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You can still buy Cold Tar soap at Morrisons. In the old days that and good old carbolic was the only soap we used for everything including washing you hair under the ice cold tap.

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I once knew a bloke who used hemp for his joints, he wasn't a plumber though.

Yes i was Tapering my threads the other day,and thought 'Crikey' if only i had some 'Boss blue' round me 'Plumbing joints' twud make the job much more enjoyable,............i sighed and just 'Soldered

Always lead to believe that British Standard Pipe (BSP) is a thread size not a spanner size, A lot of electrical and model stuff is In British Assiciation (BA) size and British Standard Fine (BSF) and

Always lead to believe that British Standard Pipe (BSP) is a thread size not a spanner size, A lot of electrical and model stuff is In British Assiciation (BA) size and British Standard Fine (BSF) and Whitworth (BSW) are mostly found on older stuff, cars,motor cycles,steam engines etc American Fine (AF) is still found on a lot of older vehicles,(1950's 1960's) especially Ford, although Raleigh industries did have their own thread for Bottom Brackets and head sets, pretty close to BSF, I know,shut up Rog you are boring us

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Nice one Rog,.........after reading the above,i immediatly went in the kitchen, to look at a 'Banana' that i'd been worried about lol.

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People who are interested in this stuff won't find it boring, Rog (#49). One of the things that keeps Nottstalgia alive is everyone has a view about everything and there's always something that'll interest you. I'm just about to look on the Internet to find out how you fit a Bottom Bracket. :biggrin:

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IT JUST tickled my fancy Michael,............hope you go on alright with your 'Bottom bracket' lol.

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I once had a problem when using a tap and die set in BA size,couldn't for the life of me get the tap to cut a thread in the aluminium plate I had drilled to take the said tap,after struggling for some time I took a look at the tap only to find it was a LEFT hand thread, never heard of one before but there you go,you live and learn.

Michael, bottom bracket is where the pedal crank and pedal stem go through the hole in the bottom of the bike frame,one side left hand thread the other right hand thread,there is also a French thread for bottom brackets but not sure of that size, probably some obscure metric thread

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They call Unc and UNF, "ASE" over here Engineer, Threads are given in pitch.

One of the worlds oddity's is pipe thread sizes, only in the last 20 years or so have they gone metric, pipes are measured internally so thread size looks odd at size of pipe size. Not been that long either since grease nipples changed from UK gas sizes to metric, I still keep a stock of both, as most US farm machinery is in British gas size grease nipples, but imports are starting to show in metric sizes.

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I also keep a stock of Imperial and metric thread grease nipples, came in handy when I wanted to fit a grease nipple to the gear end of my strimmer, you should remove the the small set screw and screw in the tube of grease,I thought it better and cleaner to fit a grease nipple to save all that mucking about,although it's a modern strimmer the thread is imperial so now all I have to do is get the grease gun every couple of times I use the strimmer and give it a couple of squirts,easy Thought this tip might come in useful for you Benjamin,

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Pipe threads are more complicated than you think.

BSP Parallel and BSP Mechanical are both parallel threads. BSP Taper is the taper thread.

All female threads are taper but males can be either dependent on what you are doing, a long screw for instance as a standard taper thread at one end and a long parallel thread at the other.

Then there is 20 thread used on thick wall copper pipe, not used much now except for specialist applications.

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Thankyou for your understanding.............Rog and Michael.........next time i grease sumat remembering your words Rog will be a great help. :biggrin:

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I think the use of PTFE tape has done quite a lot for the demise of taper threads and also the demise of Boss White and Boss Blue in the plumbing trade, another thing you don't really see much of now days is the use of Hemp around plumbing joints, and what about Bakers flux for all those soldering joints, would appreciate your thoughts on that Benjamin

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Can you still get a glue called Gilflex, we used it at Plessey years ago ?

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I think the use of PTFE tape has done quite a lot for the demise of taper threads and also the demise of Boss White and Boss Blue in the plumbing trade, another thing you don't really see much of now days is the use of Hemp around plumbing joints, and what about Bakers flux for all those soldering joints, would appreciate your thoughts on that Benjamin

Rog

Yes i was Tapering my threads the other day,and thought 'Crikey' if only i had some 'Boss blue' round me 'Plumbing joints' twud make the job much more enjoyable,............i sighed and just 'Soldered' on.

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Never a dull moment with you around is there Benjamin !!!!

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Pipe threads are more complicated than you think. BSP Parallel and BSP Mechanical are both parallel threads. BSP Taper is the taper thread. All female threads are taper but males can be either dependent on what you are doing, a long screw for instance as a standard taper thread at one end and a long parallel thread at the other. Then there is 20 thread used on thick wall copper pipe, not used much now except for specialist applications.

We need a separate thread about threads.

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I used Bakers fluid to clean battery leads prior to soldering the large battery clamps onto the leads, we'd "wash the soldered joint out with loads of solder, as Bakers is highly acidic.

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We need to stay focused and local. Can I suggest a topic specifically about bicycle threads used by Raleigh through the years? Maybe someone has photographs? If a little too narrow in content, we could cover bearings, axles and gears. There are seven bottom brackets on the Emett Clock, each with a No.5 axle. I have a Sturmey Archer book somewhere that covers three and four speed hubs.

Stuff you can't buy anymore: A Raleigh bike made in Nottingham. Sad.

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Threads on water pipes, both steel and plastic are still tapered over this side of the pond, teflon tape is standard on steel pipes and sometimes on plastic, teflon paste is used.

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When I was knee high to a grasshopper, 2 of the girls I played with had curly hair. Their mothers apparently rubbed a solution on their heads as babies, called Curly Top. Don't know if that worked or they were destined for curly hair anyway. I obviously didn't get the same treatment as my hair was a straight as a yard of pump watter, as me mam called it.

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