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Nice to see some more british stuff being rescued. Good work 👍
All the best, Richard
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On 12/6/2019 at 10:18 AM, Niels v said:
Richard fancy restoring mine afterwards? (within a shorter time frame)
Sure thing mate...…….for a price £££
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Hi Neil,
I can get all this for you at the weekend.
BR, Richard
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Bit of progress on the Scammell. We're well on with the wooden lockers and have ordered the last of the timber to do the tops.
Installed the radiator and test fitted the bonnet to check fit up.
Have installed the cab panels for the last time, securing them with all new BA screws and sealing the joins with Tiger seal.
I need a new piece that runs along the bottom of the tilting pane on the windscreen before i can fit it, and i have that with an engineering firm to see if they can reproduce that section. As soon as the windscreen is done we can lift the cab off and paint it. But i don't want to paint in this cold weather, it might have to wait till next year but its a shame as we could have started on fitting it out, electrics etc.
Richard
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Well jealous of your steering wheel, thats an awesome find.
Kebrell nuts and bolts are good for all the old threads - BSW, BSF, BA etc
Good luck with it, Richard
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Great work.
I have a switch similar to this inside the cab of my Matador, but are there more inside the body?
Would like to know so i can start looking, as we will be building the timber of the bodywork from scratch.
Cheers, Richard
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Looking great 👍. Must admit I’d love a 981 one day.
Richard
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We've stripped the winch, blasted and painted it.
Also totally rebuilt the winch drive box.
The thread in the large nut on the bottom of the main vertical shaft in the gearbox drive box was stripped, so i found a large nut out of our stock which happened to have a very fine thread and enough meat on it for me to bore it out, screw cut the right BSF thread and mill some split pin slots.
Also test fitted the winch frame and winch clutch lever tube on the chassis to get the position of the hole through the back of the cab.
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I got the clutch relined by Dinah at Prestige Clutches. She did a brilliant job re-lining the friction plate and clutch brake and also supplied new springs and the four springs that hold the clutch release bearing.
I made new pivot pins for the fingers and release blocks and had them hardened.
I also put the clutch shaft and clutch brake drum in the lathe and gave the drum a skim so that i have a decent true surface to run the DTI on when i come to align the engine and gearbox.
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Yes good plan i think Alastair. Niels has found a few good period pics of various Scammells in camo in europe.
Thanks for the email address MatchFuzee, i'll drop mike a mail.
Richard
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Anyone know how i can hold of Mike Starmer to get a copy of his book?
Thanks, Richard
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True. I'd better have a suitable response prepared.
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Thanks for your input chaps.
The vehicle is already partially painted olive drab and i'm not repainting it now. Its a 1942 vehicle.
It seems plausable to me from your responses and the Bedford MW thread that it could have had some sort of disruptive camo and retained it up to D-Day at which time invasion markings would be applied.
I'm just anticipating some smart arse coming up at a show and telling me "it wouldn't have been painted like that".
I'll definately have a look at Mike Starmer's book.
Thanks, Richard
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Thought i'd ressurect this thread rather than start a new one. As i'm going to be painting our Scammell Pioneer this summer following its ground up resto i wanted to delve into other peoples knowledge on british WW2 camo schemes. I'd like to put some sort of disruptive camo on the Scammell, Mickey Mouse or other, but i also want it to have the invasion star. Now i've been told that post D-Day everything was just green with no camo. Can anyone shed any light on this and suggest how i might authentically apply some sort of camo and invasion star over the top?
Many thanks, Richard
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Anyone got scans or copies of manuals and parts list for these trailers?
Thanks, Richard
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My feeling was that the engine being a bought in item (to Scammell), so it would have come in the manufacturers standard colour.
Indeed if restoring just about any vehicle to a post war 50s 60s and probably later spec the engine would be eau-de-nil.
Scammell pioneer first aid locker
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