Allied Forces?

Thats been my way of not getting too upset with petrol price
rises.....compare it to how much beer has gone up to how much petrol has
gone up over the last ten years! Some people even pay more for bottled
water than petrol!

Make mine..."Two pints of lager and a packet of crisps, please"[/QUOTE]

"So it's the end of the world, is it? Shouldn't I do something, like put
a bag over my head?"

"If you want to."

"Will it help?"

"No."

 

Er, yes. Rather more to it than that, though.

 

Not being an engineer, and all that, but isn't a lathe supposed to be
securely bolted down so everything doesn't turn out wobbly?

Paging WUN and Bonwick.

 

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I think that it was Bomber Harris's biography that stated the Germans
took about 3 weeks to catch up and find a counter-measure to each new
Brirish innovation (window, fishpond, etc.)...

 

The Older Gentleman wrote

It is our last ever payment for lend lease at the end of this month and
the Beeb did a little thing on FDR and the times when it all started.
Fully 5% of merkin GDP was gifted directly to their allies at bugger all
direct financial cost really but when they stopped it, coincidentally on
the day Japan surrendered, all the goods in transit and on order assumed
full price.

 

Can't help but think this was reasonable, actually.

 

I also remember reading a Luftwaffe night fighter's comment that hunting
Russian aircraft at night was very difficult "Because they had no
electronic devices on which we could home".

Early Stealth.....

Isn't there a signals axiom that "all transmissions are high treason"?

 

Oh aye. The Battle of Britain was one of the crucial elements. Because it
went on so much longer than the Luftwaffe had predicted, they were unable
to release planes and pilots to provide attack and/or air-cover for the
attack on Russia. By the time they had belatedly accepted that they
couldn't knock out the RAF, it was so late on in the summer that the
invasion was caught by the early snow.

 

We should have sold it on at a profit.

 

This is utter bollocks, because the B of B was in 1940 and Barbarossa
took place in 1941.

 

Not being an engineer, and all that, but isn't a lathe supposed to be
securely bolted down so everything doesn't turn out wobbly?

Paging WUN and Bonwick.[/QUOTE]

You're a very bad man. You should have paged Tallbloke if you wanted
the full 10 hour arguement.

If the machine is on wheels I'd clamp it back against something solid
when I was using it. You could just use a chain to do so as long as
you wedged a load of wood in between the machine and the item it was
chained to as a kind of damper to absorb vibration.

The only thing of any importance is that the item being machined is
securely clamped to the item doing the machining or both are
individually clamped to something very fucking solid. This can be the
floor or anything else available as long as it's not going to fly
through the air at the slightest provocation.

 

Good thinking. That'll help to avoid a brush with disaster.


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<1hq0ubb.1lqiytgmvo5c0N%>, The Older

Quite. I was doing some reading up on the B of B prompted by this
thread. Some experts apparently reckon the Luftwaffe were on to a loser
anyway (at that particular time) even discounting the 'Dowding system'.

Still a good job he turned his attention eastwards in 41 thinking he
could leave us for later perhaps.

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Indeed so. Also the old radio adage " There are three people involved in
every radio converation, sender, receiver, and intercept station"

 

Yebbut, apart from that! I was clearly sleeping even more heavily in class
than Robert Bolton. Note to self: do not reply to threads while on mental
autopilot. No fault is attributable to alcohol, drugs etc ...

Simply self-induced bollocks.

<Hangs head in shame>

 

In the BBC TV drama-doc/DVD "Bomber Harris", starring John Thaw, there
is a scene where Harris and Beaverbrook are meeting in the latter's
office. After a bit of sparring, (Beaverbrook: "Do you realise that in
16 weeks last year Bomber Command lost the equivalent of its entire
front-line strength? That's a disaster equivalent to Somme!", to which
Harris looks down his nose and says "That......was under Pierse")
Harris says "I need five thousand bombers....a few hundred's no good"
and Beaverbrook replies "You want to commit the entire industrial
capacity of the country to an unproven policy? You'll never get your
five thousand aircraft".

They lost that amount of Lancasters alone......

 

Gee was expected to have an operational life of three months; but due
to R V Jones' little ruse more like nine months was got out of it.

And the Germans never cottoned on to Centimetric Oboe; we kept on
running the metric version just to give them something to focus on;
even when some stupid operator all but gave the game away and keyed
the "drop bomb" tone to say in Morse "You are a lot of dirty Germans"
(or something similar).

 

Istr the N. Vietnamese stopped painting the bombers with AA radar pretty
sharpish when they realised that every time they did that, a missile
took them out.

 

Good idea. I've used wheeled benches and found the concept bloody
useful.

 

I liked when Nelson found the Magna Carta hanging on a bush
at the end of the Battle of Britain and presented it to Victoria, who
then dubbed him Sir Francis Drake.

You're a lucky fellow to have witnessed these events.