Things you don't hear anymore!

wiggy · Post by **wiggy** » Fri 17 Jul, 2009 4:53 pm

Reginal Perrin wrote: We used to get the sound of explosives expanding pipes underwater at Yorkshire Copper Works in Stourton. we got that in gipton! i often wondered what it was..until i worked there,then it scares the [edited for content] out of you.

keefmoon · Post by **keefmoon** » Tue 21 Jul, 2009 6:45 pm

Reginal Perrin wrote: We used to get the sound of explosives expanding pipes underwater at Yorkshire Copper Works in Stourton. My old man worked there. They use, or used, a cold press. Which is basically a copper billet that gets hit with a big piece of kit which forces it into shape (from what I remember). Went once or twice as a kid to pick up his wage (in a paper packet), the noise was deafening.

Post by **chameleon** » Tue 21 Jul, 2009 9:03 pm

Just imagine being the one who has to carefully use a blowlamp to precisely fill those little groves in the fittings with solder

keefmoon · Post by **keefmoon** » Tue 21 Jul, 2009 9:10 pm

chameleon wrote: Just imagine being the one who has to carefully use a blowlamp to precisely fill those little groves in the fittings with solder So you are a plumber?

Post by **chameleon** » Tue 21 Jul, 2009 10:43 pm

keefmoon wrote: chameleon wrote: Just imagine being the one who has to carefully use a blowlamp to precisely fill those little groves in the fittings with solder So you are a plumber? No, but in my very youthful days, I did look at those things and wonder how they did it so well!Now I know of course, it's obvious enough. Just one of life's little mysteries for a while, yes, sad I know

blackprince · Post by **blackprince** » Thu 28 Jan, 2010 11:41 am

Geordie-exile wrote: Ding ding! Lovely, inviting to a child buttons on the LCT buses.Air raid testing siren. Mister Softee's jingle.Kids singing, 'The Farmer's in his Den' and 'The Big Ship sails on the Alley-alley-oh''Would you like to buy a War Cry?' Its years since I heard a factory hooter.