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  1. Richard Farrant
    Tim, With the better lubricants avaiable now as well. I would think the worm gear will polish up and as you say it is mostly rusty on the non-contact areas. :tup::
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    Tim, From the brief glimse of the bronze wheel it looks to be in good order. Hope the casing is OK. Great stuff, you are cracking on now!
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    Might be the other way around, I am wondering if Shell would have been operating in Berlin at that time, would think it more likely that it is in England and they are loading the plane.
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    hi Piet, The trailer looks good, loaded behind your Leyland :thumbsup:
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    You are showing your age, mate :-D OMD 110 and 330 were obsolete years ago
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    Might have been a John Deere :rofl: Don't know if you had seen the photos that were floating about the web a year or so ago, of a car recovery in Ireland.........that ended in disaster, but somebody "spoofed" the final photo to make it look like a double disaster ; www.snopes.com/photos/accident/crane.asp
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    Dennis was a quality product, I can see
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    Graham, The synchro works better with Straight 90, no extreme pressure additives to stop the friction cones from doing what they ought to.....also does not effect the yellow metal, (bronze, brass).
  9. Richard Farrant
    I agree with Straight 90 gear oil in the gearbox, but Hypoid / EP 90 is best for the axles.
  10. Richard Farrant
    I used to rebuild Flight Refuelling equipment for the army, they were portable pumps and filter/ separators for bulk fuel transfer. Sir Alan Cobham was famous for his Flying Circus in the inter-war period, my mother remembers seeing them near Worcester.
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    According to the title to that photo, that Davie has found on the web, the aircraft nearest, and possibly the others, was operated by Flight Refuelling Ltd. They were tanker versions, and the word "Tank..." can be seen under their logo on the fuselage side. Most probaly taking part in the Berlin Airlift.
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    Mike, I have looked at the parts list for the Martian gun tractor and there are no clues there. The Vocab codes on the part numbers for the components is LV9/BTN, which covers 6x6 10 ton lorries. Wild horizontal winches were fitted to Austin K6 gantries and some Bedford QL gun tractors.
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    The last ones sold off from Ruddington in the late 1970's. They were GS bodies but with HP air charging units in the back. I know of a chap who bought one, very low miles and sold the compressor, got some money back!
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    The mention of banjos, brings the film, Deliverance to mind :shake:
  16. Richard Farrant
    Hi Stefano, I would say with certainty, that the photo on the left, is of a Norton Big 4. You can see the Norton logo on the tank and their familiar timing cover. Also it is a vertical cylinder in the photo, where as a KX1140 was a V-twin.
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    The patent number dates from 1940, that is as far as I could work it out. There are sites who can come up with the info, but it does not appear to be online.
  18. Richard Farrant
    Happy New Year to everyone :coffee: just finish my horlicks.........good night
  19. Richard Farrant
    bogof ?
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    Jack, I thought you were going to ask CW if he would be the RN Beachmaster........he has the beard and a Navy uniform :rofl:
  21. Richard Farrant
    I would not say that a rope follows the direct line of pull when it breaks, if it is a considerably long length, there is a lot of energy contained as a rope pulls tight within it self, so there is a certain amount of flailing. The AEC rope was probably about 250 feet long as it was to full working length to carry out the test. It ended up over that length away from the lorry and high up in a tree, this is why I always ensured a wide zone around our testing, thankfully no accidents and hundreds of winches tested over the years.
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    You have to be careful with galvanisers, anything of thin material, like your tank, can distort in the heat from the galv process. I once saw some new gates come back from being done, there was some fancy sheet metal work on them, totally ruined as it had buckled.
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    Sorry......that was Simon who mentioned it.
  24. Richard Farrant
    The latest low level reconaissance aircraft?
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    The only think that I am aware of is Methanol and this was only used to stop the air system icing up in cold weather, no lubricating properties I would have thought. I would be extremely doubtful that any type of lubricant was injected into an air system. The talk of air tool oil is totally different, this is to lubricate air motors, not usually any rubber in them either.
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