soaking racks

[johnbarry]

I need to soak some oven racks (overnight), you would normally use the bath, I don’t have a bath. I don’t have a plug for the shower outlet and I couldn’t fit one (it’s a flat drainer)

I have looked at bowls, large bowls, bowls for clothes, baking trays, roasting pans, I can find 38+ cm x 27-cm

It needs to be 37+cm x 37+cm 15cm Deep Heat Resistant.

similar to this

Does any one know where I can find one at least 38+cm x 38+cm maybe 5cm+ deep, in the price range £5-£15 maybe a little higher.

Cheers
John

[JayCeeDee]

Try HERE . Or I’ve seen some heavy duty plastic bags with a cleaning product that does the same job.

 

[The Duke]

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.

 

[dwynnehugh]

John there is an oven cleaner which also includes a plastic bag – will have a look tomorrow but you place all the grimy bits in the bag, pour in the supplied caustic soda gel (I think it’s caustic soda), seal the bag make certain all the metal bits get covered and leave overnight or at least 12 hours.

Rinse the following day and they are clean – I think we got ours at ‘£stretcher’ for about £2.50 or so if my memory serves me correct.

No fuss, no mess.

I’ll ask the wife tomorrow for the full name of it.

The more you meet people the more you understand why Noah took animals instead of humans

[JayCeeDee]

THESE are the bags.

[dwynnehugh]

I think JCD is correct with the product, but in local stores they will be a bit cheaper than Amazon.

The more you meet people the more you understand why Noah took animals instead of humans

[The Duke]

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 ?

[johnbarry]

Thanks all I should have asked before, I have the cleaning stuff and needed a box.

The bag would have done, if only I asked before.

That’s a good box JayCee and it could be used for other purposes.

I really appreciate the advice offered and glad I asked.

 

 

Cheers
John

[SpaceAlien]

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

 

[Bob Williams]

Good job he didn’t misspell it as “Soaking WRACS.”

Pick it up, Steve and anyone else with knowledge of female military persons…?

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I'm out.

[The Duke]

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

[Bob Williams]

At School of Army Aviation (Air Corps Training base, Middle Wallop, Hants) we had a Company of WRAC’s, over 50 of them. Their part of the camp was fenced off with an 8 foot fence.

Now, Air Tech’s were supposed to be intelligent, X- rated technicians, highest paid at each rank in the Army, right? Just big kids: some of the idiots I trained with, used to make holes in the fence and peep through, trying to guess which underwear hanging on the line belonged to which WRAC. Or Dragons, as we called them. I had a thing with one of them, a BBBB (Big Buxom Brummy Blonde) after she took me to Aldershot hospital and brought me back. Training finished, I got posted, so did she, lost contact.

Wreckage.

When the Thought Police arrive at your door, think -
I'm out.

[The Duke]

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 ?

[JayCeeDee]

The Duke wrote:

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

It was Leonardo Da Vinci who designed the first helicopter-like machine. I know Bob’s cracking on a bit, but that was definitely before his time!!???

[Bob Williams]

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.

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[The Duke]

Yes, the raf terms between the two were heavies and fairies for the avionics side of it.

He just finished last month, after 12 year, and many tours, and walked into a job in afghan for a us firm servicing Chinies for almost 3 grand a week, the raf was paying about £1800 a month. So he is happy. He starts on the 30 March. 3 months on, 2 off, so loads of good chunks of down time.

Im quite jealous tbh, but shows his hard work, and poor pay, has finally paying off for him.

Though guess which muggins has to take over the running of his 6 properties ! There will be a added fees!

[Bob Williams]

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.

When the Thought Police arrive at your door, think -
I'm out.

[Bob Williams]

Bob Williams wrote:

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 miserable 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.

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