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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.

Jolly good

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

Nige don't know the date but probably fairly recent as it is in fancy colours & it was with a pile of stuff that included some Wolf documentation

Neil, go into the members section, the second sticky topic go into that about Sankey trailers the last entry is from Mike Allmey who has posted a link to his site with quite a few documents, but it doesn't have this one (sorry about torn corner)

Yes well don't rub it in. I have things going on here, I'll pm you on. But I dived in without thinking, I was tempted to modify the original post & extricate myself. But a bit of public humiliation I suppose is always entertaining! There is trick for testing the polarity of the spark to try to see in which direction the electrons are flowing. By holding the HT lead several mm from the plug terminal & interposing a pencil lead between the two a flare is produced. If the polarity of the HT is correct a flare is seen between the pencil & plug, reversed polarity & the flare is between the pencil & the cable. I have just checked that I have got it the right was round. But this book says that -ve earth or +ve earth coils may be used for either polarity of vehicle. But to ensure the polarity of the spark is correct then use the -ve terminal should go to the contact breaker for -ve earth vehicles & the +ve terminal should go to the contact breaker for +ve earth vehicles. So I wasn't 100% bollox after all ;-)

Ah yes I was forgetting that the polarity of the spark would be reversed. The problem is that the centre electrode of the plug should be -ve so that the spark jumps to the earth, wrong way round & a higher voltage is needed to get an equivalent spark. Also as the spark jumps it erodes the electrode a little & the centre electrode is designed for this. So I was talking bollox, so proper polarity coil for the appropriate earth system of the vehicle.

AFAIK the coil has no specific polarity & it was much more sensible when the switched battery input was marked SW & the other end of the winding that went to the contact breaker marked CB. Unfortrunately in modern systems it seems to be a -ve earth system then SW is now marked + & CB is now marked - I see no reason why the coil should not work in a +ve earth vehicle provided you translate it in your mind to SW & CB terminals. It would be important to be certain whether the coil is for a -ve earth vehicle or a +ve earth vehicle. I suspect but not completely sure that +ve earth vehicles used SW & CB whereas -ve earth ones use + & - It helps to remember the ignition coil is a transformer. The input (ie primary) winding is fed with switched battery supply (SW) & the other end goes to the CB terminal which is also connected to one end of the output (secondary) winding. The other end of the secondary is the HT output.

Roland, don't be misled by the 3-colour camo on the Mk2, it is nonsense & so are some other features. Mk2 pig was only deployed in N.Ireland, there was no requirement to display a bridge plate let alone a number on it. It is true that a few Mk2 pigs did have a plate left on from their former Mk1 life. But they were not picked out by painting it any diffrerently from the rest of the vehicle, nor was a bridge classification marked. For this reason the Mk2 was never given a Bridge Classification, which is far more more complex than just its weight. But given the classification for a Mk1 is '6' I think the guess of '7' is rather low for such a heavy vehicle. As for the Union Flag, pigs were not marked this way in N'Ireland. It served no purpose, the population was only too aware that these vehicles belonged to the British Army! I have seen about 6 Mk2 pigs fitted with turrets from Shorland armoured car (they are similar turrets to a Ferret). This served the purpose of improved protection for an observer in rural settings & the removal turrets from Shorlands was tried as a way of downgrading the "tank" like appearance, which always looks bad in the media. The turreted pigs I have were paint in just NATO IRR Green & that's all. The mesh is to give a measure of protection against the RPG7 & was fitted to Saracens in Operation Kremlin II from May 1973 & later a few Pigs. Interestingly when 12 BK 96 was a Mk1 it was sold of at Ruddington for £70 in 1968. But it was recovered in 1978 & made into a Mk2. This is much later than the main group of 200 which where recovered in 1972. I suspect it received the body of an already converted mk2 that had suffered damage to the chassis.

Just depends if you have been found out ;-)

Neil, well at least you had a go. It's not the winning that counts, it's the joining in.

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