A Rare Find

[The Apprentices]

Here is a rare find, a 50 year old Bingham smoker, complete and still in working order from a local car boot sale, 3 quid.
Now I have the original I might make a few for the boys from baked bean tins for xmas

 

[drstitson]

make your copies then put on ebay - twenty fold profit if it sells!!!!

 

[The Apprentices]

make your copies then put on ebay - twenty fold profit if it sells!!!!

What do you recon a replica version should sell for?

 

[the worker and the drone]

...not that rare, I've got one

 

[The Apprentices]

...not that rare, I've got one

Is she made from copper or tin construction?

 

[the worker and the drone]

tin I think - exactly the same look as yours

 

[For want of a better word]

Tin Plate more like
Tin don't rust!!

 

[The Apprentices]

tin I think - exactly the same look as yours

Has she got a tube in the inlet hole or just a hole with a curved inwards lip.
Can you post up a mobile picture, take it at the lowest resolution so it uploads faster.

 

[richardbees]

Nice find, apprentice

Looks a bit like what John Mills used to ventilate the tunnel

- when the other lads were jumping over the wooden horse?

 

[The Apprentices]

Nice find, apprentice

Looks a bit like what John Mills used to ventilate the tunnel

- when the other lads were jumping over the wooden horse?

Ahhh yes I remember vividly, shows the age is creeping in doesn't it.

 

[richardbees]

...it won't be long before nobody would see the connection!

richard

 

[nosmoking]

Surely that's from an iron lung! (And, don't call me Shirley)

 

[viridens]

Talking of age creeping in, try asking anyone under 50 what an iron lung is...

 

[DarynWebb]

Talking of age creeping in, try asking anyone under 50 what an iron lung is...

I'm way under 50, isn't it just a ventilator to help people breath?

 

[OXFORDBEE]

I'm under 50 too, can I lob polio into the above answer!

 

[The Apprentices]

The ultimate iron lung is the planet we all live upon, our 1 bar atmospheric pressure forces the air into our lungs when our intercostal muscles relax and our diaphram forces it out again.

 

[drstitson]

"Surely that's from an iron lung! (And, don't call me Shirley)"

my aunt spontaneously combusted and all that was left was her little chuff!!!!

 

[Cazza]

Has she got a tube in the inlet hole or just a hole with a curved inwards lip.
QUOTE]

She? Surely a "he."

I would love to own another of those beauties. They deliver less smoke in a more controlled way than modern day monsters.

If you can make a working model, yes please.
Cazza

 

[Steve Dyer]

Has she got a tube in the inlet hole or just a hole with a curved inwards lip.
QUOTE]

I would love to own another of those beauties. They deliver less smoke in a more controlled way than modern day monsters.

If you can make a working model, yes please.
Cazza

There are two of them in this lot ;
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/HUGE-JOB-LOT-..._Pet_Supplies_Bee_Keeping&hash=item2c5dc17c8a

Why not contact the seller and ask him to tell the buyer you might buy them if they aren't what he's after?

Steve

 

[Cazza]

There are two of them in this lot ;
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/HUGE-JOB-LOT-..._Pet_Supplies_Bee_Keeping&hash=item2c5dc17c8a

Why not contact the seller and ask him to tell the buyer you might buy them if they aren't what he's after?

Steve

Good idea, thanks Steve.
C