Here ya go:
https://floridaman.com/
Key word in the report is “Australia”.. It’s like the entire country is populated by Florida Man.
A couple showed up on FaceBook a few days ago. They were dragging a lake & pulled them out, along with some odd looking aluminum structures they couldn’t ID.
Lost the link…
Found the chalk blasting pics….

Click on the same pic at this link & it has details:
https://www.facebook.com/pg/ju88Gardermoen/photos/?ref=page_internal
The $500k price tag is for the big brute laser set up. What you can’t see is the rest of the gubbins which is about the size of a Hoochin start cart at the other end of the death-ray doodad the guy is holding in his hand. There are smaller/cheaper versions, including one that you can wear as a backpack*.
One advantage is that you can apparently set the machine to ignore which colors of paint you might want to preserve. I’ve seen one vid where it leaves the gray primer intact. You can also mess with the power setting to remove only one layer of paint per pass.
* You’d absolutely have to wear a GhostBusters uniform while using it 🙂
When I was in A&P school one of the instructors made the mistake of mentioning he was going in for surgery on his ‘rhoids. The offer was made to save him time & expense by employing the alternating red hot poker/dry ice method (burn/scream/sizzle/sigh, repeat as necessary).
For the next two weeks leading up to his surgery & for a couple of months or so afterwards all we had to do was mention hot pokers or dry ice & his left eye would twitch uncontrollably.
F15-SA loaded for bear this morning…

Laser on rust:
Vapor blasting:



I find that many different processes need to be used for aircraft or car parts.
I use 2 completely different grades of plastic on both steel & aluminum. Nylon is soft & formica blasts paint/dirt into another dimension. Formica will also really ****** up soft aluminum.
Chalk works absolute wonders on electrical stuff
Aluminum (cast/forged) get blasted with different grades of glass bead & vapor blasting makes parts look better than new.
Soda leaves a nice finish on aluminum & brass.
Dry ice is ok for stripping sheet metal, but laser cleaning is the dogs danglies as it removes paint & corrosion in one pass. However: good news: costs about $4/hr to run the machine. Bad news: Machine costs almost $500k…
Saw pics of a Vampire that had the hangar removed from around it & everything else rolled into a ball of bent sheetmetal.
The gray tug in post #11 is a Ford Moto-Tug, they quite desirable & a ****** to find for sale. It’s based on the 9N
ooer missus!
It is believed the canisters date from WW2 and had possible kinks with the home guard units.
Old news, although to be fair this aircraft did come a cropper twice with the apparent same issue: running out of fuel with a full tank…
All sorts of nasties out there, when I lived in Cambridge there was an area on Milton Road that was known as the “Anthrax Site”. No building allowed etc.