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Ok, I'm 50+ and I know I should have asked someone before now, so now its up to you, please help.
When I was a kid growing up in central Scotland (Uddingston area) there was this house and instead of the ubiquitous red chips on the driveway, this place had little perfect triangular solids (don't know the correct name but like a toblerone). I think they were some kind of ceramic, they were creamy grey/white coloured, most were small ones at about 10mm along the edges but there were also bigger ones at about 15mm.
As kids we coveted these, and would raid the driveway to secure supplies .
Not quite bucket list but can anyone tell me what the blue blazes they are.


 
Posted : 01/10/2013 8:58 pm
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As a kid I remember my dad having a handfull of these or something like.
I seem to remember him saying they were industrial - rolling in a drum with stuff to clean it???
I'm 50 too so its the duffer leading the......other old duffer, I am afraid.

Good luck with your quest!


 
Posted : 01/10/2013 9:09 pm
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That brings the memories back they were still around in the 80s too. Most driveways seem to be brick these days kids dont know the delights they are missing 😀


 
Posted : 01/10/2013 9:10 pm
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Do you mean glass chippings?


 
Posted : 01/10/2013 9:13 pm
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Ceramic polishing/de-burring chips FTW I reckon

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Posted : 01/10/2013 9:20 pm
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They are vibro deburr media. We use them at work to deburr our aluminium castings once we've machined them. We use blue 40mm ones and 10mm cream ones. Different colours are different grades like sandpaper.

People take our worn ones home and I always wondered why!


 
Posted : 01/10/2013 9:27 pm
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Great use of the hive mind 😀


 
Posted : 01/10/2013 9:33 pm
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Fantastic, thanks, I can finally put that one to bed, I love this forum, you folk always come up trumps.


 
Posted : 01/10/2013 9:37 pm
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We found box-fulls in the cellar of the big house below Wychbury hill, which was a burned out ruin at that point (think it's an old folks home now?). We called them Martians, and for a while at primary school they were traded like currency! I found years later they were de-burring media.


 
Posted : 01/10/2013 9:39 pm

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