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    Stolly without a brolly (or anything else to protect it)

    in MV Chatter

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    7 hours ago, Dan77 said:

    Hi All,

    The good news is, this old girl is to be saved.  

    I have bought her and we are taking it off the island this month.   This will be my second stolly.

    As you’ve said, the environment has taken its toll on her but I have access to a large CNC machine and sheet metal shop at work so we should have the rot taken care of pretty quickly.   

    I’m still a novice at all this so any advice would be greatly received.

     

    Dan

     

    Dan,

    It would good to see pics of the recovery process....or would that be tempting fate?

    Is it running condition?

    What goes here ?

    in Aviation

    Posted

    Theres a summary of the UK history of ESSO here:

    https://www.exxonmobil.co.uk/en-gb/company/about-us/uk-history/esso

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    Esso began life as the Anglo American Oil Company in 1888. It was the first foreign affiliate of John D Rockefeller's US company the Standard Oil Trust. It had a head office at Bishopsgate, London, and a depot at Purfleet in Essex. The depot stored paraffin being shipped from New York for use in lamps throughout England.

    Basically the commercial name for ExxonMobil products

    Haverhill Generator

    in Research Centre

    Posted

    Not sure if this is the right place for this?

    Does anyone have experience/knowledge of Haverhill Generators? Not strictly a MV type question

    Come across locally what appears to be a petrol 24V Generator - Honda powerpack with a Haverhill generator attached. Its equipped with a  pair of the circular 3 pin sockets as you would see on 110V tools/gen sets. This would suggest its got an AC output with the large dia pin as earth.

    Done a quick search online and can't seem to find a company website or much info in the way of manuals.

    Is the company still in existence - the label on the machine says its based in Kettering?

    Any info would be appreciated.

    Stolly without a brolly (or anything else to protect it)

    in MV Chatter

    Posted

    Theres an additional complication with this sale.....

    The Stollie is on an island off Kirkcudbright that was up for sale last year. I spotted it in the drone video that the Selling agent included in their website posting of the particulars of the property (Farm + Lighthouse)

    I should think it might be an interesting project moving it to the mainland!!! At least the buyer isn't picking up the tab for the move but you'll need to have the low-loader on the slipway ready to recover it.....

    Spotted today....

    in MV Chatter

    Posted

    That flyby of Chinooks must have made a fair old noise - regular saw  single ones flying out of Odiham along the line of the M3 down to south Hampshire/Wiltshire. Always heard it before you saw it!

    The flanker was probably filming the formation.

    The final Sea King &  Lynx flyby/tours of the south coast had the same arrangement.

    Antar towing a rocket???

    in MV Chatter

    Posted

    11 minutes ago, Richard Farrant said:

    I thought the towing vehicle was an AEC Militant artic tractor unit but then saw that Radiomike had posted about the Leyland. That would make sense as most of the Leylands were in RAF service.

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    Does this clarify things....?

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    Antar towing a rocket???

    in MV Chatter

    Posted

    10 hours ago, Hair Bear said:

    I was looking at a completely unrelated site (Caravan Talk) where someone had posted a pic of a lowloader with a rocket on it! 1950's/60's, black and white, showed a white rocket with RAF roundel on a long trailer with what appeared to be a steered rear bogie controlled by a chap in a sort of low slung cab on the left side. The photo was certainly taken in the UK but a rear 3/4 view so the tractor unit wasn't easily identified. The pic has now vanished but does anyone recognise the description?

    Was this the picture you were thinking of?

    Found here

    http://www.harringtonmuseum.org.uk/memories-of-raf-harrington-1959-to-1963/

    When this thread first started I did think Thor missle but they were never based in the South East, but on former airfields on the East Coast in Yorshire and Lincolnshire (if you ever fly into to Humberside airport you can see a couple of the former launch sites in the surrounding area)

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    Panzer 2 turret

    in Tracked vehicles

    Posted

    19 hours ago, johann morris said:

    Afternoon all,

    I now have 10 complete wheels, that need their polyurethane tyres, 10 oil seal housings and 10 end caps. I am in the process of machining the shafts that go from the radius arms into the wheel bearings and hopefully by the end of the week I can finish the welding the shafts into the radius arms.  

     

    For those keen gardeners amongst us, a nice picture of the turf/grass roof on top one of my buildings that I finished and planted late last year.

     

    Jon

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    Like the roof!

    Whats the plan for the tracks?

    BMK-150M Russian Bridging Tug

    in Russian-Eastern block-Warsaw Pact Vehicles

    Posted

    http://www.amphibiousvehicle.net/amphi/B/BMK/bmk-150m-wheel.jpeg

    A quick search turned up this jpeg

    I think this shows the wheel rigged to be retracted with the wire running up to the small snatch block and then to the windlass forward.

    When being towed there is a locking pin securing the strut/supension unit to the hull.

    When ready to launch i.e. stern first, the wire is rigged as per the photo and the securing pin is pulled from each strut.

    You then go ahead and reverse the boat into the water and once afloat the weight of the hull comes off the strut/wheel and you are able to raise it up into the well in the hull by hauling in on the windlass on each side

    How is the towing yoke attached? It doesnt look as though it folds up onto the bow of the boat or does it?

    Is there a mechanism in the hull for locking the struts in the retracted position?

    Recovery would be the reverse process. The wire would be paid out and the wheel  struts would be allowed to fall down from the wells in the hull under their own weight. I think you would have to take the wire off the snatch block and then position it as shown in your photo i.e. straight off the windlass. You then come up on the windlass until the wire tensions up - the struts should be back in the vertical so long as you have enough water under the hull to let the wheels get to that position (The awkward bit would be getting the wire round the strut from the launch to recover position so you get a straight pull as the wire is the only thing holding the wheel strut in position for recovery - as far as I can make out)

    You then install the towing yoke and pull the boat from the water and then put the securing pins in each strut to secure for towing once you can access the struts.

    I'm working on the basis that this is Russian and pretty agricultural/squaddy proof

    Looks an interesting project...

     

     

     

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