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  1. fv1609
    My problem is the corrosion between pieces of frame & body. I can't get in underneath the interfaces properly without lifting the body & doing a major restoration. I'm bored fiddling around doing this anyway, I want to be working on the Pig & the Shorland, bless it, has very little Birmabright left on it.
  2. fv1609
    No you're going off course, think about Neil's post & yours at about that stage. You had two different posts which had something in common with the answer.
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    Oh that it was!
  4. fv1609
    But he was getting warm, but you were also getting warm Lee, about halway back through the thread.
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    Nope.
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    Ok Alan thank you for that. Several surface cleaners & preventive products there. I think this is the only treatment one. So it looks as if the attacked aluminium will scab off as it penentrates. http://www.lasaero.com/site/products/article?id=L03GWAU6T
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    Nope, think about the original display picture a bit more & what it might be displaying.
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    Nope, but you were getting warmer a bit earlier on.
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    Good grief man, you can't throw in the towel, no wonder we don't have an Empire any more! After all you have your reputation to maintain.
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    Chris but does that have any penetrative power? Obviously a good metal to paint adhesion will be of future benefit in keeping water & air out to prevent the electrolysis. Obviously loose white stuff (aluminium oxide?) has to be removed. It was the compromised metal that remained that worried me, hoping for some stabilising chemical. Although I suppose if its really clean & still hard, one get good paint adhesion it won't progress.
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    Ah I've just remembered I bought some automotive alunium cleaner to do the engine. You brush it on & then rinse thoroughly, but I suspect this is just to make superficially effected aluminium look better rather than a deep conversion. Sleep? Oh no not yet you surely can't get to sleep without answering MO No.124?
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    Yes, as I understand it Birmabright is the aluminium alloy used used in the construction of a Land Rover. But having a replacement sheet wasn't what I was after, it was to neutralise corrosion in the Permabright.
  13. fv1609
    Yes & for girls there was Girl, for smaller ones the bi-gender Swift & much smaller ones Robin. I remember having the first edition of Rocket which didn't last terribly long. It played on space stories & modern stuff like that & the patron & supposed editor was none other than Douglas Bader.
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    Richard, the problem I'm finding is that although I can treat the rust, the aluminium damage of white flakiness is more extensive. Even if I remove a steel bracket I can decide to treat it with Kurust or grind/polish it down to clean metal. Unfortunately if I attempt the same surgery on the aluminium, the damage will go much deeper before I can get into clean metal. So let me know if you have a sleepless night & you suddenly remember what this stuff you used was called. I've done some gooogling but nothing of value turned up.
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    We are all familiar with rust treatments like Kurust etc. But is there any similarly easy thing that can be used on aluminium? The most obvious places to be confronted with this problem are the steel/Permabright junctions on a Land Rover. The steel can be treated, but can the aluminium?
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    Not a bad idea Neil, but nope.
  17. fv1609
    Yes The yellow square is the screen & green square I believe controls double-line display.
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    Yes you obviously remember my weaknesses Lee, but nope.
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    Not a GW trainer or guidance system Richard, although funnily enough, it a similar size to the control panel for the Vigilant simulator & like that there would be a counter of sorts. Actually I think the soldier is operating the control that shifts the double lines on the display up or down.
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    Looks as if it might be, but nope.
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    I wouldn't imagine you could get one of those cars to stay on the track for that many laps!
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    Frequency counter? Nope.
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    Yes I know about that & have used X-band Doppler detection in experiments but I wasn't familiar with the term 'Doppler counter' before. Anyway maybe this will help? Here he is looking at the screen.
  24. fv1609
    Yes very observant, go to the top of the class!
  25. fv1609
    Not sure what you mean by that Lee, it's not measuring speed if that's what you're thinking.
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