Things you always wanted to know the answer to [Vol. 3]
Discussion
Shakermaker said:
OpulentBob said:
What I want to know the answer to?
Who the f
k are Russell and Lily?
I think, reference to the recent passing of "driving_me_nuts" from on here, and his late wife as wellWho the f
k are Russell and Lily? To which the answer is - because life is cruel and there is no God.
RIP.
Uncertain, I'm too new to understand fully
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Help me settle this debate between my wife and I.
We were driving up to a set of lights today, couldn't see the lights as they were blocked by a tree but we saw the car go through them and then the flash of a camera. I burst out laughing at the blokes misfortune and the wife asked what was so funny, I said he got flashed because he went through a red light, as we get closer she starts saying its a speed camera and he was speeding.
So what is it, a speed camera or red light camera?
https://goo.gl/maps/NmUYbCXdJoP2
We were driving up to a set of lights today, couldn't see the lights as they were blocked by a tree but we saw the car go through them and then the flash of a camera. I burst out laughing at the blokes misfortune and the wife asked what was so funny, I said he got flashed because he went through a red light, as we get closer she starts saying its a speed camera and he was speeding.
So what is it, a speed camera or red light camera?
https://goo.gl/maps/NmUYbCXdJoP2
walm said:
FlyingMeeces said:
so what on EARTH do they do if there's a panel or a rivet or [insert appropriate bit of seagoing kit here] that needs repair or replacement and is indeed where the support bits are? Just accept it's a big job and do the switch at some point?And if there are two options for support then its incredibly unlikely BOTH options need replacement so you just set it up once such that you can do the repair unhindered, no?
Divers go down to arrange them as the ship settles, they are ballasted so they are fairly easy to move when in water. Not a job I'd want to be doing, dirty, filthy water, dark, hard to see, easy to die.......
There are very few rivets or bits that need repairing below the waterline really, mainly zinc's that need slicing off and new ones fitted, but there will be several transducers that really don't want to be squashed.
This is a boat I worked on for ten years, in Tampa dry dock a few years back.
Hugo a Gogo said:
why has there never been any standardisation of the position of reverse on a manual box, and more importantly, why has there been no outcry about it on PH, with down-and-lefters arguing with down-and-righters? (up-and-lefters butting in occasionally)
I recall hiring a hire car long ago, and parking against a brick wall in Tesco. When I came to leave I could not work out where reverse was. No way in hell did it appear to be in any of the normal positions, lifting the gear know, pushing it down, availed nothing. Every time I 'tested' to see if I had reverse, the wall got closer to my huge and glossy fragile plastic fantastic front bumper thing. Eventually I worked out there was a ring thing on the gear shift below the knob, that had to be lifted with ones fingers to get into the reverse gate....
In my defence, I never took my car test until I was 29, then I buggered off overseas a few months later, and the next time I drove a car (The one with the errant reverse) was six years after that.
King Herald said:
Hugo a Gogo said:
why has there never been any standardisation of the position of reverse on a manual box, and more importantly, why has there been no outcry about it on PH, with down-and-lefters arguing with down-and-righters? (up-and-lefters butting in occasionally)
I recall hiring a hire car long ago, and parking against a brick wall in Tesco. When I came to leave I could not work out where reverse was. No way in hell did it appear to be in any of the normal positions, lifting the gear know, pushing it down, availed nothing. Every time I 'tested' to see if I had reverse, the wall got closer to my huge and glossy fragile plastic fantastic front bumper thing. Eventually I worked out there was a ring thing on the gear shift below the knob, that had to be lifted with ones fingers to get into the reverse gate....
In my defence, I never took my car test until I was 29, then I buggered off overseas a few months later, and the next time I drove a car (The one with the errant reverse) was six years after that.
King Herald said:
Whenever I've been on a ship that was dry docked the blocks generally get put under the frames of the ship, all along its length. There are dozens of them, not just four or five.
Divers go down to arrange them as the ship settles, they are ballasted so they are fairly easy to move when in water. Not a job I'd want to be doing, dirty, filthy water, dark, hard to see, easy to die.......
There are very few rivets or bits that need repairing below the waterline really, mainly zinc's that need slicing off and new ones fitted, but there will be several transducers that really don't want to be squashed.
This is a boat I worked on for ten years, in Tampa dry dock a few years back.
[pic]
Huh, cool. Cheers for replying KH. Divers go down to arrange them as the ship settles, they are ballasted so they are fairly easy to move when in water. Not a job I'd want to be doing, dirty, filthy water, dark, hard to see, easy to die.......
There are very few rivets or bits that need repairing below the waterline really, mainly zinc's that need slicing off and new ones fitted, but there will be several transducers that really don't want to be squashed.
This is a boat I worked on for ten years, in Tampa dry dock a few years back.
[pic]
In that pic the boat looks like it's only being supported along the lowest point of the hull - I'm kinda summing that cannot possibly be the case and there's some sort of lateral support going on somewhere?
DervVW said:
King Herald said:
Hugo a Gogo said:
why has there never been any standardisation of the position of reverse on a manual box, and more importantly, why has there been no outcry about it on PH, with down-and-lefters arguing with down-and-righters? (up-and-lefters butting in occasionally)
I recall hiring a hire car long ago, and parking against a brick wall in Tesco. When I came to leave I could not work out where reverse was. No way in hell did it appear to be in any of the normal positions, lifting the gear know, pushing it down, availed nothing. Every time I 'tested' to see if I had reverse, the wall got closer to my huge and glossy fragile plastic fantastic front bumper thing. Eventually I worked out there was a ring thing on the gear shift below the knob, that had to be lifted with ones fingers to get into the reverse gate....
In my defence, I never took my car test until I was 29, then I buggered off overseas a few months later, and the next time I drove a car (The one with the errant reverse) was six years after that.
Must be a French thing-my Renault has it too
FlyingMeeces said:
Huh, cool. Cheers for replying KH.
In that pic the boat looks like it's only being supported along the lowest point of the hull - I'm kinda summing that cannot possibly be the case and there's some sort of lateral support going on somewhere?
Most modern ships are flat bottomed, so the dock blocks are spaced transversley as well as longitudinally around amidships (ie just aft of the posted picture).In that pic the boat looks like it's only being supported along the lowest point of the hull - I'm kinda summing that cannot possibly be the case and there's some sort of lateral support going on somewhere?
You will sometimes see old drydocks that have what look like massive steps up the side, these were used to anchor the side blocks that were required for the round bilged ships of the time.
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