Mills doubles.

Cheers Swifty. It seems like a great place for all us scaffs to congregate. It can only help us all in the long run, and I can't believe how friendly and helpful everyone seems to be. I'd like to say a 'Big Thank You' to everyone who got this forum off the ground and has played a part in bringing it this far. Well done everyone!!!
 
The mills double has got to be the best design double on the market. I must admit when I first used them I was saying WTF.. got used to them and If I had my way the market would be flooded with them. staffing off for the tranni instead of the ledger became the norm.
well sat here in my rocking chair smoking my pipe with my flap cap on remembering the days... then I remember why the SCCR was set up in the first place.. those days will never be replaced..
 
Mills fittings are great
Double on double, very strong
Brilliant for hangers
 
Great fitting , sadly most have been scrapped these days
 
Mills 90's are still a good fitting for ties.

take a bolt out on one side, drill the hole in the wall and anchor it with a good long rawl bolt
and clamp it to a transom tube from the standards under the lift height .... simple's..... (maybe not legal with a pull test but still works for me)

Also good for Handrail which have to be drilled into the wall..
 
Loved the 7/16th fittings but hated the 1/2 inch nineties and sleeves, with the nineties you had to be 7 foot tall and the spanner kept slipping off the sleeves and taking chunks out of your body

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Welcome to the forum davo
 
they're also great for hanging gin wheels,
but their best "use" for me is for sliding beams along a turfing wire from one scaffold to another under a bridge etc,
they dont teach you that one at college;)
 
Well after listening to all the advice & encouragement, I went back to work today with a new enthusiasm towards these fittings & gues what?........
I still fukuking hate them!

Only joking. Don't hate them, slowly but surely getting used to them & the are starting to become my fitting of choice.
 
Karlj711 said:
Well after listening to all the advice & encouragement, I went back to work today with a new enthusiasm towards these fittings & gues what?........
I still fukuking hate them!

Only joking. Don't hate them, slowly but surely getting used to them & the are starting to become my fitting of choice.
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They aint bad.
Ive been told they good for beamwork.
They are still miles better then Bourne (sticky-willies).

My favourite fitting are Presco's.
 
excellent fittings for setting out chimney stacks or any kinda work over roofs because the bolts are to the side where as normal fittings bolts point downwards into slate
 
Hated by many, loved by few.......at least that's what I've found over the years. Don't know if it's because most folk 'grew up' with DFs or Stickies but on certain jobs (beamwork especially) they are a cracking fitting.
I've heard folk complain about difficulty tightening the transom doubles sat on top of ledgers or hassle getting the tubes into the fitting but as with everything, it just takes time getting used to them.
 
tinhorn said:
doesnt he swivel have a certain way of going on . its the bigger side of the internal washer on the up right . or it locks its self at the angle you put it on .
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yea thats right, the nice rounded shape washer against the brace.
 
best fitting by far, their load bearing is awesome,was told when you check a mills always leave a gap of about 5mm between mills & check as when the mills is under tension the bolt is suppose to spring out when it gives way at its max load capacity, if you put your check tight to the mills it will not do what it is meant to do when loaded.
 
Speed bolts were banned offshore a long long time ago due to decaying faster than the norm. They also tended to slip after some usage. We didnt like em anyway too fast for offshore scaffs lol.
 
Ken English who worked for Mills scaffolding in Bradford was one of the fastest scaffs i have ever seen using a flat spanner with the old 1/2 inch fittings
 
The last time Gkn/Mills were offshore was 1993 down Morcombe bay and the Rough field I was on the Morcame bay job for 2 years
Now as for the speed thread fitting been band offshore this is just a myth.
This double will out last any other type on the market as it is a self servicing fitting
you will find lots of tea shack story's but a can assure you that this fitting is the easiest fitting to use in the game it is for beginners.
 
Old scaff hope you are ok.

Worked for Mills's on the Merchison hook up platform way way back in 1979. I don't listen to tea shack stories as I was one of the original rumour control squad !!. Can't remember who the Oil company was way back then maybe BP but I could well be wrong. (old timers disease now) Anyway after that hook up the Oil company banned em from their installations. Maybe Mills's came up with a different patent after that. Was also on Morecambe Bay hook up 83 to 85 for Whitlam then DSL after Joe went bump. Done 18 years offshore Northern and Southern sectors and I didnt see a Mills's double after the Merchi hook up, however never went to the Rough Field but remember we sent a shed load of wonga down there to the scaffs who were on strike. Maybe their OK to use with British Gas or whoever they are called now. I can assure you they were banned for sometime and on a lot of offshore platforms. Maybe they are ok now but I quit offshore in 1996 for better pastures...like Thailand......

Good luck
 
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