Celluloid mudguards
12-20-16 | 10:29 AM
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Fortunately celluloid fenders never feel any pain, and celluloid fenders never really die.
12-20-16 | 10:39 AM
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Bluemels, has long since been absorbed by SKS ..
Sovereign, by Bluemels, late 80's is the same Chromo plast .
Nitro cellulose , In like Guitar picks flash burn in an instant..
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Sovereign, by Bluemels, late 80's is the same Chromo plast .
Nitro cellulose , In like Guitar picks flash burn in an instant..
'/,
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12-20-16 | 11:00 AM
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12-20-16 | 11:12 AM
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12-20-16 | 11:29 AM
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12-20-16 | 11:48 AM
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12-20-16 | 11:58 AM
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I did ride there once...saw a bunch of stars...some I recognized, but some I'd hardly even heard of. Overall I prefer relaxing in the village green.
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12-20-16 | 12:11 PM
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12-20-16 | 12:26 PM
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That sounds magical! You could be lazing on a sunny afternoon, as if it were summertime.
12-20-16 | 02:45 PM
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12-20-16 | 08:36 PM
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That's right. I'm not sure if Bluemels changed from celluloid to plastic for safety or cost reasons, nor when the change occurred. They were certainly still using celluloid in the 1940s.
12-20-16 | 09:58 PM
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And as I recall, in the movie The Great Escape, the POWs used celluloid ping pong balls from Red Cross parcels to start a fire provided a diversion so they could steal some critical item from the Germans.
12-21-16 | 11:55 AM
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12-21-16 | 12:18 PM
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12-21-16 | 01:41 PM
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FWIW at that time Esge fenders with the laminated construction were much better functionally. Nowadays SKS Bluemels style fenders are made with the construction method of Esge, and look (more or less) like Bluemels. Best of both worlds. All that's missing is the cool colors and the gold Bluemels script logo.
OT but ping pong balls are still celluloid AFAIK.
