eddy8men

welcome shaun i was talking to a fella the other day who sells vehicles and he said most of the guys that come to him are ex reme ,you'd have thought that we would have learned our lesson while still serving, i suppose the grease gets in the blood. all the best eddy

hi ken i hope to see it moving under it's own steam soon, even if it's a bit of a temporary lash up to get it ready for the ponderosa show, it would look nice parked next to the cromwell all the best with the resto eddy

there's a guy who rents trailers near to me who has 2 diamond t's in his yard slowly rusting away but runners apparently, anyway a guy on the forum was interested so i approached the owner and asked him what he wanted for them, ten grand each !! when i laughed and said you could buy a fully restored one for that he just said that's the price take it or leave it, we left it and now they will sit there til he dies and then get scrapped or stripped for parts. there's nowt so queer as folk. eddy

hi fella's here's another explorer waiting for a bit of tlc, this one is on nelson green's airfield in lincolnshire. even if you didn't want the scammell it would be a good place to visit, i reckon there must have been over 500 pieces of old plant and military vehicles there, a really interesting place. the explorer looked very sound mechanically but the bodywork is as bad as it looks, incidentally if you do decide to have a punt at it the owner steve green isn't daft and won't let it go for peanuts but you might be able get a good deal out of him if you catch him on a good day. eddy

i think the british built v8's were a bright green colour, i know ajmac(alastair) has researched this topic in detail and will be the man to speak too. hope this helps eddy

welcome jon i like the armour uk website, well done mate eddy

thanks for putting up the pics, it's good to see in these days of recession a little money being spent on these old arv's. eddy

i understand where you're coming from with regard to the other users on the net as there's only 8 channels to select on the handset i chose but they were the cheapest around and i'm sure the more you pay the better the choice (as ever), good point though as i hadn't thought about other users cocking up my transmissions also i wonder if they'll be any interference from the ignition circuit but it seems unlikely as they were made for motorbike comms but you never know with cheap gear until you try it. eddy

hi martyn here's the surviving valentine list, can you tell us why the interest in valentines ? http://the.shadock.free.fr/Surviving_Valentines.pdf eddy

just had a look on ebay for clansman and they do seem cheap, £50 for a working set is a bargain and would look better in a modern afv but i'll stick with the wireless headsets as they give you more flexibility plus you need to have a radio users licence for a 351 where as walkie talkies are free to use but it would be cool using the 351 if you were in a convoy, just like the old days back in Nam (wokingnam) eddy

hi fella's the time is drawing close to when the carrier and other vehicles will be ready to go on the road which got me thinking about comms between driver and commander and owing to the fact that i wouldn't want to pay for a working wartime set in all the vehicles i thought i had better come up with another alternative which after a quick search on ebay i did. i decided to use existing afv headsets as they are obviously made for the job and combine them with a motorbike walkie talkie set with open helmet headsets, after an hour of fiddling both sets had been converted and work very well and look just like the originals, unlike the original they also have the benefit of wireless comms which is great when the vehicle is being guided from someone on the ground also when not in use you can disconnect the headsets and take the walkitalkie with you if you were at a show for those urgent messages back to base ie. red or brown sauce. if you search on ebay for "clansman headsets" you should be able to get 2 for under £20 delivered. search for "motorbike intercom" for the walkie talkie and headset which is only limited by your budget i of course went for the cheapest which was £60 delivered it had a stated range of 3 miles (my arse) but that is more like 300m with buildings and trees so if you wanted to use it at something like beltring you might want to go for a better spec (i would). the job of fitting the new headsets into the old clansman sets was easy and i've posted some pics for anyone that fancies a go at it. first strip out the earphone that contains the mike boom and strip out the old wiring and earpiece and mike. the only hard bit is the ally threaded lug that holds the mike to the earpiece i used a hacksaw to cut it off and you should be left with the pieces in the first pic. then drill out the holes to enable the mike and jack plug to pass through their holes. the jack plug goes through the hole to the back where the existing cable came in from, then fix the mike to the inside of the earpiece and push the mike through and silicon the mike from the inside to make it water tight. the new speaker fits nicely into the old earpiece and can go back on it's original fittings. where the jack plug comes through the headset i used the old rubber bung from the original cable to seal it up again but this will need to be cut and glued back into place and that's it. there is no external difference from the original and it works great and cost under £80 for the 2 and if you liked to you can have upto 20 headsets linked although that would be some big arse afv you'd be driving to fit that many people in eddy

nice thread to start with chindit. is it just my fevered imagination or do the wheels on the overhead crane look like carrier wheels ? but don't take my word for it as i think i see carrier wheels everywhere(it's the optimist in me) eddy

never had a problem with the 432's other than flat batteries and niggly faults but rarely anything that would make it unbattleworthy. all in all a good bit of kit in my opinion. all the best eddy

i went to the saddleworth show and had a great day out although i didn't take any vehicles but i'll be there next year with the carrier and who knows what else:cool2: happy new year eddy

hi mike good to see another northern lad on the forum and don't worry about not owning a vehicle, i'm sure you'll come across one soon enough and if not i've got one or two you could play with eddy

keep up the good work mate eddy

thanks for the explanation and the pics, i always thought the mk2 was a belting bit of kit but the new one looks even better, i might have one when they start to come through withams:cool2: eddy ps. there's nothing like the smell from a well cooked steering box !

is that the new version that you see in afghanistan? eddy

the 432 might be an experimental hydraulic steering testbed as the usual manual tiller bars have been replaced by a much smaller setup and the steering box assembly in the front of the hull is nothing like the normal one, but it's only my thoughts on what it could be. eddy

it's like waiting for a bus, no sextons for ages then two come along together welcome to the forum eddy

hi jesse been following you're restoration on mlu, very nice work you've done on the sexton. welcome to the forum eddy

all the best mate. eddy

if you google earth bivelle there are a few targets of interest. eddy

if it's shermans you want, how about a trip to france. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmECb58hFkI&feature=related there's tons of gear on those french and belgian ranges but you'll never get anything without the right contacts :cool2: eddy

thanks adrian for putting me straight on the traverse box, i assumed it was the same as in the technical manual the traverse system looked almost identical but unfortunately bob's yard is 35 miles from my house so i can't just nip out to check these things, oh well one more thing to add to the to do list. eddy