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| AdeV:
--- Quote from: philf on January 05, 2021, 02:50:29 PM --- That was until the spoilsports put an additive into Sodium Chlorate weedkiller to render it useless for such purposes! --- End quote --- The spoilsports have gone even further now - you can't buy the damn stuff at all! I'm hoarding the last of mine.... still got half a tub, must have bought it 20 years ago... |
| awemawson:
Well it was not long after that that I went on a CCF (Combined Cadet Force) camp at Wyke Regis to the rear of Chesil Beach - it held the Army Demolition Training School and we were being shown how to use plastic explosives. The instructor knew teenage boys were fascinated by the stuff and went to great lengths to explain that there was no way we could pinch any as their security was far too tight. It wasn't, and I did :bugeye: - stupid thing to do but I was a teenager. I got away with perhaps an ounce and some detonator cord, easily enough to kill myself. Easy really - told to go lay a charge, actually squeeze a bit off and hide it in your beret and bobs your uncle. Very fortunately one of my group who I'd bragged to had the sense to dob me in to one of the school CCF officers who didn't dare tell the regular army officers what I'd done for fear of consequences. He took me for a midnight stroll to 'The Fleet' (lagoon behind Chesil Beach) where we threw the offending items. My punishment apart from a heavy dressing down - banned from the next camp - shame as it was visiting the British Forces on the Rhine - oh and the worse headache that I've ever had. PE has oils in it that penetrate the skin and have that effect. . . . oh happy days of youth :clap: |
| vtsteam:
Here's the finished leadscrew electronics cover: |
| Neubert1975:
nice work :beer: :clap: |
| vtsteam:
Thanks Neubert! :beer: |
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