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Excuse me, that's Eric Lord Byron to you!
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Penners said:
A great man and sadly missed.
Not a lot of people know he was a fine conjuror as well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaXf78uMBFM&feature=watch_response
Now then Middi - how did the boy do today?
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Les Dawson was a brilliant comic, but when it came to cocking up conjuring tricks, there was nobody to beat the master:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTY6TxXsK-o&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTY6TxXsK-o&feature=related
All sales hype, total disappointment. The chap did one soft brick and gave up. the sprayed graffiti was well soaked onto the bricks in the porous cavities.
the gently , gently approach ( as per his scientific calculations) didn't remove any graffiti at all, just enhanced the surface making the vulgar words easier to read.
Back to drawing board as far as he is concerned. From our point of view, is back to the chemistry approach, tooth brushes and loads of mopping cloth.
( all the people that thought " I TOLD YOU SO " put your hand up :wink:
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the gently , gently approach ( as per his scientific calculations) didn't remove any graffiti at all, just enhanced the surface making the vulgar words easier to read.
Back to drawing board as far as he is concerned. From our point of view, is back to the chemistry approach, tooth brushes and loads of mopping cloth.
( all the people that thought " I TOLD YOU SO " put your hand up :wink:
Middi
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Oh dear.
Reminds me of an incident many years ago when I was a site engineer on a roads job in Birmingham.
The concrete piles that supported several bridges were to be faced with brick, purely for decorative reasons. It's normal on a major job that you will make up several "test panels" of brickwork in the works yard, so the client can sign off the final approval for the types of bricks and patterns they are laid to.
An anti-graffiti company came in to do a demonstation of their product on a completed panel. Day 1 the chap turned up and sprayed half the panel with their magic product - basically a sort of wax. Day 2 he came and spray painted the company's name on both halves of the panel. A few days later they came in with a hot water pressure washer to do the demonstration.
Various councillors & officers from the local authority were duly assembled. Chap from the company fired up his pressure washer, blasted away at the treated half of the panel and sure enough, the waxy coating melted and the graffiti slid away instantly. Then he pointed the lance at the untreated side of the panel, and yes you've guessed it - the graffiti came off beautifully, leaving no trace.
Reminds me of an incident many years ago when I was a site engineer on a roads job in Birmingham.
The concrete piles that supported several bridges were to be faced with brick, purely for decorative reasons. It's normal on a major job that you will make up several "test panels" of brickwork in the works yard, so the client can sign off the final approval for the types of bricks and patterns they are laid to.
An anti-graffiti company came in to do a demonstation of their product on a completed panel. Day 1 the chap turned up and sprayed half the panel with their magic product - basically a sort of wax. Day 2 he came and spray painted the company's name on both halves of the panel. A few days later they came in with a hot water pressure washer to do the demonstration.
Various councillors & officers from the local authority were duly assembled. Chap from the company fired up his pressure washer, blasted away at the treated half of the panel and sure enough, the waxy coating melted and the graffiti slid away instantly. Then he pointed the lance at the untreated side of the panel, and yes you've guessed it - the graffiti came off beautifully, leaving no trace.
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robgil said:It wont remove fence preservative off old timbers then?
It sounds like it wouldn't even remove the fluff from your bellybutton. :shock:
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middi said:
