Any industrial engineering fans here?

[subaqua]

120kV short circuit testing is an everyday thing for me. Scary thing, when you go onto a live national grid site, you need to keep 5m from certain kit, or you feel a slight buzzing then die when the arc forms.

we had a little leak on a panel being tested. the crackle gave it away then the smell of ozone.
one operating unit of the company i work for are part of an alliance doing substation upgrades in the SE . its great going there to watch switching ops.

this is also one of ours

View: http://youtu.be/Xk2g8RIBr1U


and this

View: http://youtu.be/8YXCQcNdoP8

 

[Andrew_Culture]

In conjunction with a hydraulics company we build controls for some really huge engineering projects. I'm not allowed to say where but we're about to commission the controls for some HUGE new lock gates somewhere.

 

[Browser]

120kV short circuit testing is an everyday thing for me. Scary thing, when you go onto a live national grid site, you need to keep 5m from certain kit, or you feel a slight buzzing then die when the arc forms.

I've not long moved to a new site where the transmission voltage is 400kv. During the recent cold weather the corona & tracking around the top of the insulators on our generator transformers has been entertaining to watch!

 

[Andrew_Culture]

I've not long moved to a new site where the transmission voltage is 400kv. During the recent cold weather the corona & tracking around the top of the insulators on our generator transformers has been entertaining to watch!

There's a word I recognise! We fit corona treaters to our slitters, I've been getting quotes for the corona units this week, my god they ain't cheap!

 

[Tim Hall]

Corona. Every bubble's passed its physical.

</nostalgia>

 

[Smurfy]

The most expensive and precise pencil sharpener.

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKL6elkbFy0

 

[gbb]

Corona. Every bubble's passed its FIZZical.

</nostalgia>

FTFY... i remember it well.

 

[pplpilot]

I write code (for cad/cam systems) to drive CNC machines and I have a lot of involvement in the aerospace / power generation industry, specifically to write bespoke applications, this is a power gen impeller demo part I put together for an exhibition a few years back, machined from a turned billet, this video just shows it ghost cutting over the finished part.

A slightly different example we did, a jet engine blisk machined from inconel (the material of the devil)

View: http://youtu.be/ccK5osNCGW4

 

[porteous]

Try this. Not industrial, but an awful lot of engineering.

http://uk.video.search.yahoo.com/pl...ger+2+promo+video&fr=yfp-t-111&sigb=12ig8io11

 

[threebikesmcginty]

There's some big sexy bastard machines going on here boys!

 

[vernon]

I like machines to be big:

I thought that the following image was a ray traced construction but found that it was a real steam engine, one of five in a pumping house in the USA

 

[subaqua]

http://www.bressingham.co.uk/Default.aspx

they have a few operational steam engines - static and mobile

 

[Minotier]

I used to install and maintain machinery like this for over 30 years until one day all production went to China!

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLCoLkUiJL8

Not for Scott and Sargeant though.

http://www.screencast.com/users/SCM-Group/folders/Routech CNC Routers/media/24087e58-a316-41da-8cf5-dab21cd169ee


I now maintain machinery in the second largest warehouse in the country.

 

[Minotier]

These are brilliant machines and this part of the industry IS a dying business, only worked on these for a year in the past!


http://www.screencast.com/users/SCM...rs/media/d2b9d917-f658-414f-aa4b-45e4d64d8ac1


Can you tell what it is yet?

 

[Minotier]

The precision of these routers are incredible.

http://www.screencast.com/users/SCM...rs/media/ca3b69cc-1009-4d75-80f3-1b1fa6c681ba