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News and Comment August 2024

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4 August (Part 1) - Cheap but maybe not too nasty

Battery firesThe new Bexley Magazine came tumbling through my door a few days ago which is good because there was a period a few years ago when it rarely showed up. However there was something very different about this one; it is a good job that the Covid or whatever it was has gone away because one powerful sneeze might have blown a hole through the new issue.

The paper is not only thinner but has also lost its gloss. It has gone from a good looking piece of work to, well, a bit cheap.

I took my Dad’s old micrometer to it but the scale has faded somewhat and my eyeballs are not what they were so I cannot give you a precise measurement to the nearest thousandth of an inch. (All my father’s aero engine designs were in Imperial measurements.) But it is quite obviously thinner.

The postal scales came up with 55 grammes while a two year old copy reads 75.

The content is of course much the same and might reasonably be described as interesting and worth looking through.

The Bexley Magazine has clearly been the latest victim of ‘the cuts’ but maybe I should be pleased about it. I have a collection of Bexley Magazines going back to before BiB started. A bit of space saving will be welcome.

Batteries are potentially dangerous. Don’t wrap your AA cell in wire wool (old schoolboy trick) or even keep one in your pocket with a bundle of keys.

 

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