fv1609

Thats OK glad to help. Tents are a bit neglected rather like trailers were a few years ago. I do actually have a spare top section pole, so they do turn up. But one isn't going to be much good to you. You might as well make up something out of just one length of tube. If you paint the end bits green nobody is going to know.

Despite the appearance in the User Handbook the pole sections are of different lengths.

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The total assembled length is 148cm, this includes 5.5cm for the rod bit at the end.

Difficult to see but the bottom section in the picture has a nylon end with a groove to accept the guys & a pretty pathetic arrangement it is too.

Just to let you know that we had an HMVF record yesterday.......we had the largest amount of visitors in one day....

1094 yes that is right 1094

Well done to all. jack.

That's obviously very encouraging but is that visits or unique visitors?

BTW Do visitors leave a trail in that you can see where they last came from?

What do the army do with them all I wonder?

 

Loose them! Green poles on grass blend in very well, some white arctic tents had orange poles!

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!

What is the one in the picture?

 

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]

You do all rememner the 11+ or have I given my age away?

 

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

Hello all ere, iam garv and from northern ireland and my main intrests are the Alvis Saracen and the humber Pig.

 

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

The Stalwart is 13 years younger than me whilst the Landrover is 17 years younger.

 

But I'm 7 years younger than the wife so there is a plus point in all this!! :-) :-)

 

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?

i see from the upcoming birthdays list that FV1620 at 106 years old

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!

So still not sure, but I wonder does the talc dissolve in the paint whereas chalk is less reactive?

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:)

why not go on the Downs to a quarry, or chalk pit and get a good clean lump, then grind it down and sieve it out. You would need a lot of chalk sticks otherwise! Richard

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.

Clive,

 

What about French chalk as used by tyre fitters, at least they used to use it on tubes.

 

Richard

 

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.

where's the Soup Dragon :dunno:

 

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

why not replace those with matt and you can still mix your own colour.

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?