A little help from my friends...

From: Joe R. <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
Date: Thu May 13 19:06:54 2004

At 04:02 PM 5/13/04 -0700, you wrote:
>
>On May 13, 2004, at 3:01 PM, Joe R. wrote:
>
>> At 09:14 PM 5/13/04 +0000, Ethan wrote:
>>> On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 11:20:54AM -0400, Bryan Pope wrote:
>>>> After Sellam's post I was inspired: ;)
>>>>
>>>> Canned Sunshine
>>>> Unobtanium ;)
>>>> Round Tuits
>>>
>>> That reminded me of all sorts of artifacts that "noobs" are sent on
>>> fools' errands for...
>>>
>>> Muffler Bearings
>>> Flight Line
>>> Tape/Film/Lumber Stretcher
>>> Prop Wash
>>>
>>> ... and there's more than I can't remember right now.
>>
>>
>> Geez, how can you forget the left handed monkey wrench?
>>
>> Joe
>>
>>
>
>Polka dot paint - There is a Navy story about a guy sent for that - he
>used to work for Dupont (big paint people)
>and brought back a mixture of oil and water based paints - spray on...
>Polka dots (actually I think it would make
>little speckles if anything...)

   They do make that kind of paint, it's a standard product. We used it to
repaint automobile trunks when I worked in a paint and body shop. It
matched the original paint in the '60s model cars.

   Joe
Received on Thu May 13 2004 - 19:06:54 BST