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Love mooching around old buildings like that and have a great appreciation for old technology which was built to last and to be repaired. Alas, never found Pris or her like in any of them
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This is a big topic for a Doll forum.
Bamboo is an excellent scaffolding material, but in the quantities used on high-rises, still needs calculations of weight and strut strength, so it does not all collapse. Re-use is also limited. Note how none of these chaps in video is wearing a safety harness. Yes, I love old stuff. That steam-powered sewage works in London is good (forgotten name - brain is dying). A cathedral to the new God. And not all iron works was built to same sizes as their wooden predecessors, a lot of calculation and experimentation was done but not publicised, like Brunel's methodical series of experiments on the propeller of the "Great Britain" before he fixed on the final design. Failure was mostly down to poor execution, eg. Tay Bridge. Repairability is my bug-bear. Assemby lines where things are stuffed one on top of another, so you have to dismantle it all to get to the bit underneath that broke, its so cheap just throw it all away, that bit is not made anymore, we don't make spares, we made it flimsy deliberately to break so you have to buy a new one, if stuff lasted for ever we would be out of a job, etc. AAARRRGGGHHH and you see it with dolls, where nuts on joint-bolts are welded-on so can't be tightened, what was the logic behind that? Cheaper than castellated nuts and split pins - never a Roll-pin, you can't get the buggers out. There, I kept to the rules. |
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That's shit, Jock. Split pins rust and seize-up in hole, so you can't get them out. How about tab-washers?
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I love old engineering like that. I used to do the monitoring work on the Needles cable car on the Isle of Wight. They worry that the hill is moving, but it seemed fine when we measured up. Was fun using it when the wind kicked up!
Currently I have some dealings with an old underground water reservoir that we are looking to convert into a planetarium complex. Very sturdily built with wonderful brick arches. The Victorians took a lot of pride in their engineering. I haven't got any photos, but this place has an underground reservoir is similar to ours, but a lot bigger. Their engine house is quite spectacular. This photo from our last shoot came from there: I do miss my old career in Civils, I'm more of a desk jockey now. I used to see all sorts of strange stuff that the public never see. I regret not getting chance to take a look inside the Humber Bridge some years back - you can actually walk the length of the bridge onside, there's even research offices in there Quote:
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I do have an appreciation for the olde engineering which has most definately been influenced by my father. Spent many days as a kid been taken to see a lot of steam driven applications and the odd water powered mill with the huge wheels and all the mechanical working.
Recently hung up my boots as a design/production engineer. Sadly the industry has been run down in the UK and I would be lucky to find something that would pay more than what I was earning in 2007. I now put small boxes into bigger boxes for a living and I'm better off for it. I do miss having a problem to solve to keep the brain in gear though.
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