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Post by ARENA on Mar 24, 2014 15:05:25 GMT
......if you had these at school.  |
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Post by Prue on Mar 25, 2014 9:05:13 GMT
Not me Arena, but like all '50s-'60s Aussie kids, I had Clag |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2014 10:42:54 GMT
Oh yes, but I think ours were a different brand. And the little slot needed constant poking with the point of a compass when it bunged up.
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Post by goldelox on Mar 25, 2014 10:56:38 GMT
Clag.
Sounds like something farmers get on their wellies!
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Post by Prue on Mar 25, 2014 12:08:38 GMT
I know, Goldie, it's a horrible name isn't it, but actually very descriptive. Clag came in bottles with a big coarse brush stuck through the lid, and it was a thick glutinous white substance: very...claggy!  |
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Post by ARENA on Mar 25, 2014 13:07:21 GMT
We had bottle/brushes like that, with PVA.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2014 13:58:28 GMT
I thought PVA was a relatively recent innovation. The white glue we had smelt like rotting fish, and might well have been derived from fish bones.
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Post by scorp on Mar 25, 2014 19:44:20 GMT
I remember the LePage thing - the rubber bit at the top always became solid and useless.
I remember thinking that 'mucilage' was a strange word... I think it might mean that it's a vegetable substance.
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Post by goldelox on Mar 27, 2014 12:00:00 GMT
I remember envelope glue tasted horrible. I had an office job, when I left school and had to lick a lot of manilla envelopes -YUK!
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