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Post by tadworth on Mar 19, 2017 19:17:19 GMT
Plus you need to be qualified to cut with gas, its not for pissing about with, there are potentially lethal accidents if you don't follow correct procedures.
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Post by Jim on Mar 20, 2017 11:25:17 GMT
Plus you need to be qualified to cut with gas, its not for pissing about with, there are potentially lethal accidents if you don't follow correct procedures. Curious what the qualification would be - I qualified as a welder, being sent on a course when I was unemployed, although I could already weld, it got the dole off my back! there must be hundreds of people in little garages around the country with oxy acetylene kit, most learned in the school of life.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2017 11:41:54 GMT
Plus you need to be qualified to cut with gas, its not for pissing about with, there are potentially lethal accidents if you don't follow correct procedures. Curious what the qualification would be - I qualified as a welder, being sent on a course when I was unemployed, although I could already weld, it got the dole off my back! there must be hundreds of people in little garages around the country with oxy acetylene kit, most learned in the school of life. I though that too. Mind you anyone can get sued or put away if H&S is breached and someone gets hurt. So training is not a bad idea.
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Post by lollygagger on Mar 20, 2017 12:14:01 GMT
Curious what the qualification would be - I qualified as a welder, being sent on a course when I was unemployed, although I could already weld, it got the dole off my back! there must be hundreds of people in little garages around the country with oxy acetylene kit, most learned in the school of life. I though that too. Mind you anyone can get sued or put away if H&S is breached and someone gets hurt. So training is not a bad idea. None of that crap applies to one man bands in a workshop. I had an inspector round once. First question "just you is it? - none of it applies. You can maim or kill yourself with impunity, just not someone else - make your customers stay outside too."
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2017 12:16:51 GMT
I though that too. Mind you anyone can get sued or put away if H&S is breached and someone gets hurt. So training is not a bad idea. None of that crap applies to one man bands in a workshop. I had an inspector round once. First question "just you is it? - none of it applies. You can maim or kill yourself with impunity, just not someone else - make your customers stay outside too." I bet a few do blow themselves up though.
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Post by lollygagger on Mar 20, 2017 12:23:24 GMT
None of that crap applies to one man bands in a workshop. I had an inspector round once. First question "just you is it? - none of it applies. You can maim or kill yourself with impunity, just not someone else - make your customers stay outside too." I bet a few do blow themselves up though. It's THE reason there are so many one man bands. To expand you have to jump through so many extra expensive time consuming hoops that one employee won't cover it - 2 or 3 minimum and you end up being an employee chasing pen pusher.
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Post by JohnV on Mar 20, 2017 12:34:50 GMT
I bet a few do blow themselves up though. It's THE reason there are so many one man bands. To expand you have to jump through so many extra expensive time consuming hoops that one employee won't cover it - 2 or 3 minimum and you end up being an employee chasing pen pusher. This is so true ...... it was not quite as bad when I was running my company but was rapidly heading in that direction. One or just possibly two guys working for you then was about the max, if you were to remain on the tools yourself ..... and even then you spent half your time being a gopher/bookkeeper/storeman/salesman. More than 2 and your company's productivity dropped. Governments seem to delight in making things difficult for small business.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2017 12:42:30 GMT
At Β£50 a ton for light iron it seems to me that cutting up a steel narrow boat would be catastrophically pointless as an activity.
Regardless of H&S its just not worth doing. Specially if it has an internal fitout - thats a lot of waste to deal with!
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Post by lollygagger on Mar 20, 2017 12:45:02 GMT
It's THE reason there are so many one man bands. To expand you have to jump through so many extra expensive time consuming hoops that one employee won't cover it - 2 or 3 minimum and you end up being an employee chasing pen pusher. This is so true ...... it was not quite as bad when I was running my company but was rapidly heading in that direction. One or just possibly two guys working for you then was about the max, if you were to remain on the tools yourself ..... and even then you spent half your time being a gopher/bookkeeper/storeman/salesman. Β More than 2 and your company's productivity dropped. Β Governments seem to delight in making things difficult for small business. Subbing out the work is probably the only easy route, but that has it's problems too and is really pointless in the long term. Headaches for little gain. I've employed people for office work though which is much less hassle.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2017 12:46:47 GMT
There are no formal requirements to hold any certificates of competency in Oxy Fuel cutting. Some firms may opt for money for old rope training courses such as this. www.bocsafetytraining.com/oxy-fuel-gases.htmI covered every aspect of this online course at tech as a 17 year old on City and Guilds 3268, C&G is a well thought out award that allows a student to obtain training and certification in all the relevant areas they wish to study. Oxy Fuel welding (and cutting but to a lesser degree) is less common in the manufacturing sector due to advancements in other processes - profile cutting with the advent of cheap plasma, laser and water jet equipment being good examples. The red and black spanner is essential in a maintenance and repair field though. It ranks nearly as highly as a grinder and a gert big hammer as must have tools for the job
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Post by lollygagger on Mar 20, 2017 12:47:29 GMT
At Β£50 a ton for light iron it seems to me that cutting up a steel narrow boat would be catastrophically pointless as an activity. Regardless of H&S its just not worth doing. Specially if it has an internal fitout - thats a lot of waste to deal with! Same for scrapping a Varanasi. Days of work for some Ali foil and a fiver's worth mixed metal. Nobody does two. I haven't done one but have chuckled at others. Edit to add : wtf is Varanasi? I typed caravan!
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Post by lollygagger on Mar 20, 2017 12:51:30 GMT
A: A city in northern India. Does anyone know how to stop a phone changing what I type?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2017 12:55:37 GMT
There are no formal requirements to hold any certificates of competency in Oxy Fuel cutting. Some firms may opt for money for old rope training courses such as this. www.bocsafetytraining.com/oxy-fuel-gases.htmI covered every aspect of this online course at tech as a 17 year old on City and Guilds 3268, C&G is a well thought out award that allows a student to obtain training and certification in all the relevant areas they wish to study. Oxy Fuel welding (and cutting but to a lesser degree) is less common in the manufacturing sector due to advancements in other processes - profile cutting with the advent of cheap plasma, laser and water jet equipment being good examples. The red and black spanner is essential in a maintenance and repair field though. It ranks nearly as highly as a grinder and a gert big hammer as must have tools for the job C&G is a good training. I did a BTEC in Marine Engineering (2 year) and there were C&G chaps (1 year) at the same establishment. They had far more hands-on experience in the workshop that way but probably not as much in-depth theory training as you get on a BTEC.
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Post by tadworth on Mar 20, 2017 13:09:08 GMT
Plus you need to be qualified to cut with gas, its not for pissing about with, there are potentially lethal accidents if you don't follow correct procedures. Curious what the qualification would be - I qualified as a welder, being sent on a course when I was unemployed, although I could already weld, it got the dole off my back! there must be hundreds of people in little garages around the country with oxy acetylene kit, most learned in the school of life. I'm curious to what your qualification was that didn't include the safe use of welding and cutting gasses, the most basic C&G part one course covers it.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2017 13:23:34 GMT
A: A city in northern India. Does anyone know how to stop a phone changing what I type? I tap with thumbs for writing on the phone. But if you don't object to talking to yourself the voice function just to the side of the space bar is very effective on Android phones. I'll test it: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers if Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked. s*** it works. the f****** stars were automatically added by the software advantages of the speech option is it won't confuse caravan with varanasi
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