diggerjones
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V8Druid
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C'mon now Dylan 
.... what you really mean is ... you broke into their test facility, last weekend and ran through, pursued by several large, snarling German Shepherds
are you ever home at the weekends ..... see you Saturday Boyo
.... what you really mean is ... you broke into their test facility, last weekend and ran through, pursued by several large, snarling German Shepherds are you ever home at the weekends
..... see you Saturday Boyo
V8Druid
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for those that 'like it hot' ....... and large
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Komatsu
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What was the ladle of black powder they put in the centre at about 6:20 into the video??for those that 'like it hot' ....... and large
Quattromike
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V8Druid
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a flux powder .. possibly carbon based, to stop the slug punch 'knitting' with the billet Ollie
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Komatsu
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Thanks, was really interesting to watch
V8Druid
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Possibly, some of them Mike .... place locally here, who I've done quite a bit for/at/in makes titanium jet engine nozzles (amongst other things) ... IIRC up circa 11 ft in dia.
used to love time in IEP Doncasters site .... got in there a lot with the cranes and did smallish fab work for them.
Knew many of the guys there well and the maintenance foreman/manager was an ex-pupil, who was a good friend ...
went to his funeral sadly a few years back - went to bed and never woke up
....seeing all that sort of stuff close up and sweating is amazing ....
their press hammer is about 60ft high ...
used to need the manual extension out on the 18 tonner (80ft of stick) to reach the top and be able to work ....
in there every 4 months tightening the frame draw bolts with a hydraulic tensioning system.... IIRC the bolts were 10" diameter - 8 of 'em, top to bottom of the press frame .....
the scale is mind blowing
and the ring rollers are just something else to watch
got some pix somewhere putting the new rolling shed up (read - Hangar)
...... many years ago
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V8Druid
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to see it in the flesh is remarkable Ollie
.... see my reply to Mike above http://www.doncasters.com/manufacturing-facilities/uk/doncasters-blaenavon/
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V8Druid
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an interesting aside to the Doncaster bit above .....
all the hydraulics, motors, pumps, valves and miles of plumbing/wiring to control and run the vertical ring rollers, are buried into 'cellars' in the floor ..... (so too are all the rollers, etc. above) ..... they're'BIG' cellars, 20 odd feet below floor level and highly illuminated .. got taken down into the main chamber one day and Phil, who I spoke of earlier, gave me the safety drill at the top of the stairs down ..... every two paces on the walls and hanging from above in the more central areas are pairs of respirators .... you're never more than a pace from one ...... in the event of fire down there ..... the entire chamber is Halon filled automatically, in the blink of an eye .. all air is completely evacuated by this high pressure system.... you have three seconds after the claxon and fire alarm beacon lights go on, to grab one and get it on ....... or you come out in a box ..... like a cat on a hot tin roof down in there, I can tell you ... interesting, but glad to be out afterwards
all the hydraulics, motors, pumps, valves and miles of plumbing/wiring to control and run the vertical ring rollers, are buried into 'cellars' in the floor ..... (so too are all the rollers, etc. above) ..... they're'BIG' cellars, 20 odd feet below floor level and highly illuminated .. got taken down into the main chamber one day and Phil, who I spoke of earlier, gave me the safety drill at the top of the stairs down ..... every two paces on the walls and hanging from above in the more central areas are pairs of respirators .... you're never more than a pace from one ...... in the event of fire down there ..... the entire chamber is Halon filled automatically, in the blink of an eye .. all air is completely evacuated by this high pressure system.... you have three seconds after the claxon and fire alarm beacon lights go on, to grab one and get it on ....... or you come out in a box ..... like a cat on a hot tin roof down in there, I can tell you
... interesting, but glad to be out afterwards
pettsy
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Slow and expensive way of emptying out of a hole?
V8Druid
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yeh .. couple of big crawlers with even bigger clams on'd show them the way home for sure
..... wear pads on those booms must take some hammer or a couple of big bucket conveyors
V8Druid
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think you'll enjoy these too then
.... hot mills are amazing places to spend time inthis is slow ...
the ones in Llanwern were about 4 times faster .... if it missed 'the catch' (which wasn't often) there was a hell of a mess ... 12mm and more, plate came down the line at about 30 MPH
had one go out the end of the coiler house once - dived under the road .... as in just buried itself and clean out the other side for about 100 feet .... they simply cut it off either side of the road and left the rest sticking out the ground ... used to impress me every time I went past it ..... oh for a camera phone back then .. some amazing pix
V8Druid
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been trying to find these for a while ... there are other vid.s / makes ......I WANT ONE
Shovelhands
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Ingenious, but I’d like to see it on an uneven surface, not off road, just your average yard concrete. Also can’t imagine them wearing very well on anything other than a highly polished floor?
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Bucket on wheels
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Ever wondered, how to fill up a trench in 59 Seconds
Here is how
Here is how
Quattromike
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Good going squad there. Get a good steam up and hudatit
V8Druid
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