It's Now Official

[Monaro Pete]

The MG finally gave up this morning. I believe the slave cylinder in the gearbox has finally gone.

It's the sort of thing I could do, but I won't (body won't let me).
The Terrano is insured & taxed as of this morning so I'm an official Terrano driver :D :D :D

We had to postpone a trip to my mother's today, it's on for tomorrow instead. A trip to the sea side is also on the cards so whilst Diane's taking Monkey Dog for a walk along the beach, I shall be partaking in my little hobby of metal detecting :thumb2 :D

[Banshee]

The MG finally gave up this morning. I believe the slave cylinder in the gearbox has finally gone.

It's the sort of thing I could do, but I won't (body won't let me).
The Terrano is insured & taxed as of this morning so I'm an official Terrano driver :D :D :D

We had to postpone a trip to my mother's today, it's on for tomorrow instead. A trip to the sea side is also on the cards so whilst Diane's taking Monkey Dog for a walk along the beach, I shall be partaking in my little hobby of metal detecting :thumb2 :D

You ever found anything decent metal detecting?

[Monaro Pete]

Nothing special. The usual, coins, spent cartridges, things you just can't identify & loads of window.

I enjoy it, because I can just switch off. My mind wanders :thumb2

[Banshee]

Nothing special. The usual, coins, spent cartridges, things you just can't identify & loads of window.

I enjoy it, because I can just switch off. My mind wanders :thumb2

I know the pleasures and importance of that well!!!

[terranosaurusdoug]

Firstly, congratulations :thumb2 you will now be able to see over bushes and over grown grass on motorway round abouts :D

Secondly, have you heard of drag fishing with a magnet?, saw it on youtube. A length of rope and a magnet, throw magnet in water and pull back with rope, see if owts on the end :lol I also sometimes watch a couple of guys who go looking for buried or inaccessible WW bunkers etc., very interesting.

[Monaro Pete]

Firstly, congratulations :thumb2 you will now be able to see over bushes and over grown grass on motorway round abouts :D

Secondly, have you heard of drag fishing with a magnet?, saw it on youtube. A length of rope and a magnet, throw magnet in water and pull back with rope, see if owts on the end :lol I also sometimes watch a couple of guys who go looking for buried or inaccessible WW bunkers etc., very interesting.

I have heard of drag fishing. Problems are........ What ever you find is rusty as hell, small (unless you have a magnet the size of a football, then you'd never carry it let alone drag it :lol ) & you only find iron based metals.
It's bad enough digging something iron on land.
Gold comes out just as the day it was lost. Not that I've ever found any :( :(

[terranosaurusdoug]

Ah yeh just iron, never thought.

One day mate, one day :lol

[emjaybee]

Nothing special. The usual, coins, spent cartridges, things you just can't identify & loads of window.

I enjoy it, because I can just switch off. My mind wanders :thumb2

When you say "window", do you mean the stuff the allies lobbed out of the planes near the German coast to confuse their radar?

[Monaro Pete]

When you say "window", do you mean the stuff the allies lobbed out of the planes near the German coast to confuse their radar?

Yep, that's the stuff. Throws up all manner of readings :(

[Monaro Pete]

I should say that all what I've found so far has been in one spot in Derbyshire :nenau

[emjaybee]

So what does it look like?

Got any photos?

:thumb2

[rustic]

In the words of Uncle Albert... "During the War... "
It was called chaff, and I believe they were little thin strips of aluminium that were ejected.

[jims-terrano]

Thin strips of foil as uncle says cut to the length of the wavelength being used by the radar. Basically it produced multiple targets on the radar screens hiding the aircraft. It's official name was operation window. Mind you I'm surprised to hear the pieces chucked out of aircraft are still in existence I would of expected it to have long since corroded away.

[solarman216]

I had some of that stuff, was a roll of foil (like a sound tape) with a little parachute attached, My father worked for the RAE at Farnborough Rick

[kitchenman]

I was a radar operator in the RA, window was like confetti

[Monaro Pete]

So what does it look like?

Got any photos?

:thumb2

Rectangle in shape, around 35mm in width & 70mm in length. Quite a few microns thicker than kitchen foil.

[rustic]

Rectangle in shape, around 35mm in width & 70mm in length. Quite a few microns thicker than kitchen foil.

Maybe something like this..

[Monaro Pete]

Maybe something like this..

The length looks about right, but what I found was slightly wider.
I would say similar :thumb2

[terranosaurusdoug]

This is interesting, I've heard of it on documentarys but never seen the stuff :thumb2

[Monaro Pete]

This is interesting, I've heard of it on documentarys but never seen the stuff :thumb2

Oh Gawd. You're gonna ask me to go out & find some aren't you now :augie :o

Well I can't, because my Auntie sold the land a few months ago. I didn't keep any. Though if I do come across some again I shall keep you in mind :thumb2 :thumb2

[emjaybee]

That's what I like about this place...

...amusing and informative!

So which part of the coast were you finding it?

[rustic]

... So which part of the coast were you finding it?

Bridlington on Chaff or Weston Super Chaff I would guess. :nenau

I wonder if the deployment of chaff would be considered "littering by chaff", in a non combat situation.

:lol:lol