@Adolfo Franz Racek probably, an agent/importer for Petromax.
@MYN Would Pirhana Solution corrode the base metal, brass or steel, of a vapouriser? Thanks again for your excellent insights into such matters.
@Steptoe Glad I’ve maybe helped you decide. My apologies for not giving you my thoughts about the solvent. Truth is, I’ve nothing useful to offer,...
@Steptoe Tilley vapourisers are the biggest challenge because not only does the lack of a removable jet prevent a through-put of compressed air,...
I’m unable to visualise the vapouriser you’re referring to. The cleaning method I use is to get the vaporiser up to red heat and omit the...
Very nice indeed Tim. The two-piece shades certainly are the finishing touch.
@Sedgman The welder depicted in the illustration on the cover is wearing goggles but no-one featured in the photographs is shown with them. On...
[ATTACH] Caption: Road works in fog, Trafalgar Street, Burnley, Lancashire, December 1965
Glad you liked that @podbros and thanks for that priceless nugget of industrial history passed on by word of mouth! Here’s an advertisement from...
No longer in business @MYN unless as a firm under another name with trading or family links unknown to me. Their premises on Octavius Street,...
A bit of biographical detail about the company. This promotional booklet was produced by them around 1911, primarily advertising their...
@MYN Easily enough, yes, but only one supplier I know of and more expensive from them than my pre-Brexit sources in Italy and Germany. Even with...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Stamp on the clamp specifying ‘tested’. [ATTACH] Date stamp is my guess,...
@pete sav ENT (Ear/nose/throat) forceps Pete, used primarily to hoick out objects kids stuff in their ears, I think. John
It’s likely many of you have already discovered this type of device, listed on an ebay source as ‘alligator ear crocodile forceps’ - the supplier...
True, Henry, though the failure point was the bakelite-like material used to fabricate the ‘shutter’ on/off seal, which didn’t seal reliably....
Wonderful find, Harder. John
Case in point, this Lucas carbide headlamp and generator for a motorcycle. Personally, I’d not want the extraordinary, waxed leather appearance of...
I think that must be the case, yes. Though with my amateur attempts at nickel plating I’m content to go over existing intact plating as well as...
I’ve no connection with the Birmingham, UK, company ‘Genius of the Lamp’ but I’m impressed with their obvious capabilities and mention them here...
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