Um, well, I did have a quick look at it (but in poor light and with tired eyes) and I thought I saw a couple of vertical stress cracks. :doh::cry:...
Ah, the honey liqueur in 2016 - how could I ever forget it... :oops:
I had no luck finding the thread but did slightly better with the lanterns - or, at least one of them:- [ATTACH] I've no idea where his two mates...
I've got three US lanterns (which were listed on eBay as Primus!) which appeared to have been converted to US Milspec, presumably at the start of...
Well, you would have thought that it was German, but my German dictionary has no English word for Excenter. On the other hand, eccentric is...
Only of the Vapalux do-nut hanging from a hook in Peter Sunderland's office... :( It was quite an interesting visit. I landed there just at the...
Surely the entire point of a shelf queen is that it's NEVER going to function...
It makes perfect sense to me, George, in that I can see both of your arguments - the lantern in question doesn't fit neatly into either, hence my...
I take it that was a rhetorical question, Tony... ;) :lol: I think the point here, is that we're looking for some sort of paint that's a...
The guy who makes mica globes you're probably thinking about is Fred Kuntz...
No, I don't think they're particularly rare - they seem to come up on eBay quite frequently. There are a few round here IIRC...
I've always wondered if 'excenter' was some sort of foreign for 'eccentric' (the noun, not the adjective) - I don't know, though...
Well, I seem to recall that the radioactive elements in lamp mantles are alpha-emitters so if your counter detects only gamma-radiation then...
The Willis & Bates / Bairstow Brothers (1985) Ltd factory in Reservoir Road, Halifax was positively Dickensian when I visited in 2005-ish
The two globes are functionally interchangeable - the later, angle-shouldered globe fits the 310 although it doesn't look 'right' IMHO...
I've got quite a few 'shelf queens' as we term them i.e. lamps and lanterns that are, for whatever reason, never used but instead placed on a...
As an alternative, Trevor and I found that an FL6 fits nicely into an Ikea yellow carrier bag thingie and the handles make it easy to carry. The...
I was idly watching one of those New Zealand 'border force' programmes the other day. They stopped a young woman at the airport because her laptop...
Predictive text, MYN? - or have you recently moved to New Zealand? ;) :lol:
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