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Good score Bob for the Mens Shed.... Make sure you get someone to check the flow rates & volumes with the ducting...lol...cheers, crowie

Originally Posted by crowie

Good score Bob for the Mens Shed.... Make sure you get someone to check the flow rates & volumes with the ducting...lol...cheers, crowie

Can you tell I will be like a pig in mud having to set this up

Very nice Bob! Well done. The lights in one of those pictures look great too. Can you get them? I'm amazed at how cheap most fluoro fittings are these days. Cheap as in junk not dollars!

Also, I notice that the ducting is the spiral kind which everyone seems to covet around the internet. What is it with the "spiral" ducting. How is it better? Thanks.

Originally Posted by LuckyDuck

Very nice Bob! Well done. The lights in one of those pictures look great too. Can you get them? I'm amazed at how cheap most fluoro fittings are these days. Cheap as in junk not dollars! .

There's lots of things we'd like to get, like all the 3 Phase sockets and big breaker boxes. Plus there were lots of old tools and bits and pieces, but we're only allowed to take the DC and ducting.
Because of OHS issues we're not even allowed to take down the ducting ourselves but the Schools is going to pay to have it professionally removed. I worry about this because it may mean they just attack it with an angle grinder.
It is actually pop riveted together and should come apart quite easily.

Also, I notice that the ducting is the spiral kind which everyone seems to covet around the internet. What is it with the "spiral" ducting. How is it better? Thanks.

There is nothing special about it. It has about the same smoothness as PVC. Some folks like it because it doesn't build up static.

Sometimes I think OHS has a lot to answer for!

Originally Posted by LuckyDuck

Sometimes I think OHS has a lot to answer for!

I can understand where the school is coming from - a bunch of older guys turn up and need to clamber all over ladders, or want to take away electrical fittings. These places have legal requirements about the people that work on their sites which we could not meet We are still getting the system in its entirety and we did get a couple of machines from them so we haven't done too badly.

That's fair enough. In my "real" job at a medical practice it is a fine juggle between common sense and protecting staff and the public. We probably all agree that insurance premiums cost enough as it is!

Anyway, well done on the dusty and ducting. I look forward to hearing how it goes with the install in the new location...

Originally Posted by LuckyDuck

Sometimes I think OHS has a lot to answer for!

How about this for extreme. This is a fact. My father invited me over and we watched it while having some beers.

The story is thus: he lives over the road from a school in Woolamaloo. It's old. The outside wall needed painting, off-white it was, nothing fancy, but the paint was peeling. Not a big wall, 2 stories tall and about 15 odd metres wide. Nothing than what a lot of people would have on the short side of their house.

Two blokes turned up, then the council, then three drones from the school and finally some traffic people. Road was blocked off, barricades erected, tape put out, traffic girls (they were not the usual crusty duffers) turned everyone away and then what seemed like an endless array of conversations and photos.

I turned up at 1pm and they had been at this since 7am apparently. Guess how much paint had been applied? If you guessed zero, you'd be right.

We counted 11 people there. We watched this fiasco as he various parties seemed to be locked into some bureaucratic process. Meanwhile the painters were listening and relaxing, no doubt looking at the watches to ensure the billables were racking up.

By the end of the first day, not even the ladder was put against the wall.

Second day, there was progress, but I kid you not, my father nearly coughed out a lung he was laughing so hard over the phone, for they had these two bastards rigged up like abseilers and they forced them to only use a ladder, with the guy on the bottom the entire time, without exception. No leaning out, up, or down. So he was up and down like Donkey Kong to apply 1 square foot of paint at a time.

At no time were there less than 6 people there, with one doing the actual work. Apparently at various junctures during the day everyone was there.

Three days....THREE full days later it was done. Anyone here would have had it done by themselves in 6 hours, including tea and lunch (and that's quite a few tea breaks and a loooong lunch).

It was the most appalling and squanderous waste of public money you could possibly imagine. Yes, my dad did take photo's. No doubt that went into some Gestapos report too.