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In Reply to: The electrical system was a magneto! posted by Metralla on April 4, 2007 at 08:18:35:
I'd read about cannibalising Hurricanes and Spits during 1940 by the aircrews and Beaverbrook's mob, too.Lotsa bikes had 'NO battery' back then, prolly why it was stored in back-up tape cartridges in me nut.
WE cut OUR teeth on a coupla rusty old BSA Bantams - which IIRC also had NO battery - from the local chook-farmer's aladdin's cave* of a back yard. Played around wiv spanshyunchambers n' STUFF. Resonant systems, eh?
* He even GAVE me an original long Lee-Enfield, ex Boer-War item which I cleaned up. Bought a cleaning kit, a roll of fourby, and a TIN of oil at the disposals store.
I 'got hold of'# some MkVII ball in chargers in cloth bandoliers (in an olive green steel box, too!!!) got access to the next door neighbour truckies overhead drill and some fine bits and dum-dummed them . Used it and them on the occasional feral pig, and the foxes, on the sand-dune bushland running south from Charlestown to Swansea. And then the neigbouring copper Sergeant half-inched it from me. Said it was ILLEGAL, and that I was too YOUNG!!! ...... Bastard coppers!!!
# has news reached GODZOWN about the 10 disappeared LAW RL's from the ammo depot in Sydney's west!???? ........ the yankee plastic fire-once ones!
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WarmestTimbo in Oz
The Skyptical Mensurer and Audio ScroungerAnd gladly would he learn and gladly teach - Chaucer. ;-)!
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