david052

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Thanks for the link. Yes, in an ideal world simply connecting it up and pressing the 'launch' button would be the way forward, but at the moment it is sitting in the shed outside my house and the CVRT is 25 miles up the road... Plan B is called for!

As the fuel pump on my CVRT was submerged underwater for goodness knows how long it strikes me that I need to test it before reinstalling all the fittings around and about it. It has positive and negative obviously, but also a suppressor of some sort. Is it simply a case of hooking it up to a battery and seeing if it whirrs, or is there more to it than that (I'm sure there is!)? A search on the Net would indicate that also I need to consider how much it can actually pump as well, but I am slightly reluctant to hook it up to a jerrycan, 'elf and safety and all that... What is my best option? I recall seeing new ones as well on the net, but couldn't find them again when I went searching. Cheers!

Well, I ordered a tin of the Danboline stuff before I saw all the replies, so I'll see what it looks like when it arrives (yes, I know, it's a round thing made of metal...) and whether it looks suitable. Thanks folks.

That's great - thanks. I used bilge cleaner to get rid of most of the oil and grease (clearly when they did a oil change they simply allowed the used oil to run out onto the floor!), which did a good job. The similarities to a boat are quite apt. Though they do qite a good job of keeping the water in rather than out!

It's only on the base and up the walls for about 6 inches. Interestingly there was note in pencil on the side above the line - 'paint', so maybe it should have been fully painted? Definitely not etching primer, it's quite smooth and strong.

Hi I want to repaint the floor of the engine bay of my CVRT. It has a cream coloured paint on it which I would like to replicate, and I guess it is heat resistant as well as oil and grease resistant. I can find white or silver paint but not cream. Does anybody have any thoughts on where I can get the right stuff? Cheers

I recently bought a pair of CVRT kinetic energy recovery ropes, which have been looped together to make one long rope. Any thoughts as to how to undo them, or am I doomed to saw one off as the sacifice? They are dry.

It occurs to me that what might be useful is a trailer board wired up to a discreet socket, so that it can be dismounted for shows. Also, for a ground to ground recogniton panel there are plenty of Gulf War recognition panels available on Ebay with eyelets etc which could be used?

Yup, I would agree. Where was the green photo taken - RAF Leuchars?

What are you after?

I remember reading recently about a private museum up in the hills in Crete - local guy who owned a taverna, but where? Might require some detective work...

But it's green so it must be good - buy it! Nice selection of vehicles in the background.

Hello Just a quick question, to which I am sure there is a quick answer. I have an aluminium heat shield from my engine bay which has a few knocks and dents and general cooked in dirt. As I like the engine bay to be reasonably clean and shiny what is the best way to clean it up without resorting to buffing with a wire cup brush and getting it covered in scratches? Thanks

Is anyone planning on going along to the viewing days? I've just been in touch with Withams about the quality of their pic of the LR Wolf spares, or lack of it, and they tell me that they don't plan to take any more pics. I am interested in what is classed as CVRT and AFV spares, so if anyone is going to look would they be able to take pics and have a rummage through some of the stillages? Bit far for me to go - in Aberdeen! Cheers

My maternal grandfather was in the 5th (Cinque Ports) Bn The Royal Sussex Regt between the wars, and was mobilised in 1939 as a Captain. Transferred to the 7th Bn, Acting Major, and killed at Amiens during the retreat. My maternal step-grandfather (married post-war) was in the Fire Service on fireboats on the Thames during the Blitz, though I haven't been able to find out a lot about that (dead now). My father's guardian was a Major, RE Trains I believe, served in Northern Europe, involved in the liberation of Brussels somehow. Would dearly like to know more about him. Any thoughts? Haven't really delved much beyond that, either back in time or what my uncles, great uncles etc, though my aunt married a Pole who served as a boy runner in the Warsaw Uprising. Have to get him to tell me about that.

So are we mounting a Joint Services expedition then? I've got some time off coming up, even if I do live North of the border. Nothing like using it productively!

Dieppe? Let's go!

Interestingly (well, that depends I guess!), my Ser III Piglet has the registration 00 GX 39 I think, if memory serves. Cheers

Might poke yourself in the eye if your fingernail was more than the legal limit of 0.75mm across 2/3 of the available area, and if you haven't done a risk assessment on the splashback effects of hot soup, well, on your own head be it! But yes, I saw the articles in the news and thought, here we go again. Time to saddle up and start getting involved.

Yes, there are many, many minus points, like sitting on what, 300 litres plus of petrol in an internal fuel tank doesn't strike me as top of the range in engineering design - no guys, don't smoke whilst sitting around waiting for the go signal, but there was an effort to achieve some sort of focus in parts usage. Who came up with common versions of sights, for instance, 42s, 45s, and so on, that could be used across the board of FV design? And the same applies for you other era afficionados. CMP = Canadian Military Pattern. But what pattern? Who decides that sort of thing?

Yep, mess rules rule. Plenty of other forums for that sort of thing. Otherwise it is the mess Webley... Not to sure about relatives listings, lots of sites for that, and TV listings - er, look in the paper? But definitely look at emerging trends such as WP vehicles. Cheers

As I was cleaning up the rim for my 7" headlamp rim (oo er missus!), standard 80's/90's FV type, it occurred to me to reflect on the engineering design of these things. It has 'Top' faintly stamped on the top, c/w an arrow in case of doubt, so that you can align it correctly to get the beam pointing in the right direction, but at the bottom of the circle, if you can have such a thing, are two raised indentations so should/when the thing is covered in successive layers of squaddie 2" brush applied paint you will always know which way is up. What ingenuity and application of thought. Marvellous!!! I love that sort of stuff. And the retrospectively fitted headlamp guards on my CVR(T) that came later on in an upgrade. What lovely things they are. They could have been boring and mundane, yet they are so neatly designed, both as a guard and also capable of being stepped on due to their positioning, yet have a style of their own, so much so that someone must really have thought about it. How about that? Who else has come across similar delights, of aesthetics married to sound, practical design, or have I been at the Christmas spirit a little too much and should stop sniffing paint fumes??? Cheers!

Wasn't the trademark 'Nivea' taken in War reparations and only recently returned to the original owners? Anyway, I seem to recall reading, probably in After The Battle, that when the Allies first came cross the jerrycan in North Africa they decided to copy it. Presses were made in the US and shipped over. The vessel was sunk in the Channel but the cargo was deemed so crucial divers were sent down to recover the presses so that production could proceed.

At my pre-Remembrance Sunday dinner I got talking to a pal of mine who is an HGV instructor. He said that in addition to a H licence I would need an LGV licence, as my Sultan is 8 tonnes plus. I have had a licence since 1986 (?) and have C1+ E 107, which I think from looking at the other thread takes me up to 7500kg? CVR(T)s were produced in the early 70s? Do I take what he said as gospel? Cheers!