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ColinA Joined: 14/04/2008 Location: Cumbria View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Smallcleugh vandalism Posted: 24/11/2020 16:56:30 Reply \| Quote Spray paint idiots have been at it again anyone know who might have done this ? https://www.facebook.com/groups/545841035551330/permalink/2042771309191621/ -- ColinA IP: 81.140.201.51
royfellows Joined: 13/06/2007 Location: Great Wyrley near Walsall View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Smallcleugh vandalism Posted: 24/11/2020 17:10:05 Reply \| Quote ColinA wrote: Spray paint idiots have been at it again anyone know who might have done this ? https://www.facebook.com/groups/545841035551330/permalink/2042771309191621/ Cant get to it, it appears a closed group. You could try putting up a screenshot -- My avatar is a poor likeness. IP: 88.108.154.63 Edited: 24/11/2020 17:11:08 by royfellows
ColinA Joined: 14/04/2008 Location: Cumbria View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Smallcleugh vandalism Posted: 24/11/2020 17:32:48 Reply \| Quote There's a post on DCMC -- ColinA IP: 81.140.201.51
ColinA Joined: 14/04/2008 Location: Cumbria View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Smallcleugh vandalism Posted: 24/11/2020 17:36:27 Reply \| Quote Yep that's it -- ColinA IP: 81.140.201.51
Little Green Frog Joined: 25/12/2019 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Smallcleugh vandalism Posted: 24/11/2020 17:46:40 Reply \| Quote Had a stroll in Smallcleugh today, the signposting is ludicrous. Every junction and tunnel has big white lettering or arrows, totally unnecessary. There's also a somewhat ruder bit of graffiti in the Wheel Flats - green spray-paint this time. Removed as much as I could but didn't have anything with me other than elbow grease. Whoever did this get a mine plan and learn to navigate underground. If you need all this signposting then you probably shouldn't be in a mine in the first place. IP: 62.128.207.109
royfellows Joined: 13/06/2007 Location: Great Wyrley near Walsall View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Smallcleugh vandalism Posted: 24/11/2020 17:55:54 Reply \| Quote I cleaned a lot of it off. The supermarket bitter lemon I carry sprayed all over the letting on the limestone and then wire brushed seems to work. Just wonder what that stuff does to my guts. -- My avatar is a poor likeness. IP: 88.108.154.63
legendrider Joined: 13/07/2014 Location: Darlington View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Smallcleugh vandalism Posted: 24/11/2020 18:16:20 Reply \| Quote I've a 30-year old bottle of my Dad's Rhubarb and Quince wine in the shed. Diluted 1:100 it'll work better than Hydrofluoric Acid on spray paint. Or maybe I should just save it for when we catch one of these gonks. MARK -- festina lente IP: 81.100.181.10
Monty Stubble Joined: 03/04/2008 Location: , Location, Location View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Smallcleugh vandalism Posted: 24/11/2020 20:34:25 Reply \| Quote Apparently the Gullyback Crosscut one isn't in G X-cut... A little post lockdown excursion needed with a wirebrush ... then we need to go in the mine and clear up. -- The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time. Henry David Thoreau IP: 31.52.196.91
UK Abandoned Mine Explores Joined: 22/02/2019 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Smallcleugh vandalism Posted: 09/12/2020 20:50:12 Reply \| Quote That sounds like a good idea, will have to put some of that and a wire brush in my bag for when I find stuff like this. -- Uk Abandoned Mine Explores on YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsW2E1LQ7EETG9NQgij2dWA?disable_polymer=true IP: 129.234.59.95
Monty Stubble Joined: 03/04/2008 Location: , Location, Location View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Smallcleugh vandalism Posted: 10/12/2020 17:40:21 Reply \| Quote I believe someone has already been in with a wire brush and scrubbed it all off. No small job! -- The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time. Henry David Thoreau IP: 109.145.195.189
UK Abandoned Mine Explores Joined: 22/02/2019 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Smallcleugh vandalism Posted: 10/12/2020 22:46:27 Reply \| Quote Yes, they have but useful if I come across stuff. Monty Stubble wrote: I believe someone has already been in with a wire brush and scrubbed it all off. No small job! -- Uk Abandoned Mine Explores on YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsW2E1LQ7EETG9NQgij2dWA?disable_polymer=true IP: 129.234.0.208
DaveM Joined: 05/05/2009 Location: Perth View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Smallcleugh vandalism Posted: 10/12/2020 23:22:30 Reply \| Quote I've wirebrushed a fair bit of paint in the mine I visit most, paint on clean rock can be very tenacious and I wondered if burning it off with a blowtorch might be a quick way of removing it. IP: 2.120.75.105
Mr Mike Joined: 09/06/2007 Location: Bury - In The Laboratory View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Smallcleugh vandalism Posted: 11/12/2020 07:29:55 Reply \| Quote DaveM wrote: I've wirebrushed a fair bit of paint in the mine I visit most, paint on clean rock can be very tenacious and I wondered if burning it off with a blowtorch might be a quick way of removing it. Will get smelly and fumey in a relative confined space. -- Mr Mike www.mineexplorer.org.uk IP: 92.18.144.26
AR Joined: 07/11/2007 Location: Knot far from Knotlow in the middle of the Peak District View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Smallcleugh vandalism Posted: 11/12/2020 09:37:34 Reply \| Quote Solvent-based removal can be highly effective, though underground a chemical filter mask is essential and limiting the duration of cleaning sessions advisable. See the details on p.7 of how I dealt with some spray paint underground- https://www.thedca.org.uk/publications/newsletters/send/3-derbyshire-caver/132-derbyshire-caver-152 -- Follow the horses, Johnny my laddie, follow the horses canny lad-oh! IP: 80.247.20.99
Down and beyond Joined: 16/03/2019 Location: Northamptonshire View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Smallcleugh vandalism Posted: 11/12/2020 09:46:20 Reply \| Quote In some places I have been it simply wipes of as never had properly dried , at browns folly I remember me and my mate smelt it had seen to strange looking characters earlier on and guessed it was them quickly on their pursuit we was following there arrows removing them after a while the arrows stopped and we suspected they heard as and hid Ent sure if there still in there the two lads now still trying to find their way out -- From the land of the pillar and stall IP: 82.132.231.221
royfellows Joined: 13/06/2007 Location: Great Wyrley near Walsall View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Smallcleugh vandalism Posted: 11/12/2020 11:04:59 Reply \| Quote I had exactly the same experience in there years ago with the late Dom Jackson who posted as "Dark Prince". What is it with paint? -- My avatar is a poor likeness. IP: 88.108.26.13
DaveM Joined: 05/05/2009 Location: Perth View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Smallcleugh vandalism Posted: 11/12/2020 11:15:18 Reply \| Quote some of the worst stuff I've seen had been thickly applied from an actual large tin of emulsion that some lunatic had gone into the mine with and then discarded. But sometimes the walls have a sort of muddy coating on them which lets paint be taken off very quickly. IP: 2.120.75.105
Down and beyond Joined: 16/03/2019 Location: Northamptonshire View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Smallcleugh vandalism Posted: 11/12/2020 11:51:02 Reply \| Quote It’s very annoying isn’t it , in my opinion if people can’t navigate a mine without spray painting arrows they shouldn’t be in there also the same as leaving glow sticks behind , when I started I always remembered artefacts also in my local mines all the tunnels are numbered in old paint so it was easy , still people spray arrows on the walls everywhere ... -- From the land of the pillar and stall IP: 82.132.231.221
cantclimbtom Joined: 28/09/2020 Location: London View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Smallcleugh vandalism Posted: 11/12/2020 12:14:24 Reply \| Quote I'm completely baffled by this. Even if in some parallel universe it was appropriate to write directions on walls somewhere you don't own, wouldn't a stick of chalk rather than paint be the obvious choice. This vandalism seems stupidity on top of idiocy. Maybe someone should spray a big "No painting on walls" notice near the entrance or if you can find where they live, spray "way in" on their front door, during the night -- Expert in incompetent tomfoolery IP: 86.26.204.247 Edited: 11/12/2020 12:16:21 by cantclimbtom
royfellows Joined: 13/06/2007 Location: Great Wyrley near Walsall View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Smallcleugh vandalism Posted: 11/12/2020 13:08:06 Reply \| Quote cantclimbtom wrote: or if you can find where they live, spray "way in" on their front door, during the night One of the best I have ever heard -- My avatar is a poor likeness. IP: 88.108.26.13

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