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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 28 Jun 2015, 03:10
by Stanley
I'm with Wendy but as to what it is for......

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 28 Jun 2015, 10:18
by Tizer
Is it out of a mobile phone?

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 28 Jun 2015, 11:44
by 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?

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 29 Jun 2015, 04:17
by Stanley
P. his rates are reasonable.....
Not enough information in the pic for an identification, give us more......

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 29 Jun 2015, 09:15
by Pluggy
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 29 Jun 2015, 09:20
by PanBiker
Doh! How many of them have I handled in my time? :geek:

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 29 Jun 2015, 10:06
by 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?
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 29 Jun 2015, 12:48
by Pluggy
Micro Brewery ?

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 29 Jun 2015, 18:52
by Tizer
I thought that would be the first guess, but it's the wrong answer.

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 30 Jun 2015, 03:27
by Stanley
biochemists version of a sterile wash of contaminated materials.....

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 30 Jun 2015, 05:30
by LizG
Making cheese?

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 30 Jun 2015, 10:24
by Tizer
No-one getting close yet! Any more offers? :smile:

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 01 Jul 2015, 03:34
by Stanley
Looks like an amateur's lab, all a bit ad hoc! But no idea what for.....

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 01 Jul 2015, 06:53
by LizG
Incubation tank for sea horses?

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 01 Jul 2015, 07:05
by Wendyf
Making biofuel?

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 01 Jul 2015, 09:51
by Tizer
LizG wrote: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...
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 01 Jul 2015, 23:21
by LizG
Tizer wrote: 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.

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 02 Jul 2015, 03:44
by Stanley
Well I never! Well done that woman!

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 03 Jul 2015, 06:43
by Stanley
Try this oldie......

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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 03 Jul 2015, 14:50
by Tizer
I know what that is...it's one of these! :smile:

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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 03 Jul 2015, 16:39
by 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."

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 04 Jul 2015, 03:16
by Stanley
The advantage is said to be that they never damage a cork but will someone say what it is......

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 05 Jul 2015, 06:45
by Stanley
Come on you lot!

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 05 Jul 2015, 08:54
by Bodger
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 05 Jul 2015, 09:55
by 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!