Oh, and in that issue I see that they also have an article on a "small capacity milling machine" – presumably to make flour for small cakes in the electric mixer?

Edited By John Haine on 18/12/2017 14:40:23

I think there was a build your own fridge article at one point

As various home technology came on stream over the decades there were a few Heath Robinson attempts to get ahead of the neighbours

I seem to also recall a motorised lawn mower which could have been used in a Mad Max movie

Edited By Ady1 on 18/12/2017 14:57:17

How to start a tractor with a shotgun cartridge ?

Not particularly a project for a Field Marshall. It was an factory alternative to cranking when on your own (if very lightly – or weakly – built) or in the depths of winter when manual cranking was much more difficult. Making you own reloads might have been a project!

When I worked in gas turbines we put in a proposal for a man portable generator for the army which we proposed to start with cartridges. I left before I found out whether they got the job, but I kept on asking what do you do when you run out of cartridges? A pull cord isn't a lot of use on even a small turbine.

Choose a NATO standard cartridge so that in an emergency you just hoik the bullet out of one?

They would need wads and a crimper – modern propellants only burn fast and clean under pressure. Not a real problem, I suppose – just use a far bigger case than required?

One problem with starting those Field Marshall engines was if that smouldering insert (of the size he was using) got trapped under the decompression valve. Didn't happen often, but was a bit of a b****r when it did, apparently. The starting handle supplied was long enough for two people to swing it. It is hard work on your own!

Ships engines always use air

If the old man was stopping/starting too much in port the engine room would let him know

"You've only got three starts left captain!"

Converted from milling machine to mixing machine

See this movie the plane is started up with Coffman combustion starter (cartridge starter with other word).

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Edited By Jens Eirik Skogstad on 19/12/2017 02:15:14

Atomic energy lab for childrens

**LINK**

. . . . . and not one mention of an Adept lathe rebuild ?

;0)

Happy Christmas Neil

Edited By Martin Kyte on 19/12/2017 08:43:54

Edited By Martin Kyte on 19/12/2017 08:44:20

ME for Jan 14th 1943 had a handy article on "Improving the Mark 2 Sten Gun"