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andyf:
Dave BC,

Got your message. The schematics should be in your email inbox by now.

Andy

John Swift:

 Hi Stuart

happy days !

I'm not sure how we survived the apprenticeship   (your just  9 years older than me )

first weeks with the sparkes  , worked on live mains  circuits in a mixing room

sprayed trichloroethleyn at motors to degrease them ( and my hands!!!!)

all good fun that I expect todays trainees don't have today

later on followed my chosen career

worked in the drawing office on diagrams that I followed in R & D next door

to make part of the non contact measuring equipment to measure the thickness of the glass at the "UK5" float glass plant

a laser beam scanned across the glass

the reflection off the upper and lower surfaces was detected with a photo multiplier

then its just a matter of calculating the thickness

during this time at Cowley hill works  ,had the fun of fixing the B&W cameras that looked into the glass furnace

they didn't work for long when the cooling water supply failed


 for now we'll have to wait to see how the tests go on the motor and controller


 John

Stilldrillin:
Thank you all, for your input. It's very much appreciated!  :thumbup:

Just arranged a visit to Dave Bluechip's, for Friday morning.  :smart:  :zap:

Then, we'll see what's what, possibly......  :D

David D

Bluechip:
Chin up lad .... as Wallace sez to Grommit ....

Look a bit positive ...  :thumbup:

Friday 13th was last week ..... er ... I think it was anyway ...

Dave BC

lordedmond:
John

yes live working was the norm then , trice for degreasing yep , dis boards with no cover on the live bit and at 550 vac  :zap:

we used to clean the DC 220 vdc bus bars live bare hands  :zap: , open front slate switch panels and open frame rotary converters


later I spent the latter 30 years working for a bank looking after the engineering for the computer centre at Kegworth , retrained in diesel fitting , air control systems ,BAS and later BAS system programming

Now do nowt only play in WS  as I need wheels to get

David D

going to Dave BC's  by ek thou is gerrin a bit close , I will hey to get a thicker tin hat  :) :) :) :)


Stuart

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