A source of Plessey Breeze plugs here

I was one of the guys who on a fitters course at Halton 73-74 helped remove a wing from a Gnat, I was at the heavy end and got washed down with OM15 when the wing was lowered from the fuselage.

Was interesting reading about reclaiming silver from negatives, shouldn’t have thought that it would be worth the effort. Takes me back to the days when working at a processing lab, we had a silver reclaiming device which from what I remember was 4 carbon electrode rods passing current through the film developer tank solution, which deposited 99% pure silver from the solution onto a stainless steel impeller, which was later chipped off with a hammer. This was obviously on a larger scale to individual negatives, and was very profitable.

Military pottery usually had an arrow stamp

This video

Have just spent an hour or so reading through events at St Mawgan, very interesting too. St Mawgan was my first operational unit straight out of mech training as an aircraft electrician in 1971. Arrived on the August bank holiday, was given accommodation, dumped my gear, and legged it back home to Scotland as everyone else had gone for the weekend.

Was sent to work in the E and I Bay and doing mundane tasks like checking out the Nimrod black box wires, good way of finding out which actuator was duff. Had my RAF flight experience here, in a 42 Squadron Nimrod, Swinderby ran out of aircraft and time for all of us recruits.

Managed to transfer to the Rotax Bay, testing out alternators and generators which was much more exciting. Had a few private hirings in Newquay, Marcus Hill and also St Thomas Road, before being allocated a AMQ at St Eval, 218 Beaufort Avenue, lots of happy days motor biking from there to St Mawgan.

Managed to get back on a fitters course, and left St Mawgan 1974. Loved Cornwall and Newquay in the summer, but in winter the place was like a ghost town.

Merry Christmas from Lincolnshire, a view of Binbrook Sgt’s Mess in festive spirit

The man is definitely in the wrong job, merely a puppet for the penny pinching faceless MOD officials. He is certainly no friend of the veterans, me being one of them can vouch for that. After his last **** up over the National Defence Medal and it’s issue, same stance, none of us are worth a token of appreciation. I think he should be replaced by someone who gives a damn, shame on the man.

Rant over 😡