Random Cool Tricks

I'm definitely stealing this one, thanks!

 

These disposable shop rags are expensive. If I only use it to wipe off smudges it can last a long time if it's kept clean and handy.

This one is always right where I need it.

 

The 'bomb' the woman pulls out is an BLU-33 practice bomb

The military standard 25 lb. practice bomb is used as a training aid for all Air Force and Navy pilots. With various bomb rack configurations, they are used on almost every fixed-wing fighter/bomber aircraft in the U.S. inventory. Commonly referred to as the MK-76 or BDU-33, practice bombs have a spotting charge that releases a cloud of smoke on impact. Practice bombs are used to simulate the MK-82 in low drag configuration. They are made from a small cast-iron and steel non-explosive ordnance that is used in training to simulate actual bombs. Practice bombs are also used to qualify systems and personnel.

Once the willie peter smoke charge is shot, it is 25 ponds of useless iron.
Having worked on Range 63, Nellis AFB for yours, I have no idea of how many of these I policed on on range cleaning duty.

 

And that's why we call the experts like you when we find stuff like that. For the rest of us that can't identify scrap metal from live ordnance, it's best to just leave that stuff alone. Base order says don't even take pictures of it. Just get away and call EOD.

I do remember an EOD tech that had to spend a long morning on the grenade range with us. We had a case of defective M67 grenades and had to sit around and wait several times while he wandered out there to pick up the dud grenades. I noticed he just walked right up to them, picked them up and dropped them in his cargo pocket. I asked him if he wasn't worried that they'd go off.
He showed me how they'd failed with the striker having broken off without ever striking the primer. After a couple more long waits and more trips down range he told me to just have the Marines throw the grenades away from the puddles and he'd get them all after we were done for the day. Worked for me. The grenade I had dropped in the pit by a WM that day wasn't a dud. I'd thrown her out of my way and had the grenade over the wall with what seemed like so much time left that I though it was one of the duds.

I'll leave the handling of found scrap metal around here to the experts. There's plenty of junk in the woods that has fallen off aircraft.
I used to enjoy reading the TFOA (Things Falling Off Aircraft) report on the message board. Hatches, seats, great big concrete blocks. Geeze. Now they fly over the house on the way home every night.

 

McMoving Day

 

Reminds me of a house I once rented. Bathroom so small I actually had to step over the toilet to get into the shower!

 

I like the sink draining into the urinal. No sense wasting water, and it ensures a "flush."

I have a guy at work that's obsessed with how hydrated everyone else is, and he's always
looking in the urinal and fussing about how we need more water. I've decided to keep a
bottle of red Gatorade in my locker and add a shot to the urinal every time I wash my hands.
If red doesn't set him off I'll switch to green or blue.

 

Some folks call it a "suicide safety" but I'm a fan of the old Remington Model 11, so I enjoy the simplicity and ergonomics.

 

This is a subway entrance at the Bockenheimer Warte U-Bahn Station in Frankfurt, Germany.

 

Took me a second. Had to make it bigger.

 

Now THAT is some cool architecture!

 

Wooden water pipeline being constructed East of Lewiston, Idaho in 1891.