Black is the new green.....

Ha. That'll teach him.

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Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19

 

I think there are anti-waxing agents added now. I live on a road that
used to regularly get blocked by waxed up lorries- that hasn't happened
for 5-10 years.

 

It's a very rare occurance now. On the biodiesel front, I'm adding 30%
road diesel to my mix for winter use. Without the anti-waxing agents
present in road diesel, the bio stuff tends to get claggy under 5degC.

Research continues... IPA is a possibility, along with naptha.

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Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19

 

On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 18:13:03 +0100, "mb" <>
bored us all completely to death with wittery prose along the lines
of:

In the olden days [1], I heard that Army drivers used to light fires
under the diesel tanks to defrost the diesel. Dunno if it's true
though.

[1] <G>

 

No, they now sit in the cab munching bacon sarnies whilst driving, as
their rigs wander all over the fucking road.

Soy

 

You add beer to your fuel? astounding

 

Tis true. My elder brother used to light fires under an old AEC truck in the
winter. He told me it was to de-frost the diesel but I know he didn't like
his job much.

 

Neat biodiesel stings the back of the throat.

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Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19

 

My mate's old man was a Kraut Army mechanic on the Eastern Front.
Lighting fires under the truck sumps was a common thing. Another thing
he told me was that if you stopped the tank engines for too long in that
coldness the bastards threw a rod immediately on starting.



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Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19

 

Well there were not to many of them left alive at full time.

 

He was lucky - got transferred to Italy and captured in '43. Spent the
rest of the war and a couple of years afterwards in a Highland POW camp.
Married a local girl and bored everybody shitless for years afterwards
about Der Vaterland und Cherman Engineering.

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Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Grimly Curmudgeon

Heh.

"For you, the war is over"

"Thank ****** for that".

 

Oooh, dear. Glad to see you managed to get it sorted out fairly
easily. My dad did that to us in France. Got about 2km down the road
when the billowing smoke made it obvious to all that something was not
quite as it should be. At first my 6-yr-old brother and I thought it
was really cool - hioisted atop a car transporter, driving the worng
way down the hard shoulder of the motorway and all that. But half a
day later when we were still (!) up there, the fun had lost its appeal
somewhat...

 

Oops ^too^

****, lucky hardly covers it.
He must have been transferred before the Ruskies revealed their Siberian
army. I don't think more than a handful of Germans escaped death or Siberia
after that point.

Fucking foreigners coming over here and stealing our women.

 

Devil on my Shoulder by Hans Becker is worth a read on that subject.
IIRC he was finally released from a Soviet POW camp in 1957.

 

Tell us a little bit about it?

 

There's a book, "The Long Walk", written by a survivor of a Soviet gulag
who escaped[1] with 3 or 4 companions and walked from Siberia to India.

That bloke was the grandfather of a bloke I knew.

[1] Escaped isn't really the right word - there was no fence; the prison
officials taking the view that anyone mad enough to leg it would be
killed by nature.

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Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19

 

Just finished some more Harlan Coben so it might make a pleasant change.

 

Yep. After reaching India, he came/went to live in Scotland; the bloke I
knew talked about his grandad (Polish Army) and how he'd been trucked
off east, escaped, etc and had written about it. I thought it was a good
story, but didn't really pay all that much attention to it.

I came across the book years later and realised it was Ernie's Grandad.

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Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19

 

Becker a German sergeant, describes his time in the army on the
eastern front, his disbelief and disillusion about the behaviour of
the politicals.[1] The suicide of german generals, rather than obey
orders which would sacrifice more of their men. His eventual capture
and interment, sometimes in political camps where murder by soviet
criminals was common place. His eventual release with other interned
germans whilst some were left behind.

[1] Their extermination of the untermenshan{sp}, who until then were
will to aid germany but were forced by such circumstances to return
tot he soviet fold.