good plan my friend. i shall bribe a prisoner to take my place. as long as he keeps quiet about hummers, and says 'radiative forcing' every ten minutes i shall get away it mwha ha ha ha ha etc.
seriously - disney did gas masks? there's something very wrong about mixing whimsy and way in that way.
No, another company made them here - Dunlop I think it was - in rubber for kids to ease the thought of the nastiness of having to be possibly gassed by Hitler and the nasties, sorry Nazis.
true - that was a grown-up thought to have. if it made it easier for kids to understand, but still, must have been very strange to look at. and makes sense, since dunlop shoes i've had were pretty mickey mouse.
From my understanding it was a painted black mask wirh big stick on Mickey Mouse type rubber ears. I do believe they were made under licence with the permission of Walt Disney Studios in the USA though on copyright grounds; so that is why they were collectable to Disney fans years later on.
I need help in finding the manufacturer of a simple, one layer, nylon skull cap that had a logo consisting of a silver white patch in the form of an anvil on the front when the rim was turned up.
This cap was lost and the reason for the need to find precisely this cap may be of interest to a number of ‘Outdoors Men’ especially if, like me they have to use hearing aids.
The cap had the almost unique ability to blank out the annoying wind noise that generates a loud and false sound in the system of a hearing aid when it is windy.
I found it impossible to hold a conversation in strong wind when walking on the hill and had to remove the aids completely. This seems to me to place a person in a mountain environment with corrected hearing difficulty at a considerable disadvantage.
Your help would be most welcome not only to me but, possibly, to many others as well.
Ian, you're probably better off starting a new thread for this, rather than tacking a post on the end of a year-old, unrelated (as far as I can see) thread.
This made me laugh. Surely the sad fool should have a reduction in sentence for his immense help to the police? Leave out a comma or full stop, perhaps?
I find the whole respirator thing funny in a rememberance way! As kind of the horror of having had to wear them in the TA for NBC runs, particularly some up on the Scottish borders near Kielder water one year, that nearly bloody killed me!I still would love to know if I could discover what the pink watery stuff was we were sprayed with when in our NBC suits. We were only ever told back in 1991 that it came 'from depot' at Basingbourne, and we were told it was used by the regs to test out their mask fits were good. Whatever it was it really tended to prove to one that the mask and noddy suit hood were not fitted properly! The sprayed on pink/mauve liquid stuff sure got into one's eyes, set one's breathing to burning and generally made one feel most ill. It set you to coughing affecting one's breathing within the suit and mask. It was horrible stuff. I've often wondered just what that stuff was?
Probably Methyl Salicytate, which is used to simulate blister agent on three colour detector paper. It's found in products like deep heat.
The respirator would be tested prior to the chamber test with an acetone swab, wafted around the wearers head, before commencing the chamber test.
During the IA drill you may have been sprayed with MS, which you should have found with detector paper and decontaminated.
In the US it is felons made to wear the orange jumpsuits, funny that isn't it!
Surely the sad fool should have a reduction in sentence for his immense help to the police? Leave out a comma or full stop, perhaps?
I still would love to know if I could discover what the pink watery stuff was we were sprayed with when in our NBC suits. We were only ever told back in 1991 that it came 'from depot' at Basingbourne, and we were told it was used by the regs to test out their mask fits were good. Whatever it was it really tended to prove to one that the mask and noddy suit hood were not fitted properly! The sprayed on pink/mauve liquid stuff sure got into one's eyes, set one's breathing to burning and generally made one feel most ill. It set you to coughing affecting one's breathing within the suit and mask. It was horrible stuff. I've often wondered just what that stuff was?
