Engineering Oddities

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

I remember flour and water paste for papier mache but we never used it for wallpaper as the house was too damp.

[EnnechParticipant @ennech]

In the transformer department of the heavy electrical company where I served my apprenticeship we used a board insulating material called Elephantide.

[Ian S CParticipant @iansc]

Molassas, used as a dressing on leather belting to stop it slipping, main problem is the belt tends to get eaten by mice.

A few year back our navy got a couple of new frigates built in Austrailia, The first one on its delivery voyage to NZ had to heave to on the way over when the prop shaft siezed, the stern bearing was made of Teflon, or similar, and as it heated, it swelled on the shaft, unlike the old, and tried Lignum Vitae.

Ian S C

[Sub MandrelParticipant @submandrel]

> Jack& jill treacle and brown paper?

It may be 45 years since I pranced around to that rhyme, but it's vinegar, surely?

Neil

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