On Thu, 23 Mar 2017 09:03:28 -0700 (PDT)
Freddie wrote:

On Thursday, 23 March 2017 15:36:26 UTC, Graham P Davis wrote:

When I was at Wyton, the used Molfax charts were stored in a cupboard
under the forecasters bench. The office had been painted a year or two
earlier, and yet the paint in the cupboard was still wet due to the
action of the chemicals in the fax paper.

Dreadful stuff - IIRC the satfax paper was even more loaded with chemicals.
There used to be a brown stain on the ceiling over the satfax machine in many
offices I inhabited. Heaven knows if there are any health implications for
us humans.


I loved the smell when I changed the roll. Used to get the new roll and sniff
it, almost addictive!

Remember the game of changing the roll before the red line ran out? Sods law the
FSXX would start to come in just as you were about to change it and then you
had a nerve jangling few minutes to see if the roll would last. Losing the FSXX
normally got the forecaster a tad upset. Canny assistants of course would
change in a transmission break before the red line appeared and then
put back the half roll back in soon after midnight.