Wind/diesel installation....

[paul149]

C'mon Frot's tell us what let go... more addictive than Lost this is..

[KenB]

Speaking of Lost......

You should rename the engine Hurley, because it spends a lot of time idling, and lives on a diet of lard. 

Several months Lost on an island, you'd have thought he'd have lost a bit of weight.....



Ken

[frotter]

Patience and fortitude, men! All will be revealed laters......

X

[goodnoisefella]

Waaaaa!

......cold turkey!

Methinks sir Frot has discovered the art of the cliffhanger

But secretly, we hope it's not too bad chap

Best o luck

TP

[ajstoneservices]

Maybe he's found his feminine side, the little tease.

[frotter]

Ok, ok! - no need to become aroused my friends. Frot is here and all will be illuminated. (dimly, though, by 3 leds - like in your bike light..)

Well - as i was manually starting Ivor i failed to notice there was no pressure in the heat loop. There being no safety cut out or radiator divert in place, Ivor chugged away like a good un oblivious. Didnt take long for lack of any cooling to cause overheating. Well ok - wont the over temp cutout shut Ivor down to save the day? Hmm? Well normally yes...... thing is - last time he overheated the temp switch plastic inner bit melted so i bodg... er, improvised one onto the outlet from the thermostat housing.  Fine and dandy! But - in overheat condition i think the water boiled out of the rad cap leaving a bubble of vapour in the pipe where the sensor was. Couldnt have got hot enough to trip off. The head, meanwhile, became hot enough to melt the solder out of the old dud temp switch causing a small hole to open causing vesuvious! Eventually presumably by conduction the temp switch tripped. Luckily the water in the exhaust heat exchanger and loop must have been gently boiling away saving melted solder/braze doom scenario. 
Took Ivor ages to cool to below 100 so we could introduce new water and bear to enter Chernobyl without flash hoods in place.
What caused loop pressure failure? Weeellll.... When the extractor fan runs - cold (very cold that night..) air is drawn into any crook and fanny that it can penetrate.. Where the left arrow is there is a gap in the mdf board.... also the split in the insulation faces the wall... also the anti-freeze was a bit weak.....also i am dim (and ginger  ). Even though hep2O pipe is supposed to be able to withstand a freeze (LIES!!) it split. Hence water on floor.... Strangely there are two elbows outside still exposed to the elephants which did not freeze/split. No draught maybe...
The second arrow is where i had strapped the thermospastic switch - not ideal clearly.








Anyhoo... we refilled Ivor and topped up the oil to see if he would play. Miraculously these little things seem 'velly tough as old boot' (ask that old person again..) as he fired up and rumbled away like a good 'un. Whew!!
I also bodg,... er, cunningly modified the bollixed temp switch with the thermospastic one onto the head in the manner illustrated below......
Much more better..
Could just buy a new one i suspose...   
NAH!!





So - after 2 HOURS! spent mucking about with that, fixing pipe, going to t' garage to buy antifreeze, refilling loop, bleeding the bleeding loop then checking all was sound again - finally we got around to the days task of fitting the heating automation and SAFETY systems. 
There will be a few pics to post of that thrilling session next time.
Oh yes there will!!

Anyway - feminine side?
frotting is one thing but i'm not gay or owt....

XX 

[Twenty4Seven]

Anyway - feminine side?
frotting is one thing but i'm not gay or owt....

Having led a sheltered life and never coming across "frotting" before, I looked it up.... and found this.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcnbfHGPxT0

I laughed so much I'm still struggling to type properly - it beats the Two Ronnie's "Fork Handles" IMHO

Keep on frotting 

[stephen]

I can imagine just that type of conversation between Frott and specky bloke down at the old peoples electric car stores where specky bloke works.  lol.
come on frotter why the name frotter??

[Panda_Badger]

Here's a link from the Urban Dictionary concerning frotter.


I think an oooerr is warranted! 

The Panda.

Ps. Ok, the post has been ransacked with the editing pencil, so you'll just have to go look it up yourself.

[goodnoisefella]

....I gotta say, dear Frotter, that I was somewhat bemused by your handle, from the start.....

Comes from the French meaning 'to rub'
Like, all the cleaning products in the supermarket have the phrase 'sans frottage' ....no rubbing (sounds like my old school!!)

heres the reference:

rub [rab] verb — past tense, past participle rubbed
to move against the surface of something else, pressing at the same time
Example: He rubbed his eyes; The horse rubbed its head against my shoulder; The back of the shoe is rubbing against my heel.

Chinese (Traditional):   磨擦
Czech:   třít se, dřít se
Danish:   gnide; gnave
Dutch:   wrijven
Estonian:   hõõruma
Finnish:   hieroa, hangata
French:   frotter
German:   reiben
Greek:   τρίβω, τρίβομαι
Hungarian:   dörzsöl
Icelandic:   nudda, strjúka, núa
Indonesian:   menggosok
Italian:   strofinare
Japanese:   こする
Korean:   …을 문지르다; 맞스치다
Latvian:   berzt; berzēt; berzties
Lithuanian:   trinti
Norwegian:   gni; skubbe; gnage
Polish:   trzeć
Portuguese (Brazil):   esfregar, friccionar
Portuguese (Portugal):   esfregar
Romanian:   a se freca
Russian:   тереться
Slovak:   trieť sa, šúchať sa
Slovenian:   drgniti
Spanish:   restregar, frotar
Swedish:   gnida, gno, gnugga, skava
Turkish:   sürtmek, ovalamak

But being French, has a whole load of baggage with it


So now we all know.

Cheers

TP x

[martin]

Very regretfully, the big blue pencil has been wielded with gusto on a couple of posts in this thread
Let's be honest, we all had a good laugh, and THEN wielded the blue pencil - not because we don't have a sense of humour, but simply because there are kids about......
No hard feelings, no outbreak of smitings, just please, remember there are junior readers of the forum!

[goodnoisefella]

Um....shoulda posted link rather than copied the abstract across. Apologies for any red faces, didn't think for laughing.
Thank you for your good sense Martin

TP

[frotter]

Hehe - sadly i must have missed the pencilled out replies...... but i have no idea what you lot are on about. You just ask the present Mrs Frotter. White as the driven snow, me! 

Hmm, now where were we..?
Oh yeah - sensible stuff... 


Heres some nice messy wiring type gubbins. Might just leave it like that. Part P anyone? 





We need some of this in a nice neat box, mate. (who said that??)
Just drill some oles - you'll be alright....




There ye go. Looks just like a real one. Sort of thing you find in some kind of control room or summat....




Yeah ok i know - its hangin out. Everything will be fiine. I expect.





See - fine. I better get round to puttin labels on all them lamps. No idea what ANY of it does!
(do really).






And look - me doing work things. I do you know, honest! That task of cable tying the pipe insulation was very important you know.





Whatever......


XXX

[Eleanor]

Martin  I am so disappointed! I heard about this but was so busy watching Grand Designs (your idea ) I missed it. However, I had been wondering for quite a long time if if we should call him
Mr Frotter
Mr F Rotter
Mr F R Otter
Lard Frotter/Rotter/Otter

However as he posts exceedingly good posts who cares?

Mr Kipling

[northern installer]

yes time we left frotter to get on with his magical installation in peace!(hes not gay or owt).
More power to your elbow frot,you are keeping us all spellbound with this saga;give it some thrutch!
(THRUTCH:an imperial unit of applied power) full definition later.