A question for the Aussies *LINK*

Re: A question for the Aussies

Andrew F in Australia

>Hi Steve,

Consultant to the power or mineral industry???

The woodworks is a bit higher end than Carbatec, but they have two stores - one in Meadowbank (near a railway station, but our trains are a right royal mess this week) and another in the centre of Sydney (Gowings building)

The Meadowbank store has a huge range of pfiel chisels and lots of other goodies - Gowings is a bit smaller.

Carbatec here is more Veritas, Record planes, Jap tools etc...

If you're interested in looking at HNT Gordon planes and you're driving down to Sydney, you'll be driving past the showroom/factory in Northern NSW.

Both woodworks and Carbatec carry HNT Gordon.

Must run short term, but shoot me aline if there's any more info you need.

Cheers,

Andrew

ps: For the benefit of the guys in the US, how warm is it in Gladstone today???

Gladstone...

GolfSteve in Calgary

>Yes, I work in the consulting engineering industry � I specialize in building these beasts:

2500 tonnes of rotating steel, 8.5 meters in diameter x 63 meters long. This is a demonstation plant size, the big units are 12 to 16 meters in diameter.

The reason I�m back in Australia is to provide temporary engineer support � while you might think a trip to Australia is a dream, it�s a big drag after the 16th time, and my work consists mostly of crawling around dirty equipment. Here I am about to go in (yes, that is the ocean in the background, but there beach consists of about 100 meters of mangrove swamp mud that is breeding heaven for midges.)

Here�s a shot inside the machine looking at the broken bits:

Today it is about 33 degrees Celcius (91 deg F) in Gladstone. It is about 45 degrees Celcius (113 deg F) inside the machine.

Thanks for the advice. I'd like to stop in at the Gowlings store, butI�m a creature of habit, and it�s a hassle changing my airline reservations, etc, just to visit a different store in Sydney. I'll see how things go.

Cheers,

Steven

Wow, BIG iron;-)

Dan Donaldson

>I think that would even impress Forrest;-)

Re: Gladstone...

Jorge Casta�eda ~ East Penobscot Bay

>Steve,

What is that machine used for? Is that a cement factory?

TIA

Jorge

Re: Gladstone...

GolfSteve in Calgary

>It's a machine to extract oil out of oil shale. It produces about 2500 bbl/d of zero sulphur hydrotreated naphtha (used to make gasoline) and 2000 bbl/d of low suphur fuel oil.

Smaller versions of this machine are also used to clean up hazardous waste sites - I spent many years working in the United States cleaning up some absolutely shocking messes. (mostly around Ohio/Kentucky).

Too bad I wasn't into woodworking back then because I'm sure there are many good woodstores in that part of the US.

I've also though about shipping a pile of Australian wood back home, but have never got around to finding out what the customs regulations are.

Re: Gladstone...

William R. Duffield on the Cohansey

>I thought it kind of looked like an incinerator like they use for burning up contaminated dirt at EPA Superfund sites. I sent the link to LOML, who used to do safety and IH consultation on equipment like that. She has this thing about confined space entry requirements.

Small world isn't it.

Andrew F in Australia

>Because I used to be one of the two lead Process Engineers for the competition and knew the process inside out (but I've been out of the game for a few years now)

Spent 3 months in Holderbank/Germany ref checking suppliers.

Is that QCL's Gladstone's new 2 pier kiln?

Cheers,

Andrew

My apologies - I'm cement trained, not organic

Andrew F in Australia

>Now I'm off to the blackboard to write 1000 times:

"Read all posts first before responding"

Steve,

Ping me off line - may have a chance to catch up.

Cheers,

Andrew

Re: Gladstone...

Mark Harrison -- in Sydney, Australia

>I'm well acquainted with Gladstone.

My Great-Uncle had a house right on the Boyne River (south of Gladstone) and we often had holidays there. Fishing in the Boyne is great (or was then anyway) and the mud crabs were as thick as flies.

My brothers and I would wander up into the bush nearby and eat wild mangoes and just wander around.

The tides were something like 12 meters and people would bring their boats and careen them to clean the bottoms. Probably explains what happened to the local oysters.

The tides moved real fast and if you had the anchor firmly fixed(!), a 10HP outboard motor does not have sufficent urge to allow you to make headway to free the anchor. DAMHIKT!!!

Great memories.