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Well you might think that, but I couldn't possibly agree.:sweat:

Well if it is, who should we put at the top? :cool2:

What's happening here?

Never too sure about everything I read on wiki. Anyway this was it was reviewed in 1969.

Thanks all, although I have sorted mechaniclly what I can, it is worth knowing about these products for future use.

A whole new subject to explore John! Incidentally PSS is a RE abbreviation for Plant Servicing Schedule. Although there seems to be some divergance from the Army Coded ones.

Yes well done Gary! A very comprehensive answer. I hadn't realised it went into service with the British Army, let alone there would be someone on the forum who had used it! What I don't understand is that the "actuating loop" across the road is broken by the tank which I thought would detonate it, yet there is little hand operating it as well:confused:

A few more variations here. User Handbooks Servicing Schedules

Well if its 30in John, you have a choice of 5 makes of trailer that were in service in 1967. W3 as I'm sure you are aware was the VAOS Section for Repair shop equipment & including wood & metal, drying equipment, physical properties testing equipment. Interesting the VAOS reference number was indentical, but when they were allocated vehicle Asset Codes they were all different presumably to identify the origin of the trailer.

Yes it is an extrapolation of a hollow charge, well done. But what is the particular role & method of use?

Yes they do take in seriously. I notice programmes obviously recorded in the summer but scheduled to be shown in early November have presenters & participants wearing poppies. But it always looks a bit odd that the public, eg in auction rooms, carboots etc, have no poppies but the show participants do. Not a criticism, nice they make the effort to think about it, but perhaps they are are afraid of deluge of criticism if they were seen not to be wearing a poppy in early November.

Many thanks

Hello Dave we have met before I'm sure on EMLRA. I remember your name & the association of your trailer. I may have said before I have a trailer, although quite a different project, that was used for Yellow River & my avatar is Orange William.

Wow that was a quick one when I thought everyone was still lying in, unless of course you are doing both Lee. But nope I'm afraid it isn't.

What, who & when?

Soldiers of the Irish Free State posing with members of the Garda Siochana & RUC on their mutual border. All look fairly convivial, I expect some members of those two police forces had served together in the RIC pre-1922. Some months back I saw a RIC helmet for £2,750. There is someone on ebay selling lots of stuff as "B Specials USC" but much of it isn't, it is RUC. I asked about the size of one of the helmets & pointed out it was actually RUC. The answer came back "possible", so I still know what size it is. Someone has now told him it is a motorcyclist's helmet & was made after the USC were disbanded. So there is a lot of nonsense out there. If he had told me the size or measured it I might have bid, although I do have 6 of them already.:-D

This is what it was like before I started.

This is my first attempt with that gasless MIG. I had to remake all the turret fittings on the roof & the sidewalls of the turrent had large sections that had to be replaced. I know its not brilliant but it was the first job with the MIG & it is adequate at least.

I know the purists & the skilled welders will tut-tut at no-gas MIGs. But I am not a skilled welder & only weld from time to time. So put simply I think it is brilliant. Some years ago I had a go at MIG. I soon kept running out of gas. So I hired a medium sized cylinder from BOC. There was the cost of regulator, the gas of course & the annual rental even if you did no welding that year. In addition to that I could never really weld decently. Not only is there the choice of wire speed & current, but there was rate of gas flow & whether I am holding it at the correct distance for the gas to cover the weld. With the cored wire & gasless, then the last two parameters are removed. No worry about running out of gas. Because if you run out of wire you can have a spare spool, but a BOC gas cylinder you don't want to pay the rental on a spare & if you run out over the weekend that's tough. I know cored wire costs a little bit more & the weld is not so clean initially as a traditional MIG weld as there is the flux to wire brush off afterwards. But from being unable to MIG & selling the stuff off because I was so hopeless at welding using gasless & making OKish welds is a quantum leap forwards. For years of relying on stick electric or gas/brazing to be able to produce MIG welds is wonderful. I would thoroughly recommend this. I chose it as it seemed best value for money at the maximum current my mains could deliver (15A). This was because not only did I want to weld thin stuff but I wanted to weld sections of the Shorland turret which is 8.5mm & joined it up very adequately. I think worth choosing something with highest capacity as in the future you may find other things to weld that are thicker. http://www.machinemart.co.uk/shop/product/details/mig160en-turbo-no-gas-mig-welder/path/dual-purpose-and-inno-gasin-mig-welders If for any reason at sometime in the future you want to use gas then you can use this, although for reasons I don't understand you have to reverse the polarity of the wires.

Ok thanks both, interesting stuff to look out for.

Yes I remember seeing that, amazing! I recently watched on ebay, an unposted 1925 picture postcard in the last few moments go shooting up to £122.

Hello Borat, whoever you might be, although I have my suspicions. I think we have crossed paths at W&P if you can remember that far back! I was pleased to play the Borat role for a while as you will see there have been quite a number of hits to this thread. But that was over 2 years ago, things have moved on & you are not that funny anymore, I’m sorry to say. Bruno was a big flop, if you’ll pardon the expression, so I suppose that is why you are back here again. I wish you luck in your rather old fashioned & dare I say it worn out humour. It was fun whilst it lasted but things move on & you have been left behind with your goats & wives. Yes so chenque from me!

Yes it is indeed, spot on, well done.

This is all music to my ears. I remember doing this on 10Gc/s (before Herr Hertz got into units) In 1972, this was before Gunn devices got into the public domain I bent the cavities of klystrons like KS9/20 up into the amateur band that was then 10G to 10.5G. I built a duplex rig with a seperate TX & RX dish with a 30M IF. A novelty was aiming the contraption at the traffic low & just feeding the detector head into an audio amp. It was quite good fun trying to guess the vehicle size & speed by the woosh & wees from the amp. It certainly had a sobering effect on spped merchants! Third prize actually, I think second goes to Lee & Neil :-D

Perhaps Macbeth should have had such a device at Dunsinane Castle? While encamped in Birnam Wood, the soldiers were ordered to cut down and carry tree limbs to camouflage their numbers, thus fulfilling the Witches' third prophecy. (I'm not educated it was the book I had to study for 'O' Level) Would have thought so!