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Love it or loathe it, Halloween is upon us once again.  Why are supermarket shelves groaning under the mass of pumpkins ? Well, we all blame the Americans but that is only partly true as in times of yore it was an Irish custom on All Hallows Eve to carve a turnip into Jack-o'-lantern because a potato was too small and squidgy.  This was done, all because of a fokelore tale that went something like this:-  Stingy Jack,a lazy but wily blacksmith tricked Satan into climbing an apple tree, then trapped him by carving crosses around the trunk which Satan...

Hi peeps, well, in response to another valve related query, this time about 'JAN codes', I thought I would pen a little information nuggett here today. I shall be doing a further more detailed blog entry on military coding history and types soon but for now here's a quick info - bite. The JAN code is of course the US Military Joint Army Navy coding introduced in 1942 in which the code for a particular valve type comprises of an alphanumeric code, for example VT-114 and additionally a three digit alpha code. I will deal with the former in more...