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rustexpert

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  1. You could ask these; they certainly used to reline brake shoes. http://www.brake-eng.com/
  2. A while back a member here requested a source for some fairly simple vehicle body ironmongery. I suggested that the items wouldn't be hard to make; the upshot being that I made them for the guy for some pin money. I personally get some satisfaction from making that kind of stuff myself and realise many on here would feel the same but not everybody is capable or has facilities. I sometimes have to farm some repairs out myself like sleeving brake cylinders for example; the guy that does it says it isn't hard but has all the machines and consumables ready and in constant use. If any one else has a similar need for a "blacksmithing" service please consider P.M.ing me; I or one of my blacksmith friends will consider copying or creating as necessary.
  3. This case has been discussed at length elsewhere; the guy also got done for having badly defective tyre/s. Having pulled the vehicle the coppers would not really have been able to have ignored this; it seems to me that they might have just cautioned if the traffic hold up was the only problem.
  4. They shouldn't be too difficult to make yourself but if you just don't know how then that isn't much help. Failing that any fairly handy agricultural fitter/blacksmith should knock that type of stuff out. I don't know what generation the O.P. is but I came out of school with the ability to thread the ends of some bar and heat it up to form it in a vice and tidy it up on an anvil/former.
  5. A friend of mine had one of these on his farm; it was too heavy (it had a thick Kerouin hard wood deck to add extra weight) to be of much use in the days of small bales but now would be good for big bales which are much more densely packed. It was also long and I considered shortening it. The tyres were a problem size as I remember. I am sure it had a plate on it which related to R.A.F. heritage I didn't think it was as old as WW2. I am fairly sure it went to China but it might still be there out of sight.
  6. A 40x8 in the later nomenclature would be something like 8x24 or a 9x24 would be something like 42x9; an ex Scammell man says that they called them tall 8's and tall 9's or something like that. They are similar and fit on the same rims but unless you have a pair. I don't really want to go any bigger diameter than 40" nominal swapping the 9x24 for a 40 x 8 makes sense to me. They are all rocking horse poo and my trailer doesn't justify new 40x8 rubber. The diameter of the brake drums on my trailer will only take 24" rims, I might suggest that if your Mack brake drums will take 20" rims then go for 10x20 similar overall diameter and readily available. Must be an unusual Mack on 40x8's. I know you know what you are doing so don't take any of that wrong.
  7. I have got a 9 x 22 tyre and wheel, road tread, looks quite good for potential further use. Give me a ring. 07858414565. probably not for military I have also a 9 x 24 similar condition would sooner swap for 40 x 8 similar condition or any non offset 40x8 rims.
  8. My friend is selling a ww2 Onan generator; it is the two cylinder vertical side valve about 2-3kw. I had considered having it as a stand by and for some site work which it has been used for over the last half century. Does any one have any experience with them? I imagine that it will be a heavy drinker of fuel. The last one that changed hands on the bay of e only made £85 pounds in tidy condition; is that about the sum of it? as a similar diesel would be considerably more sought after.
  9. 9.00x22 is a size I would associate with old agricultural machinery. Still unusual though.
  10. Like I said you can be vague or withhold your complete inventory as you see fit; but my opinion is that it is better to take part in some way than not at all; just so your head is counted. However I did raise the subject of the link with the officials of the FBVHC (although I am in no way involved) and the upshot of this is there is now a clear link from their main website homepage to the previously given link to the survey, which may provide some assurance that it is genuinely FBHVC originated.
  11. The point of this survey is to give the FBHVC some figures to quote when lobbying on our behalf. You don't have to give any specific details and you may even be a bit inaccurate with some of the exact details. Basically if the government want to change laws that may affect our hobby then they have some figures to quantify the size/nature/value of our pastime and maybe argue how valuable it is to the economy or conversely how little our effect is in other respects. I might think that it would be better to underestimate how many miles you cover in your 2 gallons to the mile armoured car and overestimate how much you spend on visiting events and maintaining your brakes. I don't suppose that it matters much if you can't be bothered detailing every vehicle as long as you list something like one restored vehicle and one under restoration; so your presence is noted.
  12. None of the discussion has yet picked up on the fact that many of the assault rifle designs (two I can think of in particular)were adopted widely purely because they are so simple and easy to make; is it not obvious that if procurement of such weapons is made more difficult then people bent on having them will just start knocking out some new ones; quite cheaply too. The way to keep such things of the streets is to make the penalty for illegal possession and supply of such things absolutely draconian i.e. not an electronic tag and a fine.
  13. That is the one I'm thinking of, it didn't make much money as I remember; is that an old pic or recent? Has it been preserved at all? or restored less recovery jib?
  14. A similar but flat fronted ex.Mersey tunnel 1930's Leyland Badger recovery went through ebay a few years ago.
  15. I am sorry to let you down but this kind of machine was new in the early 1950's. Google "Muir hill lh1" it comes up with a result from Commercial Motor which is a review of it as a new product printed 1951.
  16. Can anyone tell me if there is a pallet transport service that covers more than just U.K.? so collection would be in Belgium.
  17. Please excuse my ignorance. The last I heard about W and P Revival was that it was finished. I haven't been following closely and could quite easily have missed latest developments. Has somebody else taken it over? I have looked at the website, which shows a fresh set of dates for next year but it has happened before that a website has automatically selected new dates to a formula and started the countdown to a show which isn't to be. I would have thought that if a different promoter had taken over then they would have made a big splash on H.M.V.F and got fresh website.
  18. Looks like it's modified to work in amongst the trees; is it olive groves. Agricultural purposes anyway; I have an older generation farming friend who says that after war crawler tractors were very difficult to get hold of but these carriers were pretty freely available at surplus auctions. His, presumably father purchased a couple and experimented by attaching grousers to the tracks to make a ploughing crawler but the tracks wore and fell to bits within hours under pressure from draught work and were never a success for this purpose. I expect this was not the only shortcoming as I have never heard of anybody making heavier duty track chains which surely would have happened if they had shown some promise as ploughing tractors.
  19. I have had an eye on the vintage vehicle/machinery market for 30 odd years, remember when a Hotchkiss jeep was dear at 300 notes. The only observation I will relate is; if house prices are on the up then all but the most desirable vintage vehicle stuff takes the fall, when property goes into crisis then the top echelon of vintage stuff gives a flutter then while the property market has a flat spot decides what to do, vintage stuff starts to make silly money and these periods are when the prices generally inflate. Military surplus stuff has always been a bit odd (not so much these days) as sometimes large amounts of materiele used to be released at once so until the glut was absorbed into the scene certain parts of the market would be way down but non-vehicle militaria I would say has just grown steadily over the years. However I hope that makes sense and my conclusion is house prices are on the up at the mo.
  20. NTL 743 = Karrier. Does look kind of improvised.
  21. Astwood Bank Gathering next weekend has some military presence. Just on your doorstep. Usually pretty easy going about late entries there too. https://www.facebook.com/events/1419852648312974/
  22. That is most interesting Cosrec; I hope you don't believe that I have in anyway suggested that anyone has made anything up. I am most grateful for you sharing this information; which is new to me, despite operating and repairing engines in various roles for 30 years. However the Leyland 680 with the problem was on a fixed fire pump installation; having no fan belts or closed system coolant. It has no engine driven electrical system apart from a tacho generator; the starting current was presumably from a fixed 24v supply, there is/was some remaining control wiring attached to the frame some of which is copper covered fire proof stuff but I would think all of this would have been bonded properly. It is not beyond belief that it wasn't bonded properly and a current was permanently applied to the engine earthed through the pipes. However the engine appears to have been cooled by the fire pump feed water which in my experience would be cause enough of the problem over the probably 40 years plus it will have been standing like that. Could if I use this engine in a vehicle with the hole and suspect patch plugged say that the problem may not get worse as the causal problem will likely be removed? However I will rig up a temporary fuel system, a means of pressurising the coolant and run the engine up to temperature properly as the next step and see if it is leaking internally. The tin cover hasn't anything to do with it; it was just incidental that removing it initially revealed the problem. Also I bought the equipment from a demolition contractor whom I don't suspect to be the kind of person to buy machinery apart from when it is redundant due to and incidental to a demolition i.e. it is not likely (but it may be so!) that the engine/pump has been replaced because this problem has already been noticed, like had I bought the engine from a "Cheffins" monthly type auction and the tin cover had no obvious spanner rash on the fixings as if it had recently been disturbed.
  23. Aluminium touching steel is a well known problem; anyone with experience of Land Rovers will know. Separating them with suitable interface material is the usual solution (or rather prevention). Any thoughts on the 680 block? If it were a Ford tractor block from that era, I wouldn't be at all surprised and depending on the location of the leak wouldn't have a problem with a suitable repair if in a location that could be accessed or covered by linering the bores but with Ford engines the problem is nearly always localised. Also I have more than once replaced porous liners in International and John Deere engines; I would say in every case there has been evidence that there has been a long term lapse in the provision of antifreeze/coolant inhibitor. The stationary application could well have been part of the problem but I would think that standing with fresh water coolant (at that a fortnightly flushing too) for many years would be cause enough and the problem is general rather than localised; I will open out the hole with a view to plugging and have a look. I work with steam boilers and only too well understand how metal can rot away. I would imagine any attempt to chemically descale the internal surfaces would probably only open up holes which otherwise wouldn't show themselves. Is there a product available which coat/stabilise the internal surfaces?
  24. No, it is definitely a rotten hole in the water jacket.
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