OneGuyFromBarlick

I've just done maintenance on my CI frying pan. Wash with boiling water and oil up immediately afterwards. I've never looked back since I reverted to the cast iron instead of the worn out Teflon coated superpan! G'day Stanley, I'm with you on cast iron. My favourite is a Breville electric cast iron...

Yes, and one great thing about canned foods, is that they are extremely 'safe food' from a microbiological standpoint. I have several books written by one Richard Lacey, a microbiologist/medico who played a large part in exposing the scandalous Government coverup of the 1980's UK BSE episodes. 'Pois...

I used to know a bloke who bought a sunken liberty ship off Skye. He went up once a year and salvaged non-ferocious off it using explosives to cut things like the propellers off. He had Submarine Blasting Gelignite in his garage in Birmingham...... Not recommended! It isn't really any problem Stanl...

Not quite as funny as you may think, Lots of people take nitroglycerin medication. re: Nitroglycerin, also known as glyceryl trinitrate (GTN) is a medication used for heart failure, high blood pressure, and to treat and prevent chest pain resulting from insufficient blood flow to the heart (angina ...

Sure thing, Stanley.
I was speculating that as it's a pretty simple procedure, an automated script to do it might be possible - but I'm not enough of a programming geek to do that, if indeed it can be done.

G'day folks, I've noticed that image links [to images in the OGFB Gallery] in my older posts are now broken. A fairly easy manual fix is to edit the image links, to change them to the BBCode version. For example, ["img]http://oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/gallery/image.php?album_id=322&image_id=8...

G'day Stanley. Yep, an admirer of old technology here, too. As well as the Tilleys, my kero-fuelled collection includes a 1920's Primus stove [family legacy], a two-burner Coleman pressure stove, and a Companion blowlamp. My current workshop heater is a 1970's Japanese-made kero unit, that I'm now r...

Get your paraffin lamps out occasionally and make sure they are clean and ready for use. I had to do a quick maintenance job by candle light last nigh before I could light my Vapalux lamp. I shall give my Tilley Lamp the same treatment! I've sadly had to retire my two Tilleys - lighting kerosene/pa...

Thanks for that Gadge, I didn't know there were so many...... De nada, Stanley. Few folk do know! I must admit I was gobsmacked when I first found that info. Then that sent me hunting for more technical info, and I found a very interesting paper presented to the Aust Institute of Mining & Metal...

Don't forget that one of the enormous mines installed and exploded under the German lines in the Battle of the Somme failed to detonate. There is still perhaps as much as 40 tons of Ammonal underground there. Then there is the Liberty Ship in the Tames Estuary near Canvey Island...... G'day Stanley...

A few Southern Hemisphere 'waterwheel' examples - Stanley, if you can think of a better thread for this post, please feel free to shift it. The images are a bit rough, as I've just been given a flatbed scanner, and am still learning how to drive it, and the 'Gimp' image editor. Pics taken ca. 2008. ...

It just goes to show how important the smith was in those days. Doug mentions that the pick is half way though being sharpened by re-forging. It was Jimmy Thompson, the smith at Marton, who first showed me that this was the only way to sharpen many tools. Until then I knew nothing about it. He told...

Lovely to see you re-using material others have thrown away. The affluent West has forgotten how to do this, a chip goes in a household machine and it's cheaper to buy a new one. You might like my letterbox, then! 8614 Front view 8615 Rear view The backstory: my house is opposite the 'stem' of a T-...

Here we go with the brake drum forge project; thanks for the invitation, Stanley. 8583 This is what I started out with. A folding portable riveter's/farrier's forge blower and stand, picked up at a deceased estate 'clearing sale' auction, some years ago. My files show that it cost me AU$21 [roughly ...

Very interesting post, Stanley. I've encountered a similar situation, with regard to injection of corrosion inhibitor [CI] chemicals into natural gas streams, in offshore oil and gas production. The CI has to be injected into a turbulent flow region of the gas stream, to get it to disperse as drople...

I'd recommend that; it's one of his better novels, I think.

I had the full set of Shute novels too; must get another copy of 'Ruined City' - the old paperback copy I had fell to bits, after numerous re-reads!

I like the molasses and water de-rusting bath Doug. Never come across that one before, I shall have a crack at it! I like the old brake drum for a forge bed as well, you've given me another idea....... The molasses bath is only for the patient :laugh5: , as it can take several weeks to clean up hea...

Righto, I've been putting in a bit of 'shed time' of late. Much more primitive technology than Stanley's stuff, though! First project was to mix up a Molasses and water bath, for de-rusting some old tools I had lying around. 8539 The active bath - stock feed grade molasses diluted about 1+10 with wa...

Yes, there aren't many surviving brick or stone stacks here, from that period. Many of these 'bush mines' built steel chimneys on local stone bases, as these could easily be carted in as pre-punched rolled plates, and hot riveted up on site. Brick construction usually required that there be a suitab...

The Cornish style mine chimneys are by far the most common, in Victoria, anyway. Here's a rare surviving example of a Welsh type one, at an abandoned Vic gold mine, at the Howqua United/Great Rand mine site in north-eastern Victoria, Australia. Built in 1892. The purpose of the furnace was to roast ...

I've certainly much enjoyed your writings on OGFB, Stanley. I really liked your autobiography, and also the intriguing story of your discovery of your dad's WWI record. My paternal grandfather and his two brothers also served in the AIF in WWI [they all enlisted in 1916]; I found that it was actuall...

Thanks for the welcome, folks. Stanley, I reckoned an intro was appropriate as, although I'm long time registered, I haven't posted until now. When I first signed up, it was only so that I could view the 'members only' pics, really. But something went awry with my account setup, and if I logged in, ...

Agreed; I really think that the 19thC Cornish exodus qualifies as a diaspora! Railway tunnels weren't constructed on the same scale here, as they were in the UK. So mining was by far the greatest employer of the hard rock men here. And engineers and millwrights. A link to a PDF of a good short story...

Glad to be able to contribute usefully, Stanley. Samuel Barnes would have been the archetypal 'Cousin Jack' professional hard rock miner, as the Cornish expatriates were known here. They were world-renowned for their expertise in the field in the 19th Century, and many emigrated then, as many of the...

Well folks; having decided to 'delurk' at last, I guess I should do an bit of an intro. :grin: I'm from Gippsland, Victoria, Australia; more specifically, the Latrobe Valley. Which is in a sense the 'engine room' of Victoria - we have six thermal power stations here, of the thirteen in the State. In...