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    Hero`s Return

    in Other Chatter

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    For those who have not seen the listings yet.......... channel 5 20:00 Hrs Tuesday Revealed...Sqdn. Leader George Johnston returns to The Sorpe dam (of Dambusters fame) to understand why his bomb failed and to visit the graves of fellow airmen on the raid.

     

    Ashley

    US helmets (re-enactment)

    in Clothing/uniforms

    Posted

    quote=Enigma;81479]

    Thanks mate, not sure what price to put on them though.

     

    Hi Enigma,

    did you have any last year at the show ? what expiriance can you draw from then ?

     

    Maybe a tour of the U.S. re-enacting camps / vehicle owners armed with a couple of helmets and lots of photo`s of the different insignia available.

     

    Will have a chat with a friend of mine see what he comes up with.

     

    Ashley

    Scrap yard relics...

    in MV Chatter

    Posted

    Was there any truth in the story, widely reported a few years ago, of a large quantity of US kit especially H.D. motorcycles being buried somewhere along the Dorset coast ? With so many people combing the countryside with metal detectors as a hobby, you would think that anything still out there would have been found by now. It's a lovely idea to think that there might still be something waiting to be discovered.

     

     

    These stories always circulate from time to time and i am sure there must be truth in some of them, along with the dumping of troley bus`es buy local authorities etc.

     

    I belive hundreds of aroured MV`s were left behind after the first Gulf war to save the expense of shipping them back to the states.

     

    I rember form my old detecting days in the Falaise gap, the first place to practise was the ditches / by the side of the roads where lots of small bits and bobs could be found whilst tuning your detector.

     

    Ashley

    Weymouth Veterans Weekend 14-15 June

    in Future events and meetings

    Posted

    I have heard that before Ashley, "jeeps not wanted to many already" comments I heard last year, when we thought we might go,

    Never mind going to Swanage Veterans next weekend instead.

     

     

     

     

    Well i am booked in for that as well, so MOT permitting should be there.

     

    Do you know where exactly the camp site is ??

     

    Ashley

    Ebay Kinson for GWT maybe?

    in Pre WW2 vehicles

    Posted

    This roller looks as if it is really a home made type job maybe a project for the scrap mans son for a local cricket club. The actuall body (what left of it ) appears to be cut down form a auto roller and as Kinson is an old part of Bournemouth the scrappy or son (may have ) borrowed the KINSON badge on the front from an old road sign.

     

    Naturally not implying any thing against the local residents of Kinson in any shape or form but maybe it was built for roller banger racing or ram raiding :-D:-D:cool2:

     

    Ashley

    Jeeps in UK

    in American Vehicles

    Posted

    thanks, am a bit far -in glasgow, but will see who uses mot stations near myself

     

    gary

     

     

    Hi do you still have a local bus station, council depot with a Mot station ??? as these do not oficially cary out repairs to the private sector they are not bound to give a failiure notice in the hope of picking up the corrective work.

     

    Just a thought.

     

    Ashley

    Jeeps in UK

    in American Vehicles

    Posted

    I will say that every time i have had the jeep tested i have been met with positive and interested attitude wether the tester was young or of the older variety.

    Though at one station which i had used for a couple of years, with the normal tester on a day off the appointed tester walked down the pit and said "F*** me look at all these f,,,ing moving parts to inspect though he grudinly passed the vehicle after much pulling and tugging of the steering componements.....needles to say i have never used that garage since :nono:

     

    Ashley

    MB crank info needed

    in American Vehicles

    Posted

    taking these facts from the book....... IF the diameter of each crankshaft journal is less than 1.9365 inches on the crankpin journals or 2.3325 inches on the main bearing journals or if any of the journals are out- of -round more than 0.0005 inch the crankshaft must be re-worked to 0.010, 0.020, 0.030 inch undersized which ever the case may be.

    Crankshafts that will not clean up at 0.030 inch undersize must be replaced

     

    taken from `The complete military JEEP MANUAL`Brooklands Books

     

     

    aSHLEY

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