Things we used to do

[Maverick Goose]

Cook chestnuts on an open fire .

We still do that!

 

[slowmotion]

I still miss that. It was excellent - way better than Rawlplugs.

You were lucky!

 

[slowmotion]

Or that asbestos wall plug stuff.

Was it asbestos? There are loads of them in the walls of the room that I am turning into my Person Cave at the moment. I'm not worried about 'elf'n'safetee, just genuinely curious. Could I sell them on Ebay?

 

[Profpointy]

Was it asbestos? There are loads of them in the walls of the room that I am turning into my Person Cave at the moment. I'm not worried about 'elf'n'safetee, just genuinely curious. Could I sell them on Ebay?

The asbestos stuff was a kind of fluff that came in a red carboard box - I think it was made by Rawl. I remeber my Dad had some, and I dare say I used it or even played witht the stuff. You moistened it and stuffed it in the hole.

Older style rawlplus were a wood composite type thing - same size as the kodern plastic equivalent but wood - and as far as I know, not asbestos.

 

[slowmotion]

The asbestos stuff was a kind of fluff that came in a red carboard box - I think it was made by Rawl. I remeber my Dad had some, and I dare say I used it or even played witht the stuff. You moistened it and stuffed it in the hole.

Older style rawlplus were a wood composite type thing - same size as the kodern plastic equivalent but wood - and as far as I know, not asbestos.

Thanks Prof. I'll breathe more easily......or should that be wheeze.....???????????

 

[Illaveago]

The garage I served my apprenticeship in had a bucket of asbestos used wet to prevent distortion when welding on panels.

 

[Dirk]

We used to use the asbestos Rawlplug product when I was a Post Office Telephones engineer. All of a sudden, about 1974, it was suddenly withdrawn from the stores - no reason given. It was only much later that we found out that they had deemed it too dangerous to use. It came in a plastic bag inside a tin. You grabbed a pinch of it, gobbed on it and mixed it into a grey rough paste. It worked very well in certain applications where the hole was too big for a normal plug.
I dread to think how much of the stuff we inhaled!

 

[swee'pea99]

The asbestos stuff was a kind of fluff that came in a red carboard box - I think it was made by Rawl. I remeber my Dad had some, and I dare say I used it or even played witht the stuff. You moistened it and stuffed it in the hole.

My dad used to get it in a tin - like an old time tobacco tin. And yes, you used to pinch out a wad of it, stick it in the palm of your hand, and spit on it. Then you could roll and mould it into a sausage, and stick it in the hole. The big advantage over Rawplugs was it adapted perfectly to the size & shape of the hole, so it never failed. (D'oh! Just spotted the message above. That'll learn me to look...)

 

[mybike]

We used to use the asbestos Rawlplug product when I was a Post Office Telephones engineer. All of a sudden, about 1974, it was suddenly withdrawn from the stores - no reason given. It was only much later that we found out that they had deemed it too dangerous to use. It came in a plastic bag inside a tin. You grabbed a pinch of it, gobbed on it and mixed it into a grey rough paste. It worked very well in certain applications where the hole was too big for a normal plug.
I dread to think how much of the stuff we inhaled!

I never came across it, but then most of my time was spent fixing teleprinters. I suspect there was plenty of asbestos in the cables and buildings I worked in tho.

My dad used to get it in a tin - like an old time tobacco tin. And yes, you used to pinch out a wad of it, stick it in the palm of your hand, and spit on it. Then you could roll and mould it into a sausage, and stick it in the hole. The big advantage over Rawplugs was it adapted perfectly to the size & shape of the hole, so it never failed. (D'oh! Just spotted the message above. That'll learn me to look...)

My dad too. It certainly did the job. I'm surprised something similar, but with fewer health hazards, hasn't been created.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Put books under the desk top to make it level and play tuppence-ha'penny football on it. It was never the same after decimalisation.

 

[raleighnut]

Vauxhall Velox

Shaun

Great song.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVkNvQow8tE&feature=player_detailpage

 

[Hyslop]

I worked for a few months with a guy who whistled tunelessly kind of under his breath all day long. He was completely unaware that he was doing it, or that it was driving me mad. I know this because I mentioned it to him on the day I quit and he was astounded.[/QUOTE
A ghastly tubercular wheezing noise was It?A chap who frequents our local library behaves like this.B****y irritating.

 

[Chris S]

The founder of Radio Caroline, the Canadian businessman Ronan O'Rahilly, was related to Michael Joseph O'Rahilly (The O'Rahilly), one of the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin, who was fatally shot by a British officer just off Moore Street. I understand a plaque commemorates the event, although that area, long the site of Dublin's fruit and vegetable market, is scheduled for redevelopment.

Cheer up - he's now commemorated on a chocolate bar!

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/n...g-chocolate-bar-divides-opinion-34170063.html

 

[Gravity Aided]

Pranks and other such things, sometimes involving the whole block. A lot more interaction with people back in the day, as well. One telephone, hung on the wall in the kitchen. If you called your girlfriend, the whole family knew it, and offered comment as you talked. (I established the reputation as having "The Gift of Gab" at that juncture). Played a lot more cards then as well. That's probably why everyone was at the kitchen table, dog and cat stopping by for special guest appearances now and again.

 

[vernon]

Improvising the cricket game Owzthat by carving 1, 11, 111, IV, and VI on the sides of one pencil and cutting notches on two sides of an addition pencil to represent 'no ball' (two notches) and 'not out' one notch - the uncarved sides representing bowled, lbw, run out, and caught. Many an improvised test series or limited over match took place on the desk tops of my fellow pupils and the scores were meticulously recorded in the back of our exercise books. Occasionally a pukka set of Owzthat dice would surface but they would be confiscated by the teacher as they revealed their presence by the noise that they made as they rolled across the desk.