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Game rained off

  No play today. No   patients either. 

On duty at Lord's.  It is raining. 

5 hours ago, AndyID said:

A slightly odd request:

 

Would anyone happen to have a sketch of the dimensions of 7mm scale Bullhead rail available in the UK, possibly Peco? It's a wee bit unobtainable over here. I think I can 3-D print some rather convincing turnouts and I'm happy to share the models with anyone who wants to give it a shot.

 

I can make it work reasonably well down to 4mm/foot but I think at 7mm it would not be easy to tell the difference from injection molded parts.

Andy, I don't think it is a bullhead profile, but may be flat bottom pretending to be bullhead.

Alex, two recommendations.

1. Get hold of a booklet entitled Carr's Soldering Handbook.

2.  If you see Tony Wright demonstrating at an exhibition, sit down and have a chat with him.

Everyone discovers their own technique.  I sort of have three "rules".  The iron must be the right wattage for the job - I mostly use Antex variable temperature irons, one for brass / nickel silver and another for whitemetal.  Use the correct solder, ie "70" for whitemetal, "145" for wet jobs and "188" for dry jobs.  Use fluxes that suit your technique, I mostly use Powerflow, in the knowledge that it must be cleaned off the job otherwise it will ruin the future paint job.  I know Tony will give you different advice so consider alternative ways of doing a job and find your own technique.  Oh, a dry joint is concave and a wet joint is convex. 

Some 50 years ago, we worked out a routine for taking the animals to the vet.  We always took both cat and dog together.  Harvey (the cat) hated being in a carrier so travelled loose in the car, sitting on the back ledge of the hatchback.  He was carried into the waiting room and sat (purring) on a lap with Toddy (the dog) sitting on the floor in front.  Into the surgery together, put on the couch, where one was the patient and the other the nurse.  Neither was the least bit stressed.

2 minutes ago, jamie92208 said:

I wonder what stood out about that film. 

 

Jamie

Did they?

39 minutes ago, iL Dottore said:

One would have thought so. But quite a few doctors were most reluctant to sign DNR orders, even for the sickest of patients (I have one story to tell you, Bill, about a DNR order on an end-stage oncology patient - we can keep it for our next meet-up).

 

Mind you, this was the 70s.

 

I've always thought it bizarre that we would end a dog's suffering when nothing more can be done, but not a human's...

Or when there is a DNAR, but it's locked in the safe and the manager took the keys home. 

6 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:

That's excellent, my track on CPR is 0-3.

 

Admittedly, these were all before the more readily availability of Defib equipment and oxygen which has improved casualty survivability.

 

I found it quite demoralizing and very upsetting, that despite my best efforts the casualty didn't make it.

 

I have the greatest respect for those in the emergency services who have to deal with all sorts of tragedies on a daily basis.

 

One really needs a defib.  Having typed that, one of my (our) successes was a respiratory arrest, whom we got back with oxygen and adrenaline.  

One needs a black sense of humour.  This can sometimes offend "civilians" but is one of our coping mechanisms.  So we were told not to attend the "several hours dead" with a laconic 'he's sitting in the smallest room'.  Then the two CFRs had to comfort the student paramedic who had just seen her first dead body.

6 minutes ago, Compound2632 said:

 

Founded in 1884, its members played a significant role in the founding of the Labour Representation Committee in 1900 and from that the Labour Party. It also played a large role in the founding of the London School of Economics in 1895. Early members included George Bernard Saw and Beatrice and Sidney Webb; all highly critical of Marx. It is currently an organisation affiliated to the Labour Party and was a significant influence on 'New Labour'. 

 

Hardly a sinister organisation, unless your definition of sinister is anything to the sinister of Genghis Khan.

Are you Shaw?

1 hour ago, iL Dottore said:

Of the hundred or so patients I gave CPR to, only one was resuscitated and was (eventually) discharged from the hospital. And this was because the patient went into asystole (cardiac arrest) whilst on telemetry in the specialised CCU (Cardiac Care Unit). In most instances by the time CPR is started it’s already too late. 
 

To complicate matters further are the considerations of what underlies the cardiac arrest (many of the patients I attempted to resuscitate were oncology patients with end-stage metastatic disease). Most of the time in such patients any successes are merely temporary.

 

And one final observation: a great number of patients who end up needing CPR are elderly and what they don’t tell you about in CPR training is the audible crunch you hear (and feel) as the sternum separates from the ribs upon first compression on an elderly person’s chest…..

Shouldn't your end-stage patients have had DNARs?

I've got a fair number back.  I don't keep stats., but in the last 24 months, two back, one dead several hours, one probably already dead when he hit the floor.  It does help that I look after a defib and oxygen.

1 hour ago, Hroth said:

I have heard that properly delivered CPR should result in rhe breaking of several ribs, notwithstanding the age of the patient...

 

The aim is to go down about 5 - 6cm, so except for the elderly, one shouldn't be breaking ribs.

I am horrified how this thread is developing.  The Hainault perpetrator may well have mental health issues and could possibly be a paranoid schizophrenic.  Some 50 years ago he would have been incarcerated in a mental hospital, drugged up to the eyeballs, but at least he wouldn't have been in a position to kill a child with a machete.  Instead our politicians decide it is cost effective to let him roam the streets with no checks on whether he takes his anti-psychotic medicine.  I am grateful he was Tasered, the thought of someone with mental health issues being shot dead is too awful to consider.

And I agree the Australian inspector was entitled to shoot in self-defense.

This case so echoes the Nottingham incident.

Remember that I am trained to be involved in these situations, not running towards danger, but available to provide first aid or take on a support role.

We acquired Toddy as an Exmoor farm terrier, in other words a Jack Russell Terrier.  Behaved impeccably with stock, hated vermin and loved children and cats.  He always returned on call so on a walk we would let him do his own thing, which meant the exploration of every hole and culvert.  So our silky brown and white dog rapidly became a muddy scruff.  

So on return home, two things happened consequently.  First he has hung under the yard tap until the mud was removed, then he charged round the garden having a shake then a rub down with his towel.  Second he was allowed in front of a blazing gas fire.  Toddy was blissfully happy, the rest of us had to put up with the smell of wet dog.

Rather gorgeous.  Pity they are HO.  Now if they were Spur Null and I were a millionaire ...

5 minutes ago, Dave Hunt said:

In German, “Zwei kleine Ente,” to which the reply is, “Flak, flak.”

 

Dave

almost ... zwei kleine Enten.

I drink Brains.

2-12-0 !!!

I have an O gauge German exhibition layout.  My stock is very attractive, but boy is it fragile.

I commuted to school, on my own, from the age of seven.  Mum took me the first day, after which I was on my own.  The 1926 era 4SUB broke down on the third day, and they stopped the Kent Coast train comprising brand new 4CEPs.  I discovered these had external handles, so on arrival at St Mary Cray I opened the window, opened the door, closed the window, stepped out and closed the door behind me. Simples.  

4 minutes ago, jamie92208 said:

Yes I enjoyed listening to those at a dual language bingo session on Lanzagrotty.

 

Jamie

Any news?

My experience is very similar to Jon's as it is an excellent way of travelling around a city.  However in some (all?) cities, they are only issued if one has signed up to the H Rewards programme.

I was staying in the Berlin (Ostbahnhof), Erfurt and Frankfurt hotels about a month before Jon's trip.

All I know about guns is that when I put the sight thing to my eye, there is a bloody great bolt in front of my face.  In the CCF, the other cadets got the Lee-Enfields, I was given the map.

I've drawn the correct method of accessing a goods yard, so there isn't a facing point into a dead end siding.  One of Rice's plans had a facing point.  I told him.  The language!

38 minutes ago, polybear said:

 

And then the do-gooders came along and screwed it all up....

... except some of them contained lethal amounts of mercury, etc...

Morning all.  Recovering from a weekend taking the FROS 3 requalification course.  Two written exams and a lot of practical work, and I lost my left leg to a chainsaw accident.  We were also expected to take aspirin for a cardiac event, except everyone on the course was allergic to aspirin.  Anyway done for another three years so I can tootle around south east London on a Friday evening, terrifying little old ladies out of their beds.

Three reasons not to use cycle lanes:

• broken contents of bottle banks 
• redundant white goods
• used lorry tyres

When the great British public stop using cycle lanes as a free municipal dump, I'll start using them.