Topic: piano insulators

[Anne Tique]

No, I can imagine, that would ruin dinner (took me a while to figure that one out  ).

 I never asked myself any questions about them, they were there already and there to stay ...  I couldn't move them if I even wanted to.

[Lustrousstone]

A photo would be interesting please Anne

[Paul S.]

yes, I too would love to see the radiator Anne

[Anne Tique]

I don't know if it's worth taking a picture of (do I really need to take a picture of a b....y radiator?  ) ...  chips and all, but I'll see what I can do tomorrow with light ... as the hall's got stained glass windows natural light's poor. The insulators are similar to the ones in Paul's picture, the clear glass ones at the top, no star pattern though, just plain glass.

[Paul S.]

Anne - sorry, being silly again - ignore me - I was joking about the radiator

I think that Christine is especially keen to see if you have any that are different from those in my original photo.               On the GMB we see many insulators with some patterns turning up commonly.    If you have any that are noticeably different from mine then yes, we would like to see them, but do appreciate your comment that you can't separate them from the radiator legs.
If it proves too difficult to photograph them, you must ignore our request.

To the best of my knowledge, I don't recall seeing any on the GMB of which it could be said categorically they definitely weren't made in the U.K.

[Anne Tique]

Of course, Paul, i understand it's interesting and i've managed to get one from underneath the leg of the radiator. I'll post it tomorrow, if the house still stands, that is... probably gets taken down with the radiator collapsing.

[Paul S.]

 

[Lustrousstone]

Er I was more interested to see it in situ 

[Paul S.]

opps - sorry Christine

[Anne Tique]

Well, I guess there's a first for everything, I'm not sure if a radiator's ever been posted here before, but as you can see, nothing fancy (and they need to be sandblasted and painted btw  ).
I've always thought that one of them, the one that I managed to remove, had sculpted edges, but in fact, once I've put on my glasses,  it's chipped all the way around. There's perhaps one cm of the bottom that's intact, and it's just a flat and  simple mould. Some of the other ones have a slight concave or hollow top, from whichever way you look at them, that's been moulded. Sorry for the condition it is in, it's covered with bits of plaster and paint as you can see, but then I've never managed to get my hands on it properly.