Marmite!!

Thanks again Lee, I hope they behaved ok. They can be a bit of a bugger to do tight turns in when cold! Chris Yours coughed & spluttered a bit but was ok other than that, off now see you at Beltring

Lee, Just missed you, I left at 1145. Have you got the exact spot as last year? Should take a GPS reading of the corners of the pitch, then you might find the stake holes from last year! Richard Same spot, we pegged out three times but they kept making the helicopter field larger, they still wanted us to come out another 20m but we refused as that would of put the end of our plot in with you.. see you there

Lee, I was up there on Saturday morning, did not see you :? Richard I was there from 12pm untill 8.30pm with the Fox, same place as last year

Yep I did but they have changed things in the last few months, you don't fill in the little bit of paper anymore, they get out of the booth & inspect the disk, their a bit more on the all now

Bumped in to Mark on Saturday, nice guy, thanks to his mate, sorry I'm terrible with names, for unloading Chris McMillan's CVR(T)'s today, just popped home to tidy up a few loose ends then back to Beltring until the end of the show..

Off the A12 at the Junction with the M25 sign posted Brentwood/M25 take second exit M25 to dartford crossing 9 miles, £1.00 cars £1.80 vans/truck/Armour follow signs M20 then take A20, sign posted Brands Hatch, follow signs for paddock Wood..

I got one of those, it went up & came straight back down again & that was only jacking up the Fox, got my money back..

Chris, did you remember to put the required amount of oil in the servo to keep it lubricated..

Did you get my PM??

ONLY 3 DAYS TO GO Only living 3 miles up the road, I will ask the wife to start doing breakfast and evening meals, at a good price of course :-D We should be there Friday dropping another one of the vehicles off, the Fox..

About 14 yaers ago I was in the Sun when I got superglued to a public payphone at 1am in the morning, it took them 12hrs to get the handset of my hand leaving most of the skin off palm & fingers on the phone. Some yobs thought it would be funny to cover the handset in superglue which I now know that if there's enough of it it doesn't dry until it comes in contact with something that contains moisture, the Firebrigade said I was lucky as all the other phones had it on the earpiece too. After it was in the paper there was a spate of superglue incidents up & down the country with one poor chap getting glued to a public loo

Much more fun going in the Armour though & those Fox side bins are just made for shopping trips :-D

A good supplier of oils is Rye Oils http://www.rye-oil.ltd.uk/vintage.htm it's where we get the equivalent of OM13 from..

Lee, These Michelin tyres are not a special AFV tyre. They are normal truck tyres with a Hutchinson runflat insert, therefore the "regroovable" wording on the walls refers to their normal application. The problem with regrooving is that it does not alter the circumference, so you are back to the same problem. Richard Cheers for that Richard, the reason I was thinking of having them re-cut is to make them a bit more legal until I can find some replacements, I do the diagonal swap as soon as I get the Fox back from the Gunpowder Mills..

At the moment the tyres (XCL's) on my back of my Fox are very worn & smaller than the fronts & are well outside the 2" circumference limit, I can rectify this by swapping the tyres diagonally, my question is what is the maximum size difference side to side if there is one?? I can't find anything in the manual.. Also it says on the tyres that they are regroovable, any one had experience of this on this type of tyre?? Cheers

got those little screws out yet??

Hi Chris, just got back from Beltring, the W&P lowloader just picked up the Saladin, Ferret & MOBAT. the first vehicles on site for this years show :-) as John has no brakes on the Saladin at the moment we had to go down to unload it.. Can you email me that vehicle/tentage list again..

What about the IMPS??

Not to worry, all part of the show..

Saldin Firing 120mm Mobat Bazooka Fox CVR(W) Ferret on fire.. Lee

Just need to get Richard Grosvenor to attend next year with his FH70 & get that firing, hope you all enjoyed the Firepower Display.. my Ferret is still in one piece despite being blown up twice, anyone want to volunteer their vehicle as a range target for next years show??

Jack, John Tucker (FV601) & myself have recently taken over the running of the North Thames Imps web site that has been dormant for the past few years, we hope to have it up & running within a month & have no problem putting a link to this Forum on the site.

Got everything from Richard, I think the seals were £6 each, 4 per caliper, I think the dust covers were the same price too..

Chris, how did that happen? my Fox brakes kept locking on when I first got it, I knew about this when I bought it & was caused by the previous owner putting brake fluid in it causing all the rubbers to swell, had to replace everything, master cylinder, servo, brake lines & caliper seals.. one of the caliper pistons was blue due to the heat & took a couple of hours to get out.

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