Finds and UXBs!

Just this week my father in law in Clacton decided due to a impending safety inspection of his barn to rid himself of a German incendiary bomb via a bomb fire. I'm still laughing at the described effects and crying at the loss. Fortunately he gave me a prime example that fell on his farm in February 44. It hangs proudly in my 'man cave'

kebecker;98176 wrote:

ah good question, circumference at the lip is 3 3/4 inches circumferance of the outer ring on the base is about 1 3/4 inches and the dish is about 1 inch high

Circumference? That would make it about an inch in diameter:) But 3.75 inches diameter would make it a 'stamp licker'

PETERTHEEATER;98190 wrote:

Circumference? That would make it about an inch in diameter:) But 3.75 inches diameter would make it a 'stamp licker'

geology was never my strong point!

appropriate edits made, and 100 lines awarded

There is a V2 rocket engine being used as a plant pot out on Dengie Marshes

I have various pieces of aircraft skin from the P51 @ Maylandsea

I really really want to get my hands on a metal detector

Oh, and I found part of a wartime newspaper in an Air Raid Shelter @ Bradwell Bay

Would an ashtray be made of bakelite????

I beleive so, I recall my parents had one they "borrowed" from somehwhere, odd but neither of them smoked! but from the world famous Wikipedia (so it must be true!)

In its industrial applications, Bakelite was particularly suitable for the emerging electrical and automobile industries because of its extraordinarily high resistance - not only to electricity, but to heat and chemical action.

I seem to recall a horrible and very distinctive smell with old Bakelite plugs when a fuse went, acrid but no flame?

I must admit that I thought that as bakelite was a form of plastic that it would melt when subjected to heat, but what do I know!!!!!!! Im mold enough to remember that smell with the plugs.

I too well remember that sort of warm smell from the bakelite plugs.

Bakelite is a thermosetting plastic so it sets when heated unlike a thermoplastic that melts when heated.