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OK, the originally-interested people are not replying to PMs so these are both for open sale now. £115 each or £200 the pair, collection only (Luton), help available loading. PM me Stone

I hope you like Saxons :rofl: Stone

Not in a Portaloo, the water is pumped into the basin in insipid squirts by a foot pedal on the floor. If the people who hired them bothered to fill the water tank, that is...:n00b: Stone

Hi chaps, I know some of you have these gennies so as a public service I've scanned the manual I just received in the post Hope it proves of use to someone. Clicky Cheers Stone

Correct, apologies. If you acquired cat C1 by grandfather rights (holding a cat B license prior to 1997) then it will have the 8.25t caveat, if you were now to take a C1 test you'd be fine up to 12t. Stone

Fit metal spacer plates to the suspension end-stops (so the suspension travel is reduced). Get the paperwork filled out ready for a VOSA inspection and they'll authorise a new loading plate to rivet over/in place of the old one, with the new maximum authorised mass on. How you figure out what size plates to fit is the hard bit. There are some companies (ev SV Tech) who'll do it for you based on a computer analysis of the suspension layout and then send you the plates and paperwork for you to fit yourself. As for loading, as a rule of thumb you're required to keep about 2t of carrying capacity - an unladen MJ weighs about 5600kg so you're very close if you've got anything on the back. I'd have said a comms body would most likely be overloading it, but you'd have to get it on a weighbridge to make sure. Personally I wouldn't run the risk, VOSA can really ruin your day if they stop you. As for the original question, you can tow up to a 750kg trailer on a C1 license. If you have C1+E you can tow any trailer, provided the combination does not exceed 12 tonnes MAM and the laden weight of the trailer does not exceed the unladen weight of the towing vehicle. See here. HTH Stone

We got a good MJ, the trick is to take a REME mech with you! We got the best of 20-odd vehicles he inspected though... There's a FV439 for sale as well, can't be too many of those with collectors! Stone

What's that first Duro for? Looks a bit similar to the Ptarmigan rigs... And what are they doing with that RPG?! :shocked: Stone

These are great pics Have you got any more of DROPS (Foden, MAN or Leyland DAF)? Stone

I disagree. You can trivially forge the To: and From: fields, and looking here will give you some ideas as to how you can hide the origination point with an open mail relay. If you didn't want to just forge the originating address / mailserver (the relay doesn't know that you are who you say you are as it's unauthenticated) there's nothing stopping you from looking up a bunch of likely relay points and their IP addresses, doing a bit of copy+paste and printing it out. It might make it look more plausible to your customs chap if you have a bit of paper with your email headers on, but the only way he can really verify it is to ring them up and check. Not that likely that they would stop you at all, I guess, but hey :??? Stone

Moved the other one this morning. Pics of the other genny: Cheers Stone

I've got a couple of loose ones knocking around, I'll throw in one with each :cool2: Stone

Removed one of the pair today. (parked car blocking the other one, I'll do it tomorrow!) Both are missing the (plastic?) top cover, this one is missing the terminal block cover (15 mins work for a replacement in sheet steel). They've been stored in their pallet so they haven't got wet, just exposed to atmosphere, hence the rusting. I found one of the flexible exhausts (damaged on one end) but I only have one. One remote-start box and earth spike each, though Stone

Eyethaanyuu. For my next trick, I think ZBovington_0199 is an M16 Multiple Gun Motor Carriage, based on the M3 chassis. Stone

ZBovington_0069 is an FV434 or 'Carrier Maintenance, Tracked' (the REME recovery variant of the FV432 personnel carrier). A couple of chaps on here have one. I'm sure someone will be along to do the rest presently [edit: beaten to it, that was quick!] Stone

I'm sure you already know this but you don't need an MOT if you have an exemption - have a quick flick through the form, you never know. Also I was told to put 'Heavy Oil' in the fuel type instead of Diesel, might avoid confusion at the local office... I would thoroughly recommend filling in as much of the form as possible and then taking it to a local office rather than doing it through the post - a helpless look goes a long way Stone

Whatever you do make sure you don't declare it as over 2.55m wide on the forms, the DVLA are within their rights to refuse it a registration! :shake: The internet seems to be saying 2.5m total width so use that, don't measure your one... Stone

When we registered the Bedford we left most of the boxes blank, they didn't bat en eyelid! Can't see it passing any kind of emissions test, to be honest..unless it was a tickbox 'yes, it does have some' MAM is different to revenue weight because some vehicles are taxed at one weight but actually another weight. Something to do with being able to tax a truck as private LGV but then convert it into a living wagon or something? I know there's a really convoluted reason they need to keep them separate but I can't for the life of me remember what it is. It's very obscure though, so don't worry about it What kind of 8x8 Tatra is it? I've got my eye on one for something else...could you fit a 20ft x 8ft x 8ft ISO container on the back? Stone

I agree with you, the Hyundai looks like it might be quite a lot smaller too... Might be worth going to a local farm supply type place to have a poke around before committing yourself, nothing like comparing them in the flesh to help you make your mind up... Stone

I'd use an earthing strap to attach Frame Earth (and the other one) to the vehicle chassis, and another strap to attach the generator frame to the vehicle frame. An earth spike ties the generator frame to earth (and thus the vehicle frame as well). Then start the genny, apply power, flick the MCB switch and press the 'Press to Test' button, if it doesn't trip it's not working! (in which case I'd jumper neutral to earth at the genny, but check with a sparks if it's not sinking in) Basically what you want to avoid is having the generator running and tied to the vehicle chassis but no connection to the ground - if that happens you can't know what the actual voltage difference between earth and frame is and you'll probably get a shock if you touch it! (the army bods used to do this deliberately to teach interfering NCOs a lesson, when they grabbed the ladder they'd be shocked off it :rofl:) Looks like my cable is almost the same as yours but not quite - in which case I'd cut the end off and replace it with a civvy one to fit your new genny. Stone

Yeah, the last 32A socket I wired had a rubber boot that you removed when putting the cable together and cut a section out of - it was scored so you could choose the diameter of cable and still get a good waterproof seal. (I would always run a bead of silicone around the edge though, we had one that filled with water overnight and tripped everything!) He's right about the connectors - think they're made of Bakelite which isn't approved for commercial use any more. No problems for civvies though, as far as I know :cool2: Most aircons I've seen are 3.5kW or under so I'd expect 6.5kVA to be a reasonable surplus to budget with. Make sure you use an earth spike or you might be in for the odd hair-raising experience! :eek: If you have an RCD in your box it may need earth to be bonded to neutral at the genny end - ask a sparks for advice, or someone on here should know! Stone

Blimey, don't think you could do that in the RAF ones! Stone

I think they're the same as this one. (bit rustier though!) Each genny has two outlets that accept standard UK plugs or a modified army variant with a screw-down sealing cap; believe total output is 3.5kVA. Been doing some digging, I found a pair of remote start boxes and extension cables earlier :cool2: Getting there! Stone

I've attached a pic of the round mains connector (other end terminates to one of the Bakelite-insulated / waterproof BS1363 mains connectors) - this any good to you? For proper safety usage you could lop the BS1363 end off and replace it with a blue EN60309 one as most modern gennies use those, and they seem to be turning into the defacto standard on caravan sites too. The cable's yours for price of postage, just let me know! Also I'd love to know what the RF connector (other pic) is and where I can get mating parts - I have tons of these cables and they look nice quality. Anyone have any idea of the cable specs, frequency range etc? Cheers Stone

Makes you ask: why are they missing parts? According to this lot it's because they were so short of spares for the common failures that they had to cannibalise all the reserve stock! If the nicest thing anyone has to say about them is 'Too bad for even RAF service' that's hardly a glowing recommendation :rofl: It's a shame, they look great, but if nothing else works you at least want to be able to stop with functioning brakes! Stone