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On that site with the word that instantly causes a 1000% price rise in value "Sniper" just imagine the spotter telling the firer where to aim!!!
And whats the go with the Tiger stripe No.4 woods!
LEE Enfield Rifle Smle Sight AID Sniper | eBay
LEE Enfield NO4 MK1 Tiger Stripe NO4TX Marked NEW UN Issued OLD Stock | eBay
The stock was for trials in Malaya....to see how long spray paint will stick to wood. I think we've seen this before.
Wonder how anyone's supposed to believe the aiming aid is a sniper attachment...reaching a little.
I think he just added sniper to the title so he'd get more coverage in peoples searches. His description of the item says it's an instruction aid.
I'm not too sure whether those stripes were ever trialled in Malaya..... certainly not in my time! Once you got through the primary stuff you could hardly see anything let alone painted-on stripes! Nope............ The insect repellent would remove paint, plastic and most other things PDQ! Or were you just being flippant Steve?
What's a No.4TX? That's a new one on me!
Absolutely.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter Laidler
Some poor erk got the job as K.P here knock yourself out with a spray can and fumes? but the No.4TX nomenclature is a mystery can this be solved.
I think and correct me if I am wrong but was not there a Parker Hale 1200TX!
Me thinks the tiger stripes are a form of protection, Tigers are protected these days so the opposition won't fire on what he sees as a tiger in the scrub.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter Laidler
PL, the only thing that the insect repellants wouldn't do..........was to repell insects.:)
We had an insect repellent when I was working on the railways that attracted the buggers so the unknowing were selected to use it so the rest of us could work in peace, you know the type "Go to stores and get a long wait will you and while your there pick up a packet of wooden welding rods will ya." :madsmile:
Of course you have to have the store person in on it as well.
My favorites in my refinery days was, "go get a pipe stretcher" or "grab me a bucket of steam"... We never grow up do we...:)Quote:
Originally Posted by CINDERS
Fwiw, Tiger stripes are "burned" on, not that it matters in this case but that's how it's done.
.............. Or for a can of tartan paint
What clan? I'll see what I have......
McMillan for the tartan paint please! Can I also add some red sparks for the grinder and a length of pachyderm trunking. Apprentices shudder the world over!
But we used to fall for them every time. Like being sent to some office somewhere for a big or long weight! Knocxk on the door, speak to the bloke at the desk, mention who sent you and what you wanted. Only to find that you were standing outside for a considerable time....... That was your long wait!
Long Stand was a favourite in the ship yard along with a sky hook....
Yep had that on cranes the old sky hook I would say it is to far out of radius for the machine but when that sky hook comes over here (Cloud) we will hook onto that and finish the lift Eh!
Some reactions were quite strange even from engineers which I just loved taking the p*ss out of as they could perform all they wanted but if it aint on the load charts capacity ie to heavy to far stiff cheddar.
Another I used to get was a load would be say 80' up in the air and they would say can you swivel the hook! Go away you pest..........
Same as striped paint & Two toned
Similar things in aviation, too. "Go tell the inventory people that we need a bucket of prop wash and twenty feet of flight line." Shame on me.
Similar request / assignments could also feature - henway, hammerfor and greekurn - the retorts being - about 3 pounds, hitting nails with and 40 drachma...
I watched a "fast track" employee (just out of college and puberty) murder the "henway" one this week for ten minutes and still not get it....:banghead: the future of our organization? (it obviously aint that bright).
The whole apprenticeship seems to have gone now - I still reflect on my "shake wi ol horny" (roots in mining) and being granted Freeman of Coventry as an indentured apprentice - am heading back this week...may rustle a sheep and go graze it to exercise my medieval city rights :) :cheers:
I would think that there are only a handful of businesses with real apprentices as you/we all used to know them L1A1. Maybe the huge Industries but here's an example of what passes for an apprenticeship around here. The business where my wife works has just taken on an 'apprentice' She is a bit part filing clerk, pen pusher, tea maker who will be apprenticed for a year. In our local paper a cycle shop is looking for an 'apprentice' that they want to train up, on the job, for 6 months. I suppose you could just call both a form of work experience.
I forgot to say - and you knew that there'd be a catch......... The government are heavily subsidising apprenticeship schemes at the moment to get the welfare bill and unemployment rate down. Says it all really......... And be careful with them sheep while you're excersising your medieval rights!
In carpentry when you drive a nail at an angle it's called "toe nailing". When I was a green horn I was sent to the lumber yard to get a box of toe nails amongst the standard lumber list. I would be lying if I said I haven't sent a few young ones on a toe nail run:)
Sounds a bit like the the old YTS.... Does anyone in the UK remember that ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter Laidler
I started my Apprenticeship as a Mechanic as soon as I left school ( Left as soon as I could in April but went back for the exams) but the garage was up for sale so went to to the shipyard in the September intake along with many other 16 year old's, on the first day we were told we were YTS.... did my heart sink, but it was just the company getting money from the Government as we were 4 year Apprentice's ....
Yes remember the YTS and there was also the YOP Youth Opportunities Programme that lasted to about 1984
Not that many 4 year apprenticeships these days, we had to do 4 years plus at college, a year at the training centre learning the basic hand skills which included 3 months of hacksawing & filing, then you were allowed to use a shaping machine, as well as college we had to pass all the EITB modules.
In my year we had 120 apprentices which went down to 2 or 3 by the late 80s. We still take on a prentices (85 this year) but this is a loose scheme to what we knew as apprenticeships as it includes all areas including finance & various type of management roles. Our apprenticeships mainly last 2 years and most of the training is all vocational and very little based on gaining the practical skills and common sense leant the hard way.
That "tiger strip" has been on ebay for quite a while I think. Its great when dorks like this put such things up, tells me they are un-trustworthy and their goods should be avoided.