Nemesis Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 https://fb.watch/aEWiI5K5Uu/ If it worked..... Nem.... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 Brilliant! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikef Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 Excellent! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeff oakley Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 It was funny and used to happen a lot with apprentices playing tricks 1976 I was given the job to fully rebuild a 6 cylinder York diesel in an A series tipper, my first big job. I diligently took it to pieces logged bits and rebuilt it fully but when looking in the tray when it was finished, there sat a wooduff key which was out of the diesel pump set up. I was 100% sure I had done it but I had to come clean. I was mortified and went and told my boss, one massive b****ing later I was stripping it back down again 7 hours later I was staring at the woodruff key in place with the one from the tray in my hand. Some hilarious t4wt had tossed a spare one in the tray and caused all this extra work. Boss went mental but no one would own up so it was never solved who did it. I didn't find it funny at the time and never found out who did it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard (OldStager) Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 Reminds me of a video I watched recently, where during WW2 women were drafted in to fly planes around the country to deliver them to bases , so the guys could do be left to fight. One women having flown her plane onto a base, then had to take another one off to somewhere else. No matter how much she tried she was unable to get the trusty Merlin going, turned out after many hours , the service chaps removed all the plugs for a laugh... Poor girl... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TAFKARM Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 18 minutes ago, OldStager said: Reminds me of a video I watched recently, where during WW2 women were drafted in to fly planes around the country to deliver them to bases , so the guys could do be left to fight. One women having flown her plane onto a base, then had to take another one off to somewhere else. No matter how much she tried she was unable to get the trusty Merlin going, turned out after many hours , the service chaps removed all the plugs for a laugh... Poor girl... The air transport auxiliary; I’ve met a few at White Waltham, a great bunch of ladies. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard (OldStager) Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 2 minutes ago, Rush Motorsport said: The air transport auxiliary; I’ve met a few at White Waltham, a great bunch of ladies. Yes, that was they, I was going to put WAF but knew that wasn't right. Agreed very brave ladies, especially as the planes had all the weapons disabled, so defenceless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Man On The Clapham Omnibus Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 When I was a lad my Dad used to strip and de-coke his car on a fairly regular basis - a sort of ritual to the Gods of the Otto Cycle I suppose. Anyway, he'd done his car - an old Standard Ten or Eight if I remember rightly - and he was just wiping al his spanners and other tools when I spotted a tobacco tin on the bench with eight little spring clips in it... They were the clips on the valve spring split cotters like these at the very top . It's likely that the cotters would have remained in place due to the wedge effect, but he took it all to pieces again to fit them. He'd have loved to have given me a bo11ocking but he knew it was his own fault! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard (OldStager) Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 Well spotted, never knew valves were secured like that, before the times of the ridge in the valve stem I guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 When I worked on building sites in the '70s I remember the newbies regularly being sent to get some putlog holes.... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard (OldStager) Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 Oh dear, I don't know if I should admit this but In my first year as an appentice sparky, I regularly got sent to the suppliers for spare electrons as the wire we had ran out of them, to which the supplier said he a no stock and call back tomorrow. Then the old favorite of asking for a long weight, which took ages to get... They were the days. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glen_I Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 5 hours ago, jeff oakley said: It was funny and used to happen a lot with apprentices playing tricks 1976 I was given the job to fully rebuild a 6 cylinder York diesel in an A series tipper, my first big job. I diligently took it to pieces logged bits and rebuilt it fully but when looking in the tray when it was finished, there sat a wooduff key which was out of the diesel pump set up. I was 100% sure I had done it but I had to come clean. I was mortified and went and told my boss, one massive b****ing later I was stripping it back down again 7 hours later I was staring at the woodruff key in place with the one from the tray in my hand. Some hilarious t4wt had tossed a spare one in the tray and caused all this extra work. Boss went mental but no one would own up so it was never solved who did it. I didn't find it funny at the time and never found out who did it I shouldn't laugh but this is why I miss the workshop.....Purely for the antics whilst watching some poor sole going off on one whilst everyone is hiding behind their boxes sniggering. Don't get that working from home on my own!!!🥺 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard (OldStager) Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 I got my own back when I had my own apprentices though, used the same gags, just modified slightly as everyone knew the electron one by now. The only gag I did to fellow sparkies was during my sound engineer job in the evenings, a few stage maroons accidently on purpose fell in my pocket and lit a few whilst in the works van on the M6, the driver was not impressed at all for some reason, you could not see your own hand infront of you such was the smoke. Somewhat dangerous, but we all laughed later... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nemesis Posted January 21, 2022 Author Share Posted January 21, 2022 The last 'funny' prank played by myself on a deserving victim involved an iphone with a dog whistle app installed and a flat panel computer screen...... For those of you who can remember the old CRT type screens that would randomly emit a high pitched squeal you'll get this. Enter room right yours truly, with the iphone tucked into my pocket sounding like a corporation bus under heavy braking..... The victim was sat at computer and doing his best to look busy, so I just loitered at an annoying distance until eventually he erupts with "what the devil is that noise?", yours truly here then regales him with fonts of knowledge regarding the sometimes errant ways of computer monitors. He looked at me like I'd put the last of my marbles in a spin drier....... Sooo I duly stepped forward and explained that when the monitor is squealing like this all you have to do is give it a hefty slap across the side or on the top and it will settle down nicely..... I demonstrate with a gentle tap to the top of the monitor with the left whilst the right in my pocket pauses the app....... He looked a bit perplexed and I'm not convinced he believed me, so I left it a half minute or so and started the app up again, rinse and repeat I shut it up again...... That got him hooked, start the app up again and get him to administer the slap..... works first time of course, but within half an hour I'd got him slapping the monitor so hard..... anyway I.T. were called and asked for a replacement monitor as we can't seem to read anything on this one. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glen_I Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 I went into the office armed with a mini wireless keyboard and dongle. Whilst the bloke behind wasn't looking we plugged the dongle into his PC and then sat back down, once he returned we kept using the keyboard/mouse to move and open files and various programs. He started gobbing of that his PC had been hacked😄, we continued with this until he called IT support who came down with everyone from IT including some bloke who's background was cyber security......the entire time if felt like Mission Impossible trying to remove the dongle without getting busted🤣 Better times for messing about were still had in the workshop. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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