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DiscoDunc
Member Since: 08 May 2006
Location: Bristol
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do you need a tester  Duncan
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If I'd known I was going to be so thirsty this morning I'd have drunk more beer last night.
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BLACK BETTY
Member Since: 18 Oct 2008
Location: Louth
Posts: 575
  
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I'm afraid it of the softer variety, or else I'd live at work
hang on  I already do Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
Also appears 9/10 of stopping is stopping in time
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| 2nd Jul 2009 6:49 pm |
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countrywide
Member Since: 16 Sep 2007
Location: UK
Posts: 6019
 
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Funnily enough I had a nightmare tank today, the bloody header tank ball cock for the heating decided to fall apart today and pour water outside. No isolator so had to turn off all the water.
Decided to fit a new valve and fit an isolator, but it was a living hell in the loft, must have been 50 degree's up ther. Then the isolator valve started dripping, so had to go back up again to add some PTFE.
Why couldn't it do it in winter and not the hottest day of the year 
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| 2nd Jul 2009 6:57 pm |
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wiggs
Member Since: 03 Sep 2006
Location: Manchester
Posts: 14368
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Andrew ..did you get the Manchester Airport job ?
Was chatting to Dave Thomas the other week . He was telling me about when you took a few Hall and Kay guys down to your legendery forest ..oh and the red lion 
He said he had a great time ..even though he shat himself going down jeronimo (spelling ?) G4 Gone ...but not forgotten
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| 2nd Jul 2009 8:57 pm |
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PeanutBob
Member Since: 24 Oct 2006
Location: Cheshire
Posts: 669
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Unnecessary quote removed
Ha! ha! Very funny....you know that you got the contract for Michael Jackson's tomb! 
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| 2nd Jul 2009 9:10 pm |
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AndrewS
Tarquin of the Desert
Member Since: 06 May 2005
Location: Y...... because I can
Posts: 10438
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wiggs wrote:Andrew ..did you get the Manchester Airport job ?
No we lost it to Vulcan Tanks they are prepared to work on one compartment with the other compartment full  The amount of tanks that have collapsed doing this is unbelievable. I have contacted Vulcan and told them that I am not interested in the job but please drain the second compartment otherwise someone will get killed. The thing is the poor sods doing the work have no idea what risk they are at 
wiggs wrote:
Was chatting to Dave Thomas the other week . He was telling me about when you took a few Hall and Kay guys down to your legendery forest ..oh and the red lion
He said he had a great time ..even though he shat himself going down jeronimo (spelling ?)
Good to hear the scare factor works  In the Beginning there was nothing, which exploded.
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| 2nd Jul 2009 10:55 pm |
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wiggs
Member Since: 03 Sep 2006
Location: Manchester
Posts: 14368
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You would think with health and safety the way it is ..they woudn't be aloud to any way
Hell ..i need a pemit to park my car on site nowadays
Did you ever hear about the tank at Argos stafford ( biggy next to the M6 ) .That had some wired oval shape with 2 compartments ..on Commissioning day the tank folded inside itself ...and ruptured ...quite a few years back now though . G4 Gone ...but not forgotten
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| 2nd Jul 2009 11:27 pm |
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countrywide
Member Since: 16 Sep 2007
Location: UK
Posts: 6019
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I am no expert (apart from bloody 20 litre header tanks now), but if the tanks have compartments, don't they rely on the pressure of the water in each tank to support the other.
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| 3rd Jul 2009 8:14 am |
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SPOTTER
Member Since: 06 Dec 2006
Location: Adrift........
Posts: 3095
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that would depend how they had designed the tank to be operated end of an era ....... maybe a Defender when it appears.......
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| 3rd Jul 2009 8:43 am |
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AndrewS
Tarquin of the Desert
Member Since: 06 May 2005
Location: Y...... because I can
Posts: 10438
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wiggs wrote:You would think with health and safety the way it is ..they woudn't be aloud to any way
Hell ..i need a pemit to park my car on site nowadays
Did you ever hear about the tank at Argos stafford ( biggy next to the M6 ) .That had some wired oval shape with 2 compartments ..on Commissioning day the tank folded inside itself ...and ruptured ...quite a few years back now though .
Yep same company that designed the one at Manchester Airport Basically two cylindrical tanks one smaller one inside a big one. I was asked to build it but refused when I saw the drawings. Get this.... the internal smaller tank had rings of rolled (to the radius) channel bracing every 1.2m ON THE OUTSIDE of the tank So when the outer compartment was filled the inner tank collapsed, think of squeezing an empty coke can.
countrywide wrote:I am no expert (apart from bloody 20 litre header tanks now), but if the tanks have compartments, don't they rely on the pressure of the water in each tank to support the other.
No both tanks should be able to stand alone. One particular manufacture left a trail of destruction before they went bust. The idea behind two tanks is life safety. If one tank fails there is always the second one, however most of the time the two tanks are connected through a pipe that does not have an isolation valve so if one fails the second tank will empty through the connecting pipe. TBH its all a load of  . In the Beginning there was nothing, which exploded.
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| 3rd Jul 2009 9:09 am |
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