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25th Jan 2010, 10:55 pm | #1 |
Hexode
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, UK.
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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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25th Jan 2010, 11:32 pm | #2 |
Octode
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, UK.
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Re: A new use for a Babybel
It certainly looks fromages ago.
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26th Jan 2010, 11:46 am | #3 |
Nonode
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Warsaw, Poland and Cambridge, UK
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Re: A new use for a Babybel
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. Chris |
26th Jan 2010, 7:02 pm | #4 |
Heptode
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Rugby, Warwickshire, UK.
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Re: A new use for a Babybel
Krafty!
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27th Jan 2010, 1:27 pm | #5 |
Nonode
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Nuneaton, Warwickshire, UK.
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Re: A new use for a Babybel
See, it's not just at Christmas that we come across the Baby Cheesus!
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27th Jan 2010, 3:08 pm | #6 |
Retired Dormant Member
Join Date: Jun 2006
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Re: A new use for a Babybel
If you want purple go for the Cheddar Babybells! Tastes better as well.
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27th Jan 2010, 8:44 pm | #7 |
Dekatron
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Near Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK
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Re: A new use for a Babybel
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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