Originally Posted by
niceman
J and E Hall, used to strip and rebuild 6 CP comps as apprentice, new shell bearings, valve plates and gaskets, remember scraping off old gaskets. Then there were J E Hall service gas cylinders to carry, held 12lbs *****, weighed 20 plus pounds empty, not like your modern dumpies. Also used to strip and refill used RCL flare driers with cotton wool and activated alumina, leak test under pressure in bucket of water! Remember the cartoon like instruction books with KMP driers? By tilley lamp i meant the LD 1 tilley leak detector, look it up.