What Did You Do Today (2016)

[Nicholas FarrParticipant @nicholasfarr14254]

Hi, I got a little selection of heavy flat black bar off cuts from work, with management consent of course. May never use some of it, but couldn't bear the thought of it all going to the scrap man, it's all nice new steel from a job in progress.

The two small bars are 50 x 12mm and the rest are 30mm thick.

Regards Nick.

Edited By Nicholas Farr on 21/01/2016 23:13:59

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by Nicholas Farr on 21/01/2016 23:13:24:

Hi, I got a little selection of heavy flat black bar off cuts from work, with management consent of course. May never use some of it, but couldn't bear the thought of it all going to the scrap man, it's all nice new steel from a job in progress.

The two small bars are 50 x 12mm and the rest are 30mm thick.

If you decide you don't need it, I'll have it off you to armour-plate the bottom of the editorial chair

Neil

[Ian S CParticipant @iansc]

Nick, I can see some flywheels, and similar in amongst your scrap iron. The 50 x 12 bars might make crankshafts.  We don't want Neil getting a Hernia moving his armour plated chair around.

Ian S C

Edited By Ian S C on 22/01/2016 10:15:11

[V8EngParticipant @v8eng]

Posted by Neil Wyatt on 22/01/2016 10:09:00:

Posted by Nicholas Farr on 21/01/2016 23:13:24:

Hi, I got a little selection of heavy flat black bar off cuts from work, with management consent of course. May never use some of it, but couldn't bear the thought of it all going to the scrap man, it's all nice new steel from a job in progress.

 

The two small bars are 50 x 12mm and the rest are 30mm thick.

If you decide you don't need it, I'll have it off you to armour-plate the bottom of the editorial chair

Neil

When I was still working, I thought it was the back that needed most protection!

Edited By V8Eng on 22/01/2016 10:33:48

[Ian PParticipant @ianp]

The two small bars are 50 x 12mm and the rest are 30mm thick.

If you decide you don't need it, I'll have it off you to armour-plate the bottom of the editorial chair

Neil

When I was still working, I thought it was the back that needed most protection!

This brings back to me a frightening image I saw a long time ago in motor magazine. A reader had sent in a photograph of his car taken from the passenger side with the door open. Projecting vertically out of the middle of the seat squab was about 6" of flat steel bar (part of a leaf spring) that had been on the road and flicked up under his car and perforated the floor etc.

I think the car was an Austin Cambridge, and the leather upholstery of the passenger was wrecked, fortunately the seat was unoccupied when it happened, but the image of the possible consequences has stuck in my mind.

It would have been in the 'Motor' or 'Autocar' magazine, both of which I subscribed to from the 1960s. Anybody remember the picture?

Ian P

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

>ouch<

Well the rust dissolver worked a treat, a breaker bar wouldn't shift the 15mm nut yesterday, and today an ordinary ratchet spanner took it off.

A long winded job, at least the belt went on easily – tales of special tools on the net, but a 1/2" drive breaker bar fitted the square perfectly and plenty of slack to slip the belt back on single handed. More of a pain fitting the engine mount back on, one bolt was very tight but the old trick of swapping them over helped.

Best of all, it's charging now. Will dissect the old alternator to see if it's repairable. If I can fit a £7 brush box and get it working, I will.

Neil

[tom batesParticipant @tombates28045]

Not a lot but looking forward to the week end as wife and friends are on a 'spa, weekend so will get some shed time

[frank brownParticipant @frankbrown22225]

Frightening car penetration tale #2. The Hammersmith flyover is fed by a dual carriage way with railings separating the opposing traffic. The fire brigade had to turn out to an accident. They found a coupled of bumped cars and one where the handrail of the railing had pierced the floor of a car and wound it self up like a clock spring inside the passenger compartment trapping the driver. He was trapped by the railing going through his jacket missing his torso but pinning him in. The Firemen had to cut him out, pressumeably with a pair of dress making scissors, not a scratch on him.

Frank

[Ian PParticipant @ianp]

Posted by tom bates on 22/01/2016 22:00:57:

Not a lot but looking forward to the week end as wife and friends are on a 'spa, weekend so will get some shed time

I wonder if your post is OT, it has a 'what I am going to do tomorrow' theme!

Ian P

[tom batesParticipant @tombates28045]

oops sorry i,ll send it yesterday

[Ian S CParticipant @iansc]

30 odd years ago I was travelling from Alexandra to Cromwell (Central Otago NZ) as a passenger in a bus, we ran over a bit of rebar, and unknown to the driver it went through the sump of the engine, we started to notice it when after a few Kilometres, smoke started to rise from under the floor, followed very shortly by the engine quitting. The rebar had opened the sump like a can opener on a can of beans.

Ian S C

[Gordon WParticipant @gordonw]

Years ago a friend of mine bought a used Alfa Romeo, noted at the time for rust problems. He came up to Scotland to visit us, about half way and doing about 70 mph there was a big bang and the car shot off into the heather. Turns out the engine had fallen out, and he had run over his own engine. No permanent damage done to friend.

[martin perman 1Participant @martinperman1]

An engineer friend was on his way home on the M1 in his company car when a large road works sign fell off the back of a truck, unable to avoid it he drove over it, after a short while he realised he was running out of diesel so pulled into a service area to fill up but as he was doing so a puddle was forming so he called the AA who recovered the car to a Ford dealers for repair. When the car went up on the ramp the garage declared the vehicle a write off and it was eventually scrapped as the sign had can opened the length of the floor pan from front to back.

Martin P

[NJHParticipant @njh]

In the vein of humorous traffic incidents…………….

Many years, when I was at school, ( no MANY MANY years) a group of us were cycling home. One daredevil said "watch this!" He set off and tried ! to stand up holding the handlebars and with one foot on the saddle ! As you may imagine this quickly came to grief. He ended up flat on his back in the road with the bike, amazingly, balanced upside down with wheels spinning and the crossbar across his chest and arms pinning him down! He had to stay like that ( and very still lest it all fell on him!) until we could stop laughing long enough to lift the bike off him!

Norman

 

Edited By NJH on 23/01/2016 12:08:50

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

One I heard of was the prop shaft coming up through the central corridor of a bus.

Neil

[Steven VineParticipant @stevenvine79904]

When I was first starting out in the big wide world I was given the works J4 van, the one with the engine between you and the passenger. The thing kept over heating, and we had to stop sharply and bail out many times as the cab filled up with steam. One day we were hurtling down a hill at 40mph and the back wheel fell off. We sat there and watched the wheel roll down the hill and take out a fence. Happy days.

Steve

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

The Commas were like that, as was the Bedford CF. We had one of those, and driving it back after collecting it in Liverpool, it started running rough and misfiring as I went through Stoke in the dark. With the cover off the engine one spark plug was dancing on top of the block, occasionally igniting the vapour being pumped out of the plug-hole. Small puffs of orange flame right between the seats in the dark…

Tool-less I just held the plug with a bit of cloth and put it in hand-tight and got home OK.

[martin perman 1Participant @martinperman1]

Today I have replaced the ceiling in my airing cupboard after it collapsed from a water leak from one of the water tanks in my loft, I had to cut the board around a series of water pipes so thought I would use a can of expanding foam to seal the pipes to the board, the can said press trigger gently so I did and by the time I released it a couple seconds later I had an empty can. So much fun in a short time and all for £10

Martin P

[tom batesParticipant @tombates28045]

Did a bit of rough turning, drilling.threading and knurling to repair a hacksaw. No measurements metric or imperial were used or harmed in anyway!

[tom batesParticipant @tombates28045]

Also did some parting off . Don,t know why the pictures are in the reverse order and why some are inverted.

[MuzzerParticipant @muzzer]

Windows 8 by any chance?

[tom batesParticipant @tombates28045]

Muzzer not W8 they at straight from my i pad using the latest ios version

[MuzzerParticipant @muzzer]

If you take a pic with the iPad upside down, perhaps it displays the photo on the screen correctly but stores the original orientation in the photo. When you upload it, the original camera orientation is remembered. Sort of vaguely rings a bell.

[tom batesParticipant @tombates28045]

Muzzer I think your on the right track as Iseem to remember taking some photos ,upside down?, as the cover was in the way. just neen to work out what is upsidedown when taking photos.again thanks for the imput😀

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

That's right, i-products don't always store the orientation you expect and things come out odd when exported.

Neil

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