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I take it the paxolin handguards wouldn't have been strong enough? Tests were done? Did they flex too much?
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09-25-2016 10:25 AM
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I think that it was down to cheapness BAR and that mossie repellent would affect the paxolin mix. Mind you it affected everything else............
I saw a couple of sets of the trial stuff and it had a coarse chequering set into the side but was the same form as the original wooden type.
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mossie repellent would affect the paxolin mix. Mind you it affected everything else
Yes it did. It melted some of the best stuff. Paint ran, fires were started...and eyes temporarily blinded.
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When we got our first Armalites/AR15's it caused chaos!
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The best part was the little squeeze bottles made perfect personal oil bottles for the troops. That was when we had gallon cans of ESSO rifle oil. (Or was it Imperial?) Unless you used the wrong one for lube...
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Yep, The good old Mossie repellent. Was also responsible for the 'Melting' & subsequent peeling off. Of the rubberised Cheek
Strips on SA80 Rifles & L86 LMGs in Service!
Makes you wonder, if it does that to 'Other' Materials. What might it be caperble of, on your Skin!......
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I assume the Mil issue repellent was 100% DEET based, potent stuff indeed and as you say capable of melting plastics of virtually all types! I have to say though, having used various repellents in the Far East, its only 100% DEET that works, the local biting insects just laugh at anything weaker..
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Originally Posted by
mrclark303
Mil issue repellent was 100% DEET based,
Ours was 75%. I looked. Don't know what the current stuff is like. I can't stand being bitten, I can take flies walking on me all day but when they bite it drives me mad. I'd have washed up in a river and being clean, looked forward to a clean night. Then as the sun dropped, the mossies come up to feed and I'd be "Down clothing and bathe in repellent". Then dress again. You all know that feeling...then half an hour on and the bugs go down for the night. Now you feel like crap with that stuff all over you... Another memory one doesn't need to keep.
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We had a BIG Fijian attached to our workshop and he got attacked by mossies the same as us. He told me one morning '.......I close my eyes and shut my mouth and they STILL find me......!' Great bloke Lai Nakavadra. Could carry any weight known to man.
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