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RSM Masser

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D Walker said:
There was no such thing as Desert Goretex when I went - or maybe just us low life - 86-2008 for me!! And my green T-shirts definitely did not last that long!!!!
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It did spend a few years languishing in the bottom drawer - under the guise of 'I don't want to get rid it yet' it still fitted as well, must have been huge in 1985! (The T shirt)
Last time out in 2007 loads of stuff available a lot of it Americanised or based in it, 2 years later the pattern changed again!
Still miss my green shirt, lightweights and jungle or NI patrol boots
 
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Yes - But spent a fait amount of time in Catterick, Megido Lines, Alma and Bourloin Bks.

Finished there with 5bn Reme!
 
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You wouldn't recognise it - The White Shops are still there, The Swale Arms and The Scorpion long gone, the latter is a Lidl! spent my time at Helles Barracks, I left many years ago, joined The Reserves and still serve today, 31 years later.........
As Royal Signals we had a great few times with the REME and some bad ones!, but they could never fix our generators - that was always down to the Radio Relay Operator or Powerman
 
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Bloke who I work with is ex- signals, he still wears a signals baseball cap to hide his bald spot. He's good with gennies though and not a bad sparky.
 
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I claim the tight fit prize. My house was built in about 1895 so we've no garage and eventually I got a couple of lock-ups (not next to each other so I can't knock two together). There is a nice wooden bar just above the car door so I set the mirrors to park position, gingerly drive in with lights on until I see the double loop of carpet against the end wall move, keep the window down, shoes off, lift out using the bar, shoes on, put upper body back in through door to raise window (and then realise that it is catching my pocket and trying to lift me as well), lower window, adjust pocket, raise window, extract ignition key, shut door, open boot, turn isolator switch, attach solar charger, fit anti-kick-in-bottom-of-garage-door-bar, lock up garage, realise phone is still sitting neatly in that nice recess behind the foglights button, utter some choice Anglo-Saxon words and repeat the cycle in reverse and then forwards again. I'll need to keep my scrawny physique if I want to keep using the car...
 
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I claim the tight fit prize. My house was built in about 1895 so we've no garage and eventually I got a couple of lock-ups (not next to each other so I can't knock two together). There is a nice wooden bar just above the car door so I set the mirrors to park position, gingerly drive in with lights on until I see the double loop of carpet against the end wall move, keep the window down, shoes off, lift out using the bar, shoes on, put upper body back in through door to raise window (and then realise that it is catching my pocket and trying to lift me as well), lower window, adjust pocket, raise window, extract ignition key, shut door, open boot, turn isolator switch, attach solar charger, fit anti-kick-in-bottom-of-garage-door-bar, lock up garage, realise phone is still sitting neatly in that nice recess behind the foglights button, utter some choice Anglo-Saxon words and repeat the cycle in reverse and then forwards again. I'll need to keep my scrawny physique if I want to keep using the car...
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You definetly win, luckily my phone is little more than an alarm clock so it would have stayed there!!!
 
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D Walker said:
Haha, good spot!!! He is number plate hiding, I am still trying to work out how that bar stops an up and over door opening!
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I imagine it's easier to push/kick the bottom of an up and over door in rather than pull it open if it is secured at the top with for example an electric motor. The bar would stop anyone doing that so good idea!
 
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Ha, yes that's the number plate tortoise (he's clean as he doesn't go out to help with those yellow boxes on poles or men lurking in vans with lasers though). If the bar did stop the door opening that would be a bit of an own goal and require exceptional belly dancing skills! No, I put it there when I had the Caterham to reduce the risk of people kicking in the bottom of the door, which seems to be the usual way they get into '60s lock-ups with original doors, though the area it is in is pretty good, and then to make it more difficult to get the little car out if they were minded to. Admittedly anyone who really wanted to would make short work of the garage door and the bar with a petrol angle grinder or perhaps a jack. However the bar would protect the back of the GS from the door as it was bashed in and there are houses nearby so there'd be a reasonable chance of an alarm being raised, plus the GS has better inherent security. Post-Christmas lunch..that's an idea but I'm usually thinking very profound thoughts and breathing slowly and heavily with eyes shut and mouth agape in my "thinking chair" as making said feast for 10-15 of us is one of my jobs, which starts at about 08:00 though we don't usually eat 'till ~15:00!
 
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c4sman said:
I imagine it's easier to push/kick the bottom of an up and over door in rather than pull it open if it is secured at the top with for example an electric motor. The bar would stop anyone doing that so good idea!
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Take the point but I have seem them where they just wedge a large crow/ breaker bar in corner and push! Peels door open like a can opener!
 
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