anti slip strip

[zippy656]

even cheaper.. stand on top of the wheel

 

[rustic]

Side steps, something else to clean, any how if you catch your trousers on the edge, then you will get covererd in mud.

Also something else to maintain, you need to replace the non-slip material from time to time. Makes it difficult to clean or inspect your sills.

I bought one of those small folding steps similar to the one on sale in Aldi at the mo, this enables the mother in-law to be able to get out.

If I am in a good mood I use it to help her in as well. :naughty

I never speak to the mother in law,
It's not that we have fallen out,
It's just that I can never get a word in.. :lol

 

[zippy656]

I never speak to the mother in law,
It's not that we have fallen out,
It's just that I can never get a word in.. :lol

nice

 

[lacroupade]

Fer Midjits?? even my jack russels dont use them, Rick

tell that to my 5'0" wife.....

 

[Deleted account DD]

Can anyone tell me what these side steps actually do, cos I cannot use them, maybe cos I got long legs, but I think they are useless ornaments, Rick

I'd agree :thumb2 they wer in the way when I had to do some paintwork , they look cack.

The only person to use them was my elderly mother in law when she was alive and even then she used to slip off them

I met a fellow jeep enthusiast a bit back and he'd "chromed up" his grand Cherokee MASSIVE chrome rock sliders polished to within an inch of their finish coming away.............looked daft , I had to turn away when he started handing out the "what you need to do......" advice

Lets have a bin the steps campaign :naughty

 

[Deleted account DD]

Buried away on this site http://www.goldburnfinishers.co.uk/mod_paint_specifications.html are some very interesting and potentially useful specialist paints inc non slip that can paint onto various different materials

Best bet is probably the aircraft anti slip , I seem to recall the dopers painting one type onto bare metal :thumb2

 

[MontysMaverick]

Buried away on this site http://www.goldburnfinishers.co.uk/mod_paint_specifications.html are some very interesting and potentially useful specialist paints inc non slip that can paint onto various different materials

Best bet is probably the aircraft anti slip , I seem to recall the dopers painting one type onto bare metal :thumb2

Im assuming that the "dopers" are the labourers???? are they called this due to being dopy or is that dopie. Christ I think I maywell be a doper if thats the case,as I cant even remember how to spell this word, (having a blond moment or is that a senior moment :lol :lol :lol
Also is there any other "forces lingo" that may be of interest to us that you know of :nenau :nenau :nenau

 

[Deleted account DD]

Dopers were the painters and decorators of the aircraft world. A lot of them very skilled. The jets were painted up ok but their true skill shone through in the car club on an evening when they did resprays, I saw some excellent work by them. Well worth the beer tokens :thumb2:thumb2

I could be wrong but as a sprog (or a swanton morely or smalley) I was told they got the name because the paint fumes doped them up or way back to the old days when the aircraft skins were made of material which was then painted up with dope to make it shrink and go rigid the fumes made them all acted pissed

I might be being dopey mind, but im sure on that site I saw bullet finishing paint

 

[MontysMaverick]

Daved, When I worked in the ceramics industry for a firm supplying glaze to Royal Doulton, Wedgwood etc we had a solution that we added to glaze to change the viscosity, everyone called it "dope" the reason why was when added to glaze it made it thicker :lol :lol :lol ,but thinking about it the idea that the forces called painters "dopers" due to the adverse effects of the chemical content made them dopey does ring a bell now (must of read it somewhere)

 

[Deleted account DD]

"dope" the reason why was when added to glaze it made it thicker :lol :lol :lol ,

:lol:lol:thumb2

but thinking about it the idea that the forces called painters "dopers" due to the adverse effects of the chemical content made them dopey does ring a bell now (must of read it somewhere)

I dont think there a a single trade that was known by its official title on a day to day basis.

A gentle mannered lady who works in one of our admin offices was telling me about her son joining the RAF as an aircraft radar mech. Oh says me he'll enjoy being a fairy with the rest of the lads. She didnt even give me the chance to explain before she stopped speaking to me for the rest of the day :nenau