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Location DB > England > Shropshire > Ellesmere > Ellesmere Creamery > Old Block Ground Floor > Weird stand

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This is really weird. It's a metal stand bolted to the floor with a large block of white, waxy material on top. The material looks a bit like marble but isn't. It has been melted by cigarettes or matches on the top. The material feels cold and fairly hard, but waxy. What is it? Any ideas? I'm keen to know.
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Posted by lost 10/8/2005 6:52 PM | remove
  Maybe the wax was used to seal the cheese?
Posted by inventor 10/8/2005 6:54 PM | remove
  It isn't wax. It's too hard and dense. Plus I think the melted patch was the work of vandals or drug users.
Posted by lost 10/8/2005 7:06 PM | remove
  Aah, the mind boggles then...
Posted by minable 10/10/2005 6:55 AM | remove
  A big block of Teflon?
Posted by atomx 10/10/2005 3:05 PM | remove
  Teflon impregnated Nylon?
Posted by Watcher 10/10/2005 7:27 PM | remove
  Looks like it could have been some sort of seat, maybe part of a machine that is no longer there?
Posted by inventor 10/10/2005 11:39 PM | remove
  Teflon is a good guess. But a seat? I think it would be pretty uncomfortable. It's too small and hard.
Posted by atomx 10/11/2005 2:47 PM | remove
  Maybe a stand for wrapping cheese, if this was done here.
Posted by inventor 10/11/2005 8:50 PM | remove
  Possibly, but why not have a whole table? This thing is only about 10" x 6", and this factory made a hell of a lot of cheese!
Posted by atomx 10/12/2005 12:35 AM | remove
  place the chese exatly on it and wrap with cloth the right size, it's a cost thing, big table, or little table.
Posted by inventor 10/12/2005 1:05 AM | remove
  Maybe, although I'm still not convinced. Perhaps we have some expert cheese makers here?
Posted by atomx 10/12/2005 12:54 PM | remove
  You also get to put your stool/chair up to it as close as you can.
Posted by inventor 10/12/2005 1:48 PM | remove
  Maybe. But I would have expected to see more of them if that was the case. I think it may have been part of a testing or quality control area.
Posted by atomx 10/12/2005 2:38 PM | remove
  Yeah, there should be more, or none if they're worth anything. It could have been a testing area.
Posted by inventor 10/12/2005 5:41 PM | remove
  It is close to a lab-type wooden bench which you can't see in the photo.
Posted by IIVQ 12/14/2005 11:16 AM | remove
  could you press it in with your fingers?

Could it be this thing was chilled via the stand pipe?
Posted by inventor 12/14/2005 11:25 AM | remove
  I couldn't make indentations in the white block with my fingernails. It didn't appear to be connected to any refrigeration gear.
Posted by IIVQ 12/17/2005 10:00 AM | remove
  Weird thing...
Posted by big_guy_1960 8/7/2006 2:35 PM | remove
  Probably a block of Delrin, a slippery plastic used to make bearings - I think it was a support for a conveyor belt, probably at its midpoint, that would let the belt slide over the top.
Posted by inventor 8/7/2006 10:52 PM | remove
  I could believe that, although there was no sign of the conveyor belt equipment, and the belt would have had to have returned overhead. It's as good a guess as any.
Posted by IIVQ 5/22/2008 12:59 PM | remove
  On the far left It looks as if another pipe is coming out. If that was so, my bet is on it being refrigerated and this table is to sample something or so... what kind of room was this in?
Posted by inventor 9/26/2008 5:12 PM | remove
  It just looked like a store. Might have been a cold store, but it wasn't obviously refrigerated.
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