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The 4 poles are J1/8340-99-132-4115 ie the set of the 3 sections that plug together. Their total length including terminations is identical. But they are different grooved nylon end for the guys, pointy end to engage tent skirt & thro to ground & then a middle section. I will measure when I find the tent. The "cooking flap" can be useful if you get caught short on a wet windy night!

Tent, Arctic, 2 Man (UK Pattern) J1/8340-99-132-4183 It is described on page 9 of: http://www.hmvf.co.uk/pdf/TENTS2.pdf I've got one & quite like it, but as it says in the article it is a poorly conceived in its method of support. The poles are in 3 sections I think.

Do you think it could be one of these: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v684/fv1620/2TENT26.jpg[/img]

I did pass, how I don't know with all my speeling mistacks :roll:

Hello garv, do you have any pictures to share with us please?

Gosh this is like those 11+ exams, Johnny earns half as much as Paul, but Paul is only paid every other day but is a third more than Peter, so how often can Johnny feed Pauls cat given the cat only eats dog food which is 6pence from the shop owned by Julians auntie who on can pay a man to dig half a hole once a week but earns half as much again as Pauls cat. You do all rememner the 11+ or have I given my age away?

yes but on the 1st April ;-)

The forum is still very stretched & tall, what was the point of changing it? It's fiddly having to scroll a lot more. It was fine as it used to be, honestly.

Richard Lime is Calcium Oxide I think, but Limestone is natural Calcium Carbonate. It's a thought though. But I have been googling & it has since Roman times at least been & still used in paint. But as for a cheap source, who would have thought a pet supplies for tortoise & snails: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/TORTOISE-SNAILS-CALCIUM-CARBONATE-LIMESTONE-FLOUR-400G_W0QQitemZ280097007870QQcategoryZ1285QQtcZphotoQQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting And in my price range! Bit better than matting agent at £20 a litre when I would have needed possibly 3 tins!

Thinking about it, the talc probably is dissolving & simply making the paint thicker. The role of talc is to absorb perspiration around certain parts of the body so it must be soluble. Now the challenge is to find a cheapo source of powdered chalk, anyone any (sensible) ideas?

Ok that's better now thank you. I thought it was somehow to help those with poor eyesight. Oh but there aren't going to be further changes to the forum are there?

Forum has gone all tall & stretchy this evening seems a shame, having to do a lot more scrolling now. It was perfectly fine as it was (to my mind the whole site was perfectly ok before :roll:)

But will I need a licence from the Dept for Elimination of Farming & Rural Affairs? Even so I would have to go up on the downs, lot of effort even before the grinding & seiving. I might even try a range of other powdery things eg flour? plain or self-raising? I suppose at my age it ought to be self-raising, just to be on the safe side

The forum seems exceptionally quiet. Unless one has been following developments very closely over the last few days, a lot of people may be out there wondering why HMVF has disappeared. Could you send a bulk email to all members to get them up to speed, but of course there will be a great number of lookers who are not signed up, is there some PR to the mags to point out the changes & maybe an announcement on milweb arranged. Otherwise I feel the forum will be set back considerably in its useage.

Tyre fitters with tubes, you're going back a bit! French chalk, looked that up & says it is powdered talc (= hydrated magnesium silicate) but chalk is calcium carbonate. Now the talc experiment didn't work, the chalk did. But I was using a stick of blackborad chalk rubbed on sandpaper, but I see that is different from "chalk" as it is calcium sulphate. So still not sure, but I wonder does the talc dissolve in the paint whereas chalk is less reactive?

I found a stockist of matting agent "about £20 a litre" reckons about 30-40% needs to be used to transform from gloss. Although my attempts to used talcum powder met with no success, but I found a stick of chalk ground that up & mixed it into some gloss paint & it has matted it down. Understandably it lightens it & makes it a thicker mix. I need to experiment to see what ratios are required. Anyone any ideas where I can get powdered chalk? Is it used in maybe the building trade, horticulture, pharmacies etc? Just need a cheap & easy source.

Wasn't that reckonned to be Mrs Thatcher?

Jagshemash is nice jack forum is back & i speak the boys again. like the cliv i have suffer the withdrawl sympttoms, you know like stinging but is ok now with the goose cream jerry borrow to me. i like very much the blue pieces round the edges is very clever how you do that, is nice make me feel sxeytime, wawawee! the cliv is so boring he not like pretty things, he read his army pubications too many i think, he send me a picture for i make my wive. i don’t know how he think womens are made but he not able to count up to two? he too silly like the village bottom pincher who like hairs of the dog for breakfast. i go now & check my laptop & see if there are any dancers, wawawee! Chenque,

I was nearly getting withdrawl symptoms even had to resort to emailing Richard. Glad the forum is back as to how it was, but the blue & white edges are a bit annoying/pointless, can those go or made into pea soup green like the main background? Please

Yes I see what you mean but if I was going to have to buy new paint, I might as well get what I want mixed up for me. The original idea was to use stuff that I had in stock for reasons or economy & satisfaction. But I may have to give up & get it matched & mixed in matt. I like the analytical way of matching from Cromadex rather than trying to match against a small patch. But there are no branches of Cromadex round here. The other problem is the bare patch of paint is on the wing of the Shorland & I don't want to have to take the wing in for a match. I will see if there is some way I can cleanly remove a patch of the bonnet & carry that around! But first to investigate the matting agents, but if the stuff is a silly price relative the amount I have to use may give up on that idea & I don't know how much it dilutes the colour density.

Richard, yes I realise it is mixed to requirement & I can see that a standard colour would present no problem. What I am intrigued to know is how it is matched to a sample. Is this done on the basis of some spectrometer reading or are there ranges of chart samples or is it guessd at & then pigments mixed to bring it into match? I was having a MOT today & asked if there was anybody round here or Salisbury direction & was told no, they have to got to Autopaint in Burseldon. That is on my well worn path to visiting my mother, so any experience of them or I suspect it might just be a cellulose paint place?

Thanks for all the suggestions. Buying it ready matted is not an option because it is not a standard colour & I have to mix it myself, which is something I am quite happy doing. I have painted two vehicles in homemade colours rather than ready bought stuff. Whenever I see paint very cheap I buy it on the basis that I can paint a shed, gate etc or use it as the basis for mixing it to paint a vehicle even if only for an undercoat. The paint I am trying to create is 'Rustoleum Green' used in 1969 by the RUC on their pigs, Shorlands & some Commers. Rustoleum are unable to identify the type of green they had at that time. I am lucky in that I have a Shorland that was originally Rustoleum Green (they were contrary to popular belief never grey) I have been able to expose 2 square inches of undamaged perfectly preserved paint. But taking the vehicle that has not been driven for 10 years to a paint dealer is not an option. Besides I am too mean to buy new & want the satisfaction of mixing it myself for next to nowt. The funny thing is that when the RUC painted the pigs Light Admiralty Grey for a brief period in 1962 I received lots of criticism when I displayed it in this colour. Recently I have shown it in a rather odd surplus green there has been no comment, but I know it is wrong. The colour is a dull emraldy green, I can achieve this with Light Brunswick Green, Victorian Green, Dark Admiralty Grey, Light Stone & Black. The first two are gloss the last three are matt but the mixture is far too glossy. These have been purchased in 1-gallon cans for £3-£5 or found at the tip, which will be quite an economical way to paint a vehicle. Now when I eventually get this match to Rustoleum Green it will look rather awful but I will know it is correct & that's what counts!

Yes he has rung me thanks, the comms system your end seems fully intergated to developments, you obviously run a very smooth operation ;-)

When I have asked before about converting gloss paint to matt, the suggestion has been to add chalk. Not having any chalk I have tried talcum powder, about one third powder to two thirds paint by volume. This seems to have done nothing for the finish, just made the paint a bit thicker. Talc is hydrated magnesium silicate & chalk is calcium carbonate is it a chemical issue? I had assumed it was to do with the particle size. Anyone experiences of matting agents commercial or homemade? When I search for these things its mainly about model makers & arty-crafty things.

I have got Equipment Table Schedule No. S3299 Toolkit Vehicle Mechanic REME 1987. Does that sound about right?