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The data I posted was from the User Handbook for RLB, RLD & RLF. Looking in Data Book of War Department G.S. "B" Vehicles WO Code No.12710 it gives these Bridge Classifications. So for what its worth, this is what it says: RLB - 9 Binned - 7 Charging, Signals, RLD - 8 Power Generating & Charging - 7 Cargo with winch RLW & RLF - 9 Fuel tanker - 7 Cargo FV Body - 9 Signals Mk 2, unfitted - 8 Cargo Dropside - 8

Umh, Digby looks a bit different from how I remember him. Must have been the start of trying to be PC. Are the Stars of David an attempt to counterbalance the flag?

If you are talking about single or double servo, can you send me a picture? I've forgotten I think you have a Mk2. But you could still have a single servo. The clamps are useful for not just isolating a cylinder, but by moving a clamp from one end of the hose(s) to the other, in case there is some bulging. There is quite long run on the fronts with those two hoses. Remember not get caught out, if you have recently run the engine, then the residual vaccuum will help the servo to push on the brake pedal with greater effect. That can give the feel that it is going down further than you thought, when you tried it on another day without running the engine when there was no vaccuum. If its any help, I think the total depth the pedal could travel to is about 5in, the best I can adjust mine to is just under 2in.

CA219A - 681 Veh Troop, 6 Sup Reg RLC CA274A - Disposal Sales Depot (Mongengladbach)

I thought someone was going to chip away at the non-British item. Then when we got to Sweden it would be a giveaway. Then when we got to the armoured vehicle, someone would ask tracked or wheeled. Then knowing it had been fitted to Pigs then Saracen would have been the next step. I was going to go back & put the uncensored drawings up & just leave it to see how long before someone with a photo zoom would take to notice the change, but it was too much of an effort!

Servo service kits? Ah you really sure you want to do this, Jamie? I have the receipt from a classic vehicle spares supplier for the two service kits for the servo. It was £143 AND that was 14 years ago! I think you will find that servo only makes it easier to put your foot down with less force. Before you tangle with the servo, I would use brake pipe clamps on all 4 wheel stations & see if the pedal is stiffer. If it is, release each clamp in turn & if the travel suddenly increases then you know which cylinder needs attention. If that makes no difference, check that the master cylinder is returning fully & that the shaft that presses into it has about 1mm of play before it hits the cylinder cup. The other thing to consider is if your hoses are rather old & bulging maybe under pressure. Do you have a single or double servo?

The equipment was a Carl Gustav & the mounting assembly was for a Saracen.

I have re-read the spec. The EB is armoured for the protection of the driver & is driven normally when it is in transit. In operation the EB is then remotely controlled by cable with electrically operated controls on the steering column, a hydraulic drive with Moog valve for controlling vehicle speed & electro-hydraulic controls for the fork lift controls. So I think you are right there is some arrangement to support a control cable at the rear. It is not employed in the lower picture as this is a demo & the EB has been driven there normally, hence the open window. Incidentally the TV camera is very obvious on the prototype but not on the demo one.

Yes I realise it is a set up for practicing, I just thought it would be best to practice at a greater distance, as one would be operationally. I expect in those circumstances the EB itself would have been moved to a safer distance. I typed in haste, I don't think the cable does actually go to the EB but rather to the Wheelbarrow. That came from me. The source is a MVEE document that explains that the EB is simply to get the Wheelbarrow close to the IED over rough terrain. The EB is remotely controlled & the operator directs the vehicle by watching a TV monitor.

OK GE that might be useful as it looks a bit more automated anyway. Does it have a facility to slow a clip? At the moment, I have to keep firing the pause button to hit the frames that I want & that is a bit tiresome trying to grap the frame I want. The advice seems to be to download & store as a mpg then run at a lower speed. But I can't see how to save a youtube clip. So will Photoscape help get round that?

I've worked out how to save a frame from youtube, by enlarging the clip & saving the screen & pasting it. But I want to get rid of lower tool bar? I know I can crop it, but it sits on top of some of the image & there are occasions where I would loose some important coverage. Once I've freezed a frame, I go to full screen, but am stuck with this tool bar. How can I get rid of that? This might even be my pig:

and another. This EOD EB I assume is remote controlled by the operator at the end of the cable in the foreground, although he seems remarkably close?

Grudgingly from the Post Office, where they always like to say it can only be taxed at a LVLO.

Are you looking at V112G/R, it is under Regulation 30.

Neil welcome, I thought this was going to be a one-horse race with you know who winning! I'm afraid its not for laying anything. If it helps, although this bracket assembly is a REME workshop design, the actual equipment it carried (which is not shown) was not British.

Pictures: 1 - top view 2 - top view 3 - side view 4 - view of the thing to be fitted. Thing to be fitted is a mounting for a piece of equipment.

Under the tabs it is Air Ministry, sorry MOD(AIR) related. 5120 NSC for hand operated, non-powered tools I suppose you could ring up Platons & ask them what its for?

Nope, this modification is for another vehicle. Although as it happens it was also tried on a Pig.

Yes & no

Clues: Vehicular Vietnam era British

Do they still make them? I could do with a pair!

Face wrench socket used in aircraft?

Studs or staples in leather things, saddlery?

You wouldn't get me near a dental surgery Richard, had far too many bad experiences in those sort of places believe me.