N.O.S.

Make that 6 hours.quote]

This is not encouraging the junior UKWLFOC members such as myself who are about to embark on restorations, and look to their fearless leader for guidance and inspiration :nono:

Just found this site and saying 'Hi' to everyone - I'm into Russian military trucks and run the website http://www.zil131.com/ Amongst my 'toys' I own the twin engine Zil 135 and have recently added some missiles which need repainting matt

Welcome Rob - you couldn't find the "THUNDERBIRDS" fansite then? :-D

Respect for even considering taking that beast to Beltring!

Had a quick look through the OSMA underground pipework catalogue and you're right, they don't offer matt finish in this size - I really hope they are just plastic pipes......:shake:

I'm out of this thread before I get ideas like Rcubed did once (in his pre-kitchen duty days)

If you have lots of drilling to do There is a nifty device to help keep those bits as sharp as new , not sure if its sold in Europe it's called "the Drill Doctor" its a enclosed grinding wheel with a bit holder that postions the bit in the correct angle to sharpen the bits properly . Just a thought , I wanted to pass along . I dont have any connection with them

I must say this device is a lazy way to sharpen drills - you can get the same result by hand and a grinding wheel if you have a reasonable amount of skill, a lot of patience and good eyesight.

So I bought a Drill Doctor last year :-D

Check out "drilldoctor" on the web thingy, note the benefit of the newer models (DD500X and DD750X), and then contact www.international-tool.co.uk for the best price. I spent days tracking down this decent supplier for the latest models.

The biggest, DD750X will cope with 3/32" bits up to 3/4".

Power Steering Gaiter -

I found two in a stillage at MVS (that was a year or 2 ago!) and got them for £2 a pop. Never seen the light of day. The first one lasted about 3 months before it started splitting, they seem far too thin. Kept the other safe for PGK888. They were nice and flexible, and didn't appear to have suffered in storage. Another £4 wasted!!

I think I will get a leather one made up and hang the expense - seen an old leather one on a vehicle, so may have been used in service??

:embarrassed: It wouldn't surprise me to learn I was the only one who hadnt worked it out!

It allows a small amount of misalignment between of axis engine and gearbox to accommodate flexing of engine mounts and gearbox mounts (like when the gear lever jumps up and down an inch or two!).

C6 powered Diesel Constructors (RAF and 30T tractor and M.O.S.[?]) used a totally different coupling design - more torque capacity.

There is very little room (diameter) to install any commercially available couplings - someone posted a pic of a nice and simple U/J conversion - the purpose of the rubber is to absorb some of the dynamic vibration (and it is a cheap engineering solution to solve minor misalignment issues), but that is not essential, surely.

There was a rumour that someone within the Scammell movement had a mould made to allow these to be remanufactured from vulcanised rubber - all you need is a jig / mould unit to hold the coupling pieces in alignment whilst rubber is poured and vulcanised. Don't know any more about this - worth a post on another forum??

The metal components should be ok to use again, even if a little worn so long as bolt holes are not slack - if not new ali (or steel?) wedges could easily be machined up.

Once toolng was paid for, they would not be expensive to mould (reckon £45 - £60?). You'd need to make a few to get tooling costs back, but it might yet come to that! I could get an estimate from a very good Norwich-based company if enough folk are serious and the rumour turns out to be false.

Ok dig deep chaps.......

 

Its all on the front page - click on the HMVF logo at the top of the forum!!

You mean I've been :argh:logging out and :argh:logging back in, as being the only apparent way to get to the :argh:front page, when all I had to do was :argh:click on some :argh::argh:logo?

Thanks very much Andy and Clive for the info and pics - you can't assume that those of us who pretend to 'know it all' actually do!!

Still waiting for a photo of the FV 1 1/2T breakdown prototype mentioned last year.....?

Winning bid £216.

 

Gulp gasp now where are those old service boots:

"FOR SALE - Pair of old army boots, uppers shot but rest would make decent Scamell Coupling Joint.

Best offer over £150 secures" :rofl:

Can someone tell me what these attachments were for please?

Catweazle -

I can't read your last post, it's appearing in what looks like some sort of Arabic text :confused:

The Venray cemetery contains 692 burials, including 1 Polish and 30 unidentified.

The Overloon cemetery contains 280 burials, including 1 Dutch and 4 unidentified.

The Dutch cemeteries are beautifully maintained places, a credit to the country.

OOPS!

Sorry folks, the cemetery we visited was actually VENRAY, not Overloon. I checked with friend's son earlier, before I made the post, he confirmed Overloon - but I've just checked again and it was definitely Venray, confirmed by the CWG records.

Pte Keel was initially buried at Venray, in an orchard according to the article. The body was later moved to Overloon Cemetery. The two places are very close to each other, ( I actually hought we were at Overloon...) but I wonder why Venray was not chosen as his resting place?

So close, but not as close as I thought.

Sorry again for the mix-up!

Almost off topic -

This was one of the gravestones we went to find - a friend of 'Tiny'. Tiny came from a fenland farming family, and his claim to fame was that he never got his tank stuck, unlike all the others. When asked by his Commander why this was, he replied -

"That's easy, Sir - I always head for the water"

I practise this too -where there is water the base is usually hard (that's why the water won't drain away), where the water isn't is usually where it has saturated the ground and you start heading south.....

It is indeed, Snap. And it rang a bell.

Coincidentally I visited the Commonwealth Cemetery at Overloon (it was actually Venray cemetery - see post #6) last year on a trip to Arnhem and the George C Marshall collection. We had called to visit the graves of some comrades of my friend's uncle, a tank driver.

For some reason one gravestone caught my attention, and I couldn't stop thinking about it as I wandered around. So much so, that as we were leaving, I felt compelled to go back and "snap" it.

Before you get too excited I believe there were several similar stones, but wouldn't it be amazing if this were the one......

An interesting point has come to light recently in discussions with several operators of quarry plant and trucks re. cheap bearings -

for example a cheap roller bearing may only have 8 or 9 rollers instead of the usual 10 (spacing on cage is greater).

Not something you look for at the time, you just assume the bearing will be identical in capacity as well as dimensions. Life expectancy reduced somewhat. Beware!!

BUMP bump

:rofl::rofl::rofl:Well done abn! No sure how I missed this when you first posted the information, but as more and more stuff goes on it becomes inreasingly difficult to keep up.

Just received an invoice from Witham .....:shake:

Who is nearest to RM7 who could administer some urgent medication - a rubber hammer will do.........

Well done - another one saved, even if a bit prematurely!

Sorry to hear that, Sisu. Lets hope it all works out. And that work on your truck looks great, it will be a fine restoration - maybe we'll see it next year!

That doesn't look like Bury St Edmunds or Colchester scenery to me, Sisu ?

Can't see what's under all that old cosmoline packaging mate, is there a part number label on it?

Well, according to the box at the top of the screen I last visited HMVF on Jan 16th and it's now July 8th. JC

So, by the time you've caught up with all the posts we'll expect a few posts from you about October time? :-D

Blooming heck,leave all the electrickery at home,re learn the art of conversation,or stay at home and we can all have a vertual Beltring

:rofl::rofl::rofl:With a can of that spray-on mud for the computer screen!

OK Rob, how did you arrive at your blue route-march lines?

Are they your 'best estimate' of the route taken?

I've been trying to work out the approximate route for 1st Norfolks on 2nd Sep 1918 into and around Beugny without any luck - no map ref.s to go on or anything :confused:

Nice maps by the way.

Any ideas if the trench maps now availaable on CD in 3-D form (showing ground contours graphically) can be reproduced in publications?

Tony

The wifey went to W&P once but it wasn't really her thing...........