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Old 29th December 2019, 20:53
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I've always wanted to go into a tool shop to buy a file and have the following conversation:

"Can I buy a file please ?"
"Do you want one of the bastards off the top shelf ?"
"No, I'll have one of those f*****s off the bottom shelf."


It's never happened, but I live in hope.
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Old 29th December 2019, 22:12
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Is that the same as adjusting the plumber block temperature to 20 p.s.i and then paralleling it with the fuel oil clarifier?
After 49 years I have never come across a separator configured as a clarifier, either on its own or in series with a purifier.
Has anyone experience a clarifier other than in a text book?
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Old 30th December 2019, 00:09
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A clarifier is a very fine tuning control often included on communication receivers.
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Old 30th December 2019, 00:17
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Clarifier - Isn't that the correct name for those big round open tanks in sh1t farms?
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Old 30th December 2019, 00:18
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Anyone remember the TV show 'Call my bluff' ?
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Old 30th December 2019, 02:10
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Clarifier - Isn't that the correct name for those big round open tanks in sh1t farms?
Tmac does not like you referring to anything in his engine room as shitfarm related. Except the shittank of course.
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Old 30th December 2019, 02:15
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Please use the SI system until Boris tells us otherwise. Remember temperature is in bars. But psi may be used for car tyres and inflatable doflingers, you know.
If parla da true SI that would be Mpa. Or degrees Kevin if one has to be absolutely correct (your front tyres must have the same number of Kevins perching on each)
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Old 30th December 2019, 06:54
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Many thanks lads. I now have sufficient knowledge to discuss Clarifiers with my local Alfa Laval repair man.
What a website!
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Old 30th December 2019, 11:20
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Many thanks lads. I now have sufficient knowledge to discuss Clarifiers with my local Alfa Laval repair man.
What a website!

…………….. and all this started from a floorboard cruncher upperer .. (SI description ?)

You're right … what a website !!
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After 49 years I have never come across a separator configured as a clarifier, either on its own or in series with a purifier.
Has anyone experience a clarifier other than in a text book?

I sailed on several ships which ran a purifier + clarifier system.
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Old 1st January 2020, 14:27
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Harland and Bluff often offered the purifier in sequence with a clarifier arrangement but this was rarely taken up by the owner. Most common was a dual purifier arrangement so the internal filters could be rotated for maintenance and cleaning.

FYI my injun room is squeeky clean and is Squeeks pride and joy... he is currently inconsolable that it would be even considered as a shitfarm
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Old 1st January 2020, 15:05
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Perish the thought that I was meaning anything nautical.
My information came from the fact that many shitfarms were next to railway lines. I was at some time looking for something and the person attending the said establishment directed me to 'next to the clarifiers' - just one of those odd bits of trivia that one picks up.
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Old 1st January 2020, 19:22
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Shitfarms and Engine Room clarifiers! Isn't Clarified Wine a more interesting thought,
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Old 2nd January 2020, 02:54
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Clarifier - For LO
Purifier - For FO

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Clarifier - round tank with rotating sludge collectors, with or without "scum skimmer". In the immortal words of Leon Bradshaw, Chief Designer for EIMCO,"There is no "F" in scum skimmer!". The diameter, depth and the use or no use of flocculants are all important to give the time of transit of the flow and sedimentation of the solids.......
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Old 2nd January 2020, 07:54
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Frigson has buggered my enjoyment.
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Old 2nd January 2020, 09:33
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Thanks Dave, That certainly clarifies it.
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Old 2nd January 2020, 09:54
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Harland and Bluff often offered the purifier in sequence with a clarifier arrangement but this was rarely taken up by the owner. Most common was a dual purifier arrangement so the internal filters could be rotated for maintenance and cleaning.:
Was it beyond the wit of H&W to fit a valve chest that would facilitate both modes of operation. The lads in the Design and Drafting Offices were too busy playing pontoon.
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Old 2nd January 2020, 11:28
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Pontoon:

"A watertight float or vessel used where buoyancy is required in water, as in supporting a bridge, in salvage work, or where a temporary or mobile structure is required in military operations."

Queer thing to be playing with in a drawing office ….
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Old 2nd January 2020, 13:40
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Bob you've led a very sheltered life and mixed with gentle folk too often, my definition of Pontoon is;
"Pontoon is a British card game that is very similar to conventional American blackjack where players are trying to get closest to 21, without going over. The game is originally derived from the French card game Vingt-et-un."

You must never play it online, if you must surf the interweb I recommend a nice bit of cosy porn.
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Old 2nd January 2020, 14:21
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Can't be very British if it was originally French. Can one get the pox from Vingt-et-un?

Anyway I thought it was a bit of harbour that went up and down with the tide designed to give jack two opportunities to fall in the oggin when returning from a chaste and abstemious night ashore.
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Was it beyond the wit of H&W to fit a valve chest that would facilitate both modes of operation. The lads in the Design and Drafting Offices were too busy playing pontoon.
YES !!! sounds like you frequented our hallowed halls
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Old 2nd January 2020, 17:02
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"Closest to 21".
"American blackjack".
It all sounds very dodgy. What's wrong with a nice game of Snap (Extreme Arm Wrestling)?
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Old 2nd January 2020, 18:39
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I met that Yankee bastard. Are you sure it's still OK to call him black or to refer to him being in a closet?
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Old 2nd January 2020, 19:37
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Try as I might I can't see how a pack of cards can get a column of tanks across a river.
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Old 2nd January 2020, 20:13
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Its not easy but if Steve McQueen can do it surely the Royal Tank guys can.

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