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Chat, Offtopic, Meetings & Everything Else / Re: Penetrating oil
« Last post by Greybeard on Today at 13:25 »
Quote from: wortluck on Today at 11:37
If you want to look down the barrel of a H&K MP5, try buying Hydrogen Peroxide with a bag load of fertiliser.  Ooooh, there's a knock on the door now ....................  'Yes officer, no officer, please take that barrel out of my nose'.
Well that post has got your name put on an MI5 watch list 🤔
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Chat, Offtopic, Meetings & Everything Else / Re: Penetrating oil
« Last post by wortluck on Today at 11:37 »
Quote from: groily on Today at 09:16
That's scary musky - I'm really surprised  it's allowed onto the market even if presumably fitted with a centrifugal clutch.
I hate banster-baiters as a rule - but there are some limits.
Thinking of chemists - wasn't THAT long ago that you could send your manservant out for a draught of laudanum  . . .  Used to be able to get concentrated acids too  . . .  Hate to think what would happen if I nipped out and demanded a half litre of sulphuric these days, probably have a blue light outside the house in short order.

If you want to look down the barrel of a H&K MP5, try buying Hydrogen Peroxide with a bag load of fertiliser.  Ooooh, there's a knock on the door now ....................  'Yes officer, no officer, please take that barrel out of my nose'.
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Chat, Offtopic, Meetings & Everything Else / Re: Penetrating oil
« Last post by wortluck on Today at 11:32 »
Quote from: groily on Today at 08:41
Diverting from noxious brews - imagine if someone invented the chainsaw today  . . . Far the most dangerous thing in my shed I reckon.
Probably have to get a permit to own or use one and go on a  course . . .

When I first started using power tools, I was amazed at what one could buy without any 'checks'.  One of the reasons why I do most of my own stuff now.  When I was young, I thought these were specialist pieces of equipment that only 'professionals' were allowed to use.  Reminds me of how the Catholic church kept the plebs in the dark by conducting services in Latin, creating a mystique and unknowability that gave them power.  Once the Bible was tranlated into English by the pre-Reformers, and people could read it for themselves, they realised much of what they'd been told was bull****.
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Chat, Offtopic, Meetings & Everything Else / Re: Penetrating oil
« Last post by Greybeard on Today at 09:52 »
It's all about the fear of litigation. I blame the American law companies.

I saw a video last night showing a plane crashing at an airshow in the 1950's. The debris landed on the spectators. 28 died and many were injured. There were no legal cases brought!
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Introductions, Member's Stories & Pictures / Re: Countries on the forum
« Last post by Bsareg on Today at 09:51 »
Thats a coincidence, I live in Carleen next to Breage !
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Chat, Offtopic, Meetings & Everything Else / Re: Penetrating oil
« Last post by Rex on Today at 09:45 »
I'm old enough to remember when schools had Bunsen burners and lathes for pupils to injure themselves on (supposedly)
Then again, I recall cadets in the CCF walking around the school with 303's loaded with blanks. *eek*
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Chat, Offtopic, Meetings & Everything Else / Re: Penetrating oil
« Last post by groily on Today at 09:16 »
That's scary musky - I'm really surprised  it's allowed onto the market even if presumably fitted with a centrifugal clutch.
I hate banster-baiters as a rule - but there are some limits.
Thinking of chemists - wasn't THAT long ago that you could send your manservant out for a draught of laudanum  . . .  Used to be able to get concentrated acids too  . . .  Hate to think what would happen if I nipped out and demanded a half litre of sulphuric these days, probably have a blue light outside the house in short order.


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Chat, Offtopic, Meetings & Everything Else / Re: Penetrating oil
« Last post by muskrat on Today at 08:58 »
Quote from: groily on Today at 08:41
Diverting from noxious brews - imagine if someone invented the chainsaw today  . . . Far the most dangerous thing in my shed I reckon.
Probably have to get a permit to own or use one and go on a  course . . .
Ha, won't be long and motorcycles will be in the same group. Working in a chainsaw shop, there's brand new Chinese copy's of an old Stihl  36" that doesn't have a chain brake!!! You can buy it on the net.
I went to the chemist a while back asking foe borasic acid. He asked what for? I said an eye bath. The look of horror I got. That's what grandma always used.
Cheers
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Chat, Offtopic, Meetings & Everything Else / Re: Penetrating oil
« Last post by groily on Today at 08:41 »
Diverting from noxious brews - imagine if someone invented the chainsaw today  . . . Far the most dangerous thing in my shed I reckon.
Probably have to get a permit to own or use one and go on a  course . . .
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Chat, Offtopic, Meetings & Everything Else / Re: Penetrating oil
« Last post by Kickaha on Today at 06:01 »
Quote from: muskrat on 30.03. 2023 20:53
G'day Fellas.
Yes there's so many products that have disappeared or been diluted for "our own good". I think common sense hasn't been bread into humans born after 1970!
Cheers

There wasn't any prior to then either or we wouldn't have the current H & S now
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