RMweb Premium melmerby Posted September 14, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 14, 2022 14 hours ago, ardbealach said: Do we believe him? A wave soldering machine? Hmmm ---would it not get wet unless the tide was out? (Alisdair PPrGrandRivetter) How do you solder waves? What flux? What temperature? Wouldn't they just disperse before you could solder them?😆 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hodgson Posted September 14, 2022 Share Posted September 14, 2022 1 hour ago, melmerby said: How do you solder waves? What flux? What temperature? Wouldn't they just disperse before you could solder them?😆 You have to tin them first 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ardbealach Posted September 14, 2022 Share Posted September 14, 2022 Waves in tins? How big would the tins need to be? [Alisdair] 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted September 14, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 14, 2022 Wave soldering; what times we live in! Have the surfing community been informed? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewartingram Posted September 14, 2022 Share Posted September 14, 2022 19 hours ago, J. S. Bach said: Wave soldering machine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_soldering Whilst I was an apprentice at Pye/Philips in the mid 60s, I was for a while working our 2 wave soldering machines. I was told at the time they were pioneering machines at that time. I had 2 managers in charge of me (not together) and each had his own pet way of setting the machines up. A would do it his way, leaving the tweaking of settings to me when I had become accustomed to it. Then when B took over, he set it his way which wasn't as good. Next day A reset it again, only for B to change it again when he came back. Oh the games....I was just the apprentice in the middle. Later on we got an ultrasonic cleaning bath, which replaced all the scrubbing of pcbs by hand, with meths. I liked that ultrasonic bath, it worked well. Happy days. 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Hroth Posted September 14, 2022 Share Posted September 14, 2022 6 minutes ago, PhilJ W said: At the beginning of the 19th century, people would tour battlefields with barrels and pliers, wrenching useful teeth from corpses to sell to dental surgeons to make false teeth for the well off. In Britain, such dentures were called "Waterloo Teeth"... 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted September 14, 2022 Share Posted September 14, 2022 18 minutes ago, PhilJ W said: Just cross your legs and think of England.... 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted September 15, 2022 Share Posted September 15, 2022 23 hours ago, Hroth said: At the beginning of the 19th century, people would tour battlefields with barrels and pliers, wrenching useful teeth from corpses to sell to dental surgeons to make false teeth for the well off. In Britain, such dentures were called "Waterloo Teeth"... Now disputed after recent excavations of graves at Waterloo and all the troops have teeth intact. Also no evidence for them selling bodies for fertiliser. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62148618 Jason 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted September 16, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 16, 2022 Removal of gold teeth from battle corpses is a recurring feature of the Sven Hassell books which are an alleged account of the adventures of 27th Panzer, an SS penal regiment (serve as cannon fodder or get the death penalty for whatever crime you committed against the Reich). It is claimed to be common practice by all combatants, a nest egg for such time as hostilities cease, should one be yet counted among the living, and I would be unsurprised if this claim is not factual. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Colin_McLeod Posted September 16, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 16, 2022 4 hours ago, The Johnster said: I would be unsurprised if this claim is not factual. So just say that you don't believe it. Have I correctly interperted your multiple negatives? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 7 hours ago, Steamport Southport said: Now disputed after recent excavations of graves at Waterloo and all the troops have teeth intact. Also no evidence for them selling bodies for fertiliser. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62148618 Jason I didn't particularly specify the battlefield of Waterloo as a source, merely that it inspired a passing colloquial saying that dentures made from human teeth used them. It would have been the biggest battle that would be generally known about in Britain at the time. Other battlefields were available... If you want, I could give you a step by step description of how such dentures were made. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted September 16, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 16, 2022 1 hour ago, Colin_McLeod said: So just say that you don't believe it. Have I correctly interperted your multiple negatives? Actually, I’ve tripped myself up with my multiple negatives, Colin, and you’ve correctly interpreted what I wrote, but I didn’t mean what I wrote. My belief is that Hassel (who presented the 27th Panzer stories as dramatised personal eye-witness accounts but was never in the Werhmacht or the SS, and hence must be viewed as at least a little mendacious) is probably correct about the gold teeth. I read the series during my teenage years and found them quite believable, and to carry a very effective anti-war message. Hassel probably compiled the stories from serving German soldiers’ accounts; and as war crimes are described in detail he unsurprisingly does not name these soldiers. The events described tally with historical dates. He was very clearly influenced by Remarque’s WW1 classic All Quiet On The Western Front when it came to the principal characters of the series, who rapidly become brutalised by their experiences, understandably, and are primarily desperately fighting for their own survival over any other considerations. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold teaky Posted September 16, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 16, 2022 On 14/09/2022 at 23:49, PhilJ W said: I have to smile at the fact that as I write this only one person has clicked anything and that is KalKat who has chosen "interesting/thought provoking". 🙂 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted September 16, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 16, 2022 (edited) 5 hours ago, teaky said: I have to smile at the fact that as I write this only one person has clicked anything and that is KalKat who has chosen "interesting/thought provoking". 🙂 It's a known phenomenon for cats to treat small items of smelly underwear as prey and, in the usual way, bring them home to be presented to their people (whom they see as kittens needing feeding). Google "cat brings home knickers" for multiple examples. So, not very whacky, just a slow news Wednesday. Edited September 16, 2022 by Compound2632 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold teaky Posted September 16, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 16, 2022 12 minutes ago, Compound2632 said: It's a known phenomenon for cats to treat small items of smelly underwear as prey and, in the usual way, bring them home to be presented to their people (whom they see as kittens needing feeding). Google "cat brings home knickers" for multiple examples. So, not very whacky, just a slow news Wednesday. Did you mean to quote my post, Stephen? Should it have been PhilJ W's original? I was merely mentioning my amusement regarding KalKat's interest in PhilJ W's post. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted September 16, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 16, 2022 14 minutes ago, teaky said: Did you mean to quote my post, Stephen? Should it have been PhilJ W's original? I was merely mentioning my amusement regarding KalKat's interest in PhilJ W's post. Yes, just following the conversation. The relevant sign is embedded in your post. As to @KalKat, I presumed your amusement is because his nom-de-web includes the word "cat"... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold teaky Posted September 16, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 16, 2022 2 minutes ago, Compound2632 said: Yes, just following the conversation. The relevant sign is embedded in your post. As to @KalKat, I presumed your amusement is because his nom-de-web includes the word "cat"... Yes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jjb1970 Posted September 16, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 16, 2022 This one amused me. I can see why people are attracted by the spectacle of F1, the excitement, the engineering that goes into the cars and many other things but it's not something I associate with tree hugging and saving the world by teaching us all about sustainability.... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 (edited) 4 hours ago, jjb1970 said: I can see why people are attracted by the spectacle of F1, the excitement, the engineering that goes into the cars and many other things but it's not something I associate with tree hugging and saving the world by teaching us all about sustainability.... The main problem with all circuit racing, F1 in particular, is that even if they are "Racing Towards Sustainability" they'll never get there because they're just going in circles.... I'm still struggling with the "new" emojis as they're completely unintelligable. What would one use for "I'm being completely unserious and this is supposed to be a sarky joke"? In the old days, I'd have used the "Jester", but I can't see an equivalent in the new set. Edited September 16, 2022 by Hroth All in italics... 3 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted September 16, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 16, 2022 Criticism of motor sport by some of my fellow environmentalists irritates me; it is completely pointless and diverts attention from more serious issues. Back in about 2010, I read somewhere that it’s annual worldwide fuel consumption equated to 10 seconds of TFL’s use. The situation has improved since then, with e-cars and buses, but motor sport is not what is causing global warming. And I don’t think anyone from a hobby which features so many continuous run roundyround layouts should be criticising F1 for going round in circles… 2 6 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold AndrueC Posted September 16, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 16, 2022 (edited) 18 hours ago, Steamport Southport said: Now disputed after recent excavations of graves at Waterloo and all the troops have teeth intact. Also no evidence for them selling bodies for fertiliser. Are you taking the p!ss? :D Edited September 16, 2022 by AndrueC 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold AndrueC Posted September 16, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 16, 2022 8 hours ago, teaky said: I have to smile at the fact that as I write this only one person has clicked anything and that is KalKat who has chosen "interesting/thought provoking". 🙂 I have no comment at this time. 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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