What i come across quite often ( As promised Tony i took a few pics)

[Darkwood]

well we used original magic eyes and the oringinal set up was backwards to common sense and the posts holding the IR emitters and reflectors wobbled like f..... took a few extra hours of remounting and setting up but yes it worked...... not bad seen as though we had a verbal of how it worked from a guy limited in english ... supprised myself :yes:

 

[Knobhead]

I got lumbered with we need to fit light curtains to XXXX. Everything fine until the plant started. One end swayed side to side the other up and down! I surprised myself. (Didn't realise I had so many swear words in my vocabulary). The plant was 2nd hand in 1965 when it was rebuilt on a new site. It was knackered back in 65, 40 more years of corrosive crap in the mean time hadn't done it any favours. That project got quietly shunted to one side.

 

[Geordie Spark]

Did it work though? :yes:

It did ..... after he modified it so it was like the old one.