TDegenhart
Diamond
- Joined
- Mar 26, 2011
- Location
- Geneva Illinois USA
Did you and the boat survive the storm? Got any specials of machinery that's been under water?
Tom
Tom
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Did you and the boat survive the storm? Got any specials of machinery that's been under water?
Tom
Believe it or not, you can operate it yourself with a little training....that way one can leave and return after hours if need be. Will explain more later, as I'm the opposite of bored right now.If you're still bored can you take a minute to explain how they operate the lock.
Seems like on a nice weekend it could take a while to get everybody in/out.
Thanks
David
Most machine tool dealers are such morons that I'd rather not think of myself as being one...I just play one on the internet I guessP.S. You know the word ''discount'' ??????????? ..................either you haven't a dictionary or you are not a machine tool dealer
No problem on the misspelling, just my lame attempt at humor.Sorry for the misspelling. I will go stand in the corner for the rest of day.
This not idle chit chat. If something happens Milacron, this site goes bye bye.
I haven't operated it myself yet, but the lock is composed of two sets of swing gates, opened and closed by huge hyraulic cylinders. So to enter you press a button to open the first set of gates, let the water level equalize with the sound water, then drive the boat in and close those gates. Press another button to either pump water in or pump it out depending on the tide level to marina water level. Then when the lock to marina water levels seem equal you open the second set of gates and drive in, then close the gates again.If you're still bored can you take a minute to explain how they operate the lock.
Seems like on a nice weekend it could take a while to get everybody in/out.
Thanks
David
As to this site going bye bye without me....nope....Practicalmachinist.com has been incorporated for some years now and while I remain the majority stock holder, there are others that would keep it going just fine. We even have a full time employee...Practicalman.
Dunno, is it missing ? I didn't delete it...guess it just fizzed out. Seems like we may have discussed this already but have you ever seen the BBC show Doc Martin ? That town and the surrounds are so beautiful....are there other sea side towns like that not overun by tourists ?P.S. What happened about your living in the UK thread?
Dunno, is it missing ? I didn't delete it...guess it just fizzed out. Seems like we may have discussed this already but have you ever seen the BBC show Doc Martin ? That town and the surrounds are so beautiful....are there other sea side towns like that not overun by tourists ?
Well it's not just the way the place looks but the people are even more important...doubt I'd have much in common with the natives there.Well, southern Chile had a couple of places along the coast that looked nice, they don't seem to get much snow/cold weather even being that far south, I suspect they may get a similar warm
current like GB.
Valdivia was one town.
Well it's not just the way the place looks but the people are even more important...doubt I'd have much in common with the natives there.
Oh, but you might do. Chile is a very European anachronism within South America. For 150 years, it was referred to as the "Switzerland of South America" for its economic and political stability. It remains predominantly Spanish and Italian influenced. Local indians didn't make peace and intermarry - they remained aloof, and, per the worlds of our guide, Oscar Grosvenor-Bunster, a retired Chilean Navy Marine Engineer of English extraction, "They just died". Slaves were not brought from Africa - wrong coast, too difficult.
Worth a look. WELL worth a look!
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