Rick W

I'll be there with the Champ most likely, hope the weather is better this year!

You got your work cut out, reminds me of the C8 when I acquired it. Good luck.

Good to see someone else from my local area is on here now. Welcome aboard. I didnt get to S.G. this year due to Mrs W having booked us up for a shindig in London that weekend, shame really as its only up the road from us. Nice weather though. Did the BOB flypast do its stuff on either day?

Nnnooooooo!

That Canada dealer is the only other main dealer for the parts other than the one in Germany.

Its a roman marching town/posting station called Bannaventa, on the site which is now called Whilton Lodge a couple of miles north of Weedon, the A5/Watling Street cuts through it. Ive been looking at the samian pottery to see if we can identify it as an invasion fortress, if I can it will be a bit of a coup. We had one Claudian coin out of the whole lot, you only get Claudian coins on invasion sites. Added to that I have one piece of pottery out of 600 which also points to an invasion site. We need a lot more evidence than that though. The roman villa I work on lies a mile south of Weedon just off the A5, it was a metal detectorist who found that. We have been working on there for 10 odd years, last year this year before it gets covered back over again. www.whitehallvilla.co.uk

I have 2 detectors, the first one was a Tesoro Laser many years ago. Its Ok, lightweight, fairly ok discrimination, but doesnt do well on ares with a high amount of slag. Being near a railway town some of the fields are covered in the stuff. The second I bought a few years ago, primarily because I was helping out with a detector survey of a roman marching station and I needed something better. That was a Minelab Explorer, I think version 2 is out now. Its not a cheap bit of kit, but I did get it as part of a deal with a bundle of kit which included 3 different search heads. It had the standard fitted 8"head, a deep seeking 12" head and a smaller 5" head. I almost always use the larger head for fields and the range goes down to approx 12" depending on the object. The small head is specifically for beaches, shallow water etc, I havent had chance to use that yet. Its got a digital display and a booklet the size of a bible. But speaking to our main man who helps us with detecting he just said to forget the book, turn sensitivity up a couple of notches and the discrim down a couple of notches. Bingo. The display also gives you an idea of the ferrous content, what the object is likely to be, ring pull, ring etc. It also gives you a depth for the object as well. As I said not a cheap bit of kit, but I wouldnt use anything else. For the record one day alone out of one field we had 360 Roman coins, a handful of brooches and a gold Celtic stater.

Maybe you should introduce an auction style sales thing to add to HMVF? Could be an opening there Jack?

Cant do the anniversary, hope to go there later in the year.

Dont know if this applies to the UK, I think it does. Picked up from Ferret Forum. Ebay plans to ban sales of all military items. http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/military-items.html

I just got one off evil bay. "Grow your own vegetables- Dig for victory!" Printed on tin plate it now sits at the bottom of the garden overseeing the veg patch.

Photos?

While I think about it Chris, is this a common issue and if it is, what is the fix?

The style police make sure you dont go in it Jack....:coffee:

Yes I have Chris, got all the tech manuals, will give it a go later.

Let me rephrase that. They are not the sort of vehicle you could use on the road on a daily runabout basis, more likely for show use, i would think.

A T-16 carrier came up for sale on milweb today, it went very quickly, by the time the bloke had got back to me it had sold. It didnt have any tracks. Surely the biggest problem for these is finding a good set of tracks? Its a biggish vehicle anyway and a major project for someone when it is half there. Does anyone supply tracks for these? Does anyone on here own one? Not the most practical of vehicles as you cant drive it on the road, so Im guessing you would have to be fairly dedicated.

Hello, the Autoblinda looks like a prototype Daimler Ferret.

If it was doing it all the time then I might say yes. A lazy starter? Maybe? But lazy starters from my experience if they fail to engage you get absolutely nothing.

I think I mentioned on another thread that the petrol guage in my Champ had a mind of its own, that issue is still unresolved. To add to my woes all the guages dont register anything now, does that narrow the problem down any, or does it just complicate my life further? Add to that when turning the ignition on and starting the switch there is a horrble metal grinding sound coming from the engine bay area. This can be resolved by switching the ignition key on and off 2 or 3 times until it starts. If this was a normal day to day car I would perhaps think along the lines of a lazy starter, but could it be an issue with the switchboard itself?:confused:

Are they along the silk route?

Gearbox out of tank?

Whats the weblink?

While the others wondered what the scrumpy was doing to their internal organs, Josef knew what it was doing to his, and hung on to his checkered pillow for dear life...

Its Saturday night in the HMVF Clubhouse. Snapper's suggestion that the mod's should be up for a game of strip poker followed by the cracker game, while he takes photos fo the website, rests a little uneasy with the other moderators... (Feel free to add your own comments)