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Old 9th Sep 2013, 10:37
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MOSTAFA
 
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Became a well known ergonomic problem very quickly which they corrected by riveting a 17 pence clip thingy to lock the HP cock when fully open. I never understood the problem personally - one swivelled vertically and the other horizontally and they certainly didn't look anything like one another.

That said I always remembered what a very sharpe and experienced Scout god told me on conversion "Don't touch either at times of high workload or stress"!

You only got one bite of the cherry on very sporty EOLs, probably the reason for so many Cat 5s. Hot and Hi, I don't think I ever saw a run on shorter than 3/4s of a football pitch in hundreds and hundreds of attempts.

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