MYSTERY OBJECTS

[Stanley]

I'm with Wendy but as to what it is for......

[Tizer]

Is it out of a mobile phone?

[plaques]

The cutouts could have been caused by a mouse nibbling at it. So its the inside of a mouse.
PS. Could you help me to put all my computers etc back together again?

[Stanley]

P. his rates are reasonable.....
Not enough information in the pic for an identification, give us more......

[Pluggy]

[PanBiker]

Doh! How many of them have I handled in my time?

[Tizer]

Like you Ian, I could have kicked myself! I've got old ones lying about the place as well those in the PCs. Very clever Pluggy, fooling us with something that familiar.

Now, what's going on in the photo below?

[Pluggy]

Micro Brewery ?

[Tizer]

I thought that would be the first guess, but it's the wrong answer.

[Stanley]

biochemists version of a sterile wash of contaminated materials.....

[LizG]

Making cheese?

[Tizer]

No-one getting close yet! Any more offers?

[Stanley]

Looks like an amateur's lab, all a bit ad hoc! But no idea what for.....

[LizG]

Incubation tank for sea horses?

[Wendyf]

Making biofuel?

[Tizer]

Incubation tank for sea horses?

Liz, well done, you're as close as anyone is likely to get so you win! It's an incubation tank for young lobsters at the National Lobster Hatchery in Padstow, Cornwall, UK. Licensed fishermen bring in `berried hens' (egg-carrying lobsters) to the hatchery and they are kept in broodstock tanks until the eggs hatch and then the `hens' are returned to the sea. The larvae are collected on a mesh and transferred to tanks like the one in my photo where they are given conditions similar to those of the plankton in the sea. Here they are fed and the water is kept agitated as it would be under natural conditions. Eventually the fully grown lobsters are released into the sea around Cornwall. Full details are on the hatchery's web site here: LINK

Liz, how did you know about such facilities? Do they do the same thing for seahorses in Australia?

Here's a pic I took of the `maternity ward', as they call it, at the hatchery where the berried hens live under ridge tiles...

[LizG]

Liz, how did you know about such facilities? Do they do the same thing for seahorses in Australia?

We did see a similar set up when we visited Kalbarri in Western Australia a few years ago. A very interesting tour.

[Stanley]

Well I never! Well done that woman!

[Stanley]

Try this oldie......

[Tizer]

I know what that is...it's one of these!

[Tripps]

I just been looking at them on Youtube - actually very few clips from USA as expected - seems to be quite big in Russia. I found this comment on one of the clips amusing. . .

"That was fun trying but now I only have 3 teeth left and my lips are all bleeding, I had to stop as they rushed me to hospital when I swallowed the dam thing."

[Stanley]

The advantage is said to be that they never damage a cork but will someone say what it is......

[Stanley]

Come on you lot!

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[Tizer]

The one I posted is in a collection we got from my father-in-law. Not a collector's collection, just an accumulation really!