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  • Birthday 01/23/1978

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  1. From a a maintenance perspective, they may be easier to check with them facing out.
  2. Moot point now as CVRT track (in the the MV enthusiast budget bracket) is virtually unobtainable now, all useable track having gone to Ukraine. New track is available, but may cost as much as a vehicle.
  3. I did recently manage to obtain some of these that somebody had made a repro batch of. Not sure how many he'd have left though.
  4. These panels were used in Operation Granby, but that was 1991 and the vehicle wasn't built then.
  5. Mounting turbochargers in that orientation looks like it would be a world of problems to my eye.
  6. Bracket and clevis below is where the wire stays go to the rear body when the crane is in the travelling position.
  7. And there was I thinking that it was only railway buffs that were this picky! Having worked on a preserved railway that's been used for many TV programs and films, I learned to stop worrying about details long ago! The one that really got me though was the Network South East seat moquette in Dunkirk, and the fact that the carriage had fluorescent lamps. Some of the costumes the art department have made loco crews wear at out place over the years are just hilarious, not including some of the extra stuff they want hanging off locomotives (such as American style lamps on the front!). I quite enjoyed Rogue Heroes, but then I also liked all of Peaky Blinders (by the same writer). The TV show did make me go and read the book the series was based on, so if a few people go and do that then I think it's a good thing.
  8. The bus had been significantly weakened in the critical are for that stunt, with the staircase had also been removed. I know this as it was done in a yard I was renting space in at the time.
  9. OzH, does it suffer from water pooling on the roof if you have the hoops up with no canvas? I have this issue on my MUTT if the roof is up, covered or not.
  10. I've been killing odd hours at work watching it and some of his other mad cap mechanical experiments and projects. Talented and utterly bonkers!
  11. Not a very good picture, but this shows the location of the idle screw when mounted to an engine:
  12. I've managed to adjust ours through the engine hatches before now, it's not too difficult.
  13. i stripped and rebuilt a Striker cupola bearing - there really are A LOT of bearing rollers in there! I needed to get a bit creative and find a mechanised method of cleaning up the rollers as doing each one individually was not really viable - I found the most effective way was dumping all the rollers in a bucket of diesel with a handful of sand and stirring the whole lot with a paint stirrer attached to drill. After about twenty minutes most of the rust was removed from them, then I washed them all and carefully re-assembled the bearing.
  14. Do they still do the Mercedes off-road course for the smaller MVs? May have to take the MUTT this year.
  15. I had heard some years back that the MOD wanted to order another batch of Wolfs but LR declined. I don't think the Defender line was that profitable given that they were largely hand-built and production/sales number were comparatively low (IMO) compared to other manufacturers production figures. At the end of the day they are a commercial business, and if a product isn't profitable then produce it? 36,169 was the most Defenders produced in a year. As a comparison, 4 million Toyota Land Cruisers had been built up to 1990 https://blog.toyota.co.uk/history-of-the-toyota-land-cruiser-heavy-and-light-duty-models-2. Economy of scale innit?
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