From my experience being in “maintenance”, project managers make the same mistakes again and again, fail to clear snags (sometimes very major), think that temporary botches and work arounds can be accepted as the final product.

Blame maintenance when the new kit fails to work claiming what the were given at the beginning of the possession was faulty (it was not, voice tapes and data logs proved it at a meeting/post mortem)

Seemingly listen to the maintenance tech tell him that particular feeder is no good for where it is situated, tell him he’ll get it changed and then bullshit when it doesn’t and say its suitable for its current application.

Oh and the worst bit I’ve heard of was the level of pressure applied to maintenance managers to accept work into “maintenance” as finished when it clearly was not.

Sorry if this sounds a bit bitter but after nearly 20 years in the rail industry I’ve yet to see one project come in on time, on budget and actually work properly.

Actually its touching mirrors that is bad, very bad. Worse than Stargates anyday!

Sorry to hear your news.

Yep, everyone is welcome newgal And don’t be put off by the airborne bikes…we have a few nutters but most of us rarely leave the ground

I resemble that remark! :wink:

Our condensate has a drain plug, when it drops below freezing for any length of time I simply remove the plug and put an old sauce pan under it. Simples.

Try the hot water thermistor, unplug it and see if the overrun keeps going, for want of a better description ours went a bit earthy and caused the central heating to play up and work only intermittently. The PCB and both central heating thermistors were initially changed to no avail; it was only after the hot water thermistor was changed that the system started behaving itself again.

Strange thing was that it on curve for for resistance and temperature but plugging it back in caused the system to FUBAR.

4 minutes

People have been killed by microwave ovens, its the DIY idiots that try to fix them it and getting a belt off the internals (before working on them various bits need to discharge-preferably overnight in case bleed resistors have burnt out).

Liberator’s are mental bright, take it from me, had 36mph off the top of the South Downs a few weeks ago. Flat out, nothing left in the legs big ring silliness down Pentlands and did’nt feel the need for any more light!

PS Trout, have the non-singing and revised thermal coefficient endurance chargers arrived yet?

South Downs again, video this time!

More South Downs fun,

My old Attack Trail on the South Downs a few years ago. I’d had a bit of a tantrum and thrown it in a snow drift after falling off for the umpteenth time!

Your digital mobile phone actually transmits and receives analogue waveforms (no square waves/noughts and ones).

Falling under a slow/stopping train will usually kill you very slowly and painfully as you get wrapped up in the gubbins under the train and effectivly you get squashed and held together at the same time. There is then normally a period of many minutes to several hours as the emergency services try to figure out the best extraction process for the casualty. The extraction process allows you to bleed out internally.

Probably due to thinking about typing something rude on the forum…..

I’ll pack my things now shall I?

Managed to run over a badger on my second outing with my Liberator, charged out of the bushes straight under the back wheel. Somehow I did’nt crash and the badger scuttled off into the bushes. :D

There’s an article on magicseaweed.com, there’s a shot of that wave with a near vertical face and a lip so thick I think being run over by a double decker might be more preferable.

I got caught out by a sneaker set in North Cornwall last year (8-10ft) when the rest of the sets were 6ftish which was about my limit. Had a very bad case of washing-machine-itus and dragged my sorry carcass up the beach and retired for the day.

Then again surfing with aching limbs, a streaming nose mixed with beachams cold&flu and Monster energy drink may not have been a wise idea.

Drop em off in Helmand. With out a gun and a star of David painted on them.

When Mrs Ming’s in charge of the ‘stat and the log burners not burning downa rain forest I sometimes wonder if I should drain the water from the rad’s and run a liquid sodium based system.

Treated sleepers are bad, esp the old ones, god knows what they used to preserve them but it’s VERY nasty. AVOID!

Making lists is good,

not nearly as good as cleaning guns and listening to the clowns.

+1 for XR4’s on South Downs Mud, XR2’s are rubbish in the wet, good in the dry.

+1 Facom

Almax and ground anchor

SPD’s for XC and racing, flats for social rides and stupidness.

I have a shiny gold one on order! 5000 miles to Namibia, pah, it’s several lights years to the Imperial Palace! :-)

Running XT 3×10, so far its done two horrendous Big Dog laps in horrific conditions and 2 D2D laps in what can only be described as Somme like conditions; both times it was very well behaved, sure the shifting slowed a little once the derailleur turned into a muddy metallic lump but other than that its been fine.

The cogs are very thin though so durability maybe an issue but so far so good.

Yes he should’nt have gone up the back of her but what a
CRAZY BITCH, why stop suddenly in the middle of the trail? No sign of a mechanical, no shout of stopping etc.

Bloke was a bit too reasonable if you ask me.

I second ear plugs, get black out liners for your curtains or just thick heavy curtains and mostly importantly on your way home from work DO NOT LOOK AT THE SUN (apparently it triggers wake up routines in the brain/bodyclock system), wear sunnies and avoid looking at it.

Be careful if your riding involves flints, the sidewalls are not the most robust.

Ahem, we have 16, ferret math set in. Still cheaper than kids (just) and putting them away in cages won’t get you arrested. And the “poley” in the first picture is a spitting image of our Husker.

First lap OK,handed over, second lap absolutely flew(or so I thought), third lap….bottled it as hypothermia set in due to not having enough changes of clothing. My team mate gamely did two laps on the bounce before throwing the towel in at about 0230.

I found Dark Sun by Richard Rhodes a fascinating read as it details post war Atomic and Hydrogen bomb development, along with the huge amount of Soviet espionage and warmongering by the US military.

To further add to the debate, the US military thought any invasion of Japan would result in a monumental loss of life, both civilian population and Allied Troops. The Bomb was seen as a quick way to end the war.

Too add to Northwinds comments, the US miltary with conventional bombing caused horrific firestorms in Japanese cities because they were mainly built from wood.

I think it was the Nagasaki bomb that was slightly off target, it was supposed to have been dropped at the mouth of two valley’s with the blast channelling up each but clouds over the target resulted in the bomb actually only affecting one valley.

From my understanding of the Japanese war machine, a victimless demonstration would probably have been seen as american weakness. Don’t forget they failed to surrender after the first one.

Also at the time the Americans had only had very limited amount of weapons grade Uranium and Plutonium, every ounce counted.

Dear old Miss Cumings; my best Primary school teacher, who pulled my reading age up from 5 to 13 in one year:

“I shall be very disappointed if you are not the first Man on Mars.”

Nobody’s beaten me to it………………yet

Trout,

6xpg’s on my order please

Nationalising the railway could seriously impact safety. Continual restructuring and reorganising has occurred since the formation of Network Rail. One of the criticisms of the Hidden Report (after the Clapham crash in the 80’s) was of the continual reorganisations that BR would undergo. Lessons have not been learnt, all that has happened before is happening again.

As the T shirt says: Don’t bother to run, you’ll only die tired!