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Get the picture! Which is pretty much what I thought. Just glad he doesn't work for Everest-our industry has a bad enough reputation without 'dodgy' sidelines being peddled as well!!
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did they not fit this type of thing to the spitfire during the war
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You're thinking balls - of tin alloy, to try to improve the octane rating of Russian petrol. They also used benzine [as used in unleaded fuel] for the same purpose.
Everyone involved in the production of that fuel died of leukaemia.....
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tose fuel magnets are great!!!!.........by the way if anyones intrested i have a bridge for sale :-)
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Eye-full Tower. Git yer Eye-full Tower 'ere!
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Magnets make me laugh! I had an 'Innovations' type catalogue the other day and there were 3 different magnetic devices advertised in it. The first was to descale your tap water, the next was to align the molcules in your car fuel to improve your fuel combustion and the other was to be kept by gentlemen , in their trouser pockets, to improve the alignment of molecules in an item of personal equipment (allegedly!)
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WhenI was a young lad(a long time ago)at the time of the Suez crisis,one of the tasks at the firm I worked for was to test all the devices that appeared on the market claiming to improve fuel economy-all but one made it worse and that one matched the un-modified engine.
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Yep, the fuel-saving snake oil type things have reared their ugly head again - locally we see a product called ProLong, which is an oil/gearbox additive, heavily advertised on terrestial daytime TV, especially to appeal to mouth-breathers.
The 20 minute programme/advert features a car being dosed with prolong, run for 5 minutes, then having the oil and water drained, then driven for 1000 miles through Death Valley, Arizona at 40 degree + heat, with no subsequant damage to engine. Banned in the USA, of course, but some nations don't have such a tight advertising standards body.
Sadly, the 'talking head' on the advert is Mario Andretti, who must be hard up for a buck to get involved with this mob...
Magnets make me laugh! ... kept by gentlemen in their trouser pockets to improve the alignment of molecules in an item of personal equipment (allegedly!)
On the subject of scams, there is the classic story of the company advertising products of a very risque adult nature in a newspaper. Readers flooded them with orders for the cheap goods... which were (surprise surprise) not forthcoming. The company cashed the cheques, and a month later returned their funds, apologising that they had had 'supply prioblems', but here's your money back anyways.
The scam?
The name of the company was a graphic description of the goods and services they (allegedly) provided.
So many punters, NOT wishing their bank manager to know exactly what their peculiar fetishes were, just refused to deposit the refund cheques...
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