From: Norman Bassett, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Lanolin-based post-cleaning treatments for woollen
cloth are cosmetic in that they improve the appearance
and softness - they're currently called "conditioners"
or "fabric softeners" in appropriate strengths. What
I'm talking about was just a couple of steps beyond
that and was deliberate.
WW2 Russian engineering generally mistook crudity for
a virtue - my uncle commented that they built WCs
without seats and without any provision to fasten
seats, they used a stick instead of a toilet brush,
flushed with a bucket filled from a tap instead of a
flushing tank and used the spigot type of very simple
tap valve rather than one of the screw-down type.
The Russians initially believed the life of a tank in
combat was about three weeks and they were
unrepairable so they didn't bother either painting or
oiling them. After they'd been convinced tanks were
repairable and of the virtue of the engineering maxim
"Diesel tanks don't brew" they started repairing them
with travelling workshops crewed by women - but I
digress.
Surely there's someone with some practical experience
of experimentation with riccochets? What else is
sloped armour about on AFVs?
Regards
Norman Bassett
drakenfels.org
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