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My aluminium box body is in need of repair to its sides the dreaded white powder is around under the paint.

Really I think the aluminium needs cutting out but for the most part the corrosion is hidden behind the lifting panels and makers plates.

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Its not something that I think its possible to weld more like a new sheet of aluminium plate over the damaged areas and re rivet the plates in place. The rivets are small girlie ones where would I find these?? Plus the gun to re apply them?

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I can only imagine the consequences if I lost my beemer keys with the cost of replacement.

One less BMW on the road :-D

Duct tape is quite useful for holding nuts in place on a ring spanner, the spanner can go where your fingers cannot in confined places with a bolt being screwed into the nut.

Don't leave it to long as from memory the distance selling regs might apply and you can ask for you're money back and shop elsewhere

http://whatconsumer.co.uk/mail-order-distance-selling-know-the-facts/?utm_source=adcenter&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=distance%20selling%20regulations&utm_campaign=BingPPC

Someone will have a radio you just might have to wait and it could be expensive. You might drop lucky and buy one cheap it all depends if you want it to function or not

Well, I got offered two ferrets, so I bit the bullet and bought them.

the first one will arrive next week.

its a mk4 ferret and its amphibious ( !! ) and has a turret on the top. It came from the Guards and has done only 6000 miles from new. It's got all its equipment including a radio.

the second one is a mk2 without a turret.

I know nothing about the ferret other than what I see on google.

So why have I bought them? I don't know!

Anyway ,they have been sitting in a very dry, secure premises for about 25 years and I would like some advice please on things to check before I try to fire it up, other than checking the oil and water.

Oh ! goodness knows what I have let myself in for.

Fun with a capital F pure and simple enjoy!!!

My suggestion would be to concentrate on just one of them, get it running and then start on the other in the winter.

If I was tempted I might make sure that the other Ferret that you do not touch has oil down the cylinder bores and is then hand cranked with the plugs out just to oil the cylinders up for its lay up. Plugs back in after you have oiled the cylinder bores.

Fuel lines and tap could be gunked up if its sat for along time without being run, even if it has been ran up I would want to change all the liquids on the vehicle for fresh.

If its anything like the drivers sight for CVRT's, Ferrets and 432's pitch black with no street lights is best. Bad ones look like you have little dots jumping up and down in the eyepiece.

Am I right in thinking the RBJ is missing in that shot looking down at the bottom of the turret basket?

It is missing from the vehicle some nice person has cut it out instead of undoing the connections :mad: Luckily I have one thanks to Chris

Hi Andy...

 

Great Purchase... looking forward to seeing plenty of photos of the restoration !

 

I've nearly finished the restoration of my Sabre (03-FD-10 purchased from Chris McMillan) follow this link for all tye photos and videos....

 

http://alvissabre.blogspot.co.uk/

 

Regards

Paul

Thanks Paul I have been looking at your Sabre and thinking no way that I can do as good a job as you :-( Have to try though I am trying not to touch it but I can't help myself I am buying the bits when I see them.

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Great pic and yes it is good to see them in action

This should be link to thread if it works.

http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?29694-Petrol-playthings

I would like one of those ovens

Service items

Rubber washer on filler hole.

Leather cup for pressurising the tank.

Pip (think thats what its called) at the end of the pump (immersed in fuel) it also sticks and stops the tank being pressurised.

Seal for the pump to the tank

If fuel isn't leaking from the control valves leave alone if it is you can buy the seal for that as well but it means unsoldering the the control valve at the end

I have a No.3 the controls are the same as the No.2 manual if you can find one.

Washers some have them fitted some do not, it all depends if they leak from the bottom off the burner where the two jointing surfaces meet. The biggest issue tends to be old petrol sat in the tank for long periods which blocks up the hole in the tank to the feed in the burner.

Most of the service parts can be bought either off ebay or you can have a look at this forum http://www.spiritburner.com/fusion/index.php I think you can buy spares off the owner of the forum.

Andy, you'll need to find an elevation box from somewhere. Shouldn't be too hard to get it mobile. I have a set of Armstrong dampers if you want them, cheaper than messiers!

 

Tim.. Those are just the commanders sight covers with the OTIS mount, not the turntables I'm afraid!

 

Chris

I have a set of Armstrong dampers someone sorted me out with a set that had just come of a vehicle.

I couldn't understand why the interior lights had been pulled apart?

....oh and the turret not turning is more likely to be due to the floor rollers being seized rather than the traverse mechanism itself, but are you sure the turret lock isn't engaged - left hand side of the hull, there is a bit that swings up and engages with the turret ring teeth... In any event you want to replace the turret rollers with nice new plastic ones from xmod...

 

http://www.thexmod.com/item_detail.asp?id=453

Good point didn't check that

More than happy to share spares

More pictures please :-) Looks like fun was had by all and you had good weather can you book the weather for next year?

Williams Fasteners they have branches all over the UK, they supply both metric and imperial nuts, bolts, washers, set screws so on so forth minimum order of £15

http://www.williamsfasteners.com/

I have had a wander over to the yard for my first visit to the Sabre since it was delivered

http://s55.photobucket.com/user/ferrettkitt/library/CVRT%20Sabre

A few pics from the album

What would these be I'm presuming for the turret??

Quite a bit is missing from the turret but I got lucky I managed to get hold of the turret box that sends signals from the turret to the hull. The turret traverse mechanism is seized as well but thats not surprising as its been open to the elements for ten plus years

What else is missing??

It was a nice clean engine bay though Tar for the tour

Yep, been there! Lovely looking IB2 that someone sold me, opened it up and it was literally half full of aluminium oxide powder.

 

Grotty old IB2, thick with sand and dust, broken knobs etc, works fine!

Or you could have a NOS IB2 that didn't work until you pulled it apart like I did to find that it was missing the nuts that hold the two circuit boards together (Friday special).

While looking at the FV700 web site I came across two pics of SA80 mounts for a ferret. Rather than ask Andy about it I thought It might make an interesting thread. I did a search on hear but found nothing about it.

 

Does anyone know where and when they were fitted into ferrets and can they still be got??

 

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I am sure that I have two pairs of these somewhere

Two holes in the CB2 backing plate and four holes in the IB2. The backing plates can be flexible or have a metal back plate to mount them to the hull or whatever. The metal backplates should have an earth connection from the boxes to the the hull mounting point through one of the mounting holes. If its the flexible backs they have it incorporated into the material.

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The one you have with the Velcro strap fits into a standard Mk 6 Kevlar helmet. Photos on the flash hider show the latest type of headset which fits into the AFV crewmans helmet.

You let me use some of them