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Post by BritPete on Dec 9, 2017 21:04:13 GMT
Just watched Guy Martin WW1 Tank
Fantastic achievement in a mater of months
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Post by carlthebandit on Dec 9, 2017 23:03:29 GMT
I was watching it but the gaffer insisted we watched celebrity get me out of aus  |
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Post by bugsy on Dec 9, 2017 23:40:16 GMT
It was clearly not easy to build today so how on Earth was it done 100 years ago? Driverless electric cars - hmmm - couldn't fix one of those with a welding torch and a bigger bearing.
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Post by listey on Dec 10, 2017 1:20:38 GMT
I saw this a couple of weeks ago.
Not so much hard to build, but I found it interesting how Guys crew found it too hard/time consuming to replicate the exact construction methods employed, when a century ago our lads and lasses were churning these things out rapid-fashion.
I guess though that out current crop of 16 year old girls don't much fancy a quick apprenticeship to become a plater or hot-riveter?
I realise traditional skills like those may have died out, never to return, but it's kind of nice to see that today's technology cannot necessarily replace them.
Heroes all of 'em, and not just the ones on the front line.
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Post by BritPete on Dec 10, 2017 8:53:16 GMT
I saw this a couple of weeks ago. Not so much hard to build, but I found it interesting how Guys crew found it too hard/time consuming to replicate the exact construction methods employed, when a century ago our lads and lasses were churning these things out rapid-fashion. I guess though that out current crop of 16 year old girls don't much fancy a quick apprenticeship to become a plater or hot-riveter? I realise traditional skills like those may have died out, never to return, but it's kind of nice to see that today's technology cannot necessarily replace them. Heroes all of 'em, and not just the ones on the front line. Businesses want automation I joined Thresher in 1989 By the time I left in 2008 an office of 250 clerks to process the shop paper work, time sheets, supplier invoices was down to 40 people Its about profit not retaining skills these days Keep telling my daughter become a plumber - I think there is a bit of longevity there |
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Post by Somersetdreamer on Dec 10, 2017 10:24:55 GMT
I watched this a few weeks ago & enjoyed it & I thought they should of used rivets though but maybe there just wasn't time
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Post by BritPete on Dec 10, 2017 11:11:39 GMT
Sure I watched a documentary recently about a bridge where they were changing the rivets
In the old shipyards riveting was a 4 man job
One to heat the rivets to red hot
One to catch them in a bucket of sand when the heater throws them
One to put in the hole and hold
The other to rivet over
Now its a one man job with a welder
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