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A guy smiles as I take his candid photo.
He buys old bicycles, reconditions them (by repainting the frames and other parts, if necessary; replacing the worn-out parts with new ones, etc.), and then offers them for sale at a low, attractive price.
Captured at a village in Subic, Zambales, Philippines.
An iron staple fixes a cracked lintel in a fireplace.
Removing and replacing the whole structure would have been costly and dangerous. Here's an old repair that's doing a great job.
One of the most famous monuments in Warsaw, standing on The Old Town Marker Square :)
The Warsaw Mermaid - statue on Old Town Market square in Warsaw. It was the first monument of the Warsaw coat of arms and had an influence on the later images of the Warsaw Mermaid and popularized her figure among the inhabitants and visitors of the city. The mermaid appears in several Warsaw legends. All of them assigned her the role of the patron and protector of the city. The sculpture in Warsaw's Old Town Square was designed by Varsovian sculptor Konstanty Hegel. Originally (1855–1928) and now (since 2000) it stands in the marketplace. At other times, it was moved to different places in Warsaw. In 2008, the original sculpture made of bronzed zinc was taken from the market for maintenance work. The sculpture was in a very poor condition due to mechanical damage and numerous acts of vandalism. The repaired original was transferred to the Museum of Warsaw, and replaced with a copy of made by the Jacek Guzera foundry in Dąbrowie near Kielce.
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Jeszcze jedna fotka ze Starówki, tym razem z syrenką :)
Pomnik Syreny – monument znajdujący się na Rynku Starego Miasta w Warszawie. Był on pierwszym pomnikiem warszawskiego herbu i miał wpływ na późniejsze wizerunki warszawskiej Syreny oraz upowszechnił jej postać wśród mieszkańców i osób odwiedzających miasto. Syrenka jest bohaterką kilku warszawskich legend. Wszystkie wyznaczają jej rolę patronki i opiekunki miasta. Syrenka na warszawskiej Starówce została zaprojektowana przez warszawskiego rzeźbiarza Konstantego Hegla. Pierwotnie (1855-1928) oraz obecnie (od 2000) stoi na rynku. W międzyczasie była kilka razy przenoszona w inne miejsca w Warszawie. W 2008 roku oryginalna rzeźba wykonana z brązowanego cynku została wycofana z rynku do prac konserwacyjnych. Rzeźba była w bardzo złym stanie z powodu uszkodzeń mechanicznych i licznych aktów wandalizmu. Naprawiony oryginał został przekazany do Muzeum Warszawy i zastąpiony kopią wykonaną przez odlewnię Jacka Guzera w Dąbrowie k. Kielc.
Street repair shops are prevalent on the streets of Bacolod City, Philippines. This one seemed to be concentrating on wheel and engine parts.
A high pitch noise is audible when the technician welds the new stabiliser in place.
"Oh just minor repairs, nothin much. The damned stabiliser just went haywire."
"Lt, still that was some fancy flying landing without the stab in those wind gusts!"
The young pilot looked in awe at his squadron leader.
Sometimes photography is about pleasing symmetry, repeating patterns, and leading lines. But at other times, we find asymmetry, disruption, and the unexpected to be visually stimulating. Here a man is maintaining a section of the bamboo poles while standing on a ladder on his boat and floating in a sea of bamboo poles. The people of Xiapu, in China's Fujian Province, engage in aquaculture and use these poles to anchor seaweed.
No heavy equipment required. Repairing underground landscape irrigation pipes ain't easy as it looks. Remember, measure twice, cut once.
To give the guy some credit though, he told me this wasn't his job. He's a heavy equipment mechanic. But somebody at CalTrans, in their infinite wisdom sent him out to the old Dumbarton bridge to fix these irrigation pipes.
Newark, California.
[Technician]
Even though the ground crew of the B-Wing sq. never really see any real combat, their resolve to keep their pilots flying knows no boundaries.
An egyptian fisherman repairs his boat after a strong storm in January. These people work really hard for less than 200€ per month.
He just repaired a bag for a customer sitting beside him. Because the tools next to him, I suspect that he also repaired shoes.
A team finishes assembly of GR7-b Single-Operator Repair Pod. Component pallettes were brought directly off of elevator cars at Geo1 and into the assembly bays. When construction is complete, the doors comprising the outer-facing half of the bay will be opened and the GR7-b will be towed out.
I had a blast making this particular scene. I have several types of wall panels in here that I wanted to contrast in style but still flow together and I am very happy with the result. I tried to fill up the non-door walls of the bay with equipment and I found a couple cool parts and techniques in my efforts.
For the most part, the bay is actually fully finished and I may post slightly different angles without the GR7 in the way as there are a couple of things hiding behind it. Also, I will post more renders with the GR7 but I have to find a reasonable angle for it as the front canopy would look a lot better with some custom stickers.
And the Guadalupe is basically complete save for a bow operations room and a few other details.
The Steamer E. G. Grace of Interlake Steamship Co. is at American Shipbuilding at South Chicago at 100th St. for some repairs to her trouble prone Lentz double compound steam engine. This is May 1976 and it was the last year she sailed. She was one of the WW ll era Maritime class L6-S-AI boats built in 1943. All together there were 16 boats in two classes built in 1943. None remain in service and only one exists, the former Steelton, anchored in Lake Calumet in South Chicago. One other hull is sunk as a dock in Sault Ste. Marie ON. the Sewell Avery.
We pass this old church on our Main St regularly, but only yesterday noticed that some maintenance is in order.
One of Sue taking a similar photo in Comments.
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Image taken with 40 year old Sigma 300mm f5.6, so images will be a little soft and show some chromatic aberration.
The cutting-edge technology that keeps the Silverstone motor racing track in tip-top condition could be coming to Croydon. John Bownas spoke to the team hoping to bring it here.
Pot holes – we all hate ‘em, and Croydon certainly has its share.
But now, the borough’s highways team is taking a lead from the people responsible for maintaining Silverstone’s grand prix circuit.
New technology that is good enough for the world’s top racing drivers is being tested in Croydon to see if it is up to the council’s exacting standards.
If trials are successful, the infrared-powered Nu-Phalt repair system could become invaluable to Croydon’s road repair crews who would be the first in London to realise its potential benefits.
Apart from a significant possible cost saving, the biggest advantages that the new technique has over traditional methods are:
•speed: a typical 1 square metre repair can be completed in just 20 minutes; currently, the same job takes considerably longer, and would be only a temporary fix;
•durability: the infra-red triggered thermal bonding means that patch repairs are far more permanent and blend seamlessly into the surrounding road surface;
•environmentally friendly: the process starts by recycling the existing macadam and needs only a small amount of new material to top off the repair.
The council has recently announced a multi-million pound investment project to resurface many of its roads.
However, there will always be a need for fast and efficient repairs in those cases where small patches of tarmac work loose.
This can happen at any time of the year – although it is usually after spells of wet or cold weather that these small holes open up to create a real headache for motorists and cyclists.
In total, the council’s emergency repairs operation currently costs about £560k every year in manpower and materials – and that’s not including the money that is budgeted separately for the major road resurfacing schemes that we will be seeing a lot more of over the next few years.
Steve Iles is the council’s head of highways, and he knows better than anyone else in the borough just how big a task it is to stay on top of the thousands of road repairs that his teams have to carry out every year.
Talking to Your Croydon about this mammoth job and his hopes for the promising high-tech solution, he first ran through some of the big numbers involved.
“We’ve got nearly 3,000 roads in Croydon, and these all get inspected by the council at least twice a year.
“We look out for any problems that might have arisen since the last visit – and particularly any new holes or cracks that could pose a hazard.
“Since January our system’s logged nearly 5,000 new reports from both streetscene inspectors and those members of the public who phone or email to tell us about possible problems.”
In that same time we’ve managed to fill in or repair about 9,800 – but there’s still around 8,600 that we know about waiting to be fixed.
“That takes a lot of doing,” continued Steve, “I’ve got six full-time staff who spend the majority of their day out doing this sort of work.
“And when they can’t do road repairs, because of snow and ice, they drive the gritting lorries to try to keep the roads clear.”
Tony Whyatt is the highways engineer whose research into improved technology solutions has led to the trial of the Nu-Phalt system.
“I’m really optimistic about how this will save us time and money.
“We reuse most of the existing road material on-site and need to add only a small amount of fresh material to each repair.
“There’s no noisy compressors, and the system cuts the number of vehicles and staff involved in each repair.
“We also minimise disruption to traffic – which is good for drivers – and these repairs can be driven over again almost immediately they’re finished.”
Indeed, driving away from our meeting with Tony we drove over a number of holes that had just been filled – and the first thing we noticed was that we didn’t notice them at all.
The repaired road was as smooth as the day it was originally laid.
Benny is probably the safest pair of hands in the galaxy when it comes to repairing spaceships and rovers. He prides himself on his small but very well equipped workshop which he's built in Classic Space colours. If you're struggling to find it then simply look out for the spanner he built on the roof!
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.
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my favorite toy, Rolleiflex is now under repair. I hope it will be all right soon.
Rolleiflex 2.8F xenotar
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I'm on my third straight day of Zen sewing to repair my psyche. It has been fabulous. I've been binging movies and documentaries and working on Blythe clothes. This is a combo of stuff for full size Blythe, middie, and a few Halloween witch dresses for petite. I've also made 2 more Halloween dresses, 2 headbands, and 2 witch hats not shown here. The fruit dress is what I'm working on tonight. If I could just do this for about 6 -10 hours a week all year, I would be in much better mental shape! I need my craft time.
Most of the cottons are from Dollar General. I found a bunch of thin lovely fat quarters for them in the Spring (spring green, tan stripes, blue chambray, and blue/green stripes. The striped knits are thrift store onsies. The fruit fabric is a fat quarter from Joannes.
Blythe a Day - Repair - 8/23/22