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A bit of an easy spot after my son messaged me to say look what I collected today, I dropped by to help unload it.... when I say helped, I stood around with my hands in my pockets while the people who knew what they were doing unloaded it.

So air portable combat engineer tractor, pretty much complete, including swimming gear, but a non-runner at present.

This thread has got me thinking, I have not seen my dad's swagger stick from his time in the RA for some years, I remember it was painted black and the paint was flaking off, I cannot remember whether the silver cap was engraved or embossed, I must have a look for it, I am pretty sure it must be somewhere in the house

A non-conductive centre carbon in the distributor cap is always on my check list as I was scratching my head over a non-starting Rover V8 many years ago, it took me hours to find it and minutes to make a temporary fix to get me going.

Here is a starting point for you.

https://www.youtube.com/@MrHewes/community

I don't think Citroman was suggesting you had anything to do with that welding.......but my god that was a terrible way to stick metal together, the welder I used to work with would say of it "wouldn't hold small coal".

An interesting project!

Oiler = jewelry, as I used to call the brasswork on projects I worked on🙂

Such satisfying parts to scratch build, lovely job as always.

14 hours ago, ploughman said:

I seem to recall 2 manufacturers were used for the bags. cant recall the names though.

It is a long time ago and I worked with a lot of rubber companies on various military projects, including overboots for germ warfare, flexible bulk fuel storage bladders and hovercraft skirts, maybe one of these companies will ring a bell?

BTR, Butyl products, Avon industrial polymers.

I worked on the design of those butyl covers, and made the hot bonding machines to assemble them.

I seem to recall that the final version had the vehicle driven onto a sheet of butyl, a tubular frame, sort of large conduit, with a slot in the top was assembled around it, the bottom sheet was pushed into the slot all around.

The cover had a tube formed around the base that was also pushed into the slot then inflated, this sealed it all up, the cover was then vacuumed down around the vehicle.

Hello RustyG, welcome to the forum

It has been said many times in the thread, Ad Block Plus is the answer for computer users, (I cannot comment for phones).

It stops adverts everywhere, that includes YT.

I am a chrome user, in the top right corner just below the close window cross you should see what looks like a jigsaw puzzle piece, click it and go to manage extensions, type in adblock plus, install and wave goodbye to adverts.

It will take a little time to tune itself. 

Thanks for such a detailed update, hat off to you for the amazing way that you went about the job, I look forward to seeing more progress.

I find it interesting that the orientation of the small hole is different between the three so my first thought of drain hole is out, but I can see why you are struggling to understand it.

I have linked to Lord Muck before, lots of nice Matador action in this one.

Way back in the 1960's my father was an icecream man, one day whilst driving down the Zig Zag, (Boxhill, Surrey now famous as part of the olympic cycle road race) he was stopped whilst scenes for a war film were under way, he sold a few ice creams while he was waiting 🙂. I just looked it up.

A day will come where you tow the trailor to a show, people will probably look at it and think "nice trailor" what they will not know is the amount of time and effort you have put in to get it back on the road to get it there.

I take my hat off to you, that is a real labour of love.

PS I wish my welds looked like yours! 

I cannot find anything with a mounted quad but does this Praga look something like?

The easiest way I can see is to cut out the bottom section and weld an offset replacement piece, it would need a bit of maths to get it right but I would work on the principal that the lever was cut just above the original hole as a starting point.

The offset will still  clear whatever it would have hit and the rod adjustment should cater for the offset hole.

Hi Tamber, any progress recently? I have been following your rebuild with great interest and have been impressed with all you have achieved so far.

A fantastic set of photo's, thanks for posting them. Would I be right in thinking that all the small stuff in the foreground of this photo are butterfly bombs?

Though not a vehicle i did note a weapons based fopar in the film "the mechanic"

At some point the lead player is banging off a number of rounds from an automatic weapon and we get a slo-mo of the target and the ejected cartridges.  His target was disintigrating but the cartridge cases had crimped ends, obviously blanks.

I wonder at the layout inside the chamber as the inlet seems to be behind the diaphragm, unless the sounder is a reed, maybe a clarinet then? Theory 2

I do remember it, I was interested as I used to drive one of these as a works delivery van at one time, Dorking in Surrey to Leyland Lancs and back in a day was epic.... I am sure it was the start of my deafness

This is the pump that was pulled out from under a pile of scrap and rotten timber when clearing out my deceased uncles garages, it is my son selling it.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/115001065148?hash=item1ac698febc:g:zXwAAOSw3ihhSIgw

🙂I learnt that retirement would not be a problem as long as I had my workshop and all my tools.... so I retired🙂

The fact that one of your rollers cracked suggests that they are Glass hard, should they be tempered back?

Enjoying what you do, always looking forward to the next instalment.