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Nearly, it was Medstead on the way to where I used to live at Upper Wield. Wife used to keep a horse in Medstead so we had to try to go there twice a day. Once those tall drifts had appeared it became unpassable. I remember trying to get home via Preston Candover & abandonning the Rover in a drift for a couple of days & having to traipse a long way through the snow to get home that night, no compliments on my driving that night!

With a S3 Lightweight this isn't 63 or 64. But it was about 25 years ago near Four Marks, Hampshire. In the days leading up to that pile of snow when it was only a couple of feet deep of freshly fallen stuff. My wife was never impressed with the Lightweight or my driving, but I decided to ram my way through with as much momentum as possible. After a few hundred yards we got through it & she actually exclaimed "Brilliant". But after that she has never made about compliment on my driving.

Single ammeter implies the transistorised regulator in Gen Panel No.9 Mk 4. Hope this helps, although the feed to the vehicle batteries (31) is wrong! It should not go to the battery link! It should of course go to +ve terminal of upper battery of the pair comprising 31. 31 vehicle batteries 34 radio batteries 49 shunt 46 ammeter 44 light bulb for ammeter 45 push switch for light 48 fuse (radio batteries) 47 +ve terminal post (for vehicle batteries & light supply) 67 Gen Panel 72 Generator 73 filter unit, which I have never seen fitted, is to protect sensitive radio equipment from voltage spikes Note that the +ve supply for radio batteries & vehicle batteries are independent. They are only connected in parallel inside the Gen panel when voltage from generator is adequate & then are also connected to the main output from the generator.

Well none of us sound very active. In the 21 years I've been here only had 4 QSOs. Although previous QTH was very active on microwaves. Rather weathered photo. On left chimney yagi for 70cm & loop quads for 23cm & 13cm For 9cm, 5cm & 3cm, main mast 66 ft high with 4.5 x 6 foot reflector consisting half inch mesh with 288 horizontal wires soldered in. This made it solid to RF, on 3cm (10 GHz) gave an ERP of 80kW. Note no HF or 2m aerials!

Don't always believe the circuit diagram. One of the diagrams has the radio battery link between the two 12-v batteries going to earth! Which installation do you have Paul, the Gen Panel No.4 with single ammeter or Gen Panel No.3 with 2 ammeters?

Seeing references in other threads, made me wonder how many of us on here are licensed radio amateurs? de G4MBS (ex G8ADP)

Paul, it was priced for a quick sale to clear some space. Although it has been sold, its still here and getting more picturesque by the day. I’ve had mixed fortunes in the grand sale. I have sold things that still haven’t been collected. Some people have said they will buy things, and then won’t communicate. One person has received things, but won’t pay or communicate. Although the majority of people have been straightforward in their dealings.

Coming down thick & fast in Salisbury.

Given that the Classified Ads are fairly vibrant now, is it not time to split Wanted & For sale into their own sections? ( & possibly a "Spotted on ebay" section?) It's tedious switching brain mode between the two categories of adverts with them all mixed in together. With separate sections there's no ambiguity in understanding whether the item is being sold or is wanted, without sometimes having to read much advert to find out. Newspapers generally separate Wanted from For sale, can't we?

I forgot to mention the matting agent I used, calcium carbonate powder. If you google that & add hair remover you might be a bit shocked, I know I was. I think we'll leave it at that!

So see what I mean, it makes all your lower teeth fall out.

Goodness me no, not even with the over 90s discount! Whenever I see MOD paint that is cheap ie £5 or so for 5 litres, I buy it. Sooner or later I will find some gate, agricultural implement or protrusion to paint. But if you have enough colours sooner or later you can concoct paint of the shade you want. The pig was in that strange RUC emerald green. I matched it from green I found on the Shorland. It was mainly Mid Brunswick Green with Service Brown, Black, French Blue, Dark Admiralty Grey & Signal Red. Its great fun mixing paint. The important thing is to make enough of it because you will never recreate quite the same brew again. I then decant it off into jam (lime pickle actually) jars so there is always a true match for touching up.

Simon to my mind Deep Bronze Green would be just fine, in fact absolutely anything in DBG would be fine. I tried, without success, to get the gates & the woodwork of the house in DBG. We have an ammo box for letters on gate post, I wanted to paint it Service Brown as nature intended, but no "army paint" was allowed, it had to be bright blue. Although I had a little chuckle as this is not ordinary blue, this is French Blue H1/8010-99-220-2329. As Fletcher said, little victories!

Robert I assume you join us all on Wednesdays & get your 10% discount too. Tim my wife buys all sorts of nonsense there. I was surprised that some lamp stands she bought are all metal but there is no earth. Much as I am wary of H&S excesses in the UK, I think earthing metal is important yet there seems to be a casual approach to electrical safety on the continent. So she thinks it looks smart & I think it looks dangerous.

Here I am driving one, when I was a boy in 1983.

Santanna (Spain)

I have a neighbour who negotiates for a group of us & rings around for the best quote for a group delivery. I have some due next week I think it is 34p a litre. I also belong to a scheme run buy http://www.boilerjuice.com/ They are not as competitive as the local group but cheaper than doing a deal as a single customer. Their site has grown quite a bit in the last couple of years & have some useful info on price changes etc

It is very satisfying that it just yields to heat. Soaking is all very but I have a bolt seized in a bush that has been soaking in diesel for 14 YEARS & it hasn't shifted yet! I can't apply heat as that with destroy the rubber & when I bash it, the impact is absorbed by the rubber!

Heat! Not a hot air gun but blowtorch to red hot. Always works!

Yes it does depend where you are & who you are dealing with. American Ferret owners have terrible problems with some authorities wanting to describe a Ferret as a tank. I remember the surprise when I read the release papers for my Dutch Army Land Rover that was apparently a "Jeep".

Did you ever set it all up & run it in full operational mode? I would be very interested to get a run down on how it all functioned. I remember seeing a picture of 3 of these, I think, some years ago when they were in service. But at that time they were all shrouded up & what lay underneath was a source of great speculation. I saw it at W&P 2007 & took a number of shots, much to the amusement of onlookers I totally missed a group of Roadsure girls who were circulating nearby.

Apart the strange concept of calling something an "Army Tank", it should be Anti-Tank Guided Weapon. (As in my avatar, which contrary to believe is not a Malkara, but is an Orange William)