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Neil as you will see in this EMER there are quite a few combinations! This is a pattern 104, shell size 2, 12-pin, orientation 0. Then of course you have to cope with the key ways of the plug case shroud, there can be single or double key ways with up to three & all in various orientations. The good news is that the shroud can be changed to suit. But there are pages of combinations. I looked in my plug collection but couldn't find a match for you I'm afraid.

Ken be aware that they are very heavy. Carriage costs even within the UK would be pretty high. I would try charging through the inspection socket as your best option for now. If you find that it trips the cutout on really flat batteries, then introduce some resistance in series to drop the voltage a bit until the batteries have absorbed some charge.

Many thanks for organisers allowing a few privately owned MVs to attend. Here is one of our enclaves. I really found the visitors were particularly sensible & appreciative. In 30 odd years of displaying MVs I have never had such good appreciation from people hearing about the history & development of my displayed vehicle. In fact on the Sunday I got my hand shaken by five people on different occasions thanking me for my time in explaining its history. I've never had this experience before. I was so busy I didn't have time even look in the arena at the tanks doing their stuff. Although I did look at some of the smaller tanks which were very impressive. I particularly like this German 'Falke' IR night vision system. The detail & rust effect was very convincing particularly when you consider the Falke was about an inch long. The IR filter should actually appear almost black, but I think this was artistic licence as I suspect it could light up. If it was genuine IR of course you wouldn't see it light up!

Ken the problem with those lights is that it is easy to think you have turned them off when in fact they are on still but very dim. I took the resistance winding out so it was clearly on or off. But a battery isolator gives peace of mind & also if you have some sort of fault you can kill the power. This saved me melting the loom in my Pig once.

Ken assuming you don't have some fancy 'intelligent' charger. I assume though that the 55A rate is a rapid charge that puts a bit more voltage in to make battery suck it in at a higher current than normal. I assume 28A is the normal charge rate. Use the 28A setting but that is not necessarily the rate it will charge at, it just depends how low the battery is. If the batteries are nearly fully charged then it may only deliver a few amps gradually decreasing to zero until it accepts no more. Charging using the boost setting can be dangerous when it is nearing a fully charged state, because of the higher than normal voltage the batteries will carry on & become overcharged with bubbling of electrolyte releasing hydrogen! The circuit breaker is thermal & will work in either direction. If you draw more than 25A ie if the batteries are in very state of charge, then it will cut the circuit & after a minute or two will reset as it cools down.

Ken if you charge via the inspection light sockets you are charging via a 30A circuit breaker. Might be ok as a trickle charge point, but best to go direct to batteries via start socket.

Tried cross referencing 102CS to a NSN but that just comes up as a bolt, which ain't right. What is that number in the moulding on the heal underside? PS Perhaps I misread it & it is 10205? But that comes up as a man's bicycle!

40+ Portuguese Shorland pics http://www.shorlandsite.com/WhatsNew.htm

This bit was under its own steam.

If its not been modified it would be nice to take a picture. Just make sure he puts oil in it not grease. People see a lubrication nipple & assume it is a grease nipple, but in this instance it ain't.

Yes I think some of the chaps had no ear protection other fingers in ear holes

I better explain. The Humber 1 Ton FV1600 Tracta joints are lubricated by injecting OIL through a lubricator originally fitted at A. Because too much force whilst doing this could damage the larger hub seal, the lubricator was moved to point B. The hole at A was meant to be plugged, ground down & peened over. Here on the front off-side & also the near-side it has not been completed properly. Leaving it may give rise to confusion at servicing & indeed might even invite a lubricator to be fitted & the seal damaged. So the plug should have been put beyond use & normally it is very difficult to see where it was at all, giving the impression that the lubricator point had always been in position B. The rear ones had been properly modified on this vehicle. Now this should have been done to all Humbers, but some got missed out. Op Bubble assessed the ease with which the 200 Pigs had been "recovered" for service in N.Ireland could serviced ready for use. It was found a significant number had not had this modification. This was a contributing factor to the time taken being double what had been expected. The mod must have been one of 51 mods cancelled in 1968 either because they no longer relevant or because the mod had been thought have been completed to all vehicles. Given that such a number slipped though the net, I hope to one day find a Humber that has not had this mod done, but at least finding it half completed was an interesting find for me. :cheesy:

Nope, all ok here

It looks similar but isn't actually Phil, my avatar is of Orange William, the British ATGW with 3 x the range of the "secret missile" in the film. Probably OW was even more secret than that.

Yes looked like that to me. The "missile so secret", in fact did have a name - Malkara Hmm & Thunderbird I have a radar target simulator trailer for that in the garden, part of Yellow River

Paul it was the Humber, Wireless, Light, FV1604 which was the most interesting vehicle for me there, yes I know it takes all sorts! How did I spot it? Well I teased the owner that it was a shame to hide the vehicle under a camo net. It was a MV show if I want to look at camo nets I could look at some here. Anyway I put on waterproof trousers & slid underneath, as ones does, & nosed around with a torch & a camera, looking for the unexpected.

Paul turning up was the easy bit, it us who should be thanking you & your team for being there, not just the weekend but all the effort that goes into planning, organising, doing it & clearing up afterwards. Thank you to all. The highlight for me wasn't the noise of the guns going off, or Kitten Mew's dress coming off or even what seemed like 100s of Champs going round & round in circles, but it was seeing this: Now you don't often see that incomplete mod. :-)

Paul, I've had an unreserved apology & a promise to remove it. I don't necessarily want it removed, I just don't like someone claiming my work as their own. I notice quite a lot of articles I see that have turns of phrase that I recognise as mine & snippets of info I have gleaned that are unlikely to have come from another source particularly when viewed with the phraseology. But it has been so blatant & with a naivety that is staggering. They must have surely thought someone would spot it sooner or later. I notice they have had difficulty lifting it from the pdf as the font size & formatting changes quite a bit throughout the piece. Funnily enough I was speaking to someone at Evesham yesterday who is ex-regiment & his role was to source water & treat it for desert ops & exercises. He says he is also chuffed to read the article as people don't always appreciate how crucial his role was to provide a clean water supply as it is so fundamental to any military endeavour.

I haven't calmed down. I have emailed the site: Dear Sirs I am very disturbed to find an article on your site about water carts marked "Copyright RWK 2011" which seems to be my work with some changed photographs. My original article was published in Windscreen being the magazine of the Military Vehicle Trust in the Spring 2006 edition No. 110. It was clearly marked as my copyright and so is the article posted in pdf on HMVF. http://www.hmvf.co.uk/pdf/ARMYWATERSUPPLY.pdf I am not averse to my material being used on another site or publication if I am asked and acknowledgement given, but I find the claiming of copyright of my work wholly unacceptable. I look forward to hearing what you intend to do to correct this.

Yes it is an interesting article! Largely my work with different photos. Compare & contrast http://www.hmvf.co.uk/pdf/ARMYWATERSUPPLY.pdf I don't know who RWK is to claim copyright in 2011 but I wrote my article which was published in Windscreen Spring edition 2006 No.110 clearly marked as my copyright & also it is marked on the HMVF article as my copyright. I haven't read RWKs piece fully as I am fuming. I need to calm down before I make an approach to the website.

Sun has even made a few guest appearances, mind you it is a bit wet under foot.

Rained during night, but no rain this morning:cheesy:

Sunny here this morning & no rain :cheesy:

I might have some. Need to find them!

Will be splendid to see that up & running. I had a look around it some months ago. To my mind that & the Shorland you have are the most interesting vehicles in the whole collection.