fire-hose

[fittie]

Can you wash fire-hose in the washing machine?

Any thoughts?

[Tumshie]

You get different types of fire hose so I'd guess it would depend on how heavy it was. The stuff The Fire Brigade use - prolly not. If you put any thing too heavy in your (front loading) washing machine it just won't allow the drum to turn and in an old model could burn out the motor. The bits at either end of the hose (the scooshie bits) might dent the drum. I think I've talked myself out of it, how about you?

 

If it's a lighter weight or in smaller strips then it might work. 

 

 

[rusty69]

11 minutes ago, Tumshie said:

the scooshie bits

That's not a word! 

[fittie]

It's just 10ft of hose without any add ons. I don't know what scooshie bits are.

[Tumshie]

6 minutes ago, rusty69 said:

That's not a word! 

Did you understand what I meant? then it's a sorta word..... 

1 minute ago, fittie said:

I don't know what scooshie bits are.

Ok - it's not a word. 

[rusty69]

1 minute ago, Tumshie said:

Did you understand what I meant? then it's a sorta word..... 

Yeah, course, you meant the bits at the end of the hoze. I ain't stupid ya know 

[fittie]

25 minutes ago, rusty69 said:

Yeah, course, you meant the bits at the end of the hoze. I ain't stupid ya know 

Yeah, but I am...

[Tumshie]

10 minutes ago, fittie said:

Yeah, but I am...

The scooshie bit.....

[fittie]

Ok, I kinda worked out what was meant but not sure. So now I know was a scooshie bit is. It will be on the school spellings next week.

[pete harrison]

7 hours ago, fittie said:

Can you wash fire-hose in the washing machine?

Any thoughts?

It is a lot faster to clean a piece of fire hose 'belting' with a scrubbing brush, and it should come up whiter without detergent.

 

When my son came to Braunston today he brought with him two reels of fire hose, bought by me about twenty years ago from his junior school. It is surprising where you find these bits and bobs 

[koukouvagia]

16 hours ago, fittie said:

Can you wash fire-hose in the washing machine?

Any thoughts?

As I  have learnt through experience elderly firehose tends to disintegrate in a washing machine.  Similarly scrubbing the hose in the traditional manner can also severely fray old hose.

I cheat and use a diluted white emulsion paint which does the job and doesn't clog the fibres.  It acts just like blanco, which these days is not so easy to buy.

[mark99]

7 hours ago, koukouvagia said:

 It acts just like blanco

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ergo poster is of a certain generation.

 

[koukouvagia]

22 minutes ago, mark99 said:

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ergo poster is of a certain generation.

 

I should add, perhaps, that I was too young for National Service, but blanco was still readily available when I was a boy. It was very good for whitening plimsoles. ?.

[Ray T]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Liquid-BLANCO-White-British-WW2-Colour-BE110/281351762847?epid=621714669&amp;hash=item4181df339f:g:1ooAAOSwFWda4Zp0

 

[Derek R.]

Would you Adam & Eve it! Just shows the power of re-enactment groups, along with the vintage/classic vehicle/boat market.

Quick - before it gets banned by the 'powers that be'!

[Iain_S]

Can you still get khaki blanco?

[Ray T]

22 minutes ago, Iain_S said:

Can you still get khaki blanco?

From the same link above.

Also: http://www.sofmilitary.co.uk/ Based in Corwen, N Wales.

 

 

[mark99]

21 hours ago, Ray T said:

From the same link above.

Also: http://www.sofmilitary.co.uk/ Based in Corwen, N Wales.

Those are the exact colour palettes used by the people of taste who paint their home front doors and window frames. In non gloss.