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Montieth

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  1. Whole Periscopes or just prisms? How did they compare size and fit wise?
  2. We have longer examples of that for our Humber AC's positive connection from the master battery cut off switch to the starter itself. Over on this side of the pond that'd be called a length of flexible metallic conduit with a set of anti-wear bushings on the end. You would hold it in place in one spot or two with some cable clips. Stamped sheet metal P clips as it were.
  3. So, it came to my attention that the Russians more or less copied the Vickers Mk 7 type AFV periscope back in WWII and have been using them up to recently in their support vehicles. Notably the 2S1 as seen here. Has anyone had any success in sourcing replacement prisms and other optical bits from Russian AFV surplus sources or even current suppliers?
  4. Update on this. Pulling the engine/transmission and pulling the transmission off the engine back in June, we found a clutch disk that looked like this: Clive Hughes Supplied us with the blue one in this image. The one on the upper left was a good fit but short with some concerns about throw out bearing play. As it was the one clive sent was MUCH better so we installed that one this past weekend. I've been busy with work relating to our election coverage and was just able to get up last weekend to Jim's place to work on the install. So she's all back together....
  5. I was thinking of something like that. We were looking at possibly having to tow off the range and a set of chains with lots of slack seemed like a great way to have an accident. I'm thinking a bit of cast iron shaped to fit in the loops and a set of plates/brackets to go over them that then allow connection to a standard towbar pin set.
  6. Hopefully it's not an engine bearing issue as we JUST had the engine rebuilt. :shocked: As to the bits inside the clutch, shearing of the connection to the center would account for it. The clutch fork lever has some resistance but not like it should if one was releasing the clutch. Once we get it taken apart, I'll post lots of pictures.
  7. So, as is evidenced by our search for clutch bits for Vandal (HAC Mk IV F133744), we had an issue getting it recovered off the range at Fort Indiantown Gap. IT was challenging to do so when we didn't have a good way to tow it and had to resort to loading on a flat bed (another re-enactor had a decent amount of kit but loading was still touch and go). The question that comes up is how/what do you chaps use for when you need a tow bar? A US Medium Towbar would be nice, but there is the obvious question of how to connect to the recovery loops on the front of the WWII vehicles which did NOT have a fixed shackle pin hole but instead have the welded on loops. What do you chaps use for this sort of evolution?
  8. Yeah, I have a fiber optic viewer, sadly it was at my house in Atlanta, Ga, 14 hours away by car. I don't think Jim has one at his place in PA. I'll be back up to PA just before June to effect the engine removal as it's a multi person task. We just put it back in last fall after an engine failure and rebuild (detergent oil in an engine rebuilt but not boiled out as we had thought). I am of a mind to have a complete clutch (arm, bearing, pressure plate, fiction disk) prior to the engine removal task so as to have all parts on hand and just conduct a swap and replacement of any faulty parts.
  9. Hi Chaps, we had our Humber MkIV, Vandal, at a WWII event this past weekend and during a run down a hill we suffered a complete failure of the clutch to function. It no longer makes any connection between the engine and the transmission input with only a bit of light metal clicking. The throw out arm/bell crank arm is easy to move and does not appear to have much resistance. Who's the go to source for these at this point? Here we are waiting for the Bluebell call to be answered.
  10. It's an NTN 7004, which is this: http://www.hellerbearings.com/hk-7004-bearing-21111.htm Angular contact bearing. So it can handle axial and radial loads.
  11. I have a Cole Pattern that is in fairly good order with 2 gomens and a functional spirt level. I'll dig it out some time and get you some photos. Oh, never mind. Here's some photos of one I have on my Harddrive. This unit is not mine but some photos from online some time back that I snagged for reference. But they get the job done for this thread's purposes. As you can see there's a few extra parts for these. There are extra shadow pointers and the rods (gomens) that stick in the center and in the 180° line (or the edge pointer). The spare gomens store in a spring closed box on the underside of the compass with the spare shadow pointer under the spring loaded tabs. How the crew was supposed to safely store it when not using it is beyond me as it's a bulky item. I guess yet another thing that sat in a case on a wing eh?
  12. More specifically, are the parts from the soviet copies compatible with the WWII era periscopes? If so, where are those available? I found one site but it was all in Russian and could never get any responses out of email inquiries.
  13. Perhaps you're going about it the wrong way? Cut out a cardboard pattern of the floor area and use that to make your cutting pattern for the boards?
  14. One blogger over here quipped that 80% complete Sten receivers may be found at Home Depot on Aisle 21. Mechanically speaking the Magazines are more fiddly than the SMG.
  15. I really hope you chaps can keep this from happening. Being from the land of Sam, we have a bit more freedom here but we've still had scares about this sort of things on the west side of the Pond, but most of the time they're restricted to state level nonsense or thankfully stillborn federal issues. We did have one that had some sort of language that would have allowed confiscation/return of former federal property of all sorts from firearms to Military Vehicles. That was stopped by some handy work in committee by some folks in our MVPA & NRA. The worst thing we have to deal with is the de-activation requirements which require 2 gas torch cuts across the receiver. But for a while ATF has been trying to ban barrels as well. Hopefully one day we'll be able to get rid of USC 922(o). Then I'll be able to have that live BESA for Vandal. Good luck with the nanny staters.
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