Mack, David wrote:
> Ron Jones asked:
>
>> Which reminds me of some locks where the rotating long bar
>> (on the lower
>> gate) was square section and there was a sort of bolted but
>> movable "spanner" one pushed up at the end to lock the bar
>> (no rachet) - can't remember where I came across them, are
>> they still around?, it might have been the S.Oxford (above
>> Banbury, as we turned round there).  This would have been
>> early 80's.  It stuck in my memory as one of the "spanners"
>> slipped off causing the windless to spin and making a nasty
>> mess of a friends knuckles.
>
> There used to be sliding spanner affairs on the Napton flight, but
> they are long gone.  I rather liked them - to lower the paddle you
> wound it up a fraction, the spanner slid down, and you could then
> wind the paddle down.

That'll be the ones then - it was a wet day, and the windless slipped in his 
grasp - boy do they whirl round when let go!


Ron Jones
Process Safety & Development Specialist
Don't repeat history, unreported chemical lab/plant near missesa at
http://www.crhf.org.uk Only two things are certain: The universe and
human stupidity; and I'm not certain about the universe. ~ Albert
Einstein 




 
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