gordonb

That's what I needed, thanks. My other annoyance, not confined to this forum, is why as screen resolutions improve all the time, are logos and things an sites getting bigger? You'd think they would get smaller so as to get more content on screen. You got more content on the screen in the days of Windows 3.1 than you do now.

Gordon

Or have I missed a setting or something? When opening a new post, if it is an established thread you are taken to the first post of the thread. I want to go to the last or most recent posts. Yes I know there is a fast forward button but cannot the default be to go to the last posts not the first?

Gordon

On my trip I asked how they got on with presumably drum brakes after doing the swimming bit and was told they'd all been converted to discs.

Gordon

What about all the military ambulances?

Gordon

Politicians of course come out with all this sort of cr*p in the full knowledge that they won't be around to take the stick when it all fails, or even try to implement it in the first place. Plus of course British (and now Scottish) governments are notoriously without any sort of technical savvy.

Gordon <rant mode off>

Larry,

No problem at all, even on curves. Sharp bends will kick back on the steering a bit but not an issue. I often do this trick in traffic with my Series 1, low range first or second and tickle the hand throttle. Just remember to take it out of low when the traffic clears!

Gordon

Indeed it does, but why such a big box? Unless it was a local mod to put the aerial up front. Didn't WS19 Champs have the aerial at the back?

Gordon

To my eyes, and I cannot blow up the photo at all, the Champ on the right has two Larkspur type aerial tuners on the wings. The centre Champ has just one but the closest Champ has a much bigger box although it does seem to have the aerial base on it. Others more knowledgeable will no doubt chip in. Very annoying that I can't make out the details better.

Gordon

As I'm sure you know, the dogbone is in the wrong place. It should connect the top two 12 pin sockets.

Gordon

Is the transformer not just a 1:1? (some time since I looked). I was told it was primarily there so that the antenna element was earthed for static prevention. I'm sure it would disappear along with everything else in the case of contact with overhead power lines.

Gordon

I booked in last week and got my eticket for printing out within minutes of the receipt of my fee. Tried the ticket on saturday and it worked.

Gordon

The issue might be that you could carry water. We used to use drilling water tankers on RL chassis, they were rated as HGVs because of the removable load. Our instrument RLs were not HGVs because they had a fixed load i.e the recording cabin.

Gordon

Did you find out what the "odd" track that was dug up was from?

gmb

If you're handy with a decent multi-meter (10A range) see if any current is taken by the bulbs, if so they're working!

Gordon

Ok then, I'll make a comment on the radio mast on the tank as no one else has. Looks Heath Robinson to me, and as it is a vertical radiator and with a WS19 on the bottom I'm not surprised they didn't make the distance. Way too far for ground wave from a vertical, they should have used a horizontal dipole or the 100ft long wire aerial strung up as an inverted L.

Gordon

If not Bloodhound, then maybe Thunderbird?

Gordon

Regarding those rear cross member "D" rings, watch out, I have come across alloy ones as well as steel. The steel ones don't afford much protection against anything, but alloy!

Gordon

"Exit rust" perhaps; google finds it.

gmb

Wrong end of the country to be able to get to the Jam Buttie Mines in time!! Treacle tart sounds like a plan though.

gmb

Oh wonderful. We're sailing there on friday. Not actually sail powered but presumably the catamaran thingie as we're taking the car.

gmb

Richard, yes please, it will no doubt come in very useful.

Gordon

Many thanks, I'll get the tape measure out.

Gordon

Can some kind person tell me how long the radius line should be? My mast has come without one.

Thanks,

Gordon

Correct, early 80s, and this is one, headlights behind the full width grill, have the side lights on the bulkhead. No winkies though. Semaphore indicators were an optional extra, mounted on the windscreen frame. It also has the very early front springs with the shackle at the front of the spring not the rear. it will be a 1600cc engine.

Gordon

Not 100% correct I think, windscreen washers I believe were retrospectively required (for fixed windscreens) but they might be the only items.

Gordon