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Sitting in a hotel bar, drinking beer and eating food, company is paying for it. Flying out to the Isle of Man in the morning to go supervise one of our sites. It's a hard life sometimes

Don't you just love its foibles Ours is running sweet, regularly working with 15k component assemblies without any hassle, created drawings for almost 200ks worth of work in 2 weeks, previously we would have been looking at 3-4 weeks with acad!

Coming from Burton, are you not legally required to consume marmite? Hot toast (white or brown, I'm not fussy), buttered and a good dollop smeared on top. Persephone is 22 months old now and loves marmite toast for breakfast

I believe yellowcrumblyshit™ is the official designation Surely it would be aluminium oxide wouldn't it? I dunno, i r injuneer not kemmisd!

Moisture accelerates galvanic corrosion dramatically, is that one in a damper position than the others? Typically a layer of paint between dissimilar fixtures is sufficient, however if there is vibration or movement then it's not likely to last too long before wearing through.

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It would make it a little more complicated with a couple of extra pivots but no more castors. Side loading on castors bends the vertical axle (assuming they're not fixed castors) which typically spews the thrust ball bearings all over the floor. See attached sketch, not quite as nice as solidworks but quicker and easier to manage whilst also colouring in Thomas the Tank Engine with a toddler Plummer block bearings for the bottom pivots would be smoothest but a plain bolt through would suffice.

Looks good As per comments on Facebook I would also be concerned with the casters canted over on the dropped position. My experience of castors is that any side load destroys them very quickly, last thing you want to do is to have to try to change a castor with the shell attached. I would mount the castors on a couple of sliding bogies that holds them perpendicular to the floor. You could then very easily fit a number of locking pins at various positions to take the load off the m20 all thread. I'm sure you are able to interpret my poor explanation but yell if not and I'll knock a solidworks model up to demonstrate

Dan8488276494 wears platform heels so he is ok with the riser steel in there

Long wood screws, screw a couple down into the rubber and extract with normal pliers

Small jobbing fabricator is ideal, get friendly with a laser cutter and go from there. Grab yourself a TIG setup and broaden your horizons. With your CAD capacity you could also offer design work as well, consider architectural as well as mechanical. If it doesn't work out then shift direction to something else

The step daughter really struggles with social situations and has no really concept of what's going around her socially; she's never been assessed or diagnosed because she doesn't display at school. She moves up to high school in September and is almost guaranteed to struggle in a normal school environment with social circles and bullying. For a couple of years now, she has been singing in a choir that occasionally performs in the cathedral and a local private school has an annual "Try out as a Choirister for a Day" with associated auditions for those that want to try to get a place. She did the day last year, loved it and went again last month, then with two weeks to prepare for the audition. We've spent the two weeks trying to get her to actually chose a song that she is comfortable and capable of singing to a reasonable standard - it has been fraught, but finally got there in the end. Despite being really nervous before the audition, she went in, did her stuff and afterwards said it really wasn't as bad as she thought it was going to be. We had told her just to go and try her best, the chances of her getting a choirister position are slim to none (they have one vacancy this year and had 50+ hopefuls) and not to get her hopes up but it was a good experience for her. Got a message from the wife this morning, they don't want her for a choirister position, however they want her as a music scholar - the headteacher loved her personality and feels that she's got great potential! She's been learning violin for the last couple of years and whilst progress is slow she has got good solid exam results. Just the minor issue of 12 grand a year for fees but we should qualify for a bursary grant as I am sole income in the household, fingers crossed it all gets granted TL : DR Stepdaughter got a place at posh school which will prevent her being a depressed psychopathic teenager in a couple of years time

Argon and tungsten is nicer!

Aha, so tanker/jetter Some of the muckiest work alive! Get you hepatitis and tetanus jabs up to date, you'll get used to the smell eventually. I don't think we have any RBC* units down in wessex which is what is most likely to be tankered of our kit. If you go to Warminster STW though, I designed the horizontal aerators there, you could namedrop and say that you once sold a BB7 for a bike with no seat to the guy to designed them I recently surveyed an RBC unit that was due for refurbishment, didn't look like it had been tankered in the last few years and had a so little liquid in there because the tank was full of primary sludge *Rotating Biological Contactor - we were one of the first designers/suppliers of these in the UK back in the early 80s. We have been Severn Trent framework supplier for them since 2001 and we're now refurbishing the original units we put in; some 35 years later isn't bad going when the design life was 20 years!

Like some sort of low grade messiah, I turn poo into water

Likewise, I'm one of the design engineers for Tuke and Bell, we're one of the last of the original sewage m&e suppliers (since 1908) and have got kit all over the country. Last major wessex job we did was Warminster, but done a minor job at Compton Basset recently that's due to be installed in the next few weeks. Yell if you have any questions, got 16 years experience now so can probably help if you're stuck

Oh shit, our paths might cross! That said wessex water are a bunch of arsebandits to work for, I think they still owe us over 10k for the warminster aerator project. Notoriously bad at paying for equipment they've contractually bought. Needless to say when the equipment failed because they hadn't greased it according to maintenance schedule, we offered them a price for refurbishment, funnily enough they didn't want to pay for the damage they had caused. I think the plant is still running at 60% because of this. Are you on the clean water or sewage side? We (Tuke & Bell) don't deal with wessex a great deal because of their historic incompetance but we do some work with them

Kept the baby alive for 22 months! +3 grownup points

I had to do this, watched about 25 seconds then did something constructive; picking my nose I think

My golf gti went through a number of MOTs with nothing more than the stiff rubber backing strip acting as the rear wiper blade, my focus went through several MOTs without a working rear washer due to a split hose. It'll be fine

@DK.

What you been training on?

Put a solid mandrel in there first, heat it up and then hit it with a lump hammer

No reason not to go with oval or rectangular tubing, your issue will be with connecting the different shape sections. Changes in section profile will negatively affect gasflow/backpressure especially if there are any steps rather than smooth transisitons. On the whole though, it's a road car and unlikely to realistically affect performance Side exit not an option? Roof exit it is then

Probably, I suspect they scan the tubes as they go to assembly and get sorted into similar tolerance bins which will then be fitted with the appropriate pins. I know TF tuned sometimes mix and match the pins to take out slop. Whichever size I have I will get some more made up to suit