Fascinating float advert on ebay - Clue to BB's favourite?

[Vole]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1929-AD-Fishi ... 23336884d8

Can anyone better at image handling than I capture this for posterity?

Some of the Genya-wine English bobbers have wire twists to secure the float on the line - could BB's favourite have been one such?

[Robbi]

Here ya go

$_35 (1).JPG

[Vole]

Thanks for trying, Robbi, but I'm trying to get the enlarged images - the "mouse here to zoom" type which is much easier to read; I can fix the image and send it to dropbox, but menus and image titles keep opening over the blasted image i'm trying to copy. It's driving me nuts!

[Nobby]

My Image re-sizer doesn't increase the size either


But viewing them in Windows Viewer and zooming in shows that they are pretty high def...so id we manage it they will read well....as it is I'm stuck with increasing the zoom in Viewer.


Edit: If I also click the 'actual size' in Viewer button they go huge.......

[Wagtail]

Hover over the image so that it goes pale with a box that says 'click here with mouse to zoom'.
Click on that box and you get a small window open that has the first page showing enlarged in the centre, and both pages in miniature on the right.
Right click on the large image, click 'save picture as' - remembering to give it a name you can find again later.
Now make the second page appear in the centre by clicking on the little image of it, and then save picture in the same way as above.
This worked for me, hope it helps.....

[Danny Boy]

save the images to your desk top then open them using windows paint ,nice a clear

or just click on the magnifying glass on the top left corner of the pictures I have put up for you.

[Vole]

Fantastic! Many thanks, Gents!

Now, not having been able to get my paws on "Hooked on Floats", I don't know if such items feature in it, but I do recall people wondering about BB's favourite float, which could be secured to the line with a couple of turns into a wire spiral; some of these have something looking like three turns of biro spring on the tapered portion of the stem; this would achieve the desired effect, wouldn't it? I wonder if they were what great man was using?

[The Old Buffer]

It certainly looks as simple as a bit of biro spring on the stem of the float. Should be simple enough to replicate for those into float making.

[Olly]

I cannot remember when but I have had floats with this on the bottom! It gave easy removal/change of the float.

[Vole]

Ah - are you referring to the pigtail spring at the bottom - like the one on a "Sidewinder"?
If you look along the other end of, for instance, the "barrel shape" float halfway down col. 1, p.1768, there's another spring wound fairly tightly around the tip, to lock it in place on the line. I think.