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Old 20th Jan 2019, 10:57 am   #12
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Default Re: Mystery set to identify! pre-war?

I recall a provincial auction house from my teens where sets like this used to sporadically pass through with the distinctive "half a goldfish bowl" hanging off the front and was told that it contained paraffin- presumably, this would take longer to go "off" than water, although all the ones I recall were of various shades of that amber sort of colour, presumably as a result of slow oxidation. Perhaps there was also a refractive index consideration?

What would a fire safety official think of such a suspended incendiary attached to an occasionally fault-prone wooden box filled with hot-running components?
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