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I think I would steer clear of strong chemicals. Gary

Hi count me in for one as well please Gary

Not taking anything away from "cousin Rob" but I've seen that in a wartime photo, I believe it was in southern England,build up to D Day ( I may be mistaken) Problem is I cant find it or remember when I saw it...DOH :blush: Saying that it looked good we went for a closer look,with permission of course.

Thanks for that ,its one part I could not find when i did mine.:-) Gary

Jack i totally agree with you sentiment. Im just bumping up my post count..........

I'm not sure where the libel comes into this, I asked a question. Heres another, if you new Neil was at any risk as you stated and he is a friend of yours did, YOU advise him against swimming the ot after all risk assessment starts well before the show starts, I'm sure Tim Hawkes was under the impression Niel was quite capable of operating the OT even in the water. ( after reading earlier posts i now understand Niel had never swam the ot.........yikes )

Oh no I dont Jack, Im only human......not a superman;);)

I cant help feeling this is turning into a witch hunt, of coarse there are some people on here who must be perfect and live in an ivory tower. Yes I agree this was an incedent that should not have happened, but as has already been said,it did and no one was hurt.....why dont we stop the mud slinging and be positive about the other 99% of the show that was great. Or is there a hidden agenda to slag off one show against anothe,r after all you have told us a couple of times that you are a major show organiser. Accidents happen geat over it.

I'm sure it will be Jack, in the same way wheels falling of trucks was Anyway as you can see from that angle the marshalls jumped to it pretty quick....that situation HAS to go down to driver/crew.

I'm not sure that the kids were as close as it seems through the "Lens" Of course Marmite is correct re general safety, but lets not forget that things happen even with the best planning. How many people have had near misses at W&P with under age people screaming around on quads. Two years ago I was almost hit by a 432 that was belting around in the field I was camping in. When I reported it to a marshal the response I received was " if I did not like it I knew where the exit was" .

This seems to be common practice within this hobby. Most traders if not all will give you a price WITHOUT vat unless you ask. Its not a scam in most cases, it simply makes their products seem cheaper. I'm not sure what % of sales are to trade and what are to the general public, it would be interesting to know. Its easy these days to spend say £150, only to find when the bill arrives its accutally a lot more,of course vat is then normally added to postage too. I'm not moaning, vat has to added by any business with a reasonable turn over BUT it would be nice to be made aware earlier. Has anybody noticed any dealers who advertise on on Milweb state the prices are plus VAT I'm VAT registered within my field but i make sure from the start my customers understand this. BTW I cant claim my vat back on MV parts GRRRRRRRRR :cry::cry::cry::cry:

That's interesting. Ours is facing down and eveyrtime we remove the weapon we hit the dash panel lamps. I would have thought it would have been easier to fit and remove weapon if the holder was "upside down" as such. Is it to do with visabilty do you think.

We have just replaced ours and although not by the book we made ours either 49 or 50 inches it just gave us a little more headroom and made the canvas look much better. As a very quick job we used soft wood, but we have soom nice oak just waiting to be machined.......saw blade being sharpened. Gary

Deadline, I love your purity of the CCKW, I just dont think they would have had an facility for cellphones or GPS.....:laugh: :laugh::laugh: :laugh::laugh:

We have both, Gmc 353 and Wc51. I can get 8/ish from the gmc my hoppo only gets 5 when he drives,insists its the size 18 feet......lol. The dodge gives me 12/13,both at a steady 35 ish. TBH nethier are going to be Ubba comfortable in the back we had full size canvas pad (seats and backs) made by Allied forces these help......a little :laugh:. Be careful if you try to do too many mods regards seating the Insurance police might not be happy. Understand what you say about accomadation and a good idea. It always makes me smile when people say " we live like they lived" yeah right. just without the blood guts and sh*t Good luck

This sound more and more like the making of a multi vehicle road run in the making........who's up for it :cheesy:.......

Buying a decent one I dont think will a problem these days but running it, well thats a different story with the cost of fuel as it is. Remember also petrol is dearer in France than here (just). Of course split 5 ways it make it much less painful :cheesy: Im sure there are far more people on here can to point you in the right direction....but good luck and enjoy it. Thats just the sort of thing more of us should be doing tbh sitting in fields slapping each other on the back because you have used the correct nut and bolts leaves me cold. Three or four vehicles trunderling along the open roads and lanes is MUCH more fun.

Im not sure that you could shape the sickoflex to anywhere the correct profile.:wow: Its not just a case of being authentic its more a case of being correct. (and I'm not counting rivets ) Vulture, I am informed that the dodge wc series seals are the same size asthe Gmc,however good luck with getting one of those. I tried for ages ,Dallas never seemed to have any,although they were always due in. Jeep parts not any use either. in the end i got one at Stoneliegh in Jan from a Dutch trader. As I said before try Cliff Harris thats where i got ours from.

I suppose in the same way it used to be a pain for Jack to petrol in "a mans truck" or make sure the wheel nuts were tight....... There always seems something better to doin life............dont you think ?

Yep TBH iI find this a bit of a pain,is there no way to disable that feature,this is the ONLY forum I know of that does it.

Yep and spreading the dreaded virus to all :cry::cry:

If you re-read my post you will see that I stated we found fitting the Gmc seal "easier" than the Jeep, not that it was easy to do. For what its worth....I would agree with you........removal is the way to go.

Vulture, We did not use a knife,we used grips to pull what we could out and then a engineers pick to get the other parts out. As i said my mate made us a profilled tool to go into the channel....that realy hepled with the clean up. I would think (but not sure) trying to fit the new rubber with the frame in situ would be more difficult. As regards refitting the screen, it was very tight sliding into the fixed channel on the outer frame. Gary

Hi I have done both a jeep and a GMC let me tell you the Gmc was MUCH easier. Here is how we did it. 1, purchased a length of rubber profile from Cliff Harris at Universal jeep supplies 2, removed inner windscreen frame (that took some doing) our glass was ok so nothing to change there 3, removed ALL and I mean ALL the old rubber profile (we made a shaped tool for that part) 4, (optional) removed all other fittings from frame,and wiper units 5, rubbed frame and all parts down prior to painting 6, masked glass and repainted all parts then set aside for a couple of weeks for paint to get a little harder. 7, we then fed in the new profile we needed no tools at all just some magic lubrication;) the real bonus was NOT having the preformed coners to worry about. 8, once happy we cut 45 degree corners and bonded them with (I think Gorilla glue,which you need water to activate) 9, refitted all the parts and put the inner frame back.....that part was a NOT simple as it seemed . Take your time,its not that hard,helps if you have some help.Vulture you have seen ours at Duxford. Its one of my pet hates,tatty window rubber....just the dodge to do now. Good luck.