Blast from the past - remind us of a thing
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Talking swarfega. Many many moons ago mother ordered me a blue hammarite painted cantilever tool box with tools, through her John England catalogue. There was a special offer of a free tin of swarfega with this.
The tin had split inside the tool box and had stripped all the blue hammered paint, like it was paint stripper. I have never used swarfega since seeing that.
The tin had split inside the tool box and had stripped all the blue hammered paint, like it was paint stripper. I have never used swarfega since seeing that.
nismocat said:
Yertis said:
I never found Swarfega that good at getting oil etc off and used some petrol or white spirit
I wear gloves now
Swarfega was rubbish. Not sure why it was so popular.I wear gloves now
We had some yellow stuff with bits in, very good.
Now I use washing up liquid and soap powder.
I notice a lot of these TikTokers use gloves and use electric drill things to remove bolts which I was always told would damage the threads especially if you misthreaded.
Ice Cream in cardboard wrappers, anyone? Going to the local shop and fetching back a large rectangular "box" of Neapolitan (spelling?).
The end flaps would be peeled open, and the whole top would fold out. Then the ice cream was cut with a knife and placed into bowls to serve, often alongside Rowntree's jelly from a glass bowl in the fridge.
See also paper wrapped individual servings of ice cream, sold from an ice cream van with a cone with a corresponding rectangular slot in the top. Unwrap the ice cream half way, and push the "brick" down into the slot and eat as you would any other ice cream. Not to be confused with choc-ices.
My mum tells me I had to be given a plain cone, without any ice cream when the van came around. Apparently I was just about the only child she knew of that didn't like ice cream. Although I really enjoy it now.
The end flaps would be peeled open, and the whole top would fold out. Then the ice cream was cut with a knife and placed into bowls to serve, often alongside Rowntree's jelly from a glass bowl in the fridge.
See also paper wrapped individual servings of ice cream, sold from an ice cream van with a cone with a corresponding rectangular slot in the top. Unwrap the ice cream half way, and push the "brick" down into the slot and eat as you would any other ice cream. Not to be confused with choc-ices.
My mum tells me I had to be given a plain cone, without any ice cream when the van came around. Apparently I was just about the only child she knew of that didn't like ice cream. Although I really enjoy it now.
mikey_b said:
The trick with swarfega is you put it on dry hands. It doesn’t work if you wet your hands with water first. But put it on dry hands and rub them together thoroughly and it works well.
Never knew that!There was always a worn out nail brush usually attached via string to the sink!
Took me years to get rid of the ingrained dirt when I stopped mechanicing.
Mentioning the gloves people wear now. I don't know how they can feel anything. Never could when I wore those crap white gloves that lasted about five seconds until they ripped!
dickymint said:
I see that Tescos are now selling 'Oyster Shells'..........
Not had one of those in years.Ice cream van also sold:
A banana boat, which was two scoops of ice cream, with a serving of fruit salad, hundreds and thousands, and raspberry sauce placed in the type of plastic boat below (no banana for scale).
Single nougat
and the daddy of them all, the double nougat
nismocat said:
Never knew that!
There was always a worn out nail brush usually attached via string to the sink!
Took me years to get rid of the ingrained dirt when I stopped mechanicing.
Mentioning the gloves people wear now. I don't know how they can feel anything. Never could when I wore those crap white gloves that lasted about five seconds until they ripped!
The latex ones are rubbish but the blue ones I use are made from something else and a bit more durable. I agree about the feel though. Also I usually forget until I’m halfway through then put them on over oily fingers. They’re good for the really mucky stuff, which is just about everything on a TR6.There was always a worn out nail brush usually attached via string to the sink!
Took me years to get rid of the ingrained dirt when I stopped mechanicing.
Mentioning the gloves people wear now. I don't know how they can feel anything. Never could when I wore those crap white gloves that lasted about five seconds until they ripped!
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