33 minutes ago, Terra1936 said:

The big question is where do they go? Do they fail so ofter they just toss them? 

Hi there, as I said Nick cuts them off, depending who in the team does it. Some it appears go on the shelves some in the bin. If you look at the pictures you can see there is nothing to go wrong with them at all, new washers from China is the worst case.

What everyone is saying that “users” wrench the hatches and the weak castings snap and rather than getting it re-welded they remove the equilibrator and throw it away. 

On 1/25/2021 at 7:30 PM, Terra1936 said:

That would be great. Thank you!

Spoke to Nick and he has several as thye dont use the, infact they cut them off as he says "we dont close the hatches."

I could not pin him down to a price but saw no point in pushing as you had been talking on Facebook to Rob who was scrapping that smaritan.

56 minutes ago, Swamprat33 said:

Did you find anywhere Lance?

I am not far from Wycombe and also looking for a storage/play area.

Cheers

Tim

Hi Tim,

I tried all over, farmlands, gardens but all with no joy. I did however found somewhere to store it if you dont mind it under a tarpulin. I am currently trying to get it moved down to Alton where the cold war museum has offered me better cover and a large field to play in.

I have found some great military vehicle owners round here who have helped arrange some great rallies (well 2019) which I have attended and had great fun.

I am also trying to get my C license so I can ferry the beast about, If I had that life would be so much easier. On the very plus side every one round here does not seem to mind me chugging round the roads.

Please feel free to contact me if I can be of help

Lance

On 1/17/2021 at 7:13 PM, SirLanceUK said:

Have you tried Mr Baker, he should have so many laying about, Or even Mr Mead.

If you don't know how to reach them try CVRT appreciation group or Tanks A Lot on facebook if that is not working for you let me know and I will see if I can reach out to them.

 

I am off to see Mr Mead for work would you like me to chat and see if he has one and a price?

On 1/17/2021 at 6:04 PM, Terra1936 said:

Excellent! I just need to find one! 

Robert Dove is breaking a Smaritian on the CVR(T) Appreciation group, get talking to him he might have one

30 minutes ago, sirhc said:

Hi Lance,

I have some NOS bench seats. Will get you a photo if/when lockdown is over.

Chris

Yes please Chris

"NOS"?

Lance

I wish I had known   however I could do with any intercom harness wire you have, I am missing the driver (CB2) to radio operators (IB3), The short harness connection between IB3 and CB2 same postition and the drivers CB2 to the commanders box. Failing the correct cables any intercom harness cable can be made to suit.

Dont suppose you have a spare equilibrator from the drivers hatch for Terra1936 he is in need of one and has been looking for ages.

On the my wish list I need the back rest on the right (between crew and grunts) with it's fixing mount,

and at a push the bench they sit on (which is on top of the fuel tank).

Of course

Just wanted to update the topic,

The manual suggested by Chris (sirhc) was a great help, also came across a few manuals on line. 

Much activity and some bargains I have almost got a setup that in theory works. 

Lance 

1 hour ago, Terra1936 said:

Excellent! I just need to find one! 

Have you tried Mr Baker, he should have so many laying about, Or even Mr Mead.

If you don't know how to reach them try CVRT appreciation group or Tanks A Lot on facebook if that is not working for you let me know and I will see if I can reach out to them.

I do try to round up topics I start.

I got the bracket made by an engineering friend of my son flat plate with 2 arms welded to it, and a hole drilled through them. Bolted the plate on and after some messing around with the washers, adjustments and grease (thanks Chris) it is now installed and works.

Onwards and upwards

Lance

I found a local company that did the blasting and coating for me on a CVRT drivers seat for £60. I built my own sand blasting setup for £30 (already had the compressor) and it works a treat on small parts, I also got a needle scaler and that works a treat as well. I have hear of the power wash option but dont know anyone who uses it

John

Hi There,

There are a number of posts about getting your V5, several of us took copies of are V55/c but talking to MVT, Bovingdon and the right people at DVLA normally get it sorted, only took me 6 months but that was due to MVT and DVLA not accepting the documentation I had, but thanks to Bovingdon that was resolved.

Hopefully you have it well in hand, if not lots on here can provide help and even examples

Lance

just in case you were upset there is another one this month, no tracks this time, and a sultan

Also noticed a Samaritan and another Sultan in the pictures, maybe next month

Lance

Did you get rid of it? If not if you can contact me 😀

Looking to put an intercom in My Spartan

John

https://www.gov.uk/importing-vehicles-into-the-uk/registering-an-imported-vehicle

seems like a good place to start, the web page title is

Importing vehicles into the UK

say you need V55/5 form to register a used vehicle, including rebuilt vehicles, used imported vehicles and older vehicles that have never been registered

unless someone knows different.

Seasons Greetings.

It has become time to fit an intercom to my Spartan.  I was looking through my manuals and cant see anything about the intercom system, the placing of boxes etc.

Can anyone tell me in which manual(s) where I can find such documentation or even better can anyone provide me with information to get me going

Thanks all in advance.

Lance 

I dont know if I put this elsewhere or just kept it to myself but I did contact Cook Defense and got this back

A set of CVR(T) track is currently circa £26,000 ex vat at this time depending on the exact quantity of links required.

ummm not sure I will be rushing to get some.

Lance

2 hours ago, johnwardle said:

There should be a line on the inside of the boiling vessel, fill with water up to this mark then put in the inner pot and fill that with water and ration pack meal pouches.

The idea is that the boiled water in the main boiling vessel can be drawn off using the tap to make tea, while the water in the inner pot heats up the meals.

Thank you, yes I found the mark and yes it makes total sense... now I have the cable I just have to go and try it

Cheers Lance

Hi chaps,

Now having got a BV want to check i know how to use it... before i do

Simple do you have to put water in the BV it's self before you put the pot in,

or does the pot go straight on the plate?

I did do a serach online but no one appears to have put anything up

On 12/5/2020 at 6:52 AM, diesel1 said:

Next week, I will have a go at recapping a cvrt track section, will be interesting to see what it turns out like, will drill holes into the old rubber after I have cleaned up the pad surface, mould will be easy to make, but will want sealing on the track section with silicon maybe so the liquid polymer does not run out before it starts to set, then removed after 24 hrs, then would need testing, my vehicles are put away for the winter so testing would start in spring or I could post the section to someone to try it out.

Brilliant, exactly what I was going to try and do. I really want to say I will rush up and fetch the pad(s) and put them on mine and run it around. But I guess I can wait till spring. I hope your going to put some pictures/ videos up

Just for everyone’s information I got a quote of £26,000 + VAT (depending on CVRT) from a supplier for new tracks.

I will be researching on new bushes as well

On 11/14/2020 at 6:11 AM, diesel1 said:

Was thinking about making track pads back in 2016 after seeing the guy in Australia making them, the video he made was interesting. He used a polymer supplier in Australia, he used a primer brush on chemical to make the 2 part polymer mix stick to the existing worn rubber if he was only building worn pads up.

Finding a similar polymer in this country was the difficult part, doing a search on the net makes thing very difficult,  a little knowlage in polymers would help, I have non.

The easy bit for me is making the moulds, I would remove the old rubber off the pads and use the existing backing plate, easy!

So Interested in this so any information is gratefully received. I am looking in to sorting out some CVRT track and "repadding" would really make some economic sense of course providing the track link is up to it, (wear and tear and “good” bushes).

At the moment all the work in making a track like new is starting to look like a more expensive option.

Lance

Agreed Andy, but this was some time ago now and I know where his old batteeries came from so suspect that they were just end of life.

Sorry i didn't round this off, the final solution appears to be with batteries. Whild they were man eough to start the beast it was not enough to allow the gearbox to work correctly, So new batteries and everything is back working as it should.

Lance

Hope this is resolved, I will be updating the stream i did as well but his issue was duff batteries, replaced them and has not looked back.

Lance

Doesn't sound like it's a goer, but if i can source bushes and they are not the price of gold

I haven't even looked at removing the rubber from the existing track, before a got a scrap track(s) to experiment on I thought I would ask a few questions. Like can I get the bushes

A thought just occured to me if you drilled a series of holes at angles into the existing rubber and then pored the rubber into the holes and on to make the "recap" if that would be strong enough rather than just "recapping" the pad...

Another question I will have to look into