What does a S2-forum user for living?

[europeanme]

Quality engineer or as we know them, Delivery prevention officer

Hell yeah....if you make tosh, it ain't going...

[Tonks4x4]

Mechanic and general dogs body...

[Taavi]

Quality assurance inspector in aircraft maintenance, so a guy who nobody likes

[Macchris]

Commercial assistant in tools, bolt/nuts/washers, & lot of other merchandises. Before that i have spent 10 years as sale manager (selling windows, kitchens, bathrooms, stairs, doors etc..)

[rustybullethole]

Spent the last 15 years working in Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia as Commissioning Manager and Site Manager on large new gas and coal power plant construction sites. In the last 18 months Ive come back to the UK and now working as an Operations and Maintenance Manger for a power company. It pays the bills....

[Tridac]

What a long strange trip it's been...

Machine shop work early on, then electronics tech, then sound systems and music biz, then electronic design, systems programming and embedded real time to date. Restoration and running classic cars, stationary engines and a Rover gas turbine apu from a Vulcan. Freelance (and often pennyless) for decades with own well equipped home lab, but more laid back these days…

[Zeus]

Currently working as mechanical engineer on E-Turbo's, gas turbine range extenders and compressors for fuel cell systems, all for the automotive industry.

[diesel des]

Machine shop work early on, then electronics tech, then sound systems and music biz, then electronic design, systems programming and embedded real time to date. Restoration and running classic cars, stationary engines and a Rover gas turbine apu from a Vulcan. Freelance (and often pennyless) for decades with own well equipped home lab, but more laid back these days…

Any links to the apu project. Sounds interesting

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[Tridac]

Rover APU

Don't have a web page for it, but include some pics. The Rover APU was designed to be a self contained power unit, other than for external controls and 28v DC input for starting. On the a/c, it lived in a stainless steel can, hanging in a recess under one of the wings. It had an Oxygen bottle for high altitude starts and a Methyl Bromide fire extinguisher system as well. If all the 4 engines failed on the way to nuke Russia, the apu would be started and supply bleed air to restart one of the main engines, which would then start the others. It also has a 30KVa 400Hz alternator to supply power to essential services.

First thing here was to remove the engine from the can, clean it up (covered in ali swarf where it had been cut out of the a/c), then weld up a frame to mount it in. The idea being to mount it exactly as per original fitment, so it's suspended in the middle, with original turnbuckles at the exhaust end. The unpainted pics are of the basic frame with engine, proof of concept that the thing would in fact run. The other pics show it painted, more or less finished other than for the alternator regulator. Last touch was to put the original nameplate on the front panel. Took it to airshows, Bruntingthorpe and Popham on a few occasions and used to start on the button every time. Eventually sold it and it's now in store at Gatwick Air Museum, though I keep getting asked if I want to buy it back :-). There quite few people in the uk who play around with old gas turbines and would like another myself, but other priorities right now.

Can't see how to post photos inline here from the local machine. Insert image just asks for a URL, so have uploaded the lot to Photobucket, here:

http://s775.photobucket.com/user/NikonFtn/library/Rover%20AAPU%20from%20Vulcan%20Aircraft?sort=2&page=1

[europeanme]

Quality assurance inspector in aircraft maintenance, so a guy who nobody likes

Pah, who cares!!!....

[quattromnc]

CTO for an IT company in Glasgow.

[fish]

Metal fabricator/welder mainly Stainless steel and aluminium. Mostly Så toolboxes/storage cabinets for lorrys and trailers. But we do pretty much anything involving bending and welding.

[fish]

A few pics of some work. Cabinets, a shroud on a Street sweeper, and a SS exhaust for an excavator! I polished all the welds after it was done.

[diesel des]

Don't have a web page for it, but include some pics. The Rover APU was designed to be a self contained power unit, other than for external controls and 28v DC input for starting. On the a/c, it lived in a stainless steel can, hanging in a recess under one of the wings. It had an Oxygen bottle for high altitude starts and a Methyl Bromide fire extinguisher system as well. If all the 4 engines failed on the way to nuke Russia, the apu would be started and supply bleed air to restart one of the main engines, which would then start the others. It also has a 30KVa 400Hz alternator to supply power to essential services.

First thing here was to remove the engine from the can, clean it up (covered in ali swarf where it had been cut out of the a/c), then weld up a frame to mount it in. The idea being to mount it exactly as per original fitment, so it's suspended in the middle, with original turnbuckles at the exhaust end. The unpainted pics are of the basic frame with engine, proof of concept that the thing would in fact run. The other pics show it painted, more or less finished other than for the alternator regulator. Last touch was to put the original nameplate on the front panel. Took it to airshows, Bruntingthorpe and Popham on a few occasions and used to start on the button every time. Eventually sold it and it's now in store at Gatwick Air Museum, though I keep getting asked if I want to buy it back :-). There quite few people in the uk who play around with old gas turbines and would like another myself, but other priorities right now.

Can't see how to post photos inline here from the local machine. Insert image just asks for a URL, so have uploaded the lot to Photobucket, here:

http://s775.photobucket.com/user/Nik...?sort=2&page=1

Amazing thanks for the details. Would be a lovely toy for the garage....

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[fourwh33ldriv3]

Offshore Drilling HSE Advisor, HGV Driver, Almost Driving Instructor only need to carry out and pass my part 3 then set up a wee driving school in my area. However I see a few of you out there are involved in the Oil & Gas so if anyone knows of any work going in the HSE field I'd be very interested in getting back into it...soon if possible. Prepared to go most places too worldwide...