CAT Demolition Demonstration

This is another demonstration from Macaulay Metals from the Spotlight on Seaview open day held in Lower Hutt.  This massive claw makes mince meat of a huge I beam!

Another Spotlight on Seaview Post - Video

Here is a video taken at Macaulay Metals by Aydin edited by Me... ( No comment on the poor editing :) ).  We used Picasa3 to do the editing.. Finding Picasa3 to be an extremely powerful tool! Hit the link below if you want to download it!

Picas3

Festo pneumatics, all in a couple of hours work!

So here is a video from the other day showcasing some high level Festo pneumatics... OK maybe not so high level but it was a cool little exercise we did in our Automation Paper at Weltec in the mechatronics lab!

Enjoy....

Spotlight on Seaview!

So a couple of weeks ago I was talking with my wife about a mysterious tunnel to Wainuiomata which was started many moons ago but was never finished.  We thought it would be cool to search for it and maybe see if we could explore it!

Well a couple of days ago a newspaper article, from The Hutt News, titled Spotlight on Seaview stated  the tunnel to Wainuiomata was going to be open to the public for the first time!

Coincidence??

Well taking it as a sign from above I rustled up some friends and we went to the Spotlight on Seaview, Industrial Fair. Sadly the line into the tunnel was way too long, we estimated the wait time to be over an hour long... The day wasn't ruined however, there was still things to see!

Metal spinning at at Basil Jones Metal Spinners

Metal recycling at Macaulay Metals, won a sweet beanie for guessing that iron can can oxidise, rust or corrode..

Pretty cool wind tunnel setup by Opus Laboratories!