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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.
Macro Mondays theme: Mesh
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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.
An egyptian fisherman repairs his boat after a strong storm in January. These people work really hard for less than 200€ per month.
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.
I walk past this fence every day…and today I decided to take a photo of it.
Not pretty, but different. 😊
Have a fun weekend, everyone!
[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.
"Words and Hearts should be handled with care, for words when spoken and hearts when broken are the hardest things to repair."
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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.
©AnvilcloudPhotography
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.
Port Hudson, is a harbor downtown Port Townsend. With the repair of the breakwater the boats left for others areas.
my favorite toy, Rolleiflex is now under repair. I hope it will be all right soon.
Rolleiflex 2.8F xenotar
Kodak PORTRA 400NC
The church I go to, St Mary's Alverstoke, has problems with water ingress above the chancel steps. It was decided to remove all the plaster so none fell on anyone. The scaffolder erected a 12.5 m tower! He had to get a change to his insurance to work above 10 m.
Now to raise funds to get scaffolding erected outside to repair the pointing!
120 in 2020
111. Upcycled
A couple of panels of next doors fence blew down in the recent Storm Ciara. It has now been repaired using the old fencing. At first I though new panels would be needed!
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
We were strolling around Mexico City and came across this yard. This is a scan from my original self processed negative from my film archives. Thanks for viewing.
I got a free D90 some years ago, the back panel was broke, the screen broke, and mother board had a broken power ribbon connector. Last week I got a Parts D90 on ebay that worked but had a broken mirror box. So I took the back panel, screen and mother board and fixed the free D90, the D90 I fixed only has a little over 8,000 shutter clicks, now it should last a very long time, I hope! 😀
Last sunday we were on our way to a club bbq when we past a classic car show. Had to stop to make some shots of these classic cars in different shapes.
This car is/was for sale at:
Used Photomatix to add some rust to it.
The Bike Repair Shop.
This is just one of the many roadside bike repair shops that are dotted all over Penang. As motorcycles and scooters are one of the major modes of transport these places are on virtually every street, sometime one shop next to another. At first thought you might think there is not enough work for all of these places to survive, and then you look around and see literally hundreds of bikes on the roads; where do they all come from?