Rather large flywheel

[glenn1340]

Here`s a flywheel that needs fitting before tea break. it weighed one hundred tons

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y54/Asquith1/2007/Gas03.jpg


....and the flyweel on a boring machine. i know they were hard times but I`d love to be able to go back and see those things being built.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y54/Asquith1/2007/Gas07.jpg

[devlin maguire]

Jeez can you imaging what the HSE would say, but back then it was all about getting it done, the pit board bottom left was probably used as a walkway, guards, what guards!!
Dev

[Karl Hofmann]

In those days, health and safety said that if you were too stupid to watch what you were doing then you deserved to have an accident... A while ago I had a chavett who marched right through a cordoned off work area and under a twin fan unit that was dangling from my lifter because she was too lazy to walk round an area no larger than 3 vans to get to a cafe.... Darwin must be turning in his grave

My question about the flywheel though is how big was the toolbox to keep the spanner in?:D

[sedgy]

yes a very large flywheel , luckily its strips down into four pieces thats about 25 ton a piece
regards sedgy < having a cup of tea <

[Goober]

Pfffah! I could carry one of those on my shoulder easy.

[mikeref]

Pfffah! I could carry one of those on my shoulder easy.
In your dreams!!!! Where have you been Goober? I mean to say, the climate is much cooler now and not much work on the books... well not for me now.. Mike.

[cadwaladr]

imagine that thing turning up what was the machine like it was fitted to,and how long it would take to make another if you dropped it.

[install monkey]

id love to drag that to the scrap yard-where was it fitted!!!

[Goober]

I could even use for a prince albert.......

[mad fridgie]

Goober, did you drop it on monday, I think so, I felt the earth shudder in christchurch. Told Bob Parker to send you the bill, all because you got a soft winky, could not hold your albert

[Goober]

Goober, did you drop it on monday, I think so, I felt the earth shudder in christchurch. Told Bob Parker to send you the bill, all because you got a soft winky, could not hold your albert

Ha! Nice one....:)

[glenn1340]

Here`s the gas engine it was fitted to. It was made by Lillieshall for a japanese power station in 1912
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y54/Asquith1/2007/Gas06.jpg

Just take a look at these pictures of Doxford`s machine shops, where did it all go wrong for British engineering?
www.shipsnostalgia.com/guides/William_Doxford_and_Sons#The_Manufacturing_Process (http://www.shipsnostalgia.com/guides/William_Doxford_and_Sons#The_Manufacturing_Process)

[Goober]

Here`s the gas engine it was fitted to. It was made by Lillieshall for a japanese power station in 1912
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y54/Asquith1/2007/Gas06.jpg

Just take a look at these pictures of Doxford`s machine shops, where did it all go wrong for British engineering?
www.shipsnostalgia.com/guides/William_Doxford_and_Sons#The_Manufacturing_Process (http://www.shipsnostalgia.com/guides/William_Doxford_and_Sons#The_Manufacturing_Process)

Interesting pics on that website....imagine the noise in that factory......not an ear muff in sight...hardy buggers them lot.

[Plank!]

Interesting pics on that website....imagine the noise in that factory......not an ear muff in sight...hardy buggers them lot.

No safety specs either - probably the entire workforce ended up with tinitus and damaged eyesight.

[cadwaladr]

what did you say ,where are you ,ah