favourite engineering smells

[Woody.v8]

Being self employed it probably involves mental amounts of welding and fabrication but that's not so bad because i loves it i does

 

[Sparkey]

yes that sounds good!! if you weren't that far i'd come give you a hand!!!!

 

[Woody.v8]

Thanks but it would be a good swim wouldn't it.

 

[Sparkey]

lol yes it would!!!

 

[Sparkey]

what are you fabricating at the moment woody?

 

[rtbcomp]

Malcolm, could we add a dating forum so Woody and Sparkey don't hog this one?

 

[Woody.v8]

what are you fabricating at the moment woody?

One or two things sparkey,Ive 5 ally fuel cells to tig up ive cut n folded em today,some forklift fork extensions, a tractor unit to stretch and a thousand other things oh well ,no time for mischief!!

 

[Woody.v8]

Malcolm, could we add a dating forum so Woody and Sparkey don't hog this one?

thats a bit harsh rtb!!

 

[Woody.v8]

Oh and sorry for hogging the thread wozzer i got carried away

 

[Sparkey]

i'm sure woz DOESN'T mind!!!!!!!!! not like some of us!!!!

 

[Sparkey]

we're in the brew room!!!!! so i'm allowed to chatter!!!!

 

[Woody.v8]

suppose its not the first thread to go astray...

 

[Sparkey]

oh nooooo! not when i'm in that is!!!!!!!

 

[TonyWilk]

Hi all,
Just got back from a long drive after a day at the British Rotorcraft Association Annual General Meeting, real laugh-a-minute (not!).
Had a couple of beers and a chinese, then thought I'd catch up with the forum...

Then I thought I read:

**edited quote from Sparkey**
hmm, nothing smells better than some mig welder in the morning, at the point when your nose isn't quite used to it yet...lovely!

... and the mental image quite turned my stomach

I think I'll go and get some kip.

Yours,
Tony Wilk

 

[Sparkey]

beers AND a chinese eh!!!!lol

 

[Stuggi]

My granddads old workshop/garage, now my grandmothers garage, just your standard 50's fabricator/mechanic shop in the cellar. Reminds me off when I was a little boy running about there while my granddad repaired some lawn mover or something, he was already retired then so he had all the time in the world.

 

[engybenjy]

Warm steam oil mixed with Hot copper and iron and a roaring steam-coal fire, and ya bacon+eggs done on the coal shovel in the firebox! HEAVEN!!!!

 

[Archie]

Gads this thread has been resurected from the mists of time! Dstealth, I thought no one else had ever heard of Molyslip! I agree with you though, it smells great when it gets warm.

 

[TurboShed]

So did Sparkey and Woody ever get it together?

 

[Hitch]

The smell of solvent based antispatters burning off..... and the smell a lead or torch gives off when its being well overheated the sort you get just as the copper starts to break and the insulation burns away from the dinse!

Neither are the healthiest smells, but i love them!