Glowing header pipes ZX9

Oh, while I remember:

We had a special syringe, a big brass bicycle pump for all intents and
purposes, for sucking out the water from the the oil wells. The oil
floats on the top and water doesn't wick away so no lube. The corks in
the oil wells (about 3/4" dia.) were special and had a piece of cane in
them to allow air to pass through.

I think I've still got, somewhere, my issued engineman's manual
explaining steam lubricators; how to make wicks (green wool and wire);
valvegear repairs; change gauge glasses on the move after they've
exploded (which I've done IRL, I'm pretty sure I've still got a couple of
spares kicking about); remove driving rods and other arcane arts.

 

sweller emerged from their own little world to say

eww

 

<fx cross posted to uk.railway>

;-)

 

I think anyone who sets out to do a piss poor job is, well, a bad person.

 

heh.

 

Andy Bonwick wrote

So when is this happening exactly?

 

I used to have one of those, but the trouble is you can't see them if
you fit them to many modern bikes because they're hidden under all the
plastic.[/QUOTE]

Hmm, I like my Suzukis then. Lift the tank up, place it on it's
little prop, direct access to the plugs underneath.

 

A weapon of mass numeration - sounds terrifying.

 

I think if I was a working pilot in WW1 I'd be pretty fucking regular
no matter what oil was being used.[/QUOTE]


Heh. Indeed.

 

Carbonising

 

Again: utterly amazing.

It's some sort of engineering pre-history.

 

Ben says...

Has anyone told Hog this yet?

 

The Older Gentleman says...

Like MZs

 

He's too busy dismantling the hinge ...

 

Pip says...

Hog in unhinged shocker

 

Diesel Manual
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=96840&item=651822
5335&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

Steam Manual
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=69192&item=651777
4389&rd=1

Truly excellent books from when my job was a craft. I was issued both.

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "sweller"

Coo; watched.

Bugger; missed it.

I love old tech manuals like those.

--

Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

They turn up quite often; prices vary from under a tenner up to stupid
money.

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "sweller"

I'll keep an eye open then, ta. Mind you, I suppose thousands were
issued over the decades; it would be interesting to get an early
edition[1], but those will be the pricey ones, iwt.

[1] Assuming they existed in Victorian/Edwardian times.

--

Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

It was a British Transport Commission publication so late 40's will be
the earliest; most date from the fifties. It may have been a
consolidation of publications put out by the big four but I've never seen
any from them.

The diesel manual is also a work of art; 50's this time, part of the
modernisation plan. It was written with locomen in mind, many of whom
probably didn't even have a road driving licence and had been on the job
since before the First World War.

Many of the older drivers who could control an enormous train headed by a
temperamental steam engine with the deftest of touches would turn into
gibbering wrecks when confronted by the new fangled machinery.