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If you're a H&S fanatic now is a good time to retire to a darkened room with a cup of lukewarm milk.
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Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!
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Steve Maskery
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Well I've not watched every minute of it, but I enjoyed the rebar segment.
In the mid-70s, my wonderful Uncle Tom was a metallurgist at Johnson Matthey. He did a lot of the R&D of exhaust catalysts. He invited me to spend a day with him. It was magical. I remember that the vices in the workshop were all mounted over hoppers, so that every last grain of filings could be collected and recycled. You don't throw gold, silver and platinum away. He gave me a piece of platinum to hold. It was about the sixe of a matchbox,but only about 3mm thick. It felt heavy in my hand.
There was also a wire factory on site. I forget how long the building was, but it was looooong. The wire started as a billet of copper about a metre in diameter and a metre long. It was then forced through a die to make it a bit smaller and a bit longer. Same again, many, many times.
By the time it got to the end of the building it was thin enough to be wound, so it could be turned 180 degrees and the process continued back up to the first end of the building, getting finer and longer with every step, before being wound onto reels.
It was pretty much identical to what was shown in that film, except, of course, there was guarding, but I bet there were still lots of things that would not be allowed today. I don't suppose that they would even allow visitors on the factory floor.
So thank your for that film, it's brought back a happy memory. Favourite uncle, he was a good bloke.
S
In the mid-70s, my wonderful Uncle Tom was a metallurgist at Johnson Matthey. He did a lot of the R&D of exhaust catalysts. He invited me to spend a day with him. It was magical. I remember that the vices in the workshop were all mounted over hoppers, so that every last grain of filings could be collected and recycled. You don't throw gold, silver and platinum away. He gave me a piece of platinum to hold. It was about the sixe of a matchbox,but only about 3mm thick. It felt heavy in my hand.
There was also a wire factory on site. I forget how long the building was, but it was looooong. The wire started as a billet of copper about a metre in diameter and a metre long. It was then forced through a die to make it a bit smaller and a bit longer. Same again, many, many times.
By the time it got to the end of the building it was thin enough to be wound, so it could be turned 180 degrees and the process continued back up to the first end of the building, getting finer and longer with every step, before being wound onto reels.
It was pretty much identical to what was shown in that film, except, of course, there was guarding, but I bet there were still lots of things that would not be allowed today. I don't suppose that they would even allow visitors on the factory floor.
So thank your for that film, it's brought back a happy memory. Favourite uncle, he was a good bloke.
S
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What monster have I created!
Mrs has sat through four hours today of yt how its made.
Heathergem
Now wouldnt that look nice encased in timber!
Mrs has sat through four hours today of yt how its made.
Heathergem
Now wouldnt that look nice encased in timber!