anto44
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No boom luckily just a big whoosh a cool blue flame
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Parm
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Make sure you get it on video next time
Yesterday I helped start the removal of a cupboard from a chemistry lab in a school thats just closed. Its 3.5 metres long and 2,5m high and quite lovely. Looks like it will come out in three pieces but they are still quite big which is why no one else tackled it. All day I kept asking where it is going to go, and what they are going to do with it. Long story short, its going in my shed and if they haven't found a spot for it in 6 months I'm ripping out the modern rubbish in my utility room and putting it in there. It would be fab, but I'm kind of hoping they find a home for it as it will be a lot of work.. Does that count as an acquisition?
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bigegg
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itll be "out of site(sic), out of mind"
cant see em wanting it back, tbh.
plus...
we need pictures...
Best I can do, carcasses are still in situ. This is top row of doors, well half of them. Smaller doors below a drawer in the middle.
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woodstove?
sardine
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Odd thing, looks like a smoke box from the flue of a range, but the 90 deg branch on the back says its not, can't be a mini stove as it has no top plate or air controls, base looks like it would be cemented in place like a lamp post ?
I give up.
I give up.
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Would love to get to more sites like that, but it’s another week on the bunkers for me again. General Haulage got boring so taking feed to the docks.
Do you just ask for a rummage?
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Looks like a future wood burner, whatever its past has been.
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Only 4.5 ton so a nice little fella but big capacity. Came with a stack of tooling
Sold my baby kearns to mattuk which brought a tear to my eye
@sardine - not far off, just a very simple design. Would love to know how old it is but don’t know where to look? All I know is that it’s b****y heavy! Not much change from a hundred weight, it near broke my twice, first time carrying it about 200 yards back to the truck, and second time lifting it up onto the trailer. Anyone got a crane?
As @bigegg said, it’s a small stove, which I always knew as a “pot stove”. Originally it would have had a small basket in the bottom with a fire in it, which heats up the top plate where you’d place your tin mug of tea or whatever you wanted to keep warm. The “spout” at the back is a chimney, and the hinged flap is for feeding the fire. And the top is knocking on for 1” thick, so it would hold its heat quite a while.
@mrsbruce - not sure what the future holds for it. My initial plan when I thought it was a lamp post base was to fasten a length of scaffold type tube on it, top it off with the swivelling plate that I retrieved from my late MIL’s stairlift, and fabricate some kind of weather vane to it for the back garden. Not sure now...
@steviec_lj - yep, saw it this morning in the skip at the steam railway yard in the Forest of Dean where I’ve installed a 15 metre phone mast, asked if I could have it and they said yes! Had a cracking day what with watching steam trains chuffing up and down the line.
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Its going to a good home
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Thought I recognised the stove:- http://northtynesiderailway.blogspot.com/2017/09/painting-brake-vans-stove.html
Well spotted Sir
.And looking at their website, the line they run on is immediately behind the premises of one our customers, just off the A19 when you leave the Tyne Tunnel heading north.
Was parked near there at a new customer’s very close to the Stephenson Museum a while back. Gutted that they opened just as I left... But my ”guttedness” was tempered by said customer giving me a presentation insulated mug. As befits a German company, the efficacy of the mug is absolutely awesome, if I make a pot of tea and lock the lid, it’s still almost too hot to drink after 90 minutes.
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@sardine - not far off, just a very simple design. Would love to know how old it is but don’t know where to look? All I know is that it’s b****y heavy! Not much change from a hundred weight, it near broke my twice, first time carrying it about 200 yards back to the truck, and second time lifting it up onto the trailer. Anyone got a crane?
As @bigegg said, it’s a small stove, which I always knew as a “pot stove”. Originally it would have had a small basket in the bottom with a fire in it, which heats up the top plate where you’d place your tin mug of tea or whatever you wanted to keep warm. The “spout” at the back is a chimney, and the hinged flap is for feeding the fire. And the top is knocking on for 1” thick, so it would hold its heat quite a while.
@mrsbruce - not sure what the future holds for it. My initial plan when I thought it was a lamp post base was to fasten a length of scaffold type tube on it, top it off with the swivelling plate that I retrieved from my late MIL’s stairlift, and fabricate some kind of weather vane to it for the back garden. Not sure now...
@steviec_lj - yep, saw it this morning in the skip at the steam railway yard in the Forest of Dean where I’ve installed a 15 metre phone mast, asked if I could have it and they said yes! Had a cracking day what with watching steam trains chuffing up and down the line.
Think I've seen such a stove in a old brick built trackmans hut near an engine turntable but I can't remember where it was as it was on TV years ago .
Rang home earlier and told my OH about it, her reply: “Why not use it in your mancave, then you wouldn’t disturb me every ten minutes when you traipse around my kitchen making yet another pint pot of tea, banging every cupboard door, biscuit crumbs and empty wrappers all over, your usual trail of havoc before you disappear again leaving the back door wide open...”
Women - can’t live with em, can’t kill ‘em
Farside
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Doh! Of course!
I knew I'd seen them somewhere railway related, but was sure it was in platelayers' huts for keeping the cold out and brewing up on. Quite possibly the same stove did multiple duties for small spaces like that.
