A Cruel but funny Vid....

[Stuart]

2 hours ago, OldStager said:

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.

 

In Yorkshire it was a long stand.... 

[Richard (OldStager)]

3 minutes ago, Stuart said:

 

In Yorkshire it was a long stand.... 

Thats what I used from the weight gag, a long stand to hold 100m of 2.5 T&E.

[Man On The Clapham Omnibus]

14 hours ago, OldStager said:

Well spotted, never knew valves were secured like that, before the times of the ridge in the valve stem I guess.

I haven't dismantled an engine down to removing valves since I did my BMC 'A' Series in my 1970 MG Midget. The Standard Ten from 1954 had discs with a keyhole in it that you simply slipped under the recess rathe than fiddling with split collets. Nowadays I try to adopt the 'let some other bu99er do it' stance.

[jeff oakley]

I know the past was not perfect but there was more fun in the workplace then. As a young mechanic we were subjected to all sorts of "fun". Sent for a long stand, to the shop for a packet of family way toffees etc.

 

I had a pair of steel toe capped boots, which I polished to mirror finish, for some reason this wound a couple up so their answer was to weld them to the workbench, only problem my feet were still in them. I learnt how to make size 9 size 4 quickly.

 

Got my own back on one. We had a champion spark plug cleaner and tester. If you ran a wire from the test lead to the brass door handle, you could push the button just as they got hold of it and by some twist of luck the current kept their hand there in place for a good length of time before they could let go. Yanking the wire off and running away meant they never caught me.

 

So many done to me but I never did it to my apprentices but was happy to pay back those who did things to me.

[Richard (OldStager)]

I forgot about test equipment, one we had was called a mega, sounds like Jeffs plug tester to be honest, but it was for 'flashing out' Pyro, an industrial cable that was fire proof, the Mega would produce huge voltages in order to ensure the cable end you had completed was clear of faults, so we used to connect to to the other end of the cable which could be up to 100 metres away whilst some poor soul was preparing the Pyro end and hit the 'test' button, you would hear cries of pain in some part of the building and it took a while for some appretices to catch on 😮