FrankCrank
Old layabout
Thought I'd try out some of the new rainbow coloured paint they had at the DIY shop, dries real fast too.
Rattle can paint
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Cathryn
Legendary Member
- Location
- Marlborough, Wiltshire
That's spectacular.
Cycleops
Legendary Member
- Location
- Accra, Ghana
Never did the expression ‘explosion in a paint factory’ seem more appropriate 
Drago
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- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
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FrankCrank
Old layabout
We've all gotta earn our crust
DRM
Guru
- Location
- West Yorks
Is that on the shops shelf next to the skyhooks?
- Location
- The TerrorVortex
Missing (at least) one brake pad at the front.
Darius_Jedburgh
Veteran
And cables.
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FrankCrank
Old layabout
He's Frank Burnside, and I'm Frank Sideburns - I can see where the confusion lies.
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FrankCrank
Old layabout
Yeah, and got a box of grinding wheel sparks while I was at it.
A fella I was at school with was doing a mechanics apprenticeship. He was asked to remove the petrol cap and blow into the tank to build the engine compression back up. He didn't fall for it.
In my apprenticeship days as a welder, toolboxes were often welded shut by the local prankster, or your old steel cap boots were welded together. Best one I recall was in the run-up to bonfire night, a fella there put a sparkler in the electrode holder and asked the foreman to give him a tack as he held two pieces of metal on the bench. The foreman obliged, and sparkler lit up, but he then threw the holder down and walked off in a huff. He was not known for his sense of humour.
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DRM
Guru
- Location
- West Yorks
Just like on work experience at a local Ford dealership, one particular wag thought it would be funny to send me to stores for some "spark plug gaps", so off I went and told the storeman what was going on and can I have the screw on tops from some spark plugs, I'll bring them back when the pranks over, so I went back and said I've got them, but stores aren't happy opening the boxes for them, here's your spark plug caps, they didn't try it on for the remaining three weeks funnily enough.
