That's great drose!
Exactly the input I need.
With only 2 hours, I should have mentioned it was more of a taster, with the hope of a door openers to further in depth workshops later.
So your suggestions will help!
But it's great to find out what they might like to touch on.
I5 minutes is too long for them to sit on thier bronzes for any length of time. So I'll be getting them involved with rope work & even playing about with different lamps & clour gell, Might even get them to make a 'thwaker', a salt water lamp dimmer or even biol water in a paper bag. If they become totaly fidgety!
I doubt there will be any more than a handfull, as it is not really thier tea bag - but you know?
But thanks for your ideas, I was starting to think I was just whistling into the wind, with the Club Tech topic.

Ah drose I think you are too young to have been exsposed to the old P'ss pots [aka salt water dimmers] as they were lovingly known as.
They were a glass container with a steal plate & an active electrode attached, which sat in the bottom of the glas jar. It was filled with water & had salt added as  resistive medium. The theatre sparky would lower the negative cable into the salt brine & as the cables got closer to each other the lamp would get brighter. Inversly as the cables were drawn further away, the brightness is reduced.
They work but were hard to control & with a bank of them it became almost like a steam bath, in the dungeon of the theatre.
Also with evaporation, constant monitoring by adding water & ensuring the salt level, was an art.
It was a corrosive situation & atmospere, especialy with the skin, eyes & metal ware.
{Much like the Drummond [Limes] spot light & what it did to skin & lungs,]}
They devised some weird devices to lower the cable to give a smoother control. But it was not for the faint hearted or for those that could not stand a cardial heart massage occasionaly.
Not something you would want to mess around with these days.
I cut my teeth on these & even used them in my own little theatre, I made when growing up.
But they are a leathal bit of gear!
My Great Uncle Joseph had them in the Tyne theatre/opera house he built. When he introduced electric incandescent lights thru his friend Joseph Swan, on Tyneside in the north east of England.
I only came across them at the Grand Theatre Byker, when I was was a wee kid. Because the Tyne Theatre became the Stoll Picture house, before I was spawned.
They apparently used cylinders of carbon as ewell, although I never came across them.
Bioling water in a paper bag is just that, and something I learnt as a Boy Scout.
I preffer using a brown paper back, as it has a better taste.
The trick is holding the bag over the fire as it's bioling, although gaffer tape handle works well.
These days I demonstrate it using an old coffee or bean can, filled with sand & petrol added to about 1/3  of the can. Which is better than an open fire & the bag easier to handle,
The water in the bag permiates & evaporates on the outside of the paper, so it never becomes combustable.
It works well & it is only the idea of it that is ilogical.
 

The water dimmer is not good for the complextion either.
The paper bag billi tea is great, though it tastes a lot better, if you drop a gum leaf in the bag while bioling.
Although it does become very interesting, if you try to swing the paper billi  around your head 3 times. Like one does when using a billi can.

Thanks Joe!  It's nice to know that someone checks those things out!

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