Originally Posted By: piston79
Originally Posted By: Hpasp

With this comment, you exposed yourself as a former SAM operator.
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After my secret was revealed I should say that I learned much more for the SAM's thrue this SIM and comunity, than till my military training... thumbsup

And about cleaning with spirit (which is due to dust electric conductivity, which could reflects on el. tubes) - the instruction say that "thin layer must be applied"... The instructor ask us - the conscripts - to show him how we apply a thin layer of spirit on and we just put some spiritus on a piece of clean, dry cotton and start cleaning, but when the instructor saw this, he starting to shout "No!No!No! Let me show you how!", and he took up the bottle of spiritus, take a huge swallow and then exhale his breathe on the opened rack and said" That's how must aplly a thin layer!..." and ask for a cucumber.. wink


This is the exact description of the Russian cleaning method...
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Hpasp
Free SAM Simulator, "Realistic to the Switch"
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