Hunters Lodge Inn Sink Closed
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bograt
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ian.p
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taping wise whilst fishing line is discrete i think its important not to end up installing trip wires through the cave tape is to a certain extent meant to be seen
It will be, from a few feet away, it almost glows. No-one will miss that stuff unless they are wandering around with their eyes shut, in which case all bets are off.
Ah fair enough then
Ali M
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Maj said:Laurie said:A year or more ago I offered Mendip cavers a huge coil of stainless steel wire (about 2.5mm dia) for making stand-off tape supports. Despite chasing never got a reply.
I will follow up again and try and find out whether the sample we provided was any good. Ali M?
Maj.
Laurie/Dave - very sorry, I didn't realize that I should have fed back info. We decided that the sample of wire was too flexible. It needs to be as rigid as possible to make successful Pigtail Risers.
(The ones that Les W had made for Reservoir were excellent).
nickwilliams
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Do you know what grade of stainless it is? It might be suitable welding filler rod for when I get round to making a new ladder for Surprise View.
If you can get it to the Wessex HQ I will be able to get it by some means or other.
If you can get it to the Wessex HQ I will be able to get it by some means or other.
A little bit of the progress so far... several trips of cleaning stal, finding jigsaw pieces, lining them up and starting to put it all back together. Superglue and activator seem to be working well so far and is slow progress, but hoping to get as many as possible of the stals reconnected to where they came from in the coming weeks. First photo showing the line up and the second one a couple of the stals partially repaired.
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One plea to all the photographers who've taken photos in HLIS - my before photos are quite old and not necessarily enough of the right areas with enough detail so could anyone with photos of the lower section of Happy Hour Highway and the formations please link me in the right direction if they are online or message me and i'll let you have my email to send some too. It will help greatly with the reconstruction. Many thanks in advance.
tim.rose2
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Hi Estelle,
Hopefully this link will take you to a load of my photo's. I've plenty more - if I've not quite got the right bits there let me know. Perhaps you could post some 'after' shots of the areas you want to help those of us who can remember where each photo was taken.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/timrose2/albums/72157666790179330
Tim
Hopefully this link will take you to a load of my photo's. I've plenty more - if I've not quite got the right bits there let me know. Perhaps you could post some 'after' shots of the areas you want to help those of us who can remember where each photo was taken.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/timrose2/albums/72157666790179330
Tim
bagpuss
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Hi Estelle,
I'm afraid I'm not sure which ones would be of use, but here's a link to some snaps I took in HLIS a few years back. Apologies as a few from Wookey Show caves have snuck into the same album in error, but it should be obvious which ones as they are lumped together.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/52151981@N03/albums/72157625929873208
Best of luck with the repairs
I'm afraid I'm not sure which ones would be of use, but here's a link to some snaps I took in HLIS a few years back. Apologies as a few from Wookey Show caves have snuck into the same album in error, but it should be obvious which ones as they are lumped together.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/52151981@N03/albums/72157625929873208
Best of luck with the repairs
