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Title: British fire service style hydrant
Post by: playmofire on January 08, 2006, 22:10:12

Following up on Tim's comment about UK style hydrants in this thread http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/index.php?topic=387.0;topicseen, here are pics of one I made some years ago.

Title: Re: British fire service style hydrant
Post by: playmofire on January 08, 2006, 22:27:23

There's somehting odd about the pics.  If you click on them to open in a new tab or window they're very small, but if you click on them in the post itself they open in the post big.

Title: Re: British fire service style hydrant
Post by: playmofire on January 08, 2006, 22:29:17

Funny, they're ok now! ???

Title: Re: British fire service style hydrant
Post by: Sylvia on January 08, 2006, 22:37:46

Neat work, Gordon! Thanks for sharing the pics. :)9


No idea what caused the temporary size problem with the attachments, but I'm glad to hear it sorted itself out! :)

Title: Re: British fire service style hydrant
Post by: Richard on January 09, 2006, 04:59:13

That's pretty cool, Gordon ...

I don't know of anything quite like that in the States!

Thanks for sharing,
Richard

Title: Re: British fire service style hydrant
Post by: Little Jo on January 09, 2006, 09:56:41

Hm, I think I have also seen something similiar here in Germany during my military services. The "hydrant" you attach to the ground pipe looks a bit different (but I can not remember exactly).

BTW, cool customizing. I like the sequence style which explains very well.

Title: Re: British fire service style hydrant
Post by: Meg on January 09, 2006, 13:27:24

Its a very different approach than what the US does.

I wonder how each method rates against the other for speed of connection, amount of water, problems with parked cars, etc.

Title: Re: British fire service style hydrant
Post by: playmofire on January 09, 2006, 14:34:41

Hydrants over here tend to be set in the road itself, some way out from the kerb.  Hence, parked cars are not usually a problem. 

Speed of connection is probably about the same, while the amount of water delivered depends on the local water pressure, which can vary a lot from place to place.

Title: Re: British fire service style hydrant
Post by: Tim_w on January 09, 2006, 17:36:12

Hello  Gordon  :)

Thank you very much for sharing these with us they are excellent. They really do demonstrate how the system works :)9.

Kindest Regards  Tim  :)