old shapeThe marking device for pottery was also used as a cutting tool to ensure the pot was the same size as the last one…with the same shape at the cut too. That’s how I saw it being used at a College demonstration once.
I’n not convinced about the others being a valve grinder, the valve needs holding by the valve end, and pressure applied to it so the mating face beds with the female part in the Cylinder Head. That’s why today’s tools is just a wooden stick with a sucker on the end.
This pictured tool would not give a smooth enough movement, nor can it apply pressure from the correct direction.Could be wrong, but I’ve ground a few valves in my time.
old shapeOld Shape
M- is Isle of Manhttp://homepages.mcb.net/bones/01UKAV/ManxRegister.htm
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Is it beJaysus!
Has it always been?
As a young spotter from 1966 to 74 I don’t remember M-.
I wondered about the Union flag on the tail.
old shapeThere has been vids of his for some time on YouTube, going down and round moutains. I found it by accident, looking at the “31 wheel roller suit” down the Swiss Alps video. Now he is brave!
old shapePushing on the trailing edge is NOT a good idea.
I hope Bombardier have seen this picture as evidence, just in case.
We’ve seen this sort of ignorance in China before, the 747 fan blades buckled with a seat belt for example.
old shapeNice shot………now educate me.
What country has M- as its registration?
old shapePeople who drive around with front fogs on all the time, are usually idiots.
I think the law states rear fog lights should be used only when visibility is down to less than 100 metres. As oldshape says, when I see people doing otherwise, because they think they should, I just console myself by concluding I am a more intelligent person!
In most cases where Rear fogs are on when not necessary it is because the driver doesn’t realise it. In my car for example, at the position I sit, I cannot see the LED on the switch telling me the fogs are on. I don’t have a dashboard display of it…………so in some circs. the reason can be excusable, but we are still superior 😉
…and I don’t have Front fogs.
Creaky, I cannot agree on that. In very bad spray you cannot see the running lights of some cars. In such conditions one needs to sit behind a car so you can see his lights (Preferably all doing 40mph or less but I can dream) and if those lights are dim, you get too close.
The surging is caused by people driving too fast in bad conditions.
old shapePeople who drive around with front fogs on all the time, are usually idiots.
I think the law states rear fog lights should be used only when visibility is down to less than 100 metres. As oldshape says, when I see people doing otherwise, because they think they should, I just console myself by concluding I am a more intelligent person!
In most cases where Rear fogs are on when not necessary it is because the driver doesn’t realise it. In my car for example, at the position I sit, I cannot see the LED on the switch telling me the fogs are on. I don’t have a dashboard display of it…………so in some circs. the reason can be excusable, but we are still superior 😉
…and I don’t have Front fogs.
Creaky, I cannot agree on that. In very bad spray you cannot see the running lights of some cars. In such conditions one needs to sit behind a car so you can see his lights (Preferably all doing 40mph or less but I can dream) and if those lights are dim, you get too close.
The surging is caused by people driving too fast in bad conditions.
old shapeThose shoulder mounts are fantastic for panning and holding the camera kit very steady.
We used to make them (In the 1970’s) out of old Rifle stocks but there are not as many rifles around these days, and the shutters are all electronic (We used to rig a long cable release to the trigger mechanism) and lastly, it looked like a gun. NOT a desirable thing to be lurking round the peri-fence with!!!! So demand dried up. (Only sold about 30 anyway)
old shapeAgreed with comments. Having returned yesterday from the UK, I was amazed at the reluctance and stupidity of drivers not using their headlights when it is raining and attempting to be the last one to switch their light on at dusk.
There is one simple tenet of being a good driver, if you are using your wipers, you should be using your lights as well.
Yes, there are some dipsticks here that seem to think it is trendy to be pointlessly dim, or enjoy flouting common sense because that makes them “Hard men”. Some even believe it saves them money………I once tried to calculate the extra fuel burn required for a set of lights on for 30 mins at 50mph. It was getting to the 1/10th of a penny level.
In those days the engine power was not given in Kilowatts so maybe the calculation would be easier now…..and petrol was 41p a litre.
old shapeAgreed with comments. Having returned yesterday from the UK, I was amazed at the reluctance and stupidity of drivers not using their headlights when it is raining and attempting to be the last one to switch their light on at dusk.
There is one simple tenet of being a good driver, if you are using your wipers, you should be using your lights as well.
Yes, there are some dipsticks here that seem to think it is trendy to be pointlessly dim, or enjoy flouting common sense because that makes them “Hard men”. Some even believe it saves them money………I once tried to calculate the extra fuel burn required for a set of lights on for 30 mins at 50mph. It was getting to the 1/10th of a penny level.
In those days the engine power was not given in Kilowatts so maybe the calculation would be easier now…..and petrol was 41p a litre.
old shapeRear foglights should be banned…..they cause more accidents than they prevent.
How’s that then?
Rear fogs should be used in fog and heavy motorway spray, never other times.
When you see a numpty with them on at other times, then just bask in the glory that you are infinitely superior and generally a better person than them. It’s easy.
old shapeRear foglights should be banned…..they cause more accidents than they prevent.
How’s that then?
Rear fogs should be used in fog and heavy motorway spray, never other times.
When you see a numpty with them on at other times, then just bask in the glory that you are infinitely superior and generally a better person than them. It’s easy.
old shapeSerious turbulence is a feature of that part of the world, as there are active volcanoes.
Many years ago, a JAL 747 broke up with all passengers lost over Mount Fuji (I think). From past experience, turbulence hits you all of a sudden.
Incidentally, SAS recommend keeping seat belts fastened all the time you are in your seat.
Bri
Every flight I’ve been on for the past 10 years has had this advice.
Worst turbulance I’ve suffered was on the ATP from Warton to Farnborough one winter. The machine plummeted at such a rate, loose items (Including my hot coffee) went about 18 inches in the air, followed by the usual wrestle on the controls and a few severe bankings. We then twanged down the runway after a yaw landing of what seemed like 45 degrees (It wasn’t 45, but I could see the runway ahead from my seat over the wing).
Back to the event, the acceleration involved in such jerky movements can easily break a neck. The Airbus that lost its fin due to over active rudder movement (New York 2001) had such violent acceleration that many of the pax (Those furthest away from the turning moment) were dead before impact.
Only take your belt off if you need the washroom.
old shapeBecause you are operating with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight.
You can’t turn on the supply of aircraft like a tap.
Nobody knew how successful the Mosquito was going to be in 1940 or 1941 so the heavy fours which were already under construction were proceeded with.
And make no mistake about it, the carpet bombing of civilian homes was very effective in keeping huge defensive assets that could have been employed as offensive forces targeted at Russia sitting all over Germany.
Moggy
Further, the Mozzy could carry 4 x 1,000 “Iron bombs”, and I’m not certain it could drag that load to parts of Germany and then return. Total range was 1,300 miles with no payload – especially at low altitude in “Dirty” air. Correct me if that’s wrong.
The German factories we intended to bomb were MASSIVE, 4 bombs would take out 4 lots of toilets in a corner. They would not halt production for very long at all. It would require hundreds of mozzies in close formation (A very easy target thus) to destroy the factories that were carpeted out.
The civilian bombings were indeed as a result of gerry changing tactics from military to civil, we needed our moral to be boosted and it was done.
As for the woman at the statue, she is totally wrong but men died so that she has the right to be wrong – in public too.
Let her say it, let us discuss it. It’s not like she is asking for the heads of non believers or similar is it?
My old fella spent his war behind Monty, chasing Rommel round the desert and his views were that we must win at any cost.
old shapeAre they in a Book? If not, they really should be! Fabulous photographs.
OK, they are all models and it’s all staged, but the A/c are real, the clothes/make-up and styles are real from an era that I find wonderful.
As for film cameras…..I cut my teeth on a Zenit 11. Then moved onto a Yashica Fr1, bought 1981. I used that until 2004 when I went Digi. I cannot sell the Yashica, with lots of kit and a superb Sigma APO lens, even the original booklet and flyers. Nobody wants such kit anymore (Unless it’s a Leica)
The manual side of building Aluminium A/c assemblies has hardly changed from then.
The fabricated parts are routed out by a NC machine, it even pilot drills the holes. The the Assembly is still down to Toggle clamps and skin pegs!
Bigger stuff with more metal to get through can be automated, even Auto drill riveted, but there’s nothing like the detail assembly shops.
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