Adrian Barrell

Sorry, it's short for I seem to remember! As far as I know (afaik) the shock absorbers are the same but I will check as it's been a while since I had all that in my head!

Newton S6 istr.....

Which all goes to make you the man you are today............

Basically, those vehicles and most afv's in British service could be prepared for 3' wading or 6' wading. The Sherman VC could only be prepared for 3' as the gun got in the way of the intake stack needed for 6' wading. Sherman III - intake stack above engine grills and exhaust stack with bevelled lower corners on the rear. Sherman V - small intake stack just behind turret and rectangular exhaust stack on the rear. M10 - similar to Sherman III but rear stack has square lower corners.

Can I suggest using a jack under a tracklink to inch her forward - the pinion gear in the starter is a very weak point.....

Why would you?

Johannes, assuming the designation is the manufacturers then, D7 is Caterpillar D7 which was used as a plain dozer and an armoured one. HD7 is Allis Chalmers though I've never seen one with an armoured cab HD10 is also Allis, as is HD14. They were the three tractors in the AC range with the Detroit 71 series engine. The 7, 10 and 14 used the 3-71, 4-71 and 6-71 respectively. D10 and D14 don't make sense in the context of that time frame so presumably a missing H is the problem! The D7 dozer used LeTourneau cable blades. The D7 armoured used a narrow hydraulic system with rams inside the track frames to allow fitting inside smaller landing craft. The AC range used the Baker Trailbuilder system which looks rather odd with vertically mounted rams inside a goalpost frame above the tractor.

Pardon? They look like HESH to me, no danger if practice, very dangerous if not!

So CI5 have replaced their 3 litre Capris for pink bikes with stabilisers.......... times must be hard!

Whatever makes you happy.

Unfortunately, it is far more common that the prospective buyer never comes to look, phones back or ever makes contact again, despite a promise to buy. Sadly, not everybody is as straight as you Dave and the seller has no way of telling the good from the bad. I would ring him up and ask, you never know!

Really?

Chorehorse. Post war made by BSA. Not hard to find, usually!

Some people just like to criticise....... I wonder what they themselves have achieved?

Face hardened was more common in European production but most British and US was homogeneous. The US were more willing to try welding than the British, Sherman went over to fully welded by mid 1942, Cromwell wasn't welded until early 1944 and then only some models, old habits die hard! Though White used face hardened, IHC used homogeneous in their halftracks. Early US armour was quite soft, 1943 saw some improvements I understand. As long as the welding is chrome or nickel based, cracking is not a problem. There is a heat affected zone adjacent to the weld but the ductility of the cooling weld metal allows for this.

There is armour and there is armour........ I've drilled some armour very easily with HSS and I've failed with other armour using cobalt drills. The easiest was early war US rolled homogeneous and the hardest was last week on a piece of Czech pre-war plate. I gave up on that and made a new plate! Face hardened can be difficult as used on White half track and scout car. The best way is to drill it from the soft, inside face until the drill starts to give up then punch the hard face out.

It's gone in the post within the last hour!

Fred, it's packed and ready to go, I just haven't had a chance to get it to a post office! One of the problems of living in the sticks....

I (should) have some in stock, PM me your address and I'll stick a bit in the post.

Who me? I know nothing......

Yeah, known that for years.............

Jack, it's known as tube swaging. A google search should turn up somebody.

That was definately a leg pull! The Pounds tanks all had post war census numbers on them.

It's known as universal key, at least it always has been to me! As mentioned, Centurion and others. The small square socket is for hatch locks, the four lug end does the fuel, oil and water caps and the hex key.... I can't remember! I'll look on some of mine, I'm seem to remember it's stamped into it.

If I was the passenger, I would have got out of the car before that point and gone ahead on foot!