OneGuyFromBarlick

general use pre 1950, ignore writing

Stanley probably used one of these

2" BSP, part of a drum kit ?

Eileen, when theres a food shortage yucky dose'nt come into the equation.

Eileen, you're correct, Stanley, not a theodolite, but close it is a auto collimator, can be used when levelling long machines etc, it works by reflecting a beam/ /ray off a squared mirror at the opposite end of the machine, adjusting the machine height untill the reflected beam shows you are level ...

Stanley will know this

Heres another object, not engineering based, but maybe should be on the "Jacks" forum ?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_ ... LvuG1pTJeg

Stanley, you may have used one of these at Ellen Road ?, or an afterthought, you could have used similar in the army

http://www.3d-china.com/Uploadfiles/201 ... _27677.jpg

the pump action, it probably feeds where gravity cannot, or feeds to inaccesible places, propellor shafts, and bearings inside moving parts ?

In my part of the west riding, cattle were reffered to as "beasts", and their first milk after calving was beastings, used to make a great milk pudding, probably would'nt be allowed today, but i do'nt think it harmed me !!

An early green protesters song
[BBvideo 425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwcYPCpIIkY[/BBvideo]

Not sure where you got your salt, but when my parents divorced in 1948/9 i used to cycle every weekend from the Flouch to Hollingworth on the A628, i used to pass over Salters Brook bridge, this was part of the old pack trails from Cheshire used for transporting possibly "your" salt, at Sa...

Stanley , i could run after this, but i don't think hat would help the thread of this topic

Station Chimney.jpg This is a nice little chimney in the local station yard, the yard was a terminus, but no one can tell me what the stack was used for?, sugggestion was for drying sand for use in helping traction !, but it would seem to be a sledge hammer to crack a nut The yard was passenger ,goo...

I will be posted a request to find my half brother.
Try googling "Missing You" a web site just for looking up missing people

Vent plug ?

keep em coming, i had got as far as thinking that the last one was some kind of tube clamp, but could'nt fathom out the wheel

My mother during the war would give me a chicken sandwich, a" dry crust & pull it"

Do we have an itch & scratch it or a scratch & itch it ?

I wonder how many joined with the promise of spare wives ?

Many years ago when my friends and i were into cycling, B&B £ 1/50 a night, a lot of the rooms had signs over the taps, "not for drinking,", that was 60 yrs ago, if you wanted water to drink it was in the kitchen. Did plumbing change?, in my days all water was from tanks in the attic o...

Stanley, re

Stanley wrote:The perturbation of the ocean currents is increasing and I often wonder whether, in the end, this will be the biggest single impact of climate change.

We may have to resort to some of the old gadgets in the link, look under "obselete technology"
http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/

Top of the class Stanley, used them when "marking out" with a height guage. Just thinking what is it that makes our generation reluctant to dispose of anything ?, i even strip screws and nuts from any old appliance/ equipment being discarded,elecrigal, mechanical etc, the family say its Yo...

You could use this with your previous post, the discolouration is anti rust

How do i insert / attach an image to the forum ?