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Rod S

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7th Jan, 2014 at 11:21:04am

On 7th Jan, 2014 Brocky said:

You should see the welding machine we use off shore to weld x65 36" pipe " saturmax 9's " by seri max ! *smiley*

The offshore stuff is impressive, I'm not that familiar with it, I assume it's automated MIG as the pipes are usually carbon or low alloy steel.
In my industry, which is mostly stainless, I've seen a couple of the proprietry Westinghouse automated TIG (auto wire feed but still TIG process) machines working on reactor primary coolant pipework (also 30" plus but stainless and much thicker) and a smaller auto TIG UK machine on 14" thickwall stainless. For a whole variety of reasons, in my industry, we don't allow MIG (auto or manual) on high integrity piping but, for home fabrication, I find nothing wrong with it even on stainless.

BTW, the car(s) look superb.

Schrödinger's cat - so which one am I ???

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Katy TEXAS

14th Jan, 2014 at 04:12:24am

Hey Rod

This the pipelay boat ( seven borealis ) I was the pipelay lead engineer on for the pipeline project in Mexico, basically laying 8km of 36" carbon steel pipeline in 100m water depth for transportation of hydro carbons between oil rigs ( oil to you and me ! )

Looks small in the photo but is over 200m long including stinger ( white stern structure on stern ) and 46m wide it is the pride of our global fleet of 42 vessels

Stern crane has 3 hooks... Whip line at tip 110te including DAF at 90m radius, aux hook 400 te , main hooks 5000te, one hell of an engine hoist!!

Basically we take 12m lengths of pipe from a barge and weld them end to end to make the pipeline, with full ndt and meet a 20 year design life criteria whilst transporting severely caustic product, and maintaining sufficient u value to prevent hydrate formation at ambient subsea temperatures. Admittedly this is far beyond anything I ever imagined myself doing but feel proud of what we achieved in the time.

Not saying how much she costs a day but not much change from 1m....no pressure to make sure you have ordered / procured designed and developed to industry standard and have in country / shipped offshore all the hardware and equipment you need to make it happen....for an 18 day campaign

Project planning phase was on fast track basis 4 months pipe mill to seabed, basically the last 8 weeks I and my team of 7 did 12hr days every day for the last 8 weeks, 4 weeks in Houston, 2 weeks in Mexico and 3 weeks on board

Not to mention that the client required all deliverable documents in Spanish and we had to translate incoming documents also

Machos gracias !!

Brocky

Btw I graduated from Salford uni with a BEng hons degree in mechanical engineering... Just goes to show, and we are always looking for young engineers who want to broaden their horizons ?

Edited by Brocky on 14th Jan, 2014.

BTW - I took my buddy VTEC Pete out for a spin this weekend, and even though I am running her in, he gave it a name, the "Brocket"...cause I'm a brocket maaannn, nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah....

Build thread - http://www.turbominis.co.uk/forums/index.php?p=vt&tid=7483

Katy Mini Owners Club Thread - http://www.turbominis.co.uk/forums/index.php?p=vt&tid=505552

Let's make sure you embarrass at least one VTEC MINI today !

https://www.facebook.com/groups/17557298589...096464253807802

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14th Jan, 2014 at 07:33:27am

fascinating stuff brocky . thank you .

Medusa + injection = too much torque for the dyno ..https://youtu.be/qg5o0_tJxYM

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14th Jan, 2014 at 03:56:53pm

On 14th Jan, 2014 Brocky said:

Btw I graduated from Salford uni with a BEng hons degree in mechanical engineering... Just goes to show, and we are always looking for young engineers who want to broaden their horizons

Wife didn't want to move to Texas, or I'd have been there several years ago *Yes*

BTW Brox, Graeme sent me some pics of his xe mini last night - as he's just past 40, he's put carpet and door cards back inside and finally replaced the wiring loom.... Never thought that would happen.

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Sorry to say My Herpes are no better

Ready to feel Ancient ??? This is 26 years old as of 2022 https://youtu.be/YQQokcoOzeY

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14th Jan, 2014 at 06:07:52pm

graduating from uni (mechanical engineering) this year, can you get me a job? *happy*

car looks great

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14th Jan, 2014 at 07:14:35pm

thanks for sharing brocky
when people can write that about there job it really does make me wonder what the fook im doing with my life

i skipped uni for the army then skipped the army for a girl.. she turned out to be a nutter and now im just plodding on :(

mini is coming on too ive always like the intercooler over rad layout

Edited by Brett on 14th Jan, 2014.

Yes i moved to the darkside *happy*

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Katy TEXAS

15th Jan, 2014 at 02:04:16am

Glad you like it

She also is equipped with 2 200hp work class ROV's capable of diving passed 3000m,

Will post up some pics

On 14th Jan, 2014 robert said:
fascinating stuff brocky . thank you .

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Katy TEXAS

15th Jan, 2014 at 02:10:01am

Offer is always there if needed Dave,

Carpet...he really is over the hill, he'll be fitting an auto box and heated seats next !

On 14th Jan, 2014 TurboDave16V said:

Wife didn't want to move to Texas, or I'd have been there several years ago *Yes*

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Katy TEXAS

15th Jan, 2014 at 02:17:10am

Thanks

You can upload your cv at subsea7.com - vacancies

On 14th Jan, 2014 NB said:

graduating from uni (mechanical engineering) this year, can you get me a job? *happy*

car looks great

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Katy TEXAS

3rd Jul, 2015 at 04:07:26am

hey gents,

finally got around to the quick shift in car conversion, went for the cheaper option, bought UJs for 10 pounds and rod for a fiver, tapped them and threaded the rod, bought some nuts and got the brackets from KAD,

Main reason was that the shifter was getting stiff due to heat soak from the 2" exhaust pipe right next to the remote in the tunnel and that first gear was a bit of a stretch with the harnesses tight, coupled with lowered steering column and lowered / seat moved back...

Feels sweet, took a little trial and error to get the rotation corrected on the gate, but found the sweet spot now.

Word of warning, the rod goes through the floor a little more to the left than you first think...not central...any how hope you like the pics,

cheers

brocky *smiley*

Edited by Brocky on 3rd Jul, 2015.

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29th Aug, 2017 at 01:45:54pm

Hey Brocky,

Did your family and your mini survive the floods?

On 17th Nov, 2014 Tom Fenton said:
Sorry to say My Herpes are no better

Ready to feel Ancient ??? This is 26 years old as of 2022 https://youtu.be/YQQokcoOzeY

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Katy TEXAS

16th Mar, 2018 at 06:14:42am

Wow,

just seen this...no offense but was a little pre-occupied at the time....the water came half way up the drive...funny though, I had the car jack in the house putting the solid oak side board, table and cabinets on bricks before I got the mini jacked up ....brownie points I guess...

Also just realized, looks like I never posted the front end light weight upgrade that was done in Feb 2017....Alloy coil overs, Ti arms to suit, and custom Force racing alloy top brackets. Nice job Carl.

On 29th Aug, 2017 TurboDave16V said:
Hey Brocky,

Did your family and your mini survive the floods?

Edited by Brocky on 16th Mar, 2018.

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22nd Mar, 2018 at 09:22:44pm

awesome build

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Katy TEXAS

19th Feb, 2020 at 06:05:37am

Wow, 2020 already...little update on the master plan. Inspired by a few wide body conversions recently, and brought some 13" x 10s back from the UK on my way back from being the best man at my good friends wedding.

I have always fancied doing a Miguire front end since seeing one in one of the early mini tuning books, hopefully I can pull this off this time.
Thinking the shell is pretty well modified so no issues with not keeping it standard....will keep you posted...may have to "raise the floor" i.e. cut out the floor from the sils down to get the right stance ?
Ideas welcome!

Edited by Brocky on 19th Feb, 2020.

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19th Feb, 2020 at 10:36:15am

I think the maguire minis are usually space framed, could do a semi spaceframe.

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Katy TEXAS

19th Feb, 2020 at 06:39:11pm

That's what I was thinking initially, basically welding up a full roll cage,

But would be cheaper to convert mine if you know what I mean

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21st Feb, 2020 at 08:49:30pm

I have a fg maguire shell, u should of brought that back with you! I wanna see it built as i aint doin nowt with it

On 24th Oct, 2015 jonny f said:
Nothing gets past Dave lol

NOTHING GETS PAST ME!! *tongue*

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Katy TEXAS

23rd Feb, 2020 at 03:03:42am

Nice one DAVE, sounds like I need to ship back a 10ft container, Singapore air lines let me ship the wheels as my second case. Had to pull the valve stems so they would not pressurize, but since they were under the weight limit we were good ! I had taped them together so dims wise it was a big suit case !!!

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