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Cugel wrote: ↑7 Dec 2022, 12:49pm

borisface wrote: ↑7 Dec 2022, 8:53am If you ever contract bronchitis you can make your own green slime.

In my yoof, in Tyneside where coal mining was still going full-whack, there were many poor lads with pneumoconiosis and similar lung damage who suffered badly with the mucous, and with a seemingly constant series of lung infections. As a result, they produced what we urchins termed "green cockles" - large dollops of green mucus spit out on the pavements by those damaged fellows walking about.

These things were something of a hazard to those of us who ran about a lot, as they were slippy but also sticky. It was common to hit one with a footfall when busy playing out at tiggy-with-the-ball or similar.

Those days seem to have gone but instead we have the nastier universal pollutants that damage lungs resulting in asthmas and similar. No green cockles but not good for those so-damaged, anymore than was pneumoconiosis, which at least got the miners some compensation (eventually, sometimes).

Cugel

CyberKnight wrote: ↑10 Dec 2022, 11:09pm

axel_knutt wrote: ↑27 Nov 2022, 6:14pm

CyberKnight wrote: ↑27 Nov 2022, 5:58pm

12 oclock being at the top the furthest away from the pool of gunk

At 12 o'clock the valve stem is upside down, so any slime in it will run down to the outlet. Put it at 6 o'clock, and the valve will be clear unless the slime depth is greater than the tube diameter.

6 oclock is at the bottom , valve at 6 o clock means its at the bottom where the slime is so 12 o clock for the valve means its at the top away from the slime pool

wirral_cyclist wrote: ↑11 Dec 2022, 6:23pm

CyberKnight wrote: ↑10 Dec 2022, 11:09pm

axel_knutt wrote: ↑27 Nov 2022, 6:14pm
At 12 o'clock the valve stem is upside down, so any slime in it will run down to the outlet. Put it at 6 o'clock, and the valve will be clear unless the slime depth is greater than the tube diameter.

6 oclock is at the bottom , valve at 6 o clock means its at the bottom where the slime is so 12 o clock for the valve means its at the top away from the slime pool

Valve at 12 will pool some slime in the stem which is why 5+7 is suggested to be away from slime pool.