virtual crazy gang, part II

[Engine Serang]

There are two things I give a wide berth to (Years of bitter experience) , one is BBQ's and the other is tumblers of "Fruit Punch".
The first will give you the bokes and the sh1ts and the other the bokes, the sh1ts and the famous 36 hour hangover.
I still go to half a dozen family BBQ's every summer, it would terribly bad form not to support Aunt Mavis or Aunt Arlene's annual highlight.
I blame The Merch for my weakness, such is life.

[billyboy]

bit of a blow coming this way. Hope it changes course. Boat swung out and Sea Boots at the ready here.

[billyboy]

Good Grief!.. Who ordered this new hawser!
Cut outs get it stowed down aft at the double. chop chop now!

[Malcolm G]

I went to the stores on an RN ship and asked if they had any string..
Reply was “String!? We don’t have STRING in the Royal Navy!”.
I said: “You want to get some, it’s good stuff.”

There are members of SH who wont get that…

[Dave McGouldrick]

Originally Posted by billyboy

Good Grief!.. Who ordered this new hawser!
Cut outs get it stowed down aft at the double. chop chop now!

But it was only 3 euros a metre FOB

[Engine Serang]

Small stuff in Texaco.

[YM-Mundrabilla]

We should be able to unpick and unwind it to make something useful like fuse wire or light globe filaments, but it might take a while, of course.

[YM-Mundrabilla]

Originally Posted by Malcolm G

I went to the stores on an RN ship and asked if they had any string..
Reply was “String!? We don’t have STRING in the Royal Navy!”.
I said: “You want to get some, it’s good stuff.”

There are members of SH who wont get that…

Am I alone?

[Malcolm G]

Originally Posted by YM-Mundrabilla

Am I alone?

It’s not called string, any small cordage down to string is referred to as ‘small stuff’.

[170 Driver]

Originally Posted by YM-Mundrabilla

We should be able to unpick and unwind it to make something useful like fuse wire or light globe filaments, but it might take a while, of course.

Or...leave it as it is and use it as fusewire.
It`ll never need replacing.

[Varley]

I know I was small stuff in Texaco. I just got to be bigger.

And, to paraphrase the BBA's Prime tenet. That of the Leckies might be "If the current is big enough the fuse WILL blow" - just as long as the Gennys stay connected for enough time (else the lights go out, big-time).

So keep your hawser-picking hands to yourself as it's difficult to judge a decent measure in the dark without spilling any.

[tweediekiwi]

Surely the other wiring would burn out before the fuse blew? I used to do lighting at the local AmDram and I overloaded what was supposed to be a 20A circuit. Sadly, the electrician had put an 80A fuse in and it burnt out the new wiring that I'd just run! I had a very fast and sweaty time running about in the ceiling with a fire extinguisher putting burning cobwebs and tar paper off the roofing. So, I don't do lighting down there any more and the electrician left town too.