On Wed, 20 Jul 2022 01:53:32 +0100, Whisky-dave <whisky.dave@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday, 19 July 2022 at 02:49:54 UTC+1, Commander Kinsey wrote:
>> On Tue, 19 Jul 2022 02:33:54 +0100, Whisky-dave <whisk...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > On Monday, 18 July 2022 at 03:38:22 UTC+1, Commander Kinsey wrote:
>> >> On Mon, 18 Jul 2022 02:15:56 +0100, Whisky-dave <whisk...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > On Tuesday, 12 July 2022 at 21:21:36 UTC+1, Commander Kinsey wrote:
>> >> >> On Tue, 12 Jul 2022 10:59:17 +0100, Whisky-dave <whisk...@gmail..com> wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> >> > That's handy we used to have someone an any old iron bloke called Tom the Tutt he used to collect all our scape stuff.
>> >> >> >> There's a van round here with a megaphone that shouts "any old scrap metal?" He doesn't even have a recording, as he changes what he says if he spots someone. He took a chest freezer off me.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Ours disapeared years ago he kept getting tiuckets for his unsafe lorry loads , he seemd to over load it and broke down many times in the main road.
>> >> >> > Maybe the police got his licence revoked or something, he sort of disapeard one day couldnt; contact him or anything.
>> >> >> The pigs aren't so mean around here. They do have an obsession with seatbelts though.
>> >> >
>> >> > well he used to block part of Mile End road which is normally very busy .
>> >> Block?
>> >
>> > Yes one lane couldn't be used until it was towed away.
>> Ours just drives about, he doesn't park.
>
> He must park to load and off load,

There should be adequate space for parking for commercial vehicles, or the streets aren't fit for purpose.

> and then there's traffic lights .

You can't get him into trouble for stopping at lights? WTF?

>> >> >> >> > I wished we'd kept some of that stuff would be worth quite a bit now.
>> >> >> >> > I wanted to keep the jabobs ladder that was lent out to the film set for young frankiestien the one that sting was in.
>> >> >> >> > Loads of old meters dating from the 60s in bakolite cases.
>> >> >> >> I got a few old meters dating back to 1930 form Ebay, for as little as £15. One is electrostatic.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > I did take a standard vairac and something else that I don;t know exacly what it is I just like the look of of.
>> >> >> > Think it test HV transformers , somewhere in my loft now along with a couple of AVOs.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> > 3 phases varaics with control wheels the size of car stearing wheels.
>> >> >> >> Have you ever watched the Youtube channel from photonic induction? He loves to play with stuff like that.
>> >> >> > Not recently did a few years back.
>> >> >> He's back, and has made more videos. Or for more serious things, Big Clive.
>> >> >
>> >> > Yes I've watch big clive taking apart some of the dodgy chinese stuff from ebay.
>> >> I like dodgy Chinese stuff, cheap and simple. Like the shower head with a live heating coil in it. I'm not a girl, I'm not scared of dangerous stuff.
>> >
>> > OK when you know it's dangerous that's what warning labels are for.
>> No that's what common sense is for.
>
> Common sense would mean you should be able to adjust the shower head without risking electrocution.

It says in the instructions not to put your head closer than 2 feet from it.

>> >> >> >> > 1.5 KW loads although those were the size of a washing macine and had asbestos panels in them.
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> > We had 6.6MV van der graff and a 10ft diameter fly wheel that was used to keep it going.
>> >> >> >> > We used to to test for lightning strikes on the concorde fuselage and filmed it using a 20 FPS camera
>> >> >> >> 20 FPS camera doesn't sound unusual.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Sorry forgot the K so 20k FPS it had a large cinima type real like an old cine film camera 12" in diameter
>> >> >> > made a hell of a racket when it started up. I never got to see it in action though, well not actually doing any filming.
>> >> >> > I think it needed a major service.
>> >> >> For high speed filming, see The Slow Mo Guys. I think they have a Phantom camera that does a million FPS.
>> >> >
>> >> > See that of similar filming light traveling through a bottle of water, think it uses rotating mirrors .
>> >> Ah, several CCDs? I wondered why it made a noise.
>> >> >> >> > this was just before my time here think it was ealry 70s.
>> >> >> >> > Also had lots of high power high voltage stuff
>> >> >> >> > Large oil filed transformers. Lots of interesting bits and pieces but all thrown out.
>> >> >> >> Are substations still oil filled? Those make a nice big fire when they get shorted.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Don;t really know we're starting teaching power stuff again but using tesktop versions.
>> >> >> When I was in high school our physics teacher set up a simulation of the national grid divided by 100, so 2.4V at the "houses" with an xmas tree light. There were actually very high voltage bare wires across the room and at once point she freaked out as another teacher walked in and straight towards the "pylons" spanned across between two desks.
>> >> >
>> >> > I remember my physics teacher dipping his hands in mercury to upturn tubes to measure air pressure and stuff,
>> >> > he didn;t have much hair or many teeth , a good teacher.
>> >> My chemistry teacher asked if anyone had a genuine gold ring. My friend did. It was dipped in nitric acid, which meant it was gold.
>> >
>> > Yes that was the old way of testing gold now they use fancy spectral analyses and can tell exactly what something is made from.
>> You mean you aren't meant to bite it?
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> Can do but it's not a good test especially with silver .

Or if you have gold fillings.

>> >> >> I've been in a plane three times. Once was a Boeing 737 to Wales to buy a car off my girlfriend's husband, the other two were Cessnas I jumped out of.
>> >> >
>> >> > I've been in a Cessna think that what it was on a 10min joy ride around yarmouth.
>> >> > been on a couple of commercial flights sweden, greece & spain.
>> >> > Never jumped out of any though,
>> >> It's a lot more fun than you'd think, you can steer it.
>> >
>> > I'll stick with simulators :-)
>> Oh come on. I've done it twice. My friend broke her ankle one time, and I got my lines tangled up one time. No big deal.
> Unless you crash .

She did, into a rock in the middle of a field. AFTER landing. The chute took off again due to her clumsiness and she went flying backwards. It was funny for me to watch from above.

>> >> >> > well not until I win the lottery, well I did a could of weeks ago but as usually I spent the lot on a can
>> >> >> > in the club £5.50 !
>> >> >> FFS, my home brew is a lot cheaper.
>
>> >> > Local pub is £4.35 for a nice pint of adnams .
>> >> Far too expensive. For £20 I can make 50 litres of 23% alcohol.
>> >
>> > Well if it tastes OK but I;ve tried others home brew even the local pub and that's quite rough hardly worth drinking.
>> I just brew ethanol. I add the flavouring afterwards. You can brew it by feeding it apples, whatever, I just feed it sugar. And you don't need expensive brewing sugar either. Tate and Lyle from Tesco works fine.
>
> Can't be bothered , I don;t really drink much now anyway I also perfer to decide what I feel like drinking
> sometimes ale sometimes lager sometimes I just have a few spirits.

But you're called Whisky Dave. You mean you've abandoned the drink? WTF?

>> >> >> > almost double my euro millions £2.40 win.
>> >> >> You can actually win as little as £2.40?
>> >> >
>> >> > Yeah won £30 a couple of times over the years.
>> >> And how much did you spend on tickets to achieve that?
>> >
>> > No idea but IO don;t buy coffees from shops as some do everyday on their way to work,
>> > so I guess I spend up to about £50 a month via online tickets.
>> > Depends how I feel and how much I've spent, so don;t really miss the money.
>> What a waste.
>
> I won £65 on the 17th july, my highest ever :-)
> Be nice to win a few million then I can buy my own brewery

The chances of that are 1 in a few million. So er.... buy a few million tickets and oh wait.