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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?

Jerry well its certainly very tempting, no bids yet on the first book. Did you want to borrow it after I have read it?

Jagshemash My wive she not stopp talking me, she say me Borat do this then Borat not the do that. Is making my head in. she even bring shame on me in the village she speek without asking me the permit. is not allowed her to speek without her husband make permit, what do she know about anyway? even my no.2 donkey has more of the know of politics. is why i suppose our politicians are like have brain of donkey but is not the same in U&K ? She make me look a weeak man & people think i am not a master in my own places & maybee think me a la-la man who do the bung-bung in the forest. So now i have make a new muzzle for her if the go out, is very smart & is for comfortable i think, but she not able to speak to tell to me! give me nice quiet time four once! i sometimes love my wive a bit only when she is no speak so i have go to buy from rat catcher a specail muzzle (is club class premier model) only make from the well fed rat, not like the wive muzzle made from the rat from sewedge places & sell in the tourist shops. it is design from traditional wive muzzle handed down since the saw places uprising of 1645 i give her one for her birth of day soon & buy nice bday card from make in U&K, i think is picture of fluffy pink rabbit with hydrocephalus which sell in your cardshops. muzzle is feel nice & smooth, i like, i invatate to him for he make for also me nice rat skin pair of why fronts, but with the large spaces for me as i am not like the small men in the village. Worning here is man pretend to me, is not true he bring me shame i think he is like a man who is not to trust like a bad man make a forced entry & committed a buggelary, which is bad crime here but is maybe ok in U&K ? But he make me sick & give my the dyerrear so must make flush the basin, i go quickly oh yes i nearly have forget i like come the salisberry plane & meet again the boys who know how to give a freind a nice time, is you go because is nice sheep on the plane? Save one for me jery & jack, & don’t leave me the skinny one, i know your tricks. is no sheep alllowed on our plane as not too many seats, i must buy the lottery ticket for raffle to have the plane ticket on the flite in may. jack is nice idea have loneley heart page, i like a very much dorset tottys but please have no moustach like on my wive, but must have strong thigh for fieldwork & pedalling concrete mixer. Chenque, ah is too late i talk too long now i have make brown mistake on the floor, but the goat is liking it i think not

Seller has quite a diverse range of publications: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/PERSONAL-HYGIENE-FOR-GIRLS-by-Mary-Humphreys-1919-Illus_W0QQitemZ190093270012QQcategoryZ101016QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ACME-WRINGERS-1939-Folded-Catalogue-Price-List-Glasgow_W0QQitemZ190090244002QQcategoryZ108915QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem I know I like collecting books but there is a limit though

Jerry, I would set the alternator to mid position. then thread some "clothes line rope" around the pulleys & mark off the rope & measure it. Obviously if you measured how long is piece of string it would be too low as the narrow string would dig into the pulley grooves & not sit where a V belt would. See how the rope measurement tallies with the known available sizes or go to a commercial belt co & see what is off the shelf.

Jerry you asked for Series 2a/3 lightweight & what I gave you was from the IPC for S3 LtWt which gives the fan belt as 535688 for FFR & GS. But yours is 2a? Looking in the IPC for that the fan belts are 535688 is for FFR but the GS it is 554389. Note the water pump (& not just the pulley) is different for FFR & GS. When it comes to the alternator belts they are same for GS & FFR: Belt, V Endless, Matched Set, 40 degrees, 41in long. 554389 I have a pair of NOS 554389 even tied together with the official label for a matched pair :-D

Matt, I don't know when yellow came in. There is no reference to it in FVDD Specification No.2012 1st January 1948. This includes RAF MT vehicles, bikes & saloon cars. For MT vehicles: Undercoat Dark Battleship Grey BSC 32 Finish Coat, High Gloss, RAF Blue, Grey BSC 33 Chassis, valences & wings were Black. NB Saloon cars, the wings were BSC 33 as well For RAF numbers in white letters & figures 3.5in x 2.5in x 5/8in Later in 1948 the BSC spec was changed from the 1931 system to introduce a prefix number for basic colour so these two above became 632 & 633. Although 633 was deleted in 1996.

I started in 1956 with a Mine Detector No.3 (Polish) going on the beach looking for money that the grockles had left. It was rather heavy for a small boy to carry but good fun. Bought it in a scrapyard for 2/-. no valves in it I found out that ARP12s from a No.38 Set fitted & it worked! Jerry, so what are you looking for? Ordnance in the garden?

Fan belt for GS & FFR: 535688 Belt, V, Endless, 0.5in wide, 40in outside Belt alternator FFR: 538393 Belt, V, Endless, Matched Pair, 0.5in wide, 52in outside Belt alternator GS: 587086 Belt, V, Endless, Matched Pair, no measurements given I may have a 587086 I can measure.

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Richard it is correct in Windscreen. Also on here as http://www.hmvf.co.uk/pdf/NATOparts.pdf

Well that comes up as Cover, Waterproof made by Hall & Watts Defence Optical of St Albans. Used by UK, NZ & Belgium. That's all I've got on it.

Yes but there are lots of L1A1 it seems to be modern speak for No.1 Mk1 etc. It is model of a particular equipment, it isn't an equipment in its own right.

Yes 1240 is Optical Sighting and Ranging Equipment, but it belongs to the FSC Group 12 which is Fire Control Equipment

No, but I think it is under here:

Neil, go to the members list & look for entry no.2 & pm Wayne Davies quoting your membership number.

I used to use Fertan which is tannic acid (brown with a wonderful aromatic smell) the boast was that it had been used to conserve the submarine Holland I built in 1901. But when I was in the Submarine Museum last year I see that this did not work & the thing was still coroding away & an entirely diffrent appoach was adopted. I gather it failed to do any good on SS Great Britain & allegedly used at Bovington I did find that the rust continued & although you don't hear much of Fertan these days there are other rust convertors but they do smell the same! http://www.nhsc.org.uk/index.cfm/event/getVessel/vref/427 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0848-8525%281987%2919%3A1%3C16%3AFR%3E2.0.CO%3B2-2&size=LARGE http://www.eura.co.uk/ssgb.pdf