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Tizer wrote: ↑09 Aug 2021, 10:31 It doesn't work for me, China. Are we talking about different things? I meant highlighting a bit of text directly in the original post first, then opening the Post a Reply window.

I've just checked and you and Ian are right, it doesn't allow just highlighting part of the text, it grabs all of it.

You've got it Graham. Balata, also called Gutta Balata, hard rubber-like material made by drying the milky juice produced principally by the bully tree (species Manilkara bidentata) of Guyana and the West Indies. I can't take the credit - Chalk it up to t'Internet not me! The power of search engine...

I loved travelling from Skipton up to Ingleton on the orange and black Pennine buses, often stopping on the way to drop off parcels at pre-arranged remote places. It just seemed such a lovely friendly service. That's my memory of the service.

What threw me when I first started on OG was that I'd been used to a simpler way of quoting on other forums. In the post you wanted to quote from you just highlighted the desired bit of text and pressed the quote button. The Post a Reply box then opened with that bit of text already in quotes. That...

I don’t even know how to use the Quote thingy. If you just want to quote a section of the post as I have here. Open a new post, scroll back to the one you want to quote from, highlight the section of text you want then click the quote icon at the top of the post. That will append the quote correctl...

Could this be it? Never heard of it before but I found this on the web: Balata belts They are similar to the rubber belt but stronger than rubber belt. In this type, balata gum is used instead of rubber. Balata belt is waterproof and has high resistance to acidic, alkaline materials, so they are use...

I can only think that it must be the creeper vine things that hang down (ligands - is that the right word?). Perhaps they give a long fibre when processed that has higher strength in conveyor belting. Only guessing. I was thinking of rubber conveyor belting when I suggested a rubber tree.

Plenty of asbestos at Butts Mill! How did they clean all that up?

You could have used that image for the next mystery object. Or would it have been obvious what it is to the engineers?

Rubber tree? A big one in the wild.

Sorry to hear about your loss of Sparky, Wendy. A sad time for everyone there.

Stanley wrote: ↑05 Aug 2021, 04:18Bumped

Happy New Year!

I've been educating myself on the internet. A Warren Truss bridge. Funnily enough I see this design every day because the horizontal load-bearing arm on tower cranes utilise the same construction for high strength to weight ratio, and there are many tower cranes here. You learn something new every d...

Big Kev wrote: ↑03 Aug 2021, 13:23 Got a second coat on during my lunch break.

Is that what is meant by having a liquid lunch?

Is it a Bailey Bridge?

Happy birthday. Have a lovely day.

Thanks for the sources. I'm not a climate change denier, I accept that climate change is happening and always has. I say the activities of an extra 5 billion population in the last 100 years is responsible for it. So what are we going to do? Going back to the glory days of 1942 might be a start but ...

My English friend, Peking Pete, has very fixed views and deserves any criticism he gets, same as I do! His daily e-mails to me consist of jokes, racism or running down Britain, with an occasional gem thrown in.

Happy Birthday, Maz. Have a good one.

Received from an English friend today: The independent Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) calculated the cost of making buildings net zero of Carbon at £400 billion, while the bill for vehicles would be £330 billion, plus £500 billion to clean up power generation and a further £46 billion for in...

Here's a good one from that sensationalist rag, The Sun, today, 29th July:

Bookies have slashed the odds on this month [it's JULY] being the wettest August on record to just 2-1.

You couldn't make it up!

See THIS BBC account of a report that gives bad news about UK climate change. The UK is already undergoing disruptive climate change with increased rainfall, sunshine and temperatures, according to scientists. The year 2020 was the third warmest, fifth wettest and eight sunniest on record, scientis...

I'm still waiting for an explanation of why we cant have a socialist government in the UK. But it's perfectly acceptable in China and beloved by the immigrant Tyke. Probably only works in countries that have a dictatorship even if it isn't called that! Yes, I'm an immigrant and contributing to the ...

Something in my head is telling me "Tufa" but I don't know why!