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You need something like an external helicoil, if such a thing exists. Incidentally the FV432's fuel cock, which isn't dissimilar, carries an OEM part number of 508BR10 if that helps. Andy

I was stopped at the roadworks on Ively Road in Farnborough yesterday and approaching in the opposite direction was a convoy of around a dozen military trucks and wheeled APCs, presumably French by their colour and Renault/Saviem badges. Any one else see them or got any explanations? Andy

Is there any chance of tracing the OEM? Does the parts list have a manufacturer's part number? Andy

Impossible to tell what actually did happen from the quality of the journalism involved ... :-( Andy

Strikes me that one of these would be the easiest approach? It also sorts out the negative/positive earth problem as it's almost entirely insulated. Andy

I think you're right, I haven't seen one of those before and the photos don't show enough detail. I wouldn't expect more than 10M Ethernet though, the fibre is for security, not speed. Andy

Probably 10base2 judging by the age of the device and the number of pins? Andy

"There's a guy works down the chip shop swears he's Elvis Just like you swore to me that you'd be true There's a guy works down the chip shop swears he's Elvis But he's a liar and I'm not sure about you." (Kirsty MacColl) Andy

If the device is GPS capable and GPS was enabled and it had a lock at the time the photo was taken the information will be embedded in the photo's EXIF information. That information can be viewed and edited, but you need something a bit more serious than just viewing file properties. Photoshop can display and edit EXIF information and I'm pretty sure there are some dedicated EXIF editors out there too. Interestingly, if you use Photoshop's "Display for Web Page" feature, which I use to resize my photos for web posting, it strips out all the EXIF information as part of the optimisation process. Andy

No plug and socket, just a wedge-shaped bung like you get on the end of connector shells. You'll need to get the knurled nuts undone, I'm afraid. Andy

Not if you're somewhere with no mobile 'phone coverage, like large parts of the rural UK! Andy

I thought he was trying to avoid paying for his tube tickets! Andy

Blast - just did mine last month! Andy

Last time I looked, tracked vehicles were still exempt ... :-) Andy

BT (and others who resell their bandwidth) offer two types of fibre - FTTC (Fibre to the Cabinet) and FTTH/FTTP (Fibre to the House/Premises). FTTC is far more common, but if you're lucky and have the dosh, you may be able to get FTTH, whose bandwidth is effectively unlimited. FTTC relies on your existing copper cabling from the cabinet to the house and the bandwidth is therefore affected by distance from the cabinet just like ordinary ADSL. As a rule of thumb at about two miles from the cabinet there is no point in FTTC, ADSL will be faster. BT finally got round to putting some fibre cabinets in Portsmouth about this time last year, so I switched from Demon's ADSL to BT's Infinity 1 using FTTC. I'm about two hundred yards from the fibre cabinet and my bandwidth jumped from 3.5Mbps to 38Mbps, a very noticeable difference. It took the Openreach man about fifteen minutes to do the swap, including walking to the cabinet and back! Just bear in mind that if you're using something like Speedtest to check your bandwidth use a hard-wired connection, not WiFi. There's usually quite a difference in performance. Andy

Any idea where that was shot? There seems to be a large crowd in the background. Andy

:-) !!!!! Andy

It's designed to fit on the back of a 432 or similar to form a command tent, like so: Andy

Nice job, that looks a lot more substantial than the original example. Andy

Thanks both - I think Speedy Cables are what I want as they appear to able to make up a duplicate from a pattern. Andy

In that scenario I'd be wondering if my policy was actually worth the paper it's written on. How do you which broker was wrong? Andy

Has anyone got any recommendations for a firm who can make up Bowden cables from a sample or drawing? I've got a couple that have gone missing on my Abbot. Andy

That's all understood, after all it's your vehicle and you're free to do what you want with it! :-) Andy

I've got to ask why, if you can't get a proper Cromwell turret, you don't leave it as a Charioteer? Surely it's better to have a real Charioteer than a fake Cromwell? Andy

That adjustable spanner is interesting, I'd assumed there was a pukka C-spanner. Might "LTB1" be Link Terminal Box 1? And it's possibly for the water temperature gauge? I don't have experience of Centurion electrics so that's just a guess. Andy