shazzbat wrote:
"Janet Baraclough" wrote in message
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On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 20:55:04 +0000, Martin Brown
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An innocent looking but aging and brittle 5L plastic pink parafin
container in a greenhouse that on careful inspection turned out to
be full of 35% HF ("glass cleaner"). I put it down again very very
carefully. Had it ruptured I would be dead. Specialist disposal
required. The HF *safety* film is notorious for causing lost time
accidents. *

.... the worst I ever encountered while clearing out a shed was jars
full of cyanide but I think that HF beats that. I remember seeing
(probably the same?) HF safety film - probably one of the grossest
things I have ever seen!

My grandfather worked in an armaments factory and lived in a
secluded spot on the banks of a famous salmon river. After he died,
his shed was cleared out by the bomb squad :~}

Janet

In the army in the late 60s/70s, I used to regularly have to sit
through a film called "not worth dying for", about the dangers of
mishandling ammunition and explosives. Now that was gross, and very
graphic. One scene was about an artillery man who brought the fuse of
a shell home and proceeeded to take it apart in his shed with a pair
of pliers. Trashed the shed, himself and his little brother, very
gruesomely.

Steve

Reminds of that item in Countryfile of the armaments storage complex set up
in an old quarry mine in WWII where some armourer was removing a fuse with
(IIRC) a hammer and screwdriver, the result being a hole something like two
miles across and one mile deep. I've captured the story on to CDR, it was
so incredible and nearly as incredible as the USS Forrestal fire.

Richard.


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