MYSTERY OBJECTS

[Gloria]

Lining a Lancashire boiler?????

[Stanley]

So close Gloria but more specific. Think of what's under the boiler....

[Gloria]

The fire box.

[Stanley]

The flues! The objects are seating blocks, they line the wall at the side of the sole flue and mean that the boiler is seated firmly but on a narrow face do as much of the surface as possible is exposed to the flame. This also cuts down on corrosion of the shell which is worst where it is covered up.



Here are the seating blocks in use.

Next for shaving?

[Stanley]

What is it....? (and if you are really clever, where are you most likely to see one?)

[David Whipp]

A small marsupial...

[Cathy]

Looks like a Quokka Stanley and found on Rottnest Island, just off WA. The island was originally call Rat's Nest by early settlers to our mainland. And yes it's a marsupial.

[David Whipp]

The marsupial equivalent of a rat?

Looking at Wikipedia, more the size of a cat...

[David Whipp]

If that's a correct answer, who can tell me what this is?

[Stanley]

Dead right Cathy and a very friendly little animal. See this WIKI LINK and remember that the prohibition on handling was brought in to give a way of prosecuting stupid students who instigated a 'tradition' of playing football using one. How anyone could want to harm such an attractive little animal beats me....
As for David's it's some sort of exotic fruit he got in his box delivery! (More likely a walnut of one of the trees in Barlick.)

[David Whipp]

It is indeed a walnut off the tree on Albert Road.

Richard Milner (Chubby's Chippy) was telling me the other day that he saw a magpie busy knocking the nuts off the tree onto the road below. When several were on the bitmac, the magpie took up position on a nearby roof and waited for passing traffic to run over the walnuts before flying down to eat the contents.

[Stanley]

Clever birds and slightly more intelligent than the lads who throw sticks at the one in Valley Gardens to get the 'conkers'. When they find they aren't conkers they leave them on the path.... Try this one...

[Gloria]

Perhaps a condensing unit for a car ???

[Pluggy]

Its a condensor/capacitor for something, it way too big for the standard condensor in an old school ignition system. Doesn't look very steam engine .

[Stanley]

You're both right. A start capacitor off a large single phase electric motor. Here's another one....

[David Whipp]

Warning triangles to stick on your pipe?

[Marilyn]

Smokable Swiss Cheese Triangles...

[Gloria]

Carbide inserts for a lathe or boring machine ???

[David Whipp]

If we're going to have a boring machine, Gloria, please can it be one for use in a treacle mine?

[Gloria]

You could David but it is currently being used in the jam butty mines in Oswaldtwistle.

[David Whipp]

Surely to goodness, in this day and age, we could run to a second boring machine?

[Marilyn]

Not without extensive form filling and approvals, David!

[Stanley]

Gloria is spot on.Actually the tips can be used on any metal cutting tool. The pipe was just for scale....
Next for shaving?

[David Whipp]

Stanley, we were just getting into our stride with inventive answers...

[Marilyn]

The petty cash box from The Kremlin?