working away at an old chapel that was being converted to a house,there were some arched things under the floor we had dug up,we decided to investigate and found 3 COFFINS
exit stage left

lol, i had a similar bleak moment like that last week, in the pub

A mate has been working on a church somewhere in London for ages , they've been digging up bones for months. Channel 4 or 5 have done a documentary on the project . He's had to have loads of jabs for all sorts including plague.

A couple of years ago, I worked for a company that produced refractory linings for furnaces. A refractory lining, for the uninitiated, is the brick lining that you find in kilns/furnaces/smelting units etc.

Our Techincal Sales guy was called to a local crematorium because their brick lining was crumbling away at an alarming rate.

He had to crawl into the kiln tunnel and take samples of the crumbled bricks (spalled is the technical term) for lab analysis.

Turns out, HUMAN FAT was impregnating the bricks causing differential expansion rates, leading to cracks and failure.

It used to make us laugh, he wouldn't talk about it unless we made him, and the colour used to disappear from his cheeks every time we mentioned it.

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Originally posted by Mansfield
A couple of years ago, I worked for a company that produced refractory linings for furnaces. A refractory lining, for the uninitiated, is the brick lining that you find in kilns/furnaces/smelting units etc.

Our Techincal Sales guy was called to a local crematorium because their brick lining was crumbling away at an alarming rate.

He had to crawl into the kiln tunnel and take samples of the crumbled bricks (spalled is the technical term) for lab analysis.

Turns out, HUMAN FAT was impregnating the bricks causing differential expansion rates, leading to cracks and failure.

It used to make us laugh, he wouldn't talk about it unless we made him, and the colour used to disappear from his cheeks every time we mentioned it.

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