A midlander banned to the fen Withdrew kidney juice from his mate Ken Though his poem had no ruth. It was damn near the truth Was it foresight or an instance of zen.
Don't even joke about it. I tried to make one once out of bits scrapped dry cleaning machine, not knowing that the thermostat was fecked.
Yeah that could've been verrrrrrrrr nasty. I hate pressure vessels. Which is a bit odd considering that I sell heat exchanger / boiler tubes.
The years I spent stretching boiler tubes...I get serious flashbacks every time I use a torque wrench.
Once they're fitted. Fluting them top an bottom so they sqeeze tight on the cylinder. An all day job for an engineer so following the tradition of shit rolling down hill, it would be "could we possibly borrow Ken for the day".
Oh aye. Similar to expanding the ends of heat exchanger tubes to lock them to the tube sheet before they're welded into place. I'm guessing
That looks like the chappy. Is that a motorised one? bollocks! the best I ever got was a two foot ratchet for the mandrel.
I think they're all motorised these days. I think you'd have a hard time persuading anyone to do it by hand unless you're in China or India.
I'm letting her use a mangle at the moment, but only because she's hurt her arm. That's the kind of great guy I am.
