Adrian Barrell

Petrol? It never had much of that in it when Jack ran it........

I've been looking for some myself. This is exactly what I need. http://www.adaptaflex.com/products.asp?ID=82 There are simpler and cheaper alternatives such as http://www.cabletec.com/Products/METAL_BRAID/cabletec%20HBT90%20Screening%20Braid.html and http://www.polamco.co.uk/en/screenbraid but I really need the former in the 20mm size. Unfortunately its a 25M minimum order and it's about £420.00 for the reel. I only need about 6 meters so does anybody have some or need some?

Not unknown, just not common knowledge!

Not much for me to do...... Anyway, my Sherman is ready, ish.

Quite. Several tens of pennies in fact! I wish I had found one that nice for my Sherman.

Unusually for an American tank, the M4A2 and M10 use conventional i.e. not electric gauges so the temperature and pressure gauges use very long capillary tubes. There are also low oil pressure warning lights activated by pressure switches but these are also mounted on the panel and take their feed from the oil pressure gauge lines. The two black knobs on the panel are priming pumps for cold start. These pump fuel under pressure into the engine at the same time activating an electric igniter to burn the atomised fuel to heat up the inlet tract.

Other parts have been aquired such as periscope holders for the hatches and this very nice instrument panel, NOS in its box complete with all gauges and mounts.

Time for another small update, despite work continuing all the time, it's been primarily on internal parts where lots of hours show seemingly small results! A case in point being the clutch mechanism. The M10 has, like the M4A2 it is based on, a twin powerpack. The two GM Detroit supercharged two stroke diesels are coupled together by a clutch housing that allows each engine to run individually. To achieve this, there is provision to lock either clutch in the disengaged position. The mechanism incorporates an equalizer mounted just ahead of the clutch housing. The first picture shows the clutch levers with the slotted top holes to allow one side to be held disengaged. The second picture shows the whole unit mounted in the floor with the equalizer fitted on top. Doh! The pictures are in the wrong order but you get the idea...

More likely RG 85 meaning Radway Green 1985. Without a pic or dimensions it's a bit hard to be honest!

Ladders! You were lucky.......

You sure about the D2 Mike? All my information gives the D4 as the smallest tractor used. The D2 is pretty useless for much construction work.... I suppose it may have been airportable and used as such.

I have one too! 2T serial numbers were all military as were some of the preceding model with a 7J serial like mine. The British Army used loads, they were the standard size IV dozer. Famously used to bury victims at Belsen..... D2 is a smaller tractor with little commonality. Not sure about the Clarkair.

A fine tank! It makes a man of you.....

Those halftracks in the last picture must have got lost......that's Potters forecourt in Framlingham. Only about 180 miles off course!

The knife edge at Bovvy is about 45 degree up and the same down. That is what I have always thought of as a knife edge though you're right, it's not the best description!

The Cent driver training video advises reaching the balance point then into fourth. The only situation it specifies staying in first is a drop. It does show what happens if you attack the drop too quickly, the idler detaches from its bracket!

Matildas and Churchills from the UK, Valentines from Canada, thousands of Shermans not to mention Spitfires, Hurricanes, P39s and P40s, Thompson SMGs etc etc etc.

I don't think that's the case. The sections of the RTA that apply relate to dangerous driving etc. If you are caught on the road driving normally but without a licence or tax etc, you are not charged with dangerous driving so all this ''RTA applies to anywhere'' is a red herring, IMHO!

This would mean, by extension, that if I invite some friends round for an afternoon to drive my vehicles in my field, RTA would apply. I do not believe this to be the case. However, that is not the topic of this thread so I'll leave it there!

I assume this only applies to events where the public are admitted or at least pay to attend.

A 6 cylinder engine will wear the ring gear in three places so a 60 degree turn would be appropriate.

Not recently, but always very good to deal with in the past.

They did. Panther in particular was known to brew quickly. The problem with earlier Shermans was the ammo stored in the sponsons. Diesel Shermans burned just as readily as petrol examples and it was not unknown for a Sherman to be burnt out in the fighting compartment but the fuel tanks to be unburnt.

German tanks all ran on petrol (gasoline).