smithcorp Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 Curious these are publicly accessible, but they make for useful resources for skinners, or modellers (or anyone with a dirty Abrams).http://www.defence.gov.au/jlc/cleaning_manual.htm 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tacbat Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 Nice find. It's like a "walk-around" for each vehicle with detailed photos. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARM505 Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 Oh noes! Foreign snails/bugs/soil/stuff could enter Australia! Maybe I'm just used to the endless stories of my fellow South Africans getting flak for trying to bring biltong (dried meat) into Oz land. They seem kind of excitable about that stuff 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibsonm Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 Well as someone who has seen an M113 stripped down to X thousand pieces and that surrounded by a 4" high wall of salt whilst people from the Australian Quarantine Inspection Service (AQIS) walk around it, I can believe it. I thought the stories from Somalia were over the top until it was time to come home from East Timor. Still they have a job to do (to keep vermin out), well actually its probably the same job but we keep bigger stuff out. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgehog Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 Well as someone who has seen an M113 stripped down to X thousand pieces and that surrounded by a 4" high wall of salt whilst people from the Australian Quarantine Inspection Service (AQIS) walk around it, I can believe it.I thought the stories from Somalia were over the top until it was time to come home from East Timor. Still they have a job to do (to keep vermin out), well actually its probably the same job but we keep bigger stuff out. Wait, what? 95% of the creepie crawlies that inhabit the Australian countryside can incapacitate a human in seconds. The hell are they worried about? Mongooses? (Think a brown snake would win that fight hands down.) I bet the guys dread coming home, must take an M1A1 crew the thick end of a week to clean it inside and out. All that black sooty sh*t inside, clean all the mud out, and while trying to contort oneself to get under the GPS. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Retro Posted October 8, 2013 Members Share Posted October 8, 2013 The hell are they worried about?That something harmless comes in, watering down their fauna? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ssnake Posted October 8, 2013 Members Share Posted October 8, 2013 Just read up the story of rabbits in Australia. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lt DeFault Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 Or mice. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmagnusson Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 bether to do clean it "mythbusters" style , 350 kg of high explosive > 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgehog Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 Just read up the story of rabbits in Australia.Or mice.They're not exactly spread by seeds, burrs or small clumps of mud though, are they? :biggrin: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibsonm Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 No, but they got here on ships.Not like they walked here like the original fauna. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tacbat Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 Just like the original invasive species. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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