OneGuyFromBarlick

Tying hay bales?

Thanks.

Beijing 2008?

https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/2020/medium In 1950 it had hardly changed. Is that Model Lodging House and if so does it answer various questions posed on here? Things like did it have a flat/valley roof and was there a question about why it was so substantially built?

Munitions industry? Filling shells or packing dynamite.

I did work for John C Carlson (later Carlson-Ford) at Butts Mill, Barlick, when I was 17. They made filtration sheets in a similar way to the paper making process. Something was retained by my tiny brain!

Is it a scutcher for making paper pulp?

Wendy. I was told that sometimes when you use the compass app you need to hold the phone flat (back facing down, screen up) and then turn through 360 degrees once or twice and then it calibrates itself somehow. Seems to work for me. I agree that when first turned on they can give very false readings.

Source: ChinaDaily.com.cn


Crashing into reality
By Cai Meng | China Daily | Updated: 2019-10-24 09:30

Should've gone to Specsavers!! This happened to my friend in China and his were the varifocal type and cost a lot of money. Good job they are not surgeons amputating limbs. Surgeon to patient: I've got good and bad news. Patient: Give me the bad news first. Surgeon: We've amputated the wrong leg. Pa...

PanBiker wrote: ↑

23 Oct 2019, 08:43

Or are you considering that a landline only equates to a telephone hung on the end?

Will telephone handsets soon become a "forgotten corner?"

Is it something to do with astronomy?

I think I need a landline to get the internet? We have a physical cable connection for the internet and the telephone used to come through the same connection as the Internet. Apparently we save about 60 pence a month by not having a telephone number allocated to us. Big deal! My wife was right in ...

We did away with ours 4 years ago and haven't noticed any ill effects though I wasn't pleased at the time when my wife told me what she'd done. I guess they are old fashioned now and the young kids wouldn't be able to use a handset with a dial on it . (Do they still have those?) We still get nuisanc...

Just a thought for your consideration. If you want to electrify the model when you have finished it then consider using a microwave turntable motor. They are cheap, powerful, slow (4 tor 6 rpm typical), only 2 to 4W, small, can be boxed in and made to look unobtrusive and be belt drive connected to ...

We had one take up residence whilst the builders were working on this apartment. This bedroom was open to the outside at the time. We shooed it away, I assume bats are not protected here, there are plenty of them. 19287 It is clinging in an upper corner of the room with its face pointing down toward...

Cathy wrote: ↑

21 Oct 2019, 07:57

All the best Pluggy. I think of you too.

the very best wishes from us, too, Stephen. I hope the eventual treatment helps you.

Spawned from these?

Welcome Gavin. An interesting hobby that I've always wanted to try but I can't do it where I live now. Childhood dreams of finding a Roman coin, not anything valuable but part of the history of Colne. Enjoy your detecting!

Let me think!!

Are they different forms of steps? I'm thinking of those you would drive into tree trunks or telegraph poles.

It would Gloria but while you were homing in China has upstaged you with the right answer, it's a frame for lacing up, spoking, trueing and balancing bicycle wheels. How could he do this to you..... :surprised: 😱😱😂😂 Sorry Gloria. You can have the Brownie points. :extrawink: I thought it was for bik...

Is it for truing wheels with spokes, for example bicycle wheels?

Stanley wrote: ↑

15 Oct 2019, 03:10

Why is it so comfortable to stick with Google?

Because Google is the best. We're prevented from accessing it by the Great (Fire) Wall of China but can use Bing which is a poor second. Most of the time Bing discovers my location in China and shows the result in Chinese rendering it useless.

Stone wool is made from volcanic rock, typically basalt or dolomite, an increasing proportion of which is recycled material in the form of briquettes. [I have to take issue with their reference to dolomite. It isn't a volcanic rock, it's like limestone (calcium carbonate) but with some of the calci...