13-12-2016, 10:38 AM
(12-12-2016, 02:00 PM)pwdrive Wrote: We used to call Rigonda stuff recycled rocket.
I remember a radio of, I think, Polish origin, turning up in our workshop in the 60s which had an unusual smell when you took the back off.
Two colleagues who were a few years older than me and, therefore, schoolboys during WWII, both declared that it was the distinctive smell of a crashed Luftwaffe* plane!
The radio had a passivated chassis which gave it a slight yellowish sheen and the conclusion was that this was the source of the smell and the connecting factor.
* Despite constant warnings to the contrary, any German plane that crashed was likely to have all the local schoolboys swarming all over it in a very short time, apparently!
