Date:         Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:18:25 -0800
Reply-To:     Evan Mac Donald <macdonald1987@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
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From:         Evan Mac Donald <macdonald1987@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: Friday:  Best Stupid Automotive Product
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Yup. BTDT. B-52s have wipers for the crews' forward windscreen, but not for the two forward-looking cameras. Guess what us ground-crew types used on the cameras' windows... had to be careful, tho, because one of the screens was electrically charged, and could easily be damaged with the wrong stuff used on it.

  The Air Force had its own in-house magazine directed at its ground maintenance crews, to help raise awareness of common dangers, thier consequences, and how to avoid them. One of my personal favorites was the F-15 fighter crew chief who was at a fighter competition (Red Flag, a yearly exercise), who wanted his airplane to look good. He used Armor-All on the tires, for that shiny look. Unfortunately, it also got into the brakes, and made the brakes not work - no friction! The unsuspecting pilot taxied right off the maintenance ramp, and into the dirt at the end of the flight line. The moral of the story was "Armor-All = broken bird"!

"Paul N. Oliver" <bpbuyers@TDS.NET> wrote:
  Rain-X is a "weaker" solution of a product that is used in aviation on the
windshields/windows of airplanes. The "good" stuff must be applied under
very "strict and clean" conditions or you will make the dirt and grim a
perennate part of the surface. Great but wicked stuff (most aircraft does
not have wipers)

Paul

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Rodgers"
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Sent: Friday, November 23, 2007 11:18 AM
Subject: Re: Friday: Best Stupid Automotive Product


> Anybody tried Rain-X?? Which side of the fence does it fall on? It is
> for real and really work - like a pistol-grip fly gun , or is it like
> Sky-hooks, Blinker Fluid, Paper Bag Stretchers, Bird-tail salters, moose
> catchers, Polar Bear pea traps, and the like?
>
> As for the fly gun, it's for real and does work - I have one. I can nail
> a fly in mid flight with that sucker. Immensely useful when camping and
> on picnics.
>
> John Rodgers
> 88 GL Driver
>
> Tabe Johnson wrote:
>> The Blinker Fluid thread got me thinking about other actual
>> products that exist. The one I see all the time that cracks
>> me up is windshield washer fluid with Teflon. Because it,
>> you know, uh... makes the wipers slippery?
>>
>> Anyone got anything else like that?
>>
>> tabe johnson /87 westy
>>
>>
>>
>
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