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thinners

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Having read of the problem of removing dried on paint, i was reminded of something that happened to me a while back . I used to collect Aviation memorbelia and my wife and i were at a car boot sale trying to raise a bit of cash. On one of the quieter moments i went to look at what the other booters had for sale. I spotted an RAF compass dated 1943 with the compass rose upside down .I think it would have been fitted above the cockpit somewhere .Anyway i never dicovered what aircraft it came from. I bought it for about 4 pounds and persuaded the wife it was a good buy. When we got back home i put the compass on an old dresser that belong to the wife. I didnt touch it for a couple of days then , when i picked it up, to my horror i found a ring on the surface of the dresser were alcohol had leaked out from a tiny crack in the bottom casing. When i looked closly i could see someone had tried to repair it with i think the stuff they use for car body repairs.They had painted over it which is whuy i didnt see it. My wife wasn't impressed and neither was i . I managed to drain the compass via a drain plug and put the alcohol into and old clean washing up bottle. The compass i then stripped down and found something better to seal the crack . Unfortunetly i got side track and over the years the thing just sat there. It got to the stage when in a moment of madness i binned it. I still have the alcohol in the washing up bottle and i have used a little in the recent weeks to remove paint from bits and pieces. It works but who would want to risk using 60 year old alcohol?
 
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you obviously....lol

you can never be too sure of things at car boots, a while back i saw a pc game, it had only been out a couple of weeks going for £10, i got it.walked around for a bit and decided to have a look, everything seemed ok, manual, cd (not scratched) then i noticed the bit that raises up through the hole in the cd had '3' ontop of it, meaning there should have been 3 cds, i know this as i have plenty of other things like it.

i took it back to the stall and the 2 guys swore it came with just one cd and that the '3' must mean something else (what a load of rubbish) i wasnt having any of it and got my money back!
 
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