On Mar 23, 6:58*pm, Onetap wrote:
On 23 Mar, 18:36, The Natural Philosopher
wrote:





Clive George wrote:
On 23/03/2010 16:49, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Clive George wrote:
On 23/03/2010 12:12, js.b1 wrote:
Plastic pipes do not
help - they go after the taps for brass, even taking the grid covers
in street, in carpark& in the building.

This is all getting a bit reminiscent of the great leap forward.

Which great leap forward was that, then?

There's only one sufficiently famous and relevant to the conversation
about melting down everything for scrap.

* well its not sufficiently famous for me to recall it.

Probably this one;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_leap_forward

See the paragraph about small-scale steel production, below the graph.

I had about half-a-dozen capilliary thermostats in a store at a former
job. Someone (an employee) cut off & stole the copper capilliaries
which, as the name suggests,were very thin tubes (2mm?) about 1m long.
£40 thermostats wrecked for *5p or 10p worth of copper,- Hide quoted text -

My father worked for the CEGB in eth 1950s and they had a power
station commissioned that did not work. They tracked the problem to
where three huge copper cables went under the fllor to emerge the
other side of the turbine hall. Smone had cut them off below floor
level and stolen the copper.

R