johann morris

I have been trying to finish all the odds and sods, its supprising how much time it takes, just when you think that you have finished you find something else. One of the items that i can't find pictures of, is the box that fits over the battery, assuming that there should be one. Today it's been minus degrees and snowing, so I have made the number plate mounting plates and painted stars. Tonight I need to make the census number stencil and get that painted on. I could then do with a dry sunny day to get it out and clean up but that's something I can't control.

Jon 

All of which would be totally useless as if there were a major conflict conscription would be introduced.

According to CMV this month, in 2018 there was a joint exercise between the Russians and the Chinese forces in Siberia and Mongolia, taking part were 300,000 troops, 36,000 tanks and 1000 aircraft. You cant honestly think, that apart from the nuclear option, there is any chance of those pathetic remote controlled tanks, that would be made hacked and made inoperable anyway or costly technology that we cant afford, can have any chance of success.  When it comes to war, a great general once said that God sides with “whichever side has the biggest battalions”.

Its a long shot but would it possible for someone who owns a Morris c8 gs 1944, to take a picture of the small brass data plates on the engine cover in the cab.
I need the wording and the overall size of each, please.

Thanks,

Jonathan

As I said, just about everything worth collecting. I wonder what they are offering in compensation to the owners of any of the above, if they are now forced to dispose of their collections.

I don't know how true this is but it would appear that the German government is also trying to introduce a law "to make criticising the government on such things as immigration policy a criminal offence". Orwell was right, just out by a few decades!

In that case, when I finish my Bedford QL portee, will I be legally allowed to drive it MOT exempt with the 6pdr on the back cargo bed or will the 6pdr have to be physically bolted to the cargo bed, therefore becoming a fixed part of the lorry.

Jon

Some one kindly sent me a link its all in German which I cant understand. if you scroll down about half way there is a list of forbidden items. I have google translated bits and it would seem that everything worth having is banned but you are allowed to breath.

https://www.bgbl.de/xaver/bgbl/start..._1547491088119

§4

Verbote

(1) Kindem und Jugendlichen ist der Umgang mit

unbrauchbar gemachten Kriegswaffen verboten.

(2) Der Umgang mit einer fahrfähigen unbrauchbar

gemachten Kriegswaffe der Nummer 24 der Kriegswaffenliste

oder mit einer fahrfähigen unbrauchbar gemachten

Panzerhaubitze der Nummer 31 der Kriegswaffenliste

ist verboten.

(3) Es ist verboten,

1. eine unbrauchbar gemachte Kriegswaffe der Nummern

29, 30, 37 oder 46 der Kriegswaffenliste für

Dritte erkennbar zu führen oder

2. mit einer fahrfähigen unbrauchbar gemachten

Kriegswaffe der Nummern 25 bis 28, 31 - ausgenommen

fahrfähige unbrauchbar gemachte Panzerhaubitzen

-und 33 der Kriegswaffenliste umzugehen.

Satz 1 Nummer 1 gilt nicht für die Verwendung bei Filmoder

Fernsehaufnahmen oder Theateraufführungen.

(4) Die zuständige Behörde kann im Einzelfall eine

Ausnahme von den Verboten der Absätze 1 bis 3

genehmigen, wenn besondere Gründe vor1iegen und

öffentliche Interessen nicht entgegenstehen.

These are the now forbidden items:

I am quite surprised at the lack of interest in this subject as it will have major repercussions for our hobby and there must be quite a few people who would be financially affected if it were to become law in the UK. Maybe the subject title doesn't appear relevant enough to the UK.

Jon

I don't know if this is true but someone has just posted that it is already proposed as a EU wide law.

How scary is that.

Jon

But will it make any difference, as I understand it, with the current deal we will have to abide by EU law and look what has happened with the deactivated gun laws. The future doesn't look too bright.

Jon

On another forum, someone asked a question regarding a proposed new German law regrading owning of armoured vehicles. This was the reply from a German forum member.

"It is a new regulation with the War Weapon Control Law (Kriegswaffen Kontrollgesetz) It started in September 2018 and is active. If you have a motor vehicle, that is armored and fell under the war weapon law, you have to register it and ask for permission to own it. No matter it is deactivated cut armor, or not in driving condition.
You are not allowed to drive it or export it. Only on your own property. Storage is only allowed when you have a fence or a closed building around it. You are not allowed to let children under 18 acces to the vehicle. Every Armored vehicle, that is closed around the driver, and on the top of the driver fell under the war weapon law. If the police can simply shoot on the driver with normal ammunition, it is not under the law. Battle Tanks and Armored Self Propelled Howitzers are completly forbidden, you have to fill concrete into the engine compartment if you want to keep the. No driving allowed at all."

I wonder how long it will be before it is law in the whole EU.

Jon

I will try and do something Marc but I am not quite sure how. I suppose I could cine the visuals and then tape the sound using my real to real, try to match the two then workout how to digitise it all.

I haven't mentioned the state of the cooling system, it was full and I am not exaggerating, of rust and general crap, the steel pipe work looked fine until I tried clean them up and as you can see from the picture  the only option was to make new ones. It took hours to clean it all out.

I think I have at last fabricated the last two components, I couldn't really save much of the original parts, only the catch and clasp and the spare wheel bracket.

Onwards forwards and backwards,

Jon

3 hours ago, LarryH57 said:

In any future conflict it would be technically possible to have a line of robot sentries, darlek like, placed in line and in depth to shoot at anything with the correct heat, shape or movement profile until the ammo ran out

Until the ammo runs out and who will pay for the robots when cannon fodder is readily available at very little cost and as in life, eventually he who has the most toys dies. In ww2 the Germans had the most advanced conventional toys but the Russians had the most tanks and lots of human fodder that they didn't mind expending. Technology is all well and good and exciting but costs, I wonder how many T72 you could buy for 1 challenger.

God help us if there was ever a war, the MOD wastes money like water. In a major war the army with biggest battalions and most tanks will win.  

I am glad to report that after a frustrating day chasing different problems, the old girl coughed back into life at 7:30pm. She sounds lovely and quite and the oil pressure is perfect.

Jon

It doesn't look German to me, more like a modified Citroen.

Jon

The two engines, Russian and British, failed for the same reason, lack of adequate air filtration. In both cases it would appear it was either because the filtration wasn't good enough, the connection pipes weren't long enough or because of the incorrect use and adjustment of the pipe connection retainers, they weren't doing the jubilee clips up properly.

Jon

The report states that for the first 900 miles the ground was very wet and heavy and there after dry and dusty. The amazing part is that the engines only lasted for an average of 1734 miles.

Jon

I Have to confess, being the sad individual I am, I enjoy reading technical books and I have especially enjoyed the series by P.M.Knight. Anyway I digress, This is just for reference, I had to skip through the four books I have to find it, I knew which ever book I started with, it would be in the last one. Page 137 in his A15 Cruiser book.

Taken from field trial report FT911 14th August 1943.

"The TD507 Malleable cast iron (MCI) tracks achieved their expected average life of 1500" (miles).

I not suggesting anything, just that they had a degree of success with that grade of cast iron and the steel tracks only seem to have lasted for the same mileage.

Jon

Happy Christmas to all!!!!!

Thanks for the ideas, reply's, in the end they will be  cast steel, whether new or original I don't know, where from, I have no idea but that's for next year. Thanks for the idea and offer Highland Laddie but I must confess, I have never understood the concept, maybe  I am old fashioned or stupid. The project will, I am determined, get finished, as long as I don't suffer a serious bout of death. When? when it does, I am in no hurry. Every little component or assembly takes time, especially as there are no drawings. Part of the problem is determining how an assembly actually works so that it can be replicated and as I don't have the opportunity of stripping these assemblies down or x ray eyes, it takes some time to construct something that will actually work and that's before I start making the assembly. Sometimes I find a picture / drawing, in my dreams.

Have a good one,

Jon 

Fantastic topic, I have learnt something new today and I look forward to following the restoration.

Jon

Match,

Thanks for the link, after Christmas I will make some phone calls.

Highland Laddie,

I assume that you are Scottish, well the scots are renowned for being, lets say prudent with their money, so am I, in fact I haven't got any. I am not going to spend a fortune on it, that's the whole point of the exercise. My time costs me nothing, the most expensive item so far is the steering box and I will do my best to ensure that I stick to that principle.

I have a track link, a little bent but straight ones are readily available. Thanks for the ideas so far my minds racing I keep coming up with ideas then finding reasons why I can't use them. Having read the black knight series of very good books, on the development of several ww2 tanks, I see that every manufacturing option was explored, including malleable cast iron and fabricated links and its the fabricated option that keeps me awake. They didn't last long, I will have to find the information again, but they did last and if they are fabricated in the correct way, with enough strength built in.... We are not talking about a 30 ton monster, and we are not talking about racing around at 30mph, 5mph would be fast enough time to sleep on it again.

Thanks for the lead, I will follow it up. I know all about the costs of dies for aluminium die casting as I was a development engineer in a foundry for 13 years. Being cast iron, these would be sand castings with the relevant finish machining, its just a shame that so much of the British casting industry has gone. In actual fact, a thought has just passed into my tiny brain...……...

Jon

BRDM, where did you go to get yours cast, any information on the company would be appreciated.

David, you are of course correct, much the same principle as the lost foam process and I would agree that no one is going to tool up for that process for 230 links. 

I am coming to, I my opinion, the 4 most expensive parts of the project, the tracks, having the polyurathane  applied to the wheels, the springs and the final drives. The springs, I think I have a plan for, the rest is some time off but I need to start considering my options and I can do that as i finish the Morris.

The finished article, well almost. I have still got to make the end cap and the oil seal retainer for the rear of the bearing housing.
 

That's one of my worries Marc but in reality they aren't as far forward as they look.

According to the maintenance manual the H/T leads should have a 15000 ohm inline resistor between the end of the H/T lead and the top of the spark plug, does anyone have any ideas where one might acquire some.

Evening All, again,

I haven't got a big press or indeed any of the tooling required to produce the cone needed for the idler wheel in one piece so I decided to make it in 8 individual pieces. I used what I could find, a real bodge it and scarper set up but it worked. I used a very old and hard as nails piece of oak, that I planned to the form that I required, as a press form tool. What can I add, I use what I have and none of it is modern or complicated. I am doing quite a bit of machining as I go along to make sure that it all runs as true as possible, so its taking a bit of time.

But it's getting there.