What sort of things DO NOT inspire you

[Brian HParticipant @brianh50089]

Mobile 'phones.

[Martin KyteParticipant @martinkyte99762]

Tattoos

[Mick B1Participant @mickb1]

Idiot 'personality' celebs with no apparent talents or skills.

Mind you, they managed to *inspire* me to bother to write that…

Edited By Mick B1 on 25/02/2020 15:06:30

[Johnboy25Participant @johnboy25]

Yes – I can not see the point in ‘body art’ on the basis my human frame is deteriorating quickly enough with old age without having tattoos making it look worse! Who or what designed the human body did in my option a pretty good job without embroilIng it with what ever someone thinks that ‘it looks good”! 😋

(yes I know – I’m an ‘old git’🤭

[SteviegtrParticipant @steviegtr]

Sunday cyclists blocking the road.

Potholes.

People who leave the lift after letting one go.!

[John HaineParticipant @johnhaine32865]

As a cyclist I can vouch that the combination of potholes and impatient drivers is extremely uninspiring.

[bill ellisParticipant @billellis45274]

As a cyclist (not usually Sunday as there are too many weekend warriors winding motorists up) and the driver of one of those horrible 4×4 Land Rover things I should be hated by everyone. Maybe a caravan would help spread the love .

[Dave HalfordParticipant @davehalford22513]

Posted by bill ellis on 25/02/2020 20:37:48:

As a cyclist (not usually Sunday as there are too many weekend warriors winding motorists up) and the driver of one of those horrible 4×4 Land Rover things I should be hated by everyone. Maybe a caravan would help spread the love .

Bet you look great in Lyrca too

[Mike PooleParticipant @mikepoole82104]

 

You could always pop one of these Stirling’s in your car.

Mike

Edited By Mike Poole on 25/02/2020 21:45:24

[nigel jones 5Participant @nigeljones5]

people who tell you that you have to manufacture a gap when silver soldering…absolute cods!! last thing you ever want to do"…….and I should know

[Grindstone CowboyParticipant @grindstonecowboy]

People saying "invite" when they mean "invitation", and "could of" when they mean "could have", and "off of" when "off is all that is required

[HopperParticipant @hopper]

Posted by Mike Poole on 25/02/2020 21:44:56:

You could always pop one of these Stirling’s in your car.

Mike

Edited By Mike Poole on 25/02/2020 21:45:24

Phillips had a Stirling engine powered bus in use in Holland for some years but found it too cumbersome to be practical. Too big and heavy, underpowered and averse constantly varying load conditions. But some submarines have used them running on liquid oxygen for silent(ish) underwater battery charging. Allows a diesel electric sub to stay under for weeks longer with no snorkeling.

[Mick B1Participant @mickb1]

Posted by Hopper on 26/02/2020 06:20:50:

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But some submarines have used them running on liquid oxygen for silent(ish) underwater battery charging. Allows a diesel electric sub to stay under for weeks longer with no snorkeling.

So the energy charged into the battery ultimately comes from the work done in liquifying the oxygen? Is the sub equipped to replenish the lox, or is that a base job?

[HopperParticipant @hopper]

Not sure. It was all very hush hush and above my security clearance at the boatyard (Australia's Collins class subs) when I worked there 20+ years ago but I believe it was burning LOX and diesel fuel vs seawater for cooling. (How they discharge the exhaust silently is not allowed to be known by us mere mortals.) Lox refill would be a base job I imagine. Tthe government cut the program before it got to actuallity. But the Japanese have been building a similar sub built by Mitsubishi and powered by Kawasaki that is said to use the same system. So much smoke and mirrors in sub-world you can never be sure who is really doing what. But Australia was at one stage getting ready cut its existing Collins subs in half and weld in the Stirling section. The original Swedish Gotland subs had the Stirling system and could stay down 14 days instead of the couple of days diesel engines allow. One famously sneaked through US naval lines undetected and got out again,then sent them a picture of their ship taken from alongside.

Now we are getting new subs built in France, with manufacture to be transferred here after the first one. The Renault of submarines. Great. Problem is that in the meantime Australia's manufacturing industry has declined so far there is nobody left here of working age with the engineering trade skills to build them or the subcontracted components. So they will be mostly pre-fabbed in France, shipped here and put together by foreign workers. Now THAT's uninspiring.

Edited By Hopper on 26/02/2020 09:34:25

[Former MemberParticipant @formermember19781]

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[Kiwi BlokeParticipant @kiwibloke62605]

The Thought Police and others who assume they occupy the moral high ground and can therefore prohibit free speech.

I was one of the earliest responders to this thread. I posted "Politicians". It was a well thought-through, entirely thruthful and unusually succinct post. OP Bill Chugg quite reasonably asked that the thread confine itself to engineering-related topics. He hasn't been successful. Now our two posts seem to have vanished. Is this the heavy hand of the moderators? Why should politicians be protected from criticism? C'mon moderators, be reasonable.

The thread has strayed well away from engineering matters. Is it any the worse for that? I find it quite entertaining – after all, there's quite a significant proportion of Grumpy Old Men in the brotherhood.

[Former MemberParticipant @formermember19781]

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[JourneymanParticipant @journeyman]

Posted by Hopper on 26/02/2020 06:20:50:

. But some submarines have used them running on liquid oxygen for silent(ish) underwater battery charging. Allows a diesel electric sub to stay under for weeks longer with no snorkeling.

The Gotland class sub is still in service with the Swedish navy. While submerged, the Kockums-built Stirling engine AIP system is used to drive a 75kW (101 shp)  generator for either propulsion or charging the batteries.

Wikipedia *** LINK ***

John

Edited By Journeyman on 26/02/2020 10:36:49

[HopperParticipant @hopper]

Posted by Journeyman on 26/02/2020 10:35:00:

Posted by Hopper on 26/02/2020 06:20:50:

. But some submarines have used them running on liquid oxygen for silent(ish) underwater battery charging. Allows a diesel electric sub to stay under for weeks longer with no snorkeling.

The Gotland class sub is still in service with the Swedish navy. While submerged, the Kockums-built Stirling engine AIP system is used to drive a 75kW (101 shp) generator for either propulsion or charging the batteries.

Wikipedia *** LINK ***

John

Edited By Journeyman on 26/02/2020 10:36:49

Interesting. Thanks. Kockums were the partner in the Aussie built Collins version. Communication was a disaster. When stuff did not work on commissioning, nobody spoke English all of a sudden.

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

Although the thread may have drifted at least it has not drifted into politics which it may well have done had I not deleted those posts.

[Former MemberParticipant @formermember19781]

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[Mick B1Participant @mickb1]

Posted by Journeyman on 26/02/2020 10:35:00:

Posted by Hopper on 26/02/2020 06:20:50:

. But some submarines have used them running on liquid oxygen for silent(ish) underwater battery charging. Allows a diesel electric sub to stay under for weeks longer with no snorkeling.

The Gotland class sub is still in service with the Swedish navy. While submerged, the Kockums-built Stirling engine AIP system is used to drive a 75kW (101 shp) generator for either propulsion or charging the batteries.

Wikipedia *** LINK ***

John

Edited By Journeyman on 26/02/2020 10:36:49

I can't visualise that 2×101 shp would provide *inspiring* propulsion in a sub of around 1600t submerged.

[JourneymanParticipant @journeyman]

Apparently – Surfaced: 11 knots (20 km/h) or submerged: 20 knots (37 km/h) on batteries; 5 knots (9.3 km/h) on AIP (Air-independent Propulsion). Doesn't sound overly speedy but good for creeping about undetected.

John

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Edited By Journeyman on 26/02/2020 13:12:41

[SteviegtrParticipant @steviegtr]

Things like this that end up costing the NHS a lot of money in bone repairs & joint implants in later life when they realise it did not make them more healthy. It just wore them out quicker. Cyclists in London. Phew.    

Steve.

Edited By Steviegtr on 27/02/2020 01:44:11

[HopperParticipant @hopper]

Posted by Journeyman on 26/02/2020 13:10:34:

Apparently – Surfaced: 11 knots (20 km/h) or submerged: 20 knots (37 km/h) on batteries; 5 knots (9.3 km/h) on AIP (Air-independent Propulsion). Doesn't sound overly speedy but good for creeping about undetected.

John

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Edited By Journeyman on 26/02/2020 13:12:41

And creeping about is what that class of sub is all about. It is a strange world of smoke and mirrors, sneaking past other vessels, surveillance, listening, monitoring radio waves etc. And of course they do carry torpedoes in case they are needed. So they actually spend a lot of time just sitting there, or going dead dead slow, watching, listening, waiting. The Stirlings recharge the batteries while they do that. Big progress coming too with Lithium Ion batteries instead of the old acid-sloppers.

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