Threading machine - top kit!

[rocketmanbkk]

Had a go on a threading machine at college last night, excellent kit.

Trouble is, wouldn't want to be on a site with no heating in this weather, top kit or not!

Still got all my digits too!

Cheers all.

Rocket (42 yo in a 16yo brain - last night anyway)!

 

[secret squirrel]

Like anything at work theres bits you like, bits you don't, bits you do because they pay well, bits you despise and for me its low carbon steel,

Or if your really really really old I think they used to call it barrel or so my mate said.

Apparently its to do with the Napoleonic wars and there being a lot of muskets about, they dismantled them, joined them together and run water through them. Now thats re-cycling.

 

[rocketmanbkk]

yep, glad I had a go but not interested in suing the stuff!

 

[Mike Jackson]

I like a bit of barrel work occasionally, it reminds me that how nice it is to work with copper. It's a good skill to learn because a lot of the new breed of plumbers/gas engineers aren't familiar with it and there are times when nothing else will do. With the rising incidence of copper theft from the outside of buildings barrel may make a comeback for external gas runs.