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Are there any vocab part numbers?
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Jack, military authors seem to find that a very significant factor for a publisher is whether it can be sold in sufficient numbers in the USA. I suspect your leanings would mean that it could be.
But people writing about British equipment are up against it. Although if you want to write about aeroplanes & railway engines I suspect there is less of a problem than British MVs.
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I'm going to try RSN12Y's in my Ferret what's the correct gap :dunno:
Lee, 0.75 - 0.8mm but with Jolley electronic ignition because there is such a good spark I think it can be increased to 1.0 - 1.14 mm.
When I get fouling up it was due to leaving the choke out longer than I should have. I solved this by disconnecting the choke. If its not been run for a few days, I prime the carb from the David pump. Before start up I give two pumps on accelerator pedal then start up & keep foot off pedal for a good half minute. Then away she goes.
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Neil, not really fair to add the breakdown cover as that is a seperate thing altogether. I don't bother with lost key cover as three of the vehicles don't have locks!
But in this day & age, I feel legal expenses very worthwhile. My wife had a RTA in her car last year. There was no insurance claim that could have been successful so the insurance companies backed off. BUT she had nasty & frightening letters from solicitors who were going to pursue her in a civil action. Fortunately she had legal cover & her solicitors responded & it all stopped.
I have now insured my cipher trailer not just for the value if it is stolen or damaged, but for the public liability cover for its presence at shows & legal expenses cover to try to avoid any insurance shortfall in liability "try ons".
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Yes it does goes up slightly.
Currently £130 with Roadsure for cover on five armoured vehicles each valued at £3,000. Seems reasonable to me, but I'm not a young driver like Neil :-D
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I'm not greatly interested in uniforms & regalia, but I do have a soft spot for pith helmets. They conjure up a certain nostalgia & above all are very practical, so much so in the hotter weather I can sometimes be seen wearing such a device. Here is a nice little article about them.
http://www.militarytrader.com/Default.aspx?tabid=2041&articleid=5987&articlemid=5693#5693Articles
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Do you know if these are the original Saxon AT105 APCs or the Saxon Patrol APCs with Cummins engine deployed in N.Ireland?
I do think they are horrible things. They have such poor visibility, in that you see a rather windswept commander stood in the turret even driving along the motorway. They are cumbersome & have a much wider turning circle than the Pig they replaced.
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Unleaded see below:
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You got to admit - squaddies is clever y'know!!! Who else could possibly dream of taking a device used for extinguishing aircraft fires and use it for crowd control instead!! :evil: :evil: :evil:
Thats nothing. This ain't for putting out fires! They have been refilled with something else.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v684/fv1620/SquirtRover.jpg[/img]
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Clive,
There are a few of them in amongst the Scorpions in this photo. I guess this was 1993/4 or so, due to the Foxes, Scorpions and Ferrets all parked up? Any idea where this was taken?
Chris
Chris
Ludgershall I think
(your flashing avatar makes my ed urt & has something driven over that ferret?)
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Technically speaking - a Salamander isn't an AFV in the sense the other are!! It's a crash tender - in RAF parlance the Crash Tender Mk 6. :evil: :evil:
and water cannon.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v684/fv1620/52EK60.jpg[/img]
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There were some FV432/30s at Withams with that strange grey/green colour scheme. Was it primarily used at BATUS or elsewhere? Also, did all the Milan Compact Turret Spartans end up at BATUS too? I've seen a photo of loads of them lined up at Ashchurch or Ludgershall in the early 90s but I've only seen a couple in private hands or museums.
Chris
Chris I've not seen any of them outside depots. On that Ludgershall visit there were two plain white Spartans & two yellow ones, all in good condition. So I don't know it they were rangemasters or adjudicators but seems a bit elaborate for those roles.
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The FV432 was seen at Ashchurch 2002. This CVR(T) was at Ludgershall in 1995.
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A bit like a CVR(T) Sturgeon, then?
As an aside, can anyone tell me how this CVR(T) derivative got its name?
Because they always park them in a roe?
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Thanks, Clive,
I waited no end of time trying to find out what "Samson tanks" were :
Now you say it was all a fantasy :dunno:
They also had Goliath & Bombolans AFVs but if you saw those then you may have smelt a rat. The aircraft were interesting Scorpion, Tarantula, Cobra, Python, Asp & Viper. A few names have since got used amongst those including Cobra & Python which were ATGWs.
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Is it an OPFOR vehicle for use at BATUS?
Yup something like that well done. No doubt operated by the Fantasians! I put it here really as a clue to Mystery Object No.24 to see if it would trigger any thoughts, but it seems not.
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Is it to present an outline/silhouette for scanning purposes for some
kind of weapons system?
Hmm nope
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Richard is the closest (although I think he is fantasising a bit).
Bit of a tricky one, this army does not actually exist! It is the Fantasian Army created by the British Army for training purposes.
Richard was the closest in that the Fantasians had a similarity to the Soviet Army & the era was correct, this handbook is from 1953.
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Would some form of missile/projectile fit over the 4 "spikes"?
Nope
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Energy pulses
Nope
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Due to Defence cuts, the Army cannot afford ammo, so dummy guns are fitted :whistle:
Nope
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What's this all about?
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Does anyone want to have a final go before I reveal all later this afternoon? Richard is the closest (although I think he is fantasising a bit).
Capacitor Help
in Other Chatter
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Lee I don't understand about the rating. Are you sure the component is actually a capacitor? Input 15v output 319v etc is not the way a capacitor would be rated. It would normally have a capacity value microfarads, picofarads etc & a max voltage working often quoted as a DC & an AC value.
TW I assume is the manufacturer & 230 380 the part no. Searching for TW250380 yields nothing. Just 250380 reveals items from surgical bone nibblers to a lens but no capacitors.
WO3 BXS reveals nothing, but could it be a post code.
8633 reveals items from a US roller bearing to a German toilet, but no capacitors.
I can't look through capacitors & see if something matches as more than a quarter of a million are listed.
So is this a capacitor? Perhaps it is a step up transformer. Disconnect the good one & measure resistance values & compare with the suspect one. If they are all open circuit maybe it is a capacitor. I can always measure the capacity for you on a capacitance bridge.