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| Thread ID: 121000 | 2011-10-07 04:24:00 | Ship at the Mount - need to reconvene PC World Rescue group | Digby (677) | PC World Chat |
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| 1236079 | 2011-10-26 02:43:00 | BM and I are now off to Taranaki to fix the gas pipe line. Good luck with that! |
Snorkbox (15764) | ||
| 1236080 | 2011-10-26 02:58:00 | BM and I are now off to Taranaki to fix the gas pipe line. Great! Make sure you take your roll of duct tape, a paper clip, and a gas welder. Must be the right sort of welder as it's a gas pipe. |
Richard (739) | ||
| 1236081 | 2011-10-26 10:28:00 | Great! Make sure you take your roll of duct tape, a paper clip, and a gas welder. Must be the right sort of welder as it's a gas pipe. We don't do any manual work. We just suggest the ideas and offer to supervise. (In this case from a great distance) |
Digby (677) | ||
| 1236082 | 2011-10-26 10:41:00 | We don't do any manual work. We just suggest the ideas and offer to supervise. (In this case from a great distance) But I thought you were going to Taranaki. Both of you! Are you now saying you are staying in Tauranga and Mt Maunganui respectively? |
Snorkbox (15764) | ||
| 1236083 | 2011-10-26 19:39:00 | But I thought you were going to Taranaki. Both of you! Are you now saying you are staying in Tauranga and Mt Maunganui respectively? Well now that we have two major operations to direct I'll probably have to stay here in Tauranga. I'm up in the hills, so my headquarters will be safe if any more of those Rena containers hit the water. I can't speak for for BM but I am sure he will report soon. We may have our first overseas posting soon, to sort out the world-wide hard drive shortage caused by the Thai floods. |
Digby (677) | ||
| 1236084 | 2011-10-26 19:57:00 | BM and I are now off to Taranaki to fix the gas pipe line. Well I don’t know about this Digby, this looks like highly dangerous work. This from a report on Stuff: The pipeline had to be isolated in the area of the suspected leak, and valves shut around the leak, every kilometre or so. ''Through this whole period of time we have to isolate the pipeline, and then we have to vent the gas. Civil aviation has to be told because the gas is extremely high pressure,'' he said. Well, my first concern is that if our Air Space is threatened why haven’t the “Royal Forrest & Bird Protection Society” been notified? I don’t want to ruffle any feathers, but surely all the Bird Life should be rounded up as a priority and all work put on hold pending the capture. And Cicero, it looks like these guys read PF1 also, because a "Booom" is pending over there too. ;) Ahhh, now what was I doing, ahhh yes, this container of Wine, where the hell is it? :confused: |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1236085 | 2011-10-26 20:03:00 | Well I don’t know about this Digby, this looks like highly dangerous work . This from a report on Stuff: The pipeline had to be isolated in the area of the suspected leak, and valves shut around the leak, every kilometre or so . ''Through this whole period of time we have to isolate the pipeline, and then we have to vent the gas . Civil aviation has to be told because the gas is extremely high pressure,'' he said . Well, my first concern is that if our Air Space is threatened why haven’t the “Royal Forrest & Bird Protection Society” been notified? I don’t want to ruffle any feathers, but surely all the Bird Life should be rounded up as a priority and all work put on hold pending the capture . And Cicero, it looks like these guys read PF1 also, because a "Booom" is pending over there too . ;) Ahhh, now what was I doing, ahhh yes, this container of Wine, where the hell is it? :confused: Yes it is probably 3-400 bar of pressure in a line nearly 1 meter wide you can find out what happens when one of these ignites in the news occasionally but some of them have been in populated areas |
Gobe1 (6290) | ||
| 1236086 | 2011-10-26 20:09:00 | Yes it is probably 3-400 bar of pressure in a line nearly 1 meter wide you can find out what happens when one of these ignites in the news occasionally but some of them have been in populated areas Yes I know what you mean ! Those railway lpg tankers go up quite nicely too. There was an explosion of an underground gas pipeline in a US city a few years ago. It went under a residential area and blew up quite a few houses. They said that the pipes were very old and past their design life ! So it happens in other "First World" countries. |
Digby (677) | ||
| 1236087 | 2011-10-26 20:28:00 | I'm sure your combined efforts will be just as effective if you just stay at your computers.... | Metla (12) | ||
| 1236088 | 2011-10-31 17:43:00 | I see they are thinking of taking my advice. They are "thinking" of fitting gps tracking devices to some of the containers with dangerous goods in them. Surely they should have done this weeks ago, and to every container. They have not found all of the first lot that fell off. Just wait till there are hundreds bobbing around. That would be a huge danger to shipping and small boats etc. There is bad weather coming, they have lost the window to get some of them off. |
Digby (677) | ||
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