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Old 25th Jan 2010, 10:55 pm   #1
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Default A new use for a Babybel

I've been restoring a Bush AC71; visually quite good but over the years this poor old radio had given it’s all & amongst many other things had a perished screened rubber cable leading to the grid top cap of the EBC33. Replacing this with modern plastic cable would naturally look pretty naff but I found that I could remove the original cables’ red cotton braiding, slide it over the new plastic cable & bind it with the original red cotton binding which I managed to unpick. Now I took a small piece of the red wax coating from a Babybel cheese & spread it over the binding. A touch with the iron melted the wax into the cotton & prevented it from unwinding. Best of all, it looks totally original! (...yes, I did eat the cheese first)
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Old 25th Jan 2010, 11:32 pm   #2
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It certainly looks fromages ago.
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Old 26th Jan 2010, 11:46 am   #3
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Nice! I'd never thought of melting Babybel rind like that.

I think my toolbox still contains a couple of rolled-up Babybel rinds which I've used from time to time to hold screws on to screwdriver tips.

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Old 26th Jan 2010, 7:02 pm   #4
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Krafty!
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Old 27th Jan 2010, 1:27 pm   #5
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See, it's not just at Christmas that we come across the Baby Cheesus!
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Old 27th Jan 2010, 3:08 pm   #6
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If you want purple go for the Cheddar Babybells! Tastes better as well.
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Old 27th Jan 2010, 8:44 pm   #7
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As it's been proved that eating too much cheese gives you nightmares, and the thread seems to be going mouldy, time to apply the cheese knife!
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