This oxalic sublimation thingy

[Erichalfbee]

How the heck do I get a car battery up a spiral staircase and onto the roof of Manchester Cathedral?

Any other suggestions?

Dusty

If you have fewer than 8 hives up there carry a car starter in your pocket

 

[For want of a better word]

How the heck do I get a car battery up a spiral staircase and onto the roof of Manchester Cathedral?

Any other suggestions?

Dusty

Connect to lightening conductor?
Wear extra thick gloves!

Cheers

 

[Millet]

How the heck do I get a car battery up a spiral staircase and onto the roof of Manchester Cathedral?

Any other suggestions?

Dusty

On your shoulder, i will come and do it for you if you pay my fuel bill.. lol .i have worked on many religious establishments over the years, the spiral stair cases up to the spire intrigues me, especially the old ones where the stone is worn away from centuries of use, anyway enough of my rambling but i have carried far heavier than a battery all day long on several occasions over a several day period.
As you may gather i am not a boffin / solicitor / lecturer or anything like that, but i am certain i could get that battery up there i good time and have a rough idea what to do with it.
Sorry i know how you lot feel now when Finny kicks off..

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

How the heck do I get a car battery up a spiral staircase and onto the roof of Manchester Cathedral?
Dusty

Remove it from the car first?

 

[Millet]

Remove it from the car first?

 

[Beefriendly]

How the heck do I get a car battery up a spiral staircase and onto the roof of Manchester Cathedral?

Any other suggestions?

Dusty

Old rucksack with metal frame, throw away canvas bits and attach battery.
Makes it a little easier to carry around.
Used to do this with a battery and an old car headlight in my "lamping days"....or nights to be more accurate.

 

[Hivemaker.]

Used to do this with a battery and an old car headlight in my "lamping days"....or nights to be more accurate.

Did you ever use carbide lamps?

 

[taurus]

For a lightweight but very powerful 12v supply I use a lithium starter pack. About the size of a small book but well able to fire up a 3.5 litre turbo Diesel engine. Various ones available via Amazon, mine is a DB Power unit, weighs a couple of pounds, packs a mighty punch.

 

[REDWOOD]

For a lightweight but very powerful 12v supply I use a lithium starter pack. About the size of a small book but well able to fire up a 3.5 litre turbo Diesel engine. Various ones available via Amazon, mine is a DB Power unit, weighs a couple of pounds, packs a mighty punch.

We use them in work for boosting 12 and 24 volt batteries in cars and lorries up to 2000 amps SAE. They will fit into your bee suit pocket quite easily. If you are going to buy one look for peak amps on the label


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[Millet]

Did you ever use carbide lamps?

Is that carbide tungsten bulbs.

 

[Hivemaker.]

Is that carbide tungsten bulbs.

No, calcium carbide and acetylene gas burners.

 

[Gilberdyke John]

What's a good battery for using when treating 10 hives? Mine is rubbish.

Try 12volt mobility scooter battery. Not having data on your sublimator 10 hives might be a case of needing two ( I bought mine as eBay item number:360959872823 ) Have it or them ready charged when you start. I have one which is carried conveniently in one hand, it has plenty of juice for 5 hives at a session and would do more if required so 10 could be a suck it and see situation.
I use a cheap bog-standard ex Woolworths battery charger but a smart charger might be kinder to the battery.

 

[madasafish]

I use a £10 secondhand 45AH car battery which is not too heavy for an OAP to lift..

Aldi are selling a cheap car starter for £49.99
https://www.aldi.co.uk/lithium-car-jump-starter/p/073295070532200

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

No, calcium carbide and acetylene gas burners.

Many moons ago found a hundredweight can of that stuff in the loft above my auntie's stables (left over from when they had a shop - stocked in a lot of places around my way in the old days for miners' lamps)

Used to have great fun putting a lump in a jamjar full of water, giving it a good shake, puncturing the lid and lighting it.
Same method but without the hole in the lid was also a handy way of stunning fish in a pool come salmon run time

 

[Erichalfbee]

It's a wonder you have survived all your childhood hazardous activity

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

How the heck do I get a car battery up a spiral staircase and onto the roof of Manchester Cathedral?

Any other suggestions?

Dusty

Try 12volt mobility scooter battery.

Just make sure you leave enough charge in it to get you home Dusty

 

[Gilberdyke John]

Many moons ago found a hundredweight can of that stuff in the loft above my auntie's stables (left over from when they had a shop - stocked in a lot of places around my way in the old days for miners' lamps)

Used to have great fun putting a lump in a jamjar full of water, giving it a good shake, puncturing the lid and lighting it.
Same method but without the hole in the lid was also a handy way of stunning fish in a pool come salmon run time

The house I grew up in was piped for acetylene lights and had a pipe which appeared outside where I was told an acetylene generation unit used to stand. It had been removed when electricity came to the area around 1948. Apparently my father had also had a bicycle that used acetylene lights and there was an almost rusted away light amongst a pile of junk behind a greenhouse. Probably be worth a fortune nowadays

 

[Hivemaker.]

Probably be worth a fortune nowadays

Plenty of them still around, I have some brass bicycle ones and a couple of Lucas king of the road brass paraffin lamps, for cars, good condition, but not worth a lot.

1962 before our village got mains electric, some places still don't have it.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

I think you can still buy carbide/water lamps. It may be going on about thirty years ago now but I remember him showing off the brand new brass carbide lamp he'd bought to go potholing. My grandfather was amused as, if he'd have asked he could have borrowed the one he still had in the shed from when he worked at Saron colliery back in the thirties!!

 

[Farmer Tom]

I have a 4" round, inch-deep depression in the middle of my kitchen floor where my aunt used to smash carbide for her bicycle lamp.