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12-06-2011, 10:18 AM #1
Rather large flywheel
Here`s a flywheel that needs fitting before tea break. it weighed one hundred tons
....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.
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12-06-2011, 11:27 AM #2
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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
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12-06-2011, 12:22 PM #3
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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?Karl
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12-06-2011, 04:43 PM #4
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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 <
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13-06-2011, 02:47 AM #5
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Pfffah! I could carry one of those on my shoulder easy.
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14-06-2011, 12:41 AM #6
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Last edited by mikeref; 14-06-2011 at 12:49 AM. Reason: Not finished yet.
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14-06-2011, 09:50 PM #7
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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.
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14-06-2011, 10:04 PM #8
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id love to drag that to the scrap yard-where was it fitted!!!
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15-06-2011, 04:58 AM #9
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I could even use for a prince albert.......
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15-06-2011, 05:13 AM #10
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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
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15-06-2011, 10:14 AM #11
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15-06-2011, 07:14 PM #12
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Here`s the gas engine it was fitted to. It was made by Lillieshall for a japanese power station in 1912
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
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15-06-2011, 10:35 PM #13
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15-06-2011, 11:00 PM #14
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16-06-2011, 10:17 PM #15
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what did you say ,where are you ,ah