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Re: Review of new fire brigade rescue equipment
« Reply #10 on: August 30, 2009, 06:59:55 »
Thank you, Karim.   It's now tomorrow, so I'll continue with the review.

Can the new motor unit be used with the old rescue gear?  Yes it can and quite simply by slotting the 30 20 1472 equipment handle onto one of the handles of the old gear.  The first picture shows it in use with the spreaders and the second with the cutters.  I've purposely not tried to make any modifications to the new gear because I currently don't have any spare parts and don't want to try custom work until I have at least one spare of each part. 

Can the new motor unit be used with custom hoses?  The answer is again "Yes" as you can see with my very simple experiment with some of the custom hose Bill Blackhurst sent me in the third picture.  The hose is the string sort, but with a suitably thin and flexible real hose (and maybe a bit of drilliing out of the hole in the winding drum) I'm sure a more sophisticated system could be devised.

Later today I'll look at the prototype of the new rescue gear.
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Re: Review of new fire brigade rescue equipment
« Reply #11 on: August 30, 2009, 14:48:28 »
Thanks for the review of this equipment, Gordon. I have to say, I like the detail they have put into it and that the spreaders are a more realistic size. They look much better with the klickys. Thanks for checking if Bill's hydraulic hoses will fit on the reel.  8-) Thanks for the review and the pictures. 

I'm still amazed at your upside down crate lid, It looks great.  ;D


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Re: Review of new fire brigade rescue equipment
« Reply #12 on: August 30, 2009, 16:44:58 »
Thank you for your kind words, Ben, both for the review and the storage system.

Some thoughts on the prototype for the Playmobil item.  I think it is based on the Holmatro range of tools.  Holmatro is a Netherlands based company specialising in hydraulic portable equipment.  Assuming my view is right, it's a pity that Playmobil didn't produce the equipment in Homatro's colours of black and orange, especially as they have used these colours for the chainsaw with the new turntable ladder.  Anyway, here are two pictures of Holmatro tools to support my idea.  They produce two ranges, one with two hydraulic lines and one with apparently a single line but which actually contains the high pressure line safely within the low pressure one, the Core (TM) system.  The two-tone coloured string used for the hydraulic line could be either, but I favour it being the Core (TM) system.

Lastly, a word on fitting the attachments together.  In all the Playmobil pictures I've seen the cutter and spreader have been wrongly assembled onto the rest of the gear.  as you can see in the first picture, assembled this way the klicky cannot properly hold the equipment.  The final picture shows the equipment being held by firefighters in the UK.  The fact that flori on klickywelt, who is a German fireman, also assembled the equipment in the same way as I did, confirms the error by Playmobil in its pictures.
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Re: Review of new fire brigade rescue equipment
« Reply #13 on: August 30, 2009, 20:46:12 »



Thank you for an excellent review, Gordon!

As a former Coast Guardsman and Policeman, I am very interested in rescue equipment.

Your reviews are very thorough, yet easy to understand.

I actually have a lot of Playmobil from the rescue, firefighter and law enforcement theme. And, every time I read one of your outstanding reviews, Gordon, I am tempted just a bit more to do something creative with this theme. I either need to stop reading your reviews, or I need to look more seriously at what I can do with all my Playmobil from the rescue, firefighter and law enforcement theme.

Thanks again and all the best,
Richard

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Re: Review of new fire brigade rescue equipment
« Reply #14 on: August 30, 2009, 22:19:06 »
Excellent additional review Gordon  :wow:! I agree that the new smaller tools are based on Holmatro's design as we have been discussing for quite awhile now! I have seen their tools in use, & they're quite impressive, but I worked more with HURST/Vetter rescue tool systems when I ran with rescue units.
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Re: Review of new fire brigade rescue equipment
« Reply #15 on: September 07, 2009, 06:28:22 »
Hello Gordon

You right playmobil makes a lot of mistakes on her pictures take  the special blue fire man at example the belt is the wrong way

 and way is the hole in thew winding drum not totally on one site
the imposable wy do direct
wonders take some time

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Re: Review of new fire brigade rescue equipment
« Reply #16 on: September 09, 2009, 17:51:07 »
Excellent review and photos Gordon, thank you! Although not my 'cup of tea' I really enjoy reading about fire and rescue, the design and use of equipment and how other members are customizing the equipment. :wow: :wow:



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