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So that I don’t make the profit on eBay …. Or he is probably referencing that kit gets stolen / falls out of the back of QMs / sold because a squaddie gets their hands on multiples “Authorised” army surplus comes out via contracted routes Soldier exchanges item at QMs Depending on the item, condition etc it goes back on the shelf or thrown into a box Everyone nose dives the box (not part of the process) Box gets transferred to bulk container / skip Container / skip goes to contractor (paid by weight) Contractor disposes / processes / sells Contract has a line entry for profit share back to MoD During the nose dive squaddies obtain extra items to be exchanged at a later date, claim to redistribute to cadets etc to “save the MoD the cost of disposal” and to “save the costs to cadets/cadet units” ….. and contract disposal costs go up because the usable contents have disappeared. Items end up in car boot sales and eBay Things can be redirected in a legitimate manner, such as Royal Navy life boats chopped up and passed through the RM charity

Many if not all paintball type lenses (at least when sold as a replacement) have a peel off protective layer (maybe inside and outside), which is often left on including those who should know better At tournaments in the ‘upper’ leagues I have often seen players complaining about their new lenses until a team mate points out the inner layer My problem is the opposite - buying new shiney mirrored lenses from the traders at a tournament, then fitting them straight away and instantly destroying the mirror layer with my camera instead of leaving them for gameplay Some dual panes can have their antifog seal beak down changing them to fog creators, if it’s a ‘thick film’ type inner pane then one solution is to peel away the inner pane —- but if that’s happened it’s probably about time to replace anyway I would be wary of cutting the inner foam, it is a component part of the eye protection seal, and though it would be rare BBs can arrive in strange directions. (I’ve not seen with full face, but I have seen marshals take a BB into the eye area of glasses and small goggles (luckily with all the energy absorbed bouncing along the way) In theory a sealed face area around the eyes can be the cause of sweaty fogging, therefore more airflow could reduce that But I would repeat the advice of cat crap and other anti fog solutions on both the inner pane and on glasses (Note that once you put treatments onto the lens you also reduce the effectiveness of any manufacture antifog coating

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Not only do I like wood, I of course have got wood. Not to hand at the moment though 57 years and still pending getting around to growing up

I forgot this among my long ramble The GWOT - Global War On Terror was also previously referred to as TWOT - The War On Terror, which was clearly a crappy acronym, but it was a quick change from The War Against Terror, which I found to make a nice acronym, but apparantly some Brit had a quiet word with the US government

Thanks to drafting a post across a few hours between serving people at an event I managed to somehow post on a totally different thread, and now at McDs I can repost …. On the topic of ‘glorification’, we play a game, for many that includes dressing up. The underlying motivation of the majority will be unknown, in some cases it can be a little clearer. There is a degree of time healing, such as in the re-enactment world knights, Cavaliers, Roundheads etc are far away from memory, WW1 is pretty much out of direct memory but there can be ‘family memory’, WW2 can get close to the bone when someone appears far too interested in Hugo Boss Rhodesia etc is nearer in memory than the American Civil war, but they have parallels (and in parts of the US in recent years their may be civil war re-emergence as a closely hinting message) Overall I could not give a toss about someone’s political motivations (it may not endear me to them) Generally I like the underdog, so that often directs me towards the baddies for at least the latter half of the last century and this century so far. I am a major fan of wooden accessories, sadly my SLR is in black, but my AKs are wooden. They have all given me great pleasure, but I will not take out my AKs again for personal reasons which I will touch on below. As a side note, the OSS ‘advisors’ to the Viet Minh couldn’t roll off the Declaration of Independence straight off their lips, which could have changed a future direction. Uncle Ho as an intellectual in an occupied country of the French empire studied Marxism and formed communist parties - just like any of the ‘oppressed’. His Declaration of Independences version of “all men are created equal” was intended to have a US flavour, but his “American friends” couldn’t help him with that, and as time changed after WW2 the US changed their “anti colonial” point of view to the fear of the communist domino effect Their fears handed Vietnam (as well as much of South East Asia) towards China and therefore Russia As I live in Salisbury, and around a couple of corners from Christie Miller Drive, I’m clearly no fan of Putin To make things more personal Dawn as my ex PAs sister That kills anything Russian related to me, and I do wince when I see someone putting Russian kit into the classifieds, but that’s my personal issue As another aside, in a different forum there were known Russian trolls operating, all currently on bans - their presence has been tolerated to enable disinformation to be countered, with regular suspensions for line crossing. With their knowledge on my circumstances they have pushed my buttons more than once and been subject to extreme breaches of forum rules for which I have not been penalised for. I’ve clearly been given a lot of leeway on that subject

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I don’t know the area, but diving shops are an alternative ……. However this typically needs a customer supplied fill adaptor as well to fit the HPA fill nipple onto a scuba fill station **** Caution is required as some dive shop staff misread 3000psi on the cylinder and attach to a 300bar fill station resulting in a burst disk failure (or even worse - no failure while overfilling but a random failure later when least expected 3000psi is just over 200bar Specific fill rigs vary You would need to know how they fill, perhaps from a refilled scuba cylinder and then what fittings, eg a DIN scuba fill rig Shooting shops may have a PCP airgun fill system if you get lucky

I just have share there (or edit/share on my post) However I still have the “this is the old forum” message banner, so perhaps an interim thing pending completion of the upgrade ? I’m on Safari with an iPhone, getting the same with chrome etc and also if I select “get desktop site” to emulate using a PC

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Correct - they all do, and they all have to by law Both due to pressurised containers and due to hazardous materials The carrier becomes liable for the unknown contents of their packages on our roads and airways People disregarding the rules and making false declarations are also the reason for ‘empty’ canisters being subject to the same rules. Even a dismantled HPA cylinder & regulator will be hard to find a willing carrier for a private sender - and once found will cost a few ££ (Some would try to defend themselves that UK postage won’t go by air, despite much of the internal mail going by air for speed, and then complained that packages became seized and destroyed) A starter is The Carriage of Dangerous Goods and Use of Transportable Pressure Equipment Regulations https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/1348/contents Carriers pretty much prohibit private senders, and require business senders to use appropriate methods under contracts. Proper declarations, and appropriate methods cost money Search

You can try a scan of these https://www.sourcetacticalgear.net/source-virtus-soldier-system/ https://paradata.org.uk/archive/premium-content/documents-0/virtus-user-assembly-maintenance-and-care-instructions/4509231-virtus-user-assembly-maintenance-and-care-instructions-page-1? https://www.scribd.com/document/342330774/UK-Virtus-program-pdf

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Rather than fear of arrest, the advice is the fear of attention. Pre-speed cameras we used to call it the ‘attitude test’ when stopped by traffic police. Failing the attitude test today could be the difference between a concerned person reporting strange activity that gets an inquisitive Bobby talking to you , and a night in the cell.

Carver Bks out near Bulford / Tidworth ish? That was where I first drove, and I returned at some time in the late 90s to 2000s for my niece & nephews