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My son and family bought my husband and I a lovely tile as a momento from their Greek holiday. Unfortunately it was dropped before we received it and my husband did a repair that hardly shows.
After the rain this patchwork looks great.
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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.
Street repair shops are prevalent on the streets of Bacolod City, Philippines. This one seemed to be concentrating on wheel and engine parts.
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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.
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.
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.
An egyptian fisherman repairs his boat after a strong storm in January. These people work really hard for less than 200€ per month.
[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.
He just repaired a bag for a customer sitting beside him. Because the tools next to him, I suspect that he also repaired shoes.
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.
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.
The Sierra gets a rude awakening - to the tip!
I’ve swapped around my cars and the Getz is replacing the Mercedes for now - as daily driver. Whilst the Getz is in for steering repairs, the Sierra will provide temporary service.
The Sierra performed very well today.
A pirate ship tied up to the docks in a secret cove to get repairs and supplies.
Prompt: pirate ship is floating in water near the dock area, in the style of jon foster, photo-realistic techniques, havencore, phoenician art, richard parkes bonington, xbox 360 graphics, traditional arts of africa, oceania, and the americas
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Catching up on some back shots from the beginning of the year.
In Akaora with my Flickr and blip friend. February 20, 2016 Banks Peninsula, New Zealand.
It was warm and wonderful so we packed up a lunch and headed for the hills and bays around the banks peninsula. It reached will over 30c today.. a bit too hot at times and there was no wind at all.
All about Akaora: www.teara.govt.nz/en/1966/akaroa-french-settlement-at