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    Merry Christmas Honey

    in MV Chatter

    Posted · Edited by fesm_ndt

    A motor sickle......... could not see a name on it

     

    UPDATE

     

    The bike is a Triumph 3HW. There are pictures of it on the web captioned as a Norton. I had wondered where it lived.

    Merry Christmas Honey

    in MV Chatter

    Posted

    No it's not Luton

     

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    This is a memorial to the soldiers as it was hit by an RPG during the insurgency. The impact area is easy to spot as well as the fragmentation or spalling inside.

     

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    Nice Winch

     

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    One in a bit better shape

     

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    Merry Christmas Honey

    in MV Chatter

    Posted · Edited by fesm_ndt

    A train

     

    CORRECTION

    fesm ndt

     

    Nice pictures fyi the rail thing shown in #8 is Whickams Rail Car, also used by the Portuguesse in Goa and the South Vietnamese army in the 1960s,

     

     

    Merry Christmas Honey

    in MV Chatter

    Posted

    As discussed I was told by my friends and colleagues that it would be in poor taste to work on the Pinz on Christmas day.

     

    So I had a special day with the wife as I took her to the Army museum. I know, I'm a softy :cool2:

     

    So, of course I took piccy's of the MV's

     

    First a Stonefield Goomba

    Odd thing to find in a drain

    in Weapons/Accessories

    Ndt

    in Other Chatter

    Posted

    Yep. The history of PT was that supposedly they used to coat the rail wheels in the store with oil to stop them going rusty.

     

    The dust would collect and later they would see lines in the dust.

     

    Another NDT method from railyards was/is hammer testing:

     

    - hit it with a hammer if it rings (it's ok) if it doesn't (it's not). Still used on aircraft composites and testing bolts to be tight.

     

    - hit it with a hammer, if it falls off (it's not ok). Self explanatory but often overlooked e.g. I often get asked to perform all types of fancy NDT on certain components. On several occasions I have said to them hit it with a hammer and if it falls off it needs replacing.

    Odd thing to find in a drain

    in Weapons/Accessories

    Posted

    These strings would unwrap when thrown starting the ignition.

     

    being ceramic, post war????? Any idea of the name, I'll look it up?

     

    I always thought odd as the Mills ww2 era, as in Vietnam Aus used (I can't remember) the one with I think 80m of wire in it, and phosphorous.

    Odd thing to find in a drain

    in Weapons/Accessories

    Posted

    Mike, It's a touch under 5 1/2 " long. I also thought tracer.

     

    lol at the grenade joke! That must concentrate their thoughts for a second or two!!

     

     

     

    Jeff

     

    yeah, it's somewhere in my boxes of stuff back in Aus, had it since '84 I guess. One guy who pulled the pin and saw the smoke, dropped it in his girfriend's lap as he was bolting out the door. Needless to say that romance faltered.

     

    The guy I got the grenade of also had these ceramic ones which had a cap that screwed off. Under that was a rolled length of flat rope/string. I am guessing some sort of trip device but never seen anything like it ever since.

    Odd thing to find in a drain

    in Weapons/Accessories

    Posted · Edited by fesm_ndt

    if its 50 cal the bullet will be around 12mm

     

    maybe was a tracer if had powder inside the bullet.

     

    I got a mills hand grenade at home. Amazing how everyone wants to pull the pin, they get a bit disconcerted when smoke comes out. I used to fit a roll of caps under the centre pin, no noise but gave a little puff of smoke

    Pinzgauer Rebuild

    in Blogs of MV restorations

    Posted · Edited by fesm_ndt

    Is that a standard NATO box size? If you've got any documentation for it I'd be very interested :)

     

    Stone

     

    G'Day

     

    The Dimensions are:

     

    Height - 1,85 m

    Width - 1,76 M

    Length - 3.10 m

     

    This one is a Workshop box so gots lots of extra doors and racks.

     

     

    He also has ambulance boxes up in Shropshire.

     

    I was toying with the RB44 box and modding it but the amount of modification was a bit much (or unknown). I also wanted to keep the soft top but after the last accross Australia trip in the Land Rover Lightweight which filled up with red dust I thought I better be sealed up a bit better.

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