OneGuyFromBarlick

That's a new one. I've always used bananas as a source of ripening gas.

Dealing with the current glut of tomatoes & runner bean by eating a blanched bean & tomato salad with an oil & vinegar & Worcester sauce dressing.
Wish I could get the tomatoes to redden in June.

Fuzzed out the name Star Turn hardness comparator because it was traceable on Google.

Plaques has it.
Tests for the Rockwell hardness of steel by scratching.
Posh version of running a file over the corner of a tempered job.

Test standards - you're getting warm now.

I had to have my dog put down in July after nearly 12 years in the family. I still can't get used to not having that totally unreserved welcome when I get in from work at night.

Two of my brothers are optometrists and one mentioned that elderly couples in those days often had more advanced cataracts in one eye than the other due to sitting in the same place after dark and getting more infrared radiation from the glow in the nearer eye. Cataracts were early recognised as a p...

Not for shearing.
Not for deburring.
Right to think an engineer would use it.

Good photo. Liked

Nope, not smoking related.

Clue - those parts are hardened.

https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/15579/medium Another chunk of British heavy engineering gone. These are the last two Christmas Trees leaving our factory in Leeds. Destined for the Mediterranean offshore Tripoli. 600 manufacturing jobs gone (USA, Malaysia and Brazil still g...

I put the following into Google and then clicked on 'images'
patent John Howlett Wellworthy

Throws up insights on a lot of the machinery he mentions.

It's about 50mm across. Object sitting in the lower part of plastic (possibly Bakelite) case.

As recommended by Stanley, I spent £3.28 on a hardback copy of John Howlett's autobiography The Guv'nor. Just got to the end of WWI and his start in piston ring manufacturing. Looking good so far.

Liquid Piston https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e785YnDmq0

How they're getting on http://liquidpiston.com/news/press-releases/

How it works http://www.ukintpress-conferences.com/u ... hkolik.pdf

Apparently the Stasi could track citizens by their handwriting: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-41283012 One of my wife's favourite films is 'Das Leben der Anderen'. When we visited Berlin we went to visit the DDR museum with its chilling reminders of the Stasi and totalitarian oppression. Funnily ...

https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/15536/medium Derby Corporation ran trams until 1932 and then converted to trolley buses which ran until 1967. This painting shows a trolley bus in Derby Market Place with the bamboo pole leaning against the back. When he/she had finished the...

Nice bit of book binding. Is that what they call watered silk?
Minutes of the CHSC?

In the late 70s I bought my first house on a new estate between Barnsley & Rotherham. These were the first semis in the area without 'a proper chimney'. I then had gas central heating put in and was chided by my adjoining neighbour, a colliery deputy, for not supporting the local coal industry. ...

Coal seems cheap, especially in the days before lorries & JCBs when they would have to cart it from the railway or canal. Can you give us a comparison of the average labourer wages, or similar measure like the price of bread/beer, against the price of coal in the early 1890s and the more recent ...

... and the USA immigration have got my fingerprints and the Ancestry family history corporation have got my DNA. Interesting BBC programme on how Cambridge Analytica can profile people from their social media (& OGFB) postings. The presenter found their results eerily accurate. Here is the Guar...

Iatrogenic disease - I had to give that a good cyberchondriac investigating.

When my middle daughter was about 16 we had a French exchange student visit whose ambition in life was to be a firewoman. We rang up the local firestation and they said they'd show her the kit if not disturbed by a real emergency event. They put on a real good show and then dressed her up in some of...

My dad managed to die intestate in Spain. Nice money spinner for the lawyers. Made me a believer in having a will written.

That's a long, thin turning job. Do you have a travelling steady for Mrs H?

Persistence personified. Can't be that long now until the engine gets its first run.