Cochran Boilers - Croppie - have you worked on them?

[WHPES]

Not done anything on one for a very long time but I bet Croppie is familiar with them. Helped a gas engineer plumb one in to a big leisure centre a number of years ago. Quite a beast it was.

 

[Dotty]

Good job you didn't put money on that Roy!

Heard of them, never worked on them. Got a vague idea they're steamers.

 

[WHPES]

I think they are all steamers now. Not sure what the old one was. All I had to do was bring a water supply to the system so never paid much attention to the boiler itself. Guess there would have been some secondary heat exchanger system elsewhere but never saw it.

 

[Dotty]

It's usually a huge buffer vessel.

 

[WHPES]

Could have been in the swimming pool plant room (which was massive).

The only thing I remember about that job was seeing condom wrappers left on the floor in the boiler room. Guess there was more than one boiler being serviced there.

 

[Dotty]

Could have been in the swimming pool plant room (which was massive).

The only thing I remember about that job was seeing condom wrappers left on the floor in the boiler room. Guess there was more than one boiler being serviced there.

Do you know it really hurts when you send rum through your nose?

 

[WHPES]

Ha ha. When we were there, we had a sort of game between us looking at the staff at the leisure centre, trying to guess which of them were the ones at it.

 

[Dotty]

Back in the days when I worked for BT we used to work nights helping the battery section out. Deptford exchange was brilliant for seeing couples go at it hammer and tongs round the back of the leisure center!

 

[WHPES]

They had the swimming pool re-tiled at the same time as the boiler was being replaced. There were literally dozens of pallet loads of tiles. Must have been back breaking work.

 

[on31ll]

Back in the days when I worked for BT we used to work nights helping the battery section out. Deptford exchange was brilliant for seeing couples go at it hammer and tongs round the back of the leisure center!

so this is where you started your collection of dirty knickers

 

[turnpin]

Back in the days when I worked for BT we used to work nights helping the battery section out. Deptford exchange was brilliant for seeing couples go at it hammer and tongs round the back of the leisure center!

Pal of mine said in some far off part of Wales their leisure center comprised of 4 sheep tied to a lampost not quite sure what he meant:smug2:regards turnpin

 

[turnpin]

When I first started work at 15 the engineer I worked with taught me quite a lot about the Thomas Cochran boiler at the factory I started work at .It was a wee chieftan model with a hot well recovery set up and it was a steam producing boiler .Sometime`s I wish I could go back in time when thing`s seemed so simple then ..ahh!!regards turnpin:bigcry:

 

[dancinplumba]

Pal of mine said in some far off part of Wales their leisure center comprised of 4 sheep tied to a lampost not quite sure what he meant:smug2:regards turnpin

Naw turnpin that's YORKSHIRE !!! YORKSHIRE and PROUD .

 

[WHPES]

Pal of mine said in some far off part of Wales their leisure center comprised of 4 sheep tied to a lampost not quite sure what he meant

Careful, one company I worked at a guy got disciplined for racial harassment for making similar comments about Welshmen. You have been warned.

 

[WHPES]

Man fined for racism after Welsh sheep slur - Telegraph

 

[on31ll]

A bit full in aint it ! Everyone i know would just take it as banter ! But u will always get one !

 

[WHPES]

When I was a kid I would hear all manner of people tell overtly racist jokes about blacks, Chinese, Jews, asians etc out loud to everyone, which everyone laughed at then. Today such jokes are considered unacceptable, (with the only notable exceptions being jokes about the Germans and the French)