The Reaction Game

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The Reaction Game
Created by Liam_Main on Sat 04 Jun 2011, 9:30 pm

Last Post by eirebilly, Today at 10:43


Skull and bones

The deadly warning

Hot water again for Kenny

There will be Tea, showers and more importantly scones on the back of this news!

Hot Water .......................... i burnt my bloody hand it is that hot

Nothing like a new boiler is there, hot water in seconds

It's instant

Instant hot water can be very painful. Here, it takes a few seconds for it to come through the pipes so I can stick my hand under 'hot water' for about 0.5-2 seconds on cold winter mornings and not feel like it's boiling my hands.

I want to see some of your favourite Rugby league moments over in the thread , think you will like the last one i put up

I will. Need to think about it. I have so many. From 1970 - around now.

There are so many

Posted some links up and a few memorable moments.

I shall go have a look

Let us know what you think.

Watched the first 2 they are a trip down memory lane really enjoyed them

It takes you back doesn't it? I can remember watching some of those games live and being a bundle of nerves.

I love watching old games , although summer rugby is good i miss standing on the terraces in the freezing cold with a hot cup of bovril in my hand

Bovril... I think I had it once about 35 years ago. It's like a meaty, soupy hot drink, yeah?

Yes its a beefy flavoured drink .................lovely on a cold day

What do you drink on hot days then?

Ice cold beer is good , but a tall glass of ice water is good aswell

Both of those are great. I also like to have a jug of lemon/lime cordial in the fridge if I'm not drinking beer and watching the cricket.

I like that old fashioned cloudy lemonade aswell

American Cream Soda, lovely! And cranberry juice, also lovely.

Dont you find Crean Soda to sweet ?

I have a serious sweet tooth! I know what you mean though, it has to be proper cold before I'll drink it, seems to counteract some of the sweetness.

Love cranberry too. We had this really sweet stuff at a middle eastern restaurant last night. Many different fruits... there was enough vitamin C in there for sure!

Going to have a few glasses of red wine tonight

That usually does the trick.

Nice bottle it ended up being , thats me done for now enjoy the rest of the day

OK, you too mate. Have a good one. Early night for me... went out to a factory in St Marys (60km each way), had lunch with the boss and then came home and rang Japan and sent list of problems, Need to get engineers out here asap. Brain is knackered!

What engineers do you need breaker?

oh feck... just got off the phone to Tokyo and Osaka. Jayzuz, talk about a communication 'issue'!

Mechanical and electrical engineers, Billy. The manufacturer have all the expertise - don't want to risk some local guy fiddling around with it. It's a massive Nomura Floor Borer... the customer/owners have been flogging it for about 12 years and it has about 10 issues (slightly off some of its axes) which need to get sorted quickly because the operator is starting to lose confidence and using manual override/ad-libbing and there is little tolerance for any errors in the components they are making.

How are you anyway? I hope all is fine.

Its not like Japanese to flog things to death breaker . They never run things at 120% capacity without any PM

Whats the program connected to it? PLC driven off a WINCC?

All is grand here mate, hope you are well?

Australians mate. In western Sydney. The Japanese will arrive as usual and when they see the indian guy run the machine. It's Fanuc control CNC. Also parts of the macros have been deleted or something. Maybe needs a full upgrade.

Glad to hear you're well. Are you back at work full time or part time?

Dont know too much about Fanuc guidence systems but i think that they are a sort of WINCC programe. You should be able to debug the error messages for a clear idea what the issues with it are. I think that with machines like your borer, once they go slightly off balance the your fecked...

They have the instruments to do the re-alignment of the spindle/quill and we think it's best that they also check the bed (they can chock it up will levelling blocks and make sure it's perfectly flat) and tweak the table as well. Takes between a week or two and then they run the tests. At the same time another guy will check the program, debug, reconfigure and make sure it's all working precisely again. They'll also clean the filters, check the oil and give owner's a certificate to say all's well.

Sorted then

If you can swindle a copy of the guidence program and send it to me i would be well happy. Always want to check out other programs

See what I can do. I have all the hard copies of the Operating system here but we will see what they can offer. Early days yet... they're just going through the list of problems. Scratching their heads and making that hissing sound like dragging back on a ciggie.

I would be suprised if they let you send it

Whats the power that the thing uses?

3 phase power

Oh, not a big one then, just 400V 16A?

about 15m long, 7.5m high. 41,500kgs

Pics

first one is SNK 5-axis multi centre, 2nd one is the big Nomura

They run on 3 phase Net power?

Impressive stuff, would love a close look at one someday.

Need to check but I'm pretty sure it's 3 phase 400V rated at 16A or 20A?

Its possible but its a hell of a machine to drive on that power

You'd know better than me but power comes in at 230-240 volts domestically but 415V for industrial. Is it then boosted up by a transformer to power the motor?

Ah ha, there it is. It has a seaparate transformer. Had me confused for a wee bit

Something like that.
Also there's 'hydraulic power' but that's powered by electricity, no?

There will be some power supply to the hydraulics, yes.

Strauss has retired from cricket

Has he? That's a little sad. Nice man. I hope this isn't the start of some string of retirements like we had.
(truly... I was thinking about England's morale this morning after the ODI. A few of them looked shattered in the field)

I had expected hime to step down as captain but not to retire from all forms of cricket. That was a huge shock.

There is also no suitable replacement as yet except for young Root.