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There is of course the other problem..... As most people do not understand that the photographer has copywrite, some people seem to think they can use photos taken at events for their own use without asking permission. Ask nicely and you usually get rewards! It can bring out the worst in people. I've known one occasion at least when privately taken photos (on Flickr) were used by a well known reeenactor group for promotional material for their own website without asking the photographers permission or even just giving credit. When this error is pointed out to them and they were asked to attribute them to the said photographer they got quite nasty. I should point out she wasn't looking for money.... just the pleasure of other people know who the photographer was. It put her off joining visiting events for a while !! and she no longer posts any photos.Pity as she is quite good. Doug

From MVT DIARY 10-12th MVT North Oxford and Cotswolds AREA - MIlitary Vehicle Gathering at Swinbrook Swinbrook, nr Burford, Oxfordshire OX18 4DY Not open to public, just you and your green machine! Full use of facilities at Swinbrook Cricket Club (free) inc bar, showers, loos, camping, beautiful riverside site. Dinner at Maytime, Asthall on Friday night (book through John or Tim in advance); Barbecue at Cricket Club on Saturday evening after Road Run. Some members arrive Thursday, by prior arrangement. Contact John on 07801 200662. All eras welcome. gilliecoghlan@hotmail.com or Tim Gosling: goshahn@aol.com Might see you there Doug

Alternatively send them to the Champ man. He can supply shoe linings and rivet for DIY or he can reline them for you.

Hi, We got there about 10:30.. Usual queues to get in, car park nearly full... bit on the warm side. Went looking for some clansman for the misses FFR. Seems Clansman stuff is getting harder to find, but did manage to find a vehicle mounting frame for the 351 backpack and a couple of mounting plates she needed at reasonable prices. I seem to remember last year you were tripping over all the clansman stuff! On the bright side, the number plate maker was swamped with business, but we got her military plates done eventually. We did have a funny though, when we spoke to the key cutting guy for an ingition key for the 78 series 3 landy. he said he couldn't do it cos the lock was American!!!!. Looks like I'm going to have to replace it! And yes, some of the stalls were packing up at 2pm. Doug

Hi, For some reason when I changed my password and logged back in, the gremlins have asked for another introduction. Anyway, I suppose I've lurking around this forum for a while. I own a WoF Jeep and a replica 10cwt trailer and I got my misses a Series 3 FFR to play with. I collect militaria, radios, deacs, and as you can guess from my profile name... Bayonets of all sorts. We take our vehicles to local shows in and around Swindon and sometimes get to W&P or Detling. Have met some people from this forum, but always happy to chat. Doug

Just had an e-mail from the organisers to say this years event is cancelled. Council are replacing a river bridge and repairing the station bridge, But on the plus side, when they've finished access should be much better. It's a pity , I was looking forward to it. Doug

The one nearest looks like a 20cwt

24V series 3 are normally capillary for oil and water temp . Doug

Anyone know what this trailer is for? Age? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/200678653105?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649 Doug

Thanks for the replies. With your help I managed to get " her indoors" to accept I hadn't got the wrong stuff. I put the first coat on and already the colour is lightening up. Still much darker than the colour I took off though. I'll put a second coat on this weekend and then she's agreed to let it weather over the winter and see how light it will get. See if the salted roads help fade it more. ( hopefully i won't have to repaint next year.) Doug

Guys, Need some help! Bought the misses a '77series 3 FFR in reasonable nick, but needed a new paint job. Started to rub down the paint to find solid stuff.. Got to the 18th layer and and it was still flaking so decided to get down to the Bronze green. Found some interesting unit markings on the way through this time capsule, even a handpainted union jack. All fair enough you might say! Now the problem. I bought some Nato green and Black to repaint the thing and the green turned out much darker than the paint I took off, and you know how women can be with colour matching ! So my Question is - Has the NATO green spec changed since '78 . If it has, does anyone know where I can get some original stuff to repaint it... Answer needed to restore marital peace!!! Doug

Hi,Weather held off for the weekend. Although the Spitfire fly over didn't happen. He could be seen a few miles away flying around..... Well someone had a nice display! The battles were good. Although the german groups seemed to have a lot of ammo , but still managed to lose.! Nice to catch up with local MV owners. I've attached some pics from the weekend. Doug

Looking forward to taking the jeep to this event tommorrow. Not many events like this around here. It was good when we went last year and we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. Nice battle on the railway track, good display by the Wiltshires and the Screaming Eagles. Hope the weather holds off and the MOPS turn up! Anyone else going? Doug Wife's a photograher, so hopefully I'll post some piccies later

Zenith carb? As far as I'm aware they were fitted to early landrovers of the old ford M151's. Anyway depending on the model, they could have a mixture screw on the main jet which has been screwed right out, but I still think the accelerator pump might be the problem, although on Zeniths, the float valve also gave problems. Doug

Have a look at the photo below: http://www.m201.com/tech/solex.htm Its under the cover ( 6 screws) on the right of the carbareter shown. you can buy a set of gaskets/ diaphram form dallas autos, jeeparts etc: Doug

Barry, I had a similar problem with mine. Have you replaced the accelerator diaphragm? Mine had an almost invisible hole near the centre, allowing fuel to go straight into the air intake, leading to a very rich mixture. Changed it and it runs fine now. Doug

Hi, You could try this guy. He should be able to help. http://willyshotchkissjeeps.com/contact.asp Doug

I've got a couple spare ( with scabbard) £35 each. If your interested, pm me. Doug

Thanks guys. Well the canvas got a thorough soaking last weekend at the Severnside MVT show ( so did I!!!). It's drying nicely in the garage, so hopefully when I take it to the kemble Airshow this weekend it will prove a bit more watertight. By the way , I should have mentioned its a worthing canvas I bought from Dallas Autos. Doug

Help required! Not long ago I bought a new canvas for my jeep and it leaks when it rains:-(. Did i forget to do something? Should i have treated it to waterproof it... or does the leaking stop of it's own? or should i just keep it in the garage when it rains!!! doug

Hi ultrasonics use high frequency waves in fluid to produce minute bubble which collapse at the surface of the part you are cleaning, so anything which will produce bubbles is no use. If you have one of those jewel cleaners they have very little power so it will take time and you will need to change the cleaning fluid when it gets dirty as the power drops with very dirty liquid. Better to keep it simple and use some mild alkaline degreaser like Janitol Rapide diluted in water. Warm is best. Acidic cleaners can eat the alloy. Doug

It was nice to meet you there. As you know we are fairly new to the MVT. We've never been to the event before, and we were looking to bring our vehicles down to this event, possibly next year. We were dissapointed as there were so few different vehicles around and it didn't help that they were so spread out. Aslo hardly any traders and lack of MoP interest in the displays, specially the arena events. Shame about the windy weather too. bit chilly!!:-) But not all bad. Met some nice people, very friendly. Missus was really pleased with all the useful advice she got about doing up her new(ish) series 3 FFR. I agree with you the facilities were excellent. Drooled over a couple of nice Kubelwagons! Doug & Jo

I looked at messing about with that bracket, but still not enough on it's own. it would need to make the recess in the dashboard deeper. Can be done,but more work. Also altering the top end puts more stress on the steering box. As for being noticable. when not in it I put a jacket/bag over the seat so it isn't so noticable. Also deters MoPs from climbing in !!!. When i'm driving it... no one can see the seat anyway.:-D

I was going to suggest this method. I had the same need for my jeep. I used this method witha slight variation. I cut a v in the tube, rather than cut completely and bent if to the angle of the wheel arch. Then welded when i got the angle right. Mod doesn't look too obvious and driving position is not bad. Only bit I would add is that it shifts the cheek position ( both:-)) a bit further back so the cushion postion needs to be set right back in the corner of the seet.