soaking racks

Go your local discount shop, or even supermarket. And grab a large storage box. They are £5 in my local cheap shop (not pound shop), or atm tesco have them for £7. I buy loads of them, to organise my attic.

They add up, so i buy a couple a week. Been doing it since last Feb, when i finished boarding the loft out.

THESE are the bags.

Them bags are excellent. We use them, the liquid is super corrosive and works wonders. Wear the provided gloves or better still a pair of marigolds.

If you don’t have anywhere to place the bags when in use, id recommend the shed just incase they puncture overnight. The goo will ruin anything it comes into contact with. That’s where the wife (by instruction) puts them.

If you go for the plastic tub route, white vinegar is the way to go, or cheap bottled cola, soak them for about 3 days and you’ll get similar results.

The bags and its goo is the best and least hassle approach tho. The vinegar approach is reusable. But not on your chips ?

I really should read things before jumping to conclusions, I had this image of JB dumping a couple of servers in his bath tub

Sadly bob, we don’t (or didn’t) have any women on camp, bar the NAAFI gronks.

Air tech, sounds very much like my BiLs RAF role. I think he worked on airframes, his job was servicing and refitting chinooks.

Was the helo invented when you was in bob? ? or was you still using gliders ?

The Duke wrote:

Air tech, sounds very much like my BiLs RAF role. I think he worked on airframes, his job was servicing and refitting chinooks. Was the helo invented when you was in bob? or was you still using gliders

Definitely helo’s, although they should be called Rotary Winged Aircraft, I’ll have you know. ?  They worked by clockwork, and were a bugga to wind up. Which was fine if we had some muscley RM guys around to help, and they weren’t doing much else. ??

I actually flew gliders at my A/C Workshop in Detmold, Germany. We had a Gliding Club. RAF Lightning pilots used to come over from Wildenrath, Gütersloh and Bruggen, for some proper flying. Got my GP wings a month before I left, never done it since. Curiously, my Gert wants to have a Glider flight for her birthday. No idea how I can get her into one, but she may be prevented for age and disability reasons. I’ll have to dig out the policies… I got her a Helo flight and first lesson for her 50th, she gets one daft idea every 10 years or so.??

Your BiL was a crab* and was just Airframes? In the AAC we had just two trades: 1 – Airframes and engines. 2 – Avionics. (all the bits with flashing lights, pictures and wires) We didn’t have single-type work, had to work on a variety of types – fixed wing and RWing. I was A&E, worked on FW Austers, DHC Beavers, RW Allouette, Sioux, Scout, Skeeter.

*We always said that the pilots flew sideways, and their navigators walked sideways.?? The last one was a Para saying.

JayCeeDee: I must have met a few oldphart officers who told Leonardo it would never work.

AAC terms: A&E = Blackies, due to the oily bits. (not racist – one of my crew was Cass Coward, a 6 foot plus lad from Barbados.)

Avionics = Greenies.

All Army “X” tech’s were highest paid in service for each rank, which made us feel sorry for the rest when we looked at our pay cheque. Sometimes.

You have a BiL better-placed than my two. Oldest is 82 and an ex-market gardener, ex-Railwayman, ex-milkman and a barrel of laughs, we get on great. Youngest is ex-copper, ex-Funeral driver and the most miserable barsteward you could ever meet, probably not far behind your BiL in terms of money.