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Most acid based brick cleaners appear to be based upon 10%-18% Hydrochloric Acid (sometimes otherwise described as Hydrogen Chloride)

Citric Acid is often cheaper when bought from a shop selling homebrew ingredients.

Typical inflation - in my day Goldilocks only met three bears!

May Day Bank Holiday Sunday and Monday May 5th and 6^th

Public running 12:00 – 3:00, vintage bus rides and transport museum

Contact: Jonathan Hill 07984337004

Elmdon MES **LINK**

Wythall Transport Museum, Chapel Lane, Wythall, Worcestershire B47 6JA **LINK**

I joined Junior School in 1964 and did not use it, but my sister a couple of years younger did.

But as computers did not use the 45 character ITA but rather the ASCII character set imported from the US this would probably have killed it from the early 1980s if it had not died out before then.

If you allow apostrophes then the possessive form of someone called Bess would be Bess's - and similarly for Tess, however at least one online dictionary hyphenates cross-slide.

Another word with multiple esses is the one you use when you are slamming a quick release bench vice shut and you catch your finger in it - sssssssssssssssssssssss!

Edited By Nick Clarke 3 on 26/04/2019 13:27:15

At the school model railway club a long time ago we had a visit from a prize winning locomotive model maker who, before the advent of super glue, used to use a tiny blob of paint to hold details like lamp irons onto 00 gauge loco models - until he sent one to be professionally painted and the first thing they did was to degrease it by dumping it in a bath of solvent - when all of the super details promptly fell off!

It reminded me of dear old Victor Blackman writing in Amateur Photographer magazine who used his 'Blackman grubby handkerchief' as a two stop reducer in flash intensity.

If it is your intention to spray paint with this you will need to use a 'continuous bleed' internal mix spraygun - there is neither the pressure nor the volume to use any other type (except an air brush of course)

As an example the high street store with initials MM only list one only of this type against many that demand more air, so I suspect most sprayguns you see advertised are unlikely to be be suitable. Check first.

With the right gun though, you can obtain a very good finish and I have in the (distant) past sprayed whole cars with one of these.

And when it comes to plug fuses they are still available in a choice of ratings 1,2,3,5,7,10,13A - when first introduced as far as I recall even more intermediate values were available - I remember a yellow coloured fuse, but not its value. Does this suggest that even the plug manufacturers want different values to protect the appliance not the cable?

Moving from an Edwardian house with 2,5 and 15A round pin plugs to a new one that my father had built in 1962 or 63 we were presented with a couple of boxes of 13A plugs and a load of different fuses to convert all our existing appliances. I seem to remember the colour code was even moulded into the underside of the MK plugs themselves.

Edited By Nick Clarke 3 on 23/04/2019 09:16:41

So you should always look in the last place first!

Hang on let me think that one through

Elmdon MES **LINK**

Wythall Transport Museum, Chapel Lane, Wythall, Worcestershire B47 6JA **LINK**

Easter Sunday and Monday April 21st and 22^nd

Public running 12:00 – 3:00, vintage bus rides and transport museum

Contact: Jonathan Hill 07984337004

This is a generic picture of a column water gauge from the internet. LBSC described one in his 'Live Steam Book'

I suspect the passageways are harder to keep clear/more likely to block up.

In he mining parts of Nottinghamshire a packed lunch was always 'snap' - perhaps a term miners took around the country with them? And Wakefield's Army Stores had 'snap tins' in their window that used to puzzle me as a child as they didn't seem to snap in any way.

And to add to jitties, alleys and ginnels, when I was growing up they were always 'entries'

Edited By Nick Clarke 3 on 14/04/2019 10:56:28

Having grandparents from Ireland, Scotland, Burton and Hampshire (note all those produce alcohol including English wine!) but growing up in Nottingham and Lincolnshire tea was always 'stewed' to make it while everywhere else it seems to have been 'brewed' and when 'stewed' it was past its best.

+1

As it was put to me about fifty years ago - the mechanical fault with most lathes is the nut behind the topslide!

Quite probably, but when I mixed and sold car paint in the 1970s paint technology was not sufficiently stable to maintain the same colour from batch to batch. Not a problem for the car maker as provided a car was only one colour all over they did not care, but an issue for the refinisher.

In the UK there were 20 shades recognised for Ford Arizona gold and nearly as many for Ford Tawney. In addition application conditions were an issue - a colour sprayed dry will be different to one laid on wet - not just metallics but this could also be a problem with virtually any dark colour. Some expensive metallic paints were designed to be painted with lacquer applied onto a wet colour coat so the metal flakes spread slightly into the lacquer giving a deeper metallic effect - again spraying conditions could make matching difficult. Also colours changed over the years if they were kept in production.

Whites were difficult to match as there was only tiny amounts of tinter in a basically white paint - but funnily enough one of the most reliable colours was a white - Triumph white - it always came out OK and it was in production for years. Go figure!

Are you certain you are not missing some earlier pages as well as in my copy 587/588 is on the same sheet as 569/570? - you seem to have some half pages there!

As Jason suggests, get a replacement.

Edited By Nick Clarke 3 on 10/04/2019 18:47:32

And they can be stretched to make them longer even if the middle does neck down a bit!

As a student 40+ years ago I paid my way with a number of jobs including labouring at backstreet garages/car workshops.

One used an empty propane bottle for just this purpose and both partners are still with us, still working and each with the right number of arms and legs.

As to legality - well it was at the iffy end of the motor trade so make your own mind up.

What is really weird is that my signature which was totally unlike my dad's has over the years grown imperceptibly to be like his - his initials were a.j with the a a lowercase one while my initials, n.j with a capital N has metemorphed into a lower case n and the bottom of the n is closing up. Our surname which I always used to write differently has become more like his as well.

Weird or what??