is a busy parachuting centre. Second I've flown in there a while back and it is challenging, a long grass strip but with displaced thresholds, and with woods at one end and 132kV pylons not far off the runway at the other end.

Further north, near Spalding, is Fenland. They offer training, but I don't know anything about it. I've flown in there a long time ago. The runways are grass strips, flat and unobstructed as you'd expect for the Fens. If I recall correctly the food was good too. Although I did warn my co-pilot that if he had another burger he'd be walking home. There's a road that runs across the end of the runway to the north. We'd have cleared a single decker bus but hit a double decker.

Of course there are a number of other airstrips in Cambridgeshire, but the above are the ones that offer PPL training, as far as I'm aware.

To some extent where, and on what, you learn will depend on where and what you will be flying afterwards.

Andrew

[Mike E.Participant @mikee-85511]

I installed handles on a used tool cabinet I bought, and rearranged my storage unit to make room for it. Got to fill the space up to get my money's worth for the rental.

Edited By Mike E. on 02/07/2017 19:51:15

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