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...ahem.. snookered again. I'm off to the pub!

I have no idea what you are suggesting Tom, being brought up by nuns and me being a founder member of the local temperance society. Shame on you!

The wise would politely decline any such invitation.

Makes me remember the time I built a reflux condenser to leach out spike oil from lavender to make sandarac varnish with. The thing was...

I have - accidentally! - set fire to old celluloid scales by drilling out a stuck pin - the camphor holds it back a bit, but once it starts it means business and merrily resists attempts to put it...

If you do get a vinegary, ammonia-like or acidic smell, unpin the blade and throw the scales. The first step in making celluloid involves soaking cotton (cellulose) in hydrochloric and (sometimes)...

You can get white celluloid - they still make guitar picks from it, for example. You can even get black. It all depends on the colour of the filler. If little filler is used the celluloid is...