robin craig

Two observations.

I see the older grand daughter is a right "ham" in front of the camera, that cheesy grin is priceless, save that one for when she gets married at the wedding meal to embarrass her!

I thought the lambs were "pre wrapped" for the table . . . .:angel:

R

Earlier this week three cannons were installed on their carriages in the small town by the St Lawrence.

For a brief description and some video footage click here:-

http://gananoquetoday.ca/?p=44072

Please note that there is a spelling mistake in the article and the town mentioned should read "Carron"

For more info on 1812 events in Gananoque and the other towns involved click here:-

http://celebrate1812.ca/events/the-attack-on-gananoque

R

Definitely petrol variant, would suspect some plonker put them above instead of below, wouldn't read to much into that.

R

Oi!

If your going how about some of us colonials?

I operate heavy equipment both tracked and wheeled, weld + cut, previous heavy metal recovery experience, also speak French rather well.:-D

R

Did you buy it from Jacksons or Withams?

R

Dear Muir Hill,

Thank you for posting and welcome to the forum although there is a section to do that.

I'm intrigued by your County, what other pictures do you have of it at the time of purchase? I see there was a second one sitting beside it. Did it have any military data plate attached?

What factors did you consider before making the decision to put it back into ag colours? I'm guessing your more of an agricultural equipment enthusiast than a military vehicle type, is that true?

Do tell us more about your tractor.

Regards

Robin

I have first hand knowledge that can act as a cautionary tale that is somewhat linked to this.

Don't ever fire a firearm such as the SLR or anything that ejects with a similar system except in the way it was intended.

This scribe has a dental bridge of 3 teeth lost to SLR ejected casings taken in the mouth.

It was my own fault but so easy to do, short of sleep and soaked to the bone, absoultely shagged tired. Got bumped by the DS during an Ex. As you are required to return fire and had just dropped and rolled I figured it was opportune to let loose with the noise maker 7.62 blanks. Rifle was laying on its left side just in front of me, being a mouth breather I took the first 5 casings in the mouth. Sheared two teeth off at the gum.

R

I did post this in my very slow Ferret restoration blog but no one seems to be watching so to have any value I have stood up this thread on its own.

There are many metal parts that have bonded or vulcanised rubber on them over a wide range of vehicles from over the years. The common problem is what to do when the bonding lets go. I was trying to deal with this problem on my Ferret fuel tank bracket.

After some chats with Loctite they recommended this product.

Works very well.

R

Considering all you guys are in the same time zone and i'm hours behind you i couldn't answer earlier. I kind of feel like the kid at the back of the class who wants to answer but Sir doesn't see.

Very cool spotting Chris.

R

Thanks for posting that, I am very interested in your progress.

Love how the side of the building leaves room to play with the track and suspension.

R

Sadly Tommy was busy this weekend getting transmissions built for this week, such are the joys of an owner of a business.

I did tinker in our shop for a while this afternoon.

The brackets for the fuel tank have let go from the rubber and while I have a back up "B" and "C" plan I really wanted a go at fixing them.

I had purchased a while ago a product from Mr Loctite after doing some considerable research with their tech rep.

He came up with this as the best product.

It was recommended to not scuff but only clean the surfaces.

This one had let go one one side only the other being still fully bonded.

I set it up in the shop and have left it to cure overnight in 50 degrees c so we will see in the morning what the result is.

I might have just as well been buying Channel No5 as this bottle cost me over $40 with all taxes in. I hope it works!

Here is a link to the data sheet for it http://tds.loctite.com/tds5/docs/3410-EN.PDF

R

As stated in my earlier post, the trousers are NOT connected to the putties. Use twist thingies or rubber bands to "blouse" the bottom of the legs.

R

The answer is NO it can not. Mike 65 is correct.

How do we know? We bought "Blott on the landscape" and they come in your system format and it doesn't work over here.

Free to a good home, two copies of the above, you pay postage we will give it to you.

R

The owner of this truck had asked me a question which was posted here

http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?28619-Help-with-Ex-BATUS-C-S-38G-Land-Rover-110-please

R

Gary,

The subject of a handrail has surfaced here already. We are looking at options. Would love pictures of what was done.

R

Dear Captain Canuck

I am presuming that you are here in Canada, could you please fill in your location on your profile?

While everyone is free to call themselves what they want as a forum name it does make it a bit more personal if we could know your name.

You will see that I am also in Canada.

Why not start a thread with pictures of your truck and progress

I suspect that I already know you . . . .

regards

Robin

On one of our Bedfords has one of these bodies.

We have been dealing with a number of issues with it and last wednesday night we tackled two of them.

First was water getting inside, ie a leak. We have had the problem from the begining. The roof has various pieces of light gauge chequer plate riveted on top of th roof as walkways we presume. They are in an even pattern and in a a uniform layout so we believe that they are genuine.

My mate Gerry has a wondeferful low pressure smoke generator that is powered by 12 volts and shop air and runs at 1/2 psi and uses baby oil. We used painter's tape to seal as much of the obvious cracks as we could. As the van body has a through fitting on the left hand side we stuffed the smoke hose in through there and started it up. The body did fill with smoke but it soon settled to the floor and we were not getting anywhere.

Time for plan B. We mixed up a soapy water solution in a spray bottle and attached a shop vacuum on "blow" to the same fitting. Gerry then went carefuly over the whole roof and found two positive leaks. We also found that the left rear vertical corner angle was also leaking big style down it's whole length.

We also found that all the chequer plate on the roof has likely either had the smallest of beads of sealant when fitted or none at all.

As all the surfaces were now soap covered we moved on to the next problem which was putting back on the stair brackets at the back.

We had a set of stairs but from previous enquiries on here it had the latter DAF attachment points we believe. By now our second but heavily damaged set of stairs had arrived and it had the correct style and the two were swapped over. Sadly one of the brackets was bent and using a file we determined that it was some kind of bronze or like substance and snapped like glass when warmed and forced. Gerry made up a very passable replica in mild steel.

When we had taken the stair brackets off we noticed quite a lot of corrosion on the bolts on the right side bracket. Even cleaning the bolts wasn't going to work so we bought new ones. Threading those in by hand revealed that the captive plate inside the rear cross member was tapped but the threads were suspect. So we went for a Helicoil repair. If you do this, the outer cross member holes have to be enlarged so you can drill and tap for Helicoils. Add to that the thickness of the captive plate is only about three full threads. Rather than trying to put the Helicoil in and break off the tang we used a longer insert and the bolt end will push the tang out of the way.

As we proved on a trial run it is a fiddly finickey task putting in the inserts so we slathered on some Loctite to secure them in place.

For those of you who have never used Helicoils there is an explanation video here

After the invention of pre sliced bread, Helicoils are right up there as a useful item in life.

Once all that was done we could mount the stairs.

So success on finding the leak and we are pondering what to do, there are ton of rivets to take off if we are going to re seal each item on the roof, we are looking at a patch material in a can that can be rolled / slopped on but I have not made any decisions as yet. The stairs look grand and work well, now to decide how to mount them for travel. It looks as if there was something to hold them vertical to the left of the rear door but we don't have brackets. For the foreseable future we will pitch the stairs inside on the floor.

R

I have some fine real estate in Florida for sale, about as much use.

R

It might help you and those wanting to reply if you define a bit better what it is you are looking for in the way of restoration services. A jeep is a darn different ball of wax than a Chieftain.

R

Speedisleeves are the next best thing to sliced bread.

Wonderful product, just a bit unforgiving if you don't get them going nice and square on at the begining, when they will fold like a pretzel.

Have used them a number of times, quite common usage over here.

R

Welcome from a fellow Ferret owner,

If you care to contact me by email I will give you my phone number and am more than willing to help by phone and email.

In case you hadn't noticed Im in Canada.

Regards

Robin

In answer to your question, yes part of it is on the boot and part on the flesh above the boot, but I think I posted that already . . .

I would agree that boots DMS and putties worn with lightweight trousers and an RM stone (if you could get away with it) shirt and a woolly pully and a stable belt on the lightweights and a comfortably formed beret that had been given the hot sink cold sink treatment. Most comfortable and stylish. While not a tactical bit of kit the stable belt was the best for comfort I would argue.

R

I am not familiar with your flywheel but here goes.

Most ring gears are an interference fit into a land on the flywheel

All one needs is an oxy-acetylene torch to heat the ring gear up and drive it off going around the gear. You can actually flip it if the wear is biased to one side as a temporary repair.

Speed is needed and gloves.

Have no clue why you are machining it.

R

here is the finished item.

Notice the vertical band at the end of the triangle, this is the end of the ribbon that one has to tie around and then hide the end under the triangle.

You will need some rubber bands or ties to blouse the bottom of the trousers.

Hope this all makes sense for you, you taxed my brain tonight!

Regards

Robin

So,

I'm not an artist.

Here is the first stage, looking at the outside of the leg.