| Year | 1987 |
| Date | 16-Oct |
| Volume | 159 |
| Issue | 3,811 |
| Page | 461 |
| Category | General |
| Part | |
| Title | Oddities & Solutions |
| Author | |
| Notes | Engineering oddity - with a railway flavour, the solution (Dennis Monk); another oddity solved (Alec Packwood) saw sharpener; an abrasive oddity (G.A.Woodrow); engineering oddities - a rule (D.Greenwood) see 173 3979 475; our mystery pliers oddity |