The Bluebird Project

Renegadenemo wrote: ↑Fri Mar 20, 2020 2:09 am ‘Spawn of Satan' (love that, by the way - what a workshop shirt that would make!

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I read on another forum that the canopy was not made of strong enough perspex and this is why it blew off. Was that true or did you ever discover what happened to cause the accident? Would that be the same forum where Bill Smith is depicted as the spawn of Satan and your good self accused of being ...

Thanks! Love the little Barclay

Wise words, mate.

Nice. But how much does it weigh when you’re out of the water?

Sadly I have no idea as I was mostly concerned with how to internally blast an inch diameter pipe for the first five or six inches of its length so the swageing tool could be re-used without collecting an uneven layer of soot and thus applying uneven pressure around the pipe's inner circumference. ...

.....what caught my interest is that the text says that the back of Leinster Gardens was a good place for the underground steam locomotives to 'blow off' because they were fitted with condensers and had to do this periodically. Any of you railway buffs know about this? Having given this some more t...

The early Metropolitan Railway locomotives were fitted with valves which enabled the footplate crew to switch from condensing to non-condensing mode and I would imagine that the opportunity to revive the fire by doing this was welcomed by the crews. So condensers were used on railway steam engines ...

As a bit of a Conan Doyle fan I was re-watching the BBC Sherlock series last week and decided to Google the fake houses at Leinster Gardens in London as it featured in one of the episodes. http://www.urban75.org/london/leinster.html But what caught my interest is that the text says that the back of...

Couldn’t resist sharing this:
https://youtu.be/cD3QlR98--A