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Re: Three Towns Aerial Coverage
Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 11:05 am
by louislojoma
Bobby the white building in the foreground of Al's picture is Africa House.
Louis
Re: Three Towns Aerial Coverage
Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 5:01 pm
by FlyingAl
Howdy y'all,
a few more shots of the ardeer factory area.
cheers
al
Re: Three Towns Aerial Coverage
Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 5:02 pm
by FlyingAl
Re: Three Towns Aerial Coverage
Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 12:42 am
by little plum
Al, really enjoying your posts. I assume that was you out and about the other day flying over the roof tops. If I had a decent memory I would be more accurate as to what day and time, I did notice the canopy's colours, red, white and blue. I was half expecting a post of Ashgrove loch, I seem to remember Morag putting in a special request.
Re: Three Towns Aerial Coverage
Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 6:08 am
by bobbydarg
Agree with everything you said LP. This post has me hooked. How often do you get a chance to see where you live from above?
Re: Three Towns Aerial Coverage
Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 1:29 pm
by FlyingAl
little plum wrote:Al, really enjoying your posts. I assume that was you out and about the other day flying over the roof tops. If I had a decent memory I would be more accurate as to what day and time, I did notice the canopy's colours, red, white and blue. I was half expecting a post of Ashgrove loch, I seem to remember Morag putting in a special request.
Hi LP,
No, it wisnae me this time, unless it was a week past saturday. My canopy is red, white and blue though, white underneath, blue on top with a thin red line running across it. you can see it on page 5 of this thread.
I read Morag's request after my last flight so I'll definetely try and get a load of snaps from around the Kerlaw area next time i'm up.
Cheers'n'beers
al
Re: Three Towns Aerial Coverage
Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 1:31 pm
by FlyingAl
oops, I meant my canopy picture is on page 2 of this thread.
al
Re: Three Towns Aerial Coverage
Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 1:42 pm
by bobbydarg
Well spotted Al.
Re: Three Towns Aerial Coverage
Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 2:09 pm
by ellenyoung31
Hello Al. Thank you for the Ardeer photos, Robert and I have
tried to see if we could find,where the Fusehead was. Ellen.
Re: Three Towns Aerial Coverage
Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 5:37 pm
by morag
Just had another look at your pics, Al..the one from Ardrossan towards Portencross is especially gorgeous. Thank you for these wee trips 'back home'!
Re: Three Towns Aerial Coverage
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 1:36 am
by little plum
FlyingAl wrote:a few more from the old photo box
Ellen, I'm sure the fuse head was down towards the bridge over the Garnock. With so much removed from the site it's difficult to be more accurate. It ended with D.L.4 an automated plant that could produce the end product under one roof, that is, fuse wire , fuse head and detonator. Next door to this was D.L. 5 , this building contained the wire shop and the efams. The girls in the wire shop made up the fuse wire bundles, they also had to do some hand soldering of the fuse heads. The efams were automated, these machines were fed with the wire bundles by the girls. After the wires went through various stations of preparation the wire was finished with a fuse head soldered on to it. The next one down towards the bridge was the dets tradesman's workshop. And further on was what wee called the units, this area was a clean floor and you had to put on overshoes when entering. It was mostly presses in here and it was common for the presses to explode, that was why the walls on the inside were steel plate and the exterior wall and roof were made of wood to direct the blast. This area also had the tube drawing ( I'm sure Gavin McInnes worked here) the lead tubes contained a charge and were extruded to a diameter that fitted the detonator. And finally down near the Garnock we had the fuse head where they dipped the small aluminium foils.
Re: Three Towns Aerial Coverage
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 11:26 pm
by meekan
LP
the fuse-head was on the left-hand side of the road which led to the wharf, just before the silicons across the bogie lines. Or you could go via the clean floored passageway.
The fuse-head process started with black card being compressed between two layers of foil on a steam heated press.
From there it was cut into strips and put through a stamping machine and made into combs. The combs were then put through another machine which cut a rebate on the tips of the comb teeth. The combs were then loaded into the soldering machines. The soldering machines wrapped fine wire round the tips of the comb and soldered it to the comb. That took place inside one building I can't remember what number it was.
The combs were then loaded into trays in another building and the tips of the teeth were dipped in a highly flammable material. (ending up still on the comb but not unlike a match)
Then dried the combs were then taken to another building and were processed through another machine which tested, cut off and sorted the fuse head according to the electrical resistance measured across the wire.
-------------and if you are still wakened that is how a fuse head was made. Later on a machine called the "Unifoil" did all this under one roof.
