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Re: Towing a Spitfire questions

To: "Spitfires List" <Spitfires@Autox.Team.Net>,
Subject: Re: Towing a Spitfire questions
From: "jonmac" <jonmac@ndirect.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 10:17:49 -0000
>       Anyhow, I'm rambling, so I'll just end with a perhaps useful
> suggestion about how to remove pitch without hurting the paint. 
Maybe
> it's obvious, but it took me a while to figure out that boiling
water and
> elbow grease does the job without visions of rubbing holes in the
paint
> with turpentine (I actually did put holes in the paint of my old
car, a
> Tempo, using Turps).

I prefer the old-fashioned way myself. A clean jar full of gasoline,
freshly piped out of a float chamber and either my pipe or a nicely
glowing cigarette to keep me company. Haven't had a 'bang' yet - and
I don't live in hope

John Mac


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