Just for fun what’s this stuck in my tyre?

[PlasmaParticipant @plasma]

Well it was a weird item to find lodged in a tyre for sure.

Strangest I saw was a 13mm combination spanner right through the crown plies. I would have said it was impossible but there is was! No malicious action just a stunning example of sods law that if it can go wrong it will go wrong.

I recall Stelrad at Swinton sending a skip full of metal shards from their stamping press off to the scrap man. Damaged skip left a lethal trail of these tiny, sharp off cuts along the main road. Literally dozens of cars with all four boots holed. And my entire shift on hands and knees with magnets recovering them. Tyre dealers were ecstatic, Stelrad not so lol….

Plasma

[Mike PooleParticipant @mikepoole82104]

Waste from our press shop was trucked around the factory even though underground scrap conveyors ran beneath the main press lines. The apprentices made a magnetic picker that was towed around the site to clean the roads, pushbike punctures were common, usually when you wanted to go home.

Mike

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