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    out, damned rust!

    in MV Chatter

    Posted · Edited by pc1959

    I use a battery charger with a bulb in the live wire to reduce it a bit, not good with the technical stuff but it worked well for me!

     

    That's exactly what I did as well! I used a v. small bulb from a dashboard light (5w) and an old battery charger, left the stuff in the tank for a few days and have had a lot of success with the method. Another benefit is that it seems to unsieze rusted nuts and bolts, I had some mud flap brackets with M5 studs on them which just snapped off when I tried to remove the nuts. After a bit of electrolysis they undid without problems.

     

    There's a good explanation of how it works http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/andyspatch/rust.htm

    Irish Armoured Railcars

    in Pre WW2 vehicles

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    I found this picture in one of my father's books of photographs from the Cork Examiner newspaper.

     

    The caption reads:

    "Armoured Railcars in Cork - In 1922-23 when the Anti Treaty forces inflicted much damage to Irelands Railways, the new Free State Army formed a special Railway Repair and Defence Corps. Here are some of its members with two of their armored railcars at Cork station"

     

     

     

    There were obviously at least two different types and they look to me like lorries of the period fitted with armour and railway wheels, are they Crossleys as used by the British in Ireland and perhaps left behind or captured?

     

    Anybody know anything more about them?

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