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General Discussion Area / Re: How warm is it where you are?

« on: 20 June 2017, 19:55:31 »

General breakdown in the company. The machine cooling system failed due over temperature. All machines stopped.  I changed 1000 L hot water into cold water and I could start the cooling system again. The molding injector machines will need some hours to cool down. It will be a very long hot evening. Still 31°C outside....

Rolf

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General Discussion Area / Re: How warm is it where you are?

« on: 20 June 2017, 18:18:45 »

42°C at work, our two molding injector machines are producing 18 kw each. We have a 1m 3kw vent (sounds like a helicopter) but everything seems to melt....

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General Discussion Area / Re: How warm is it where you are?

« on: 20 June 2017, 17:01:37 »

34°C at Lahr airport weather station

Omega shows 36°C downtown   



Rolf

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General Discussion Area / Re: How warm is it where you are?

« on: 19 June 2017, 18:22:50 »

Lahr / Germany will reach ~22°C this June. Not Maximum, average over night and day. That is a subtropical value.

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General Discussion Area / Re: How warm is it where you are?

« on: 19 June 2017, 15:48:13 »

31°C actually 

But Varche will send a hot surprise to Southwest Germany. Forecast for Wednesday is 37°C 

That will be all time high for June.

@  jimmy.  Oh molding injector machines...we have two Arburg 320 runnig in a 6 x6 m workshop 

Rolf

186

General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 17 June 2017, 19:07:23 »

Did some bodywork on my winter Caravan. Sooner or later it is a wounded point of nearly all Omegas. Do not laugh, first have a closer look to your own Omega.

It is the Bermuda Triangle between front length traverse, inner wheel arch and passenger room s front wall. Not easy to go there and difficult to work there. No room...









Have a nice weekend

Rolf

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General Discussion Area / Re: Tower block fire

« on: 16 June 2017, 20:09:28 »

What is about Polat Tower Istanbul?

The fire was comparable. But it did not went much inside the building. No one was seriously hurt. The tower could be reconstructed and it is still i use.

What went wrong in London?

Rolf

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General Discussion Area / Helmut Kohl died this morning at age of 87

« on: 16 June 2017, 19:43:14 »

I never voted for him, I preferred his smaller partner, Genscher s FDP.

But he was an outstanding statesman. Together with Genscher he formed Germany completely new in 1989.

THX Helmut

Rolf

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 15 June 2017, 20:11:41 »

Pretty good weather conditions for the next two weeks. 1 A weather to work on the Caravan! And of course to have one or two drinks beside 



Rolf

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 15 June 2017, 17:30:56 »

Covered my Omegas with plastic foil. A strong thunderstorm front is coming in from France. The air is like PB. Still 30°C
(GMT +1) , cloudy, steamy....rain... tropical conditions.

Greetings

Rolf

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 15 June 2017, 16:14:29 »

Hi Neil

Come here and we do it together!

Rolf

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 15 June 2017, 14:18:28 »

Very hot again (33°C on my garage yard) but I prepared my caravan for welding coming weekend. Here is the problem:



passenger room front wall (is that correct in English?)

I want to weld from inside, so I removed passenger seat, carpet, isolation and a 4 inch polystyrene block that levels passenger foot room. I think the Vauxhalls have this block leftside, because the bodys are similar on RHD and LHD.

So I found this inside:



In the upper part of the picture you see the RHD cover for LHD versions.

Before welding I have think about isolation of the gasoline pipes in direct neighborhood.


Best regards

Rolf

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General Discussion Area / Re: Tower block fire

« on: 14 June 2017, 19:26:20 »

Heard about it this evening.

Terrible. Thinking about the people....

We had a similar fire here in Karlsruhe in a 14 floor block two days ago. One floor burned out. Not more. What is the difference?

Rolf

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 14 June 2017, 18:19:34 »

Hi EMD

Good luck!

I just found another rust hole on my Caravan.  Inner arch, front right to passenger room. I will remove passenger seat (LHD) and carpet right side this weekend to see what is the going on there. I did the same two years ago on the left side, so I think there will be no existential problems.

Hope the bloody heat wave will be interrupted on Friday / Saturday. 30°C here....forecast for tomorrow: 32°C with thunderstorms later in the evening.

I will report.

Rolf

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 14 June 2017, 17:48:44 »

Hi EMD

Doc Gollum is right. Omegas especially are rusting on the left side.

Have also a look behind the inner arch covers, especially the front ends of the arches are rusting near the safety belt bolts. And do not forget to look behind the spare tyre. Sometimes a nice hidden rust hole there.

Rolf