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[Jon]

Not so much me as my flamin brother. Back in theearly 70's when Ted Teeth was in power. He put us all on a 3 day week

So to make up our money we worked part time for a auto component sealing company. They sealed casting of water pumps, cyclinder heads, etc.

All the stuff was put into large wire baskets, about 6' high by 3' dia.
You had to get inside to reach the components at the bottom levels. While I was inside my brother put the lid back on and lifted me over a boiling vat of oil. The boiling oil is used to cure the sealing compound. I was absolutely shi??ing myself, and him laughing his head off while dropping closer and closer to the oil. At the time, if I had got a gun I would have shot him dead I was that scared. As soon has he had lifted me back onto the ground, he shot off like a whippet. Might have been due to the fact I was doing a guerilla impersonation at the time.