Recent content by Gilberdyke John

If my memory serves correctly the flat ones had flaky mica sheets as insulation. All to easy to see it fall to pieces as soon as you breathed on it. 😖

Mine got a glance through the clear crown board and a light one got some fondant

I've come across two versions. One has flat plate elements which clamp to the flat bottom of the vessel. The other uses a kettle type element which fits through a hole in the side of the vessel. Neither are complicated except the retaining nuts on the flat plate type sometimes seize up

Don't forget THE COMFY CHAIR !

Somewhere in an old memory stick I've got an image of a tee shirt emblazoned with a picture of a WBC and the words. "I KEEP BEES and I forget things"😎

My youngest (mid 40s) daughter is the fittest amongst our adult family and she's thoroughly versed in practical work. We arrived back from shopping yesterday to be met with the question "have you the workshop key handy? I need a saw, drill, screwdriver and some screws". She had found a sound...

Maybe we're unique but whenever there's a biological "threat" we see roadside signs all over our county advising we are entering/leaving a restricted area. On a realistic level if any of our few birds developed symptoms the only source of infection could only be from the areas wild birds. On...

I recall when pig killing days came around. The local butcher would come down and do the deed then the carcass was suspended in the big shed and he did the basic cutting up. My aunts and a family friend would gather in the kitchen to create the products from the various non meat parts. There was...

My aunt used to cook tongue, peel it and press it afterwards by putting it in a bowl, another bowl on top with a 7lb weight in the upper bowl while it cooled. Tongue in supermarket is still a thing but it's only seen sliced and prepacked.

Grandson Daniel came this morning and kindly fitted the now refurbished electric motor to the lathe. Applying power to it I was able to demonstrate the various speeds and drives to him. The gearbox is a bit noisy so that's the next job once we've borrowed some machine movers skates and located...

Some neighbours of ours had two daughters and used to go to Blackpool every year for a week in a boarding house. One year they took along one of the girls friends (Joyce). Everything going well until evening meal when they were seated in a bay windows waiting for the food. Suddenly Joyce leapt...

Feeling somewhat easier in the shoulder today I wandered into the workshop and put the electric motor back together. I realized I should have photographed the wiring in the terminal box but with the aid of my multimeter I sussed out which terminals served the capacitor, centrifugal switch and...

The pulverized fuel furnaces created two distinct ashes. The PFA which was arrested in its journey up the chimney in electrostatic precipitators. Some of the particles in the flames fused together and became heavy enough to fall out of the airstream to land on the bottom of the combustion...

The concrete canopy at Doncaster race course was created with Lytag concrete. The Silos at the Newark Sugar factory and a few of the tall buildings in London also used Lytag concrete because the lower weight enabled huge savings in foundation costs. One other interesting use was runaway stopping...

Followers of Jack Reacher might compare that response with his advice to a prison admissions officer. Try to inspect my butt will result in serious injury. 😎