This is what I've said a couple of times. I was a sad git that had to highly bull his boots every 24 hours for 14 years so I thought I knew what I was talking about. Glad to have someone agree with me. I just don't see how it can stay on a RIB.
did you guys not paint your boots then? i used the stuff the americans use, got it from the us bases and worked a treat. saved all that bollox, only did the spit and polish for 6 weeks while in basic training then moved to the paint approach.
only had to do it at dartmouth for a couple of terms then into the fleet where noone gives a toss...never came accross paint though, that'd would have saved all the fannying around with polish and cotton buds..
No some people did, but I just made sure my boots didn't get too dirty so they wouldn't take much buffing up. I used the floor polish a couple of times but wasn't impressed with it. If someone stood on your toe caps after you had used that stuff it was a nightmare to put right.
Morello(Thats it brings back some memories that does). That cost beer tokens.
As to the shiny black bits. A couple of weeks and I should be able to post results on my polishing tests. I've run out of my expensive boat polish so its time to experiment seriously now.
