Its really quite informative as an exhibit. You can easily see the sharpened end where it fits the "egg" & t'other end shows evidence of it being knocked into the "eye" - & it's in great nick! (Think I've got the "egg & eye" the right way round!)

Thats a cracking idea. Even better if the threaded rod cound be made replacable somehow? Edit, an alternative to bending would be welding a short bit of angle to the end of that flat bar.

Sorry can't comment on the inner lid construction, as that was a later addition by someone else.

The threads have not done too badly, considering the weather and dirty conditions they are in. I just realised that they've done 24years. Tempus fugit again!

Whalf Engine shaft is 16mm.

Good advise! Some years ago, my father in law made a father in law shaped hole in the wall of a boilerhouse, containing the oil tank he was cutting! (Unfortunately he survived.)

Judas Priest are still going & Rob H doesn't seem to have lost much of his voice either - unlike a lot of old vocalists, who seem to be lip syncing half the time!

Alcatrazz and Girls School are still touring and recording too. They did a joint tour last year.

Triangular bandage and electrical (or gaffer) tape. - But only if I'm being organised! The most important kit in many outdoor cases, is what you have with you & the ability to improvise. 6 months back, I ended up using a shirt sleeve, 2 gloves, a bike innertube & a cable tie as a pressure...

It's in Pitlamp's Peak Cavern book, page 60.

But only if you never glid before.

Ill take your word for it. It was still the funniest conversation, in the most bizarre situation that Ive ever witnessed!

Most memorable one: Heiseburgs uncertainty principle being discussed by a physics teacher, a postman and a mining engineer. It ending with the former being declared " bloody crackers", by the others.

Not sure what youre looking at. Its used in linament etc. See also methyl salicylate.

Flannel vest and long John's soaked in wintergreen & sewn into each autumn. Worked for my Great Grandad!

Genuinely dry & dusty. Oh what luxury!!

That could be as gas!.............gangrene?🙂

Similar here in the Potteries, where its called a dolly peg.

There' s always the school boy version; While Shepherds washed their socks by night All seated on some dynamite Light the fuse & you will see The quickest way to the cemetery. As sung in my junior school & no doubt countless others.🙂

Didn't realise you had it under UV - I should of guessed given the intensity of green! I've had a look through my old mining books re coloured glass to improve readability of gas gap. The only thing I can find is a paragraph in Statham's 1951 "Coal Mining" page 376 para. 1. Apparently blue...