Much like the government. When you hear, "I am from the government and I am here to help you".... WATCH OUT..Quote:
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Much like the government. When you hear, "I am from the government and I am here to help you".... WATCH OUT..Quote:
Originally Posted by Frank S
I just tell them Fine did you bring your own gloves safety glasses and steel toed work boots? If not come back when you are ready to workQuote:
Originally Posted by hemmjo
Blacksmiths at Woolwich Arsenal, London, late 1800s.
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If the war didn't kill them the radiation did...
Some of the first x-ray machines were simply tubes suspended by the wires connected to each end of them. I live in Davenport, Iowa where Dr. Palmer developed his manipulation techniques that came to be called Chiropractic care. He experimented with X-rays, care for mentally ill etc. It is rumored that he gave his wife Mabel cancer from taking so many X-rays of her. That is what she died of. He also spent several stints in the county jail for practicing medicine without a license.
When I was a kid there was a department store that had a machine in the shoe department. The man would put your foot in it and you could see the bones in the top of it. I was born with my feet in bedded into the front of my shins. They had braces and straps that they used to move my feet to the right place. They took me to that place once and got me shoes.
Lots of shoe stores had those years ago.
Years ago I needed some x rays done to my spine they laid lead blankets over every part of me but the area they were taking an image of then the tech stepped into an adjacent room to operate the machine. I could actually feel heat from the machine as it took the image. half an hour later we were looking at a compression fracture of my T12 vertebra
Just this past Friday night I went to our local hospital ER because a rusty staple had gouged into the first knuckle of my index finger on my left hand the tech rolled in a portable machine I placed my hand on it he stood there and took the images. seconds later he and I were looking at the computer screen showing a very tiny speck of rust embedded right in the knuckle joint. He was only a PA so he recommended I go to the main hospital ER some 71 miles away for them to make the evaluation. I told him that as small as it was I didn't think there was much to do about it but allow my body to deal with it. BUT NO he wouldn't have it since my hand had already began to swell, wanted to send my by ambulance to Abilene or Lubbock. I talked him out of that said I would drive. An hour and a half to get there an hour before I see a DR another round of pictures 2 specialists conferencing with that ER DR 2 hours later the result was there would be more damage to try and extract the speck and the recovery time would take longer than just leaving it alone and allow nature to take its course. I finally get home around 3 AM.
In retrospect if it hadn't been several years since I had a tetanus shot I would have just gone to my fridge and grabbed the bottle of penicillin I keep for doctoring our critters grabbed a new syringe and needle given myself a shot and taken 2 Ibuprofen and called myself in the morning. Which was basically what they did other than write me a script. for some horse pills and charge my insurance company no telling how much. My hand is still swollen and my knuckle still hurts but I didn't have to self inject
Having worked on x-ray machines for sub-sea cable joint inspection, redeveloping them when the original tubes went obsolete to use a smaller more powerful dental tube, I've seen quite a few machines that were unsafe due to damage to the enclosures.Quote:
Originally Posted by VinnieL
My Chiropractor had a new x-ray machine a couple of years ago, out with the old (over 20 years old and beyond repair) and in with a new 'low power' £500K machine, as the practice is busy 7am to 8pm six days a week it's almost paid for now, saves a 5 hour round trip to the Chiropractic 'University' for x-rays for patients.
It is my understanding that insurance companies, in their infinite wisdom, no longer pay for X-Ray's taken with machines in a Doctor's office in the USA. The Dr has to write you a prescription for the x-ray, then you take that to a hospital or one of many businesses that have sprung up to fill this need.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeiljohnUK
Perhaps this was due to old machine becoming obsolete, but, I am thinking it is more about the insurance company saving money.
More likely collusion between insurance co's and medical co's, something we're starting to see in the UK...Quote:
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I think they will pay as long as the Dr's office is a certified ER clinic with triage but It has been a long time since I've seen a stand alone GP's officeQuote:
Originally Posted by hemmjo
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Brooklyn Navy Yard workers applying finishing touches on BB 61 USS Iowa 175-ton 16-inch main armament
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Each of the 16" rifles weighs 239,000 pounds or about 120 tons.
When I toured the Iowa (now located nearby in San Pedro) we were told that each of the turrets weigh 2100 tons, very close to the weight of a WWII Fletcher class destroyer.
As with most battleships, the turrets are not secured to the ship. Rather they sit on rollers on their mounting ring. If these ships ever capsize, their turrets will fall out. I believe that is confirmed by pictures of several of the enemy battleships sunk during the war.
I like biguns!!!and small ones too!!! especially when they come in pairs.
On the shore opposite where the Iowa is moored they have one of the rifles from the New Jersey along with a dummy shell for scale. Here are a few photos I shot of it...
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and here, on the Iowa, is what they look like in situ...
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We had toured the USS Alabama in Mobile AL. IDK if they allow it anymore, but at one time you could get inside the turret.
IIRC, (and correct me if I'm wrong) the turrets and guns were of the same size/caliber as the Iowa Class.
Not a lot of room to wiggle into it from the deck, but it was worth it. All kinds of cables, hydraulics, etc.
The USS Alabama kitchen area was used in the movie Under Siege w/ Steven Seagal & Tommy Lee Jones
So Marv, now I understand where the term "Loose cannon" came from.
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Deep-boring machine 2959 for boring holes with a diameter of up to 1.3 m, length up to 30 meters. The length of the machine is 95 meters. The weight of the machine is 650 tons. The maximum weight of the product is 240 tons. Production Kramatorsk heavy duty machine tool building Plant. 1954
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That's how Dr. David Banner got his start, right?
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Railroad shop crew with newly rebuilt locomotive, Orizaba, Veracruz, Mexico, February 1944
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A PBS program I watched a few years ago, talked about Marie Curie that won several Nobel prizes (first women to do this), she died from Aplastic Anemia from her work taking Xrays of injured soldiers, via a portable machine she invented. It had always been thought it was from her work with radioactive materials. They recently moved her grave, and found no evidence of radioactivity in the remains, hence this updated theory of her death.
Inserting the control rod into Reactor 4 at Chernobyl.
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This can't end well...
seems so.... pointless
needs just a little duct tape... awe that should buff out. there got if fixed!! order some more duct tape from the gremlin parts source. put it on goober cheif's bill.
I am looking at those "man hole covers" around the outside edge. The 2 partially open holes in the lower section seem to have Snow Crabs in them! Is this an episode of "Deadliest Catch"?
could be chineessee checkers..
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Workers at the Loughborough Bellfoundry preparing the moulding case for a York Minster cathedral bell, Leicestershire, England, 1927
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I was always taught that the expression "loose cannon" originated from shipboard blackpowder cannons (think the cannons you see in movies of pirate ships, etc) which were attached to wooden trolleys, and the trolleys tethered to the porthole structure. If the cannon came out of the trolley, or the trolley became unattached to the ship structure, it could roll around in hull, and do damage to the ship, the crew, and goods.Quote:
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Yes, indeed, my take on the meaning as well. It's confirmed by the Wikipedia entry which contains a fascinating anecdote about the term. I don't think Wiki will be upset if I quote the whole entry here...Quote:
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A loose cannon refers to a cannon (usually a wheeled cannon) which gets dislocated and moves about randomly on the decks of a warship, creating a hazard to crew and equipment.
A famous literary depiction of a loose cannon appears in Victor Hugo's 1874 novel "Ninety-Three", whose plot is set during the French Revolution. In a well-known episode, a ship of anti-revolutionary French Royalists is sailing towards Brittany, to aid the anti-revolutionary Chouannerie rebellion. While at sea, a sailor fails to properly secure his cannon, which rolls out of control and damages the ship. The sailor risks his life to secure the cannon and save the ship. The Marquis de Lantenac, leader of the Royalists, awards the man a medal for his bravery and then executes him without trial for failing in his duty.
The widespread publication of Hugo's book, both in the original French and in translation to various other languages, helped make the concept of a loose cannon more well-known. It has eventually developed a metaphorical meaning relating to a person who is acting in a wild and unpredictable manner and who constitutes as much danger to his or her own side as to the enemy.
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This is a good time to plug the wikipedia easy search plugin that I like. You just make the text below into a bookmark (these are known as bookmarklets). Then I put the bookmarklet in my browser favorites bar, which I can access with key commands (depends on browser). So, I just press command-3, and then a little box pops up, into which I can type my Wikipedia query, and then press enter to search. My hands never leave the keyboard.
Code:javascript:void(q=prompt('Wikipedia:',getSelection()));%20if(q)void(location.href='http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?search='+escape(q))
This reply should have been for the Bell Casting post.
I see lots of pride in their endeavors.
Here's a photo of a finished product.
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Nice find Jim.
Although I bet that truck was overloaded!
Cheers Phil
wow thats a great big ding dong making thingy,,,, "preparing molding case for... great peter..of york minister" ... but it is a nice mold no matter what they are moling for the minister. I suppose next will be the pole pit mold......for the great peter....dam you just cant make this stuff up!!!I wonder if it feeds from the bottom or top?I wood assume bottom to help eliminate voids in the great peter.perhaps they should for made it for peter the great!!!or his minister!!! yes Im bored, too much rain&storms.
Interesting stuff about making bells, these guys do it the old way. That portion of the episode starts about 18 minutes in. I just watched this the other weekend while out in the garage trying to get stuff done. A tv does not lend itself to getting stuff done, but it's at least somewhat educational.
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Ferro Machinery Foundry Co. Cleveland, OH. December, 1918
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Not sure, exactly what we are looking at, at the Ferro Foundry, some sort of compactor? Obviously women doing the work with men watching. The first guy on the left looks like he might be a ghost.
Looks like she's putting sand into a sifter...
