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Dunno if this helps but there was an article in one of the classic car mags about a year or so ago comparing the electric HVLP guns against conventional air pressure guns. IIRC for small vehicles (i.e) around mini-sized) the HVLP came out best - esp as there is minimal over-spray For larger vehicles, though, the air pressure guns scored better. On this basis I guess if you are spraying something the size of a jeep then the electric HVLP is suitable.... Hope this is useful to you!!! (HVLP = High Volume, Low Pressure)

I used to love watching Jack's "Out of Town" on a Sunday morning when I was a Kid - now I love watching Fred programs the box of an evening. Where does that put me

Nice one

Look forwards to seeing that one!!!! Dredging back the memory I seem to rcall that the vehicles in 215 Sqdn had a black square on the left with a tower in the middle whilst the right was either a blue over yellow or yellow over blue triangle surmounted by a white bar. Vehicles in 21 Regt - for obvious reasons - carried no markings at all other than the reg plate and maintenance stencils

Many years ago ferrying Saracens from Stirling Castle to some where else 2 of us got lumbered with one that had a problem in the transmission - but the first we found out was, having crested one hill to the accompaniment of funny sounds and smells, when we got 2/3 the way up the next before we found ourselves going nowhere.... Spent an hour rolling backwards and forwards trying to get over the last hill before a REME unit turned up and put us on tow.....................

Yep - their web site says the have space in their barn at Woodham Ferrers for £7 per week. I'll be checking in with them when I manage to get my hands on a beastie to see if they still have space there - unless I can find something a bit nearer home !!!

Any one on the forum have their vehicle in covered storage in Essex? Preferably near the South East corner (Rainham/Grays/Thurrock etc.) I'm looking to find what sort of costs I'm going to be expected to pay when I finally manage to get my Stalwart! If I get it on the yard where our caravan is stored then it will be £260/ps for open air storage - and I think a vehicle should be under cover really - esp. when it working on it time!!!!

Take a look here: http://http:\www.touringandtenting.com This is more or less what you are aiming for I think - and is run by a couple of very nice people on their own!! if it is - you can drop an e-mail through to the site owners and I'm sure they'll be able to give you advice on what to do and where to go for tutorials etc.

This is interesting for me.... Round about this time next year - if not earlier - I aim to be the owner of a Stalwart and, money permitting, will use it as often as poss. Reading these threads raises some questions - not least of which is how do/will commercial Heavy breakdown forms cope with the armys 24v electrical system? Punctures in theory shouldn't be a problem (he says with a straight face!!) as the Alvis 6x6 is supposed to be designed to run with up to 2 wheels on on side missing (ever seen a spare wheel on a Stalwart/Saracen//Saladin???)

Tricky one.... The wife Mk 1 reckons Big, Mad and Bad though......

If you're any thing like my household there are a number of chat clients in use - MSN, ICQ, AIM etc. Best way I found of keeping on top of all this is a neat little freebie package called "Trillian". You can get this from http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/. Ties all the chat packages together so you only need the 1 program running until a messgae come through - then it automatically fires up the relevant messenger prgorma for you.

Hope this is in the right location! Anyone else out there into 1/35th scale models?? If so - got a good source for 1/35th scale decals of British army markings of the sixties and seventies??? I'm just about to start on the Firing Line model of the Stalwart and need the markings to complete the model. TIA. Neil.

OK - glad to be able to help!!! Wise move on the seperation !!!!

No problem - meta tags in MS OFfice documents are tricky at the best of times! Seperation between the two applications is: Access is a relational database tool. It can perform advanced searches on data and data objects (incl. images) then report these back in a coherent document form. Other data objects include Excel sheets (not enitre workbooks) and flat text file (.txt, .csv etc) Excel is a spreadsheet primarily designed for advanced number crunching but with limited text abilities. We all have to start learning somewhere Fair swap - you've shared much info from your knowledge, least I can do is reciprocate!! Maybe the easiest thing would be if you could send me a couple of the word documents you have together with a run-down on how you want the data to be accessed - I can set the basic DB up for you and return it with a blow-by-blow "how to" for what I've done and you can then take it from there. If this is OK with you send the info through in a zip file to artistsrifles@another.com I've got Office 2003 here - which version are you using so I can ensure you can read what comes back!!!

Aha - now you are in my territory as I'm an Oracle DBA by trade!!! As a home user - unless you have excess capacity on your machine (*), then the Access database is the best route to follow. You have a number of routes available here as regards sorting the documents - these include (in theory) using the meta tags of the documents themselves for dynamic searches. The basic method, I'd have used, starting from scratch, involves assigning unique keywords to the documents then assigning the document file names to these key words. However you say you have started using an Excel sheet - well you can either use the Excel sheet as a search reference or import the sheet into a table within Access and search via that. Sounds a bit confusing, I know, but with practice it gets a lot easier. If I can help you with the donkey work/setting up at all feel free to ask. (*) IF you do have excess capacity then you can down load Oracle 9 Lite/personal edition free from the http://www.oracle.com web site - this allows you to include the content of the Word documents within the data base itself.

Whereabouts Jason?? Interests me as I live in (whats left of) Dagenham!!!

As a recent new-comer I have to say I like the site the way it is. My interest is the British wheeled vehicles so having the tracked, German, East European stuff split out makes life easier for me. Just my tuppence worth!!!

OK - next question - how do you zero one of these meters prior to carrying out the test???

Again - thanks for the response Be October time before I'm in a position to invest in one - thats when the Fourth Reich are due to start closing Ford of Britain down :cry:

Thanks! Looks like I'll need somewhere with an overhead hoist then....

Any answers/feedback on these points at all ?????? Pretty Please!!!!

Glad to be of assistance !!!

Heh - the bit about visibility seems to be a trademark of all the 6-wheeled Alvis family I drove a Saracen once on a TAVR exercise way back in the seventies and could never have done it without a No. 2 in the turret telling me when to turn. Overtaking wasn't a problem - apart from the odd milk float Great fun to play with though.... If the wife Mk 1 wasn't so anti-guns I'd be tempted to have gone for one in lieu of the Stalwart!!!! (or a 432 - but thats another story!!)

Ummmm - I just went on to http://ask.co.uk and banged in the question: "Where can I hire a self-drive beavertail lorry?" And it turned up http://www.skip-hire-sussex.co.uk/ who have a self drive beavertail with 7 tonne crane and winch. Also http://www.tmitchell.co.uk/beaver.html but I'm not sure if this is actually self-drive though....

Sounds tempting folks Need to check with work just to make sure the over-paid monkeys in our Data Centre dont have any plans to "maintain" (read wreck....) any of our servers during this time - if not then I'm interested!!!!