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    Sharing the knowledge on restoration, servicing and rebuilds

    in MV Chatter

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    It does seem as if the clutch plate splines & primary shaft splines have somehow become welded , any chance yet of getting a OE spanner on to the clutch cover set-bolts through the gap ?

     

    Obviously you have removed all the fixings, recently I came to the conclusion I had the same problem on a Fiat Punto - after about 3 wasted hours I found I had not removed 3 small set bolts securing the lower tinware (despite having done several UNO & Punto engine changes). It was a case of setting off in the wrong frame of mind, things went wrong and just continued to go wrong all the way. I ended up with the alternator & throttle body suspended on bits of washing line from the wiper arm spindles. Nobody was more surprised than me when it fired up well first go and had continued to do so..

     

    I always put a smear of Moly-Paul PBC on the splines.

    buried and abandoned tanks

    in Tracked vehicles

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    In 1939, 1500 men were detailed to refurbish the camp for military personnel, and a proper power station was built together with a major building programme of Nissan huts. Proper gunnery ranges were constructed with concrete block houses every 100 yards down them (some can still be seen), and there was a tank maneuvering and practice range towards Rubers Law. The whole camp was buzzing with activity for the whole of World War II and was known as the Scottish Aldershot. After the war the camp was used for the resettlement of Polish soldiers before they returned home and in 1959 the whole camp was totally dismantled and sold off. Today the reservoir dam is breached, the holding ponds are dry and silted up, a few concrete buildings still stand and the bases of some of the buildings can still be discerned. The ghostly silent slit trenches occasionally trap unwary sheep, which die because they cannot scramble out. Nature is steadily taking back her own.

     

    NB. the reference to Rubers Law

     

    Somewhere on the internet these is a historical site with OS map of the tank range with rails for target trolley.

     

    http://www.oldgalaclub.org.uk/14-07-05_stobbs_camp.htm

     

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    Little is reported on this period, although it seems the camp gained its own power station. References are made to tanks, with the wet and boggy nature of the ground being said to have claimed some of their number.

     

    http://www.secretscotland.org.uk/index.php/Secrets/StobsCamp

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    Well - the thread is titled Buried and abandoned tanks , I also doubt if any were so bogged in the Uk tyhat they were not recovered.

     

    I do know Stobs Camp has been well metal detected over the years , but the tank range location is unknown to me and seems more remote from the main camps , obviously on a hillside..

    MoD Railway Wagons

    in Other Chatter

    Posted · Edited by ruxy
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    KFA MODA95279 'Warflat'

    Ministry of Defence (MoD) Bogie flat wagon (BR Shildon Works, 1981, KF004B)

     

    http://www.garethbayer.co.uk/wotw/thumbnails.php?album=topn&cat=0&page=9

     

    You will have to search on this site (they don't seem to like you giving direct links)

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    The above is a example of the later "Warflat" , built 1981 (10 years after I had left Shildon). One would assume they ordered a quantity of later "Ramps" to obtain the later specs. of axle-boxes & braking etc. Possibly the early "Ramps" were upgraded ?

     

    On another wagon anorak site I have seen these late Warflat photographed inside Shildon sidings but without and "Ramps"

     

    Would take a bit of Gooooogling around to determine

    Ivory Coast

    in I may be stupid, but......

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    BBC - on-line news , today the heading is :-

     

    Pro-Ouattara forces are patrolling some suburbs of the main city of Abidjan , the photograph being credited to Reuters.

     

    I doubt if the front end arrangement is a snow-plough , possibly a bullet deflection device ?

     

    Can anybody identify the truck ??

    Sankey Trailer strip down

    in Blogs of MV restorations

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    Depends on how much time & availability of good timber , obviously eased edge & vac-vac plus T + Cross-halving joints is better. For the easy life - the middle Army copy (painted green) will do the job.

     

    If you need exact dims. - then I will lay the bottom one out for photograph and try and superimpose the measurements..

    Sankey Trailer strip down

    in Blogs of MV restorations

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    You should have two D rings on the A frame and two on the rear X-member. I suppose they were also slung using barrow type 3 leg-slings on hub discs and draughteye.

     

    I have taken a few detail photographs of duck-boards - will post them up later. Army replacements were of a simplified construction and often slightly different on dims..

     

    You may as well copy an original but will need to use a router for trenching , I use a Dado set on a DeWalt Radial-Arm saw. Generally the correct stuff is 1.1/2" x 3/4" & 1.1/2" x 1" dressed unsorted and that is exact dims. not commercial PSE. Screws are steel - but you may be better off using brass..

    MV Part longest usage

    in I may be stupid, but......

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    Ruxy,

     

    I highly doubt the Warner socket comes close, last production vehicles they were used on would be series 2A Land Rovers, me thinks.

     

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    Yes - correct. Only this week did I receive one off Matt Rimmer for my Rover 10 (last of line military S2A). However they were on the WW2 Jeeps etc. - I was wondering how long they continued on US vehicles (they seem current in Warner catalogue) - and they did I believe continue longer than early 1970's on British FV's.

    Landrover Gearbox prefix 17C - shoreland LR?

    in British Vehicles

    Posted

    FRC 8252 from the NSN is the clue. It is a Land Rover gearbox unit number - defo. But it seems to me , not a new part number , these gearboxes have gone through Land Rover but were probably reconditioned by a contractor. If they had gone to a contractor via. ABRO or done by ABRO then they would not have a FRC number. If there were two contractors then there would be another FRC No. for reasons of traceability.. Possibly the contractor should have XXX out all previous identity brandings (the plate affixed is what matters) - but they don't always do it , you now can't trust any branding on the castings.. The contractor would have had free issue of old gearboxes and new components, but if there were damaged casings - he would source from anywhere and charge for extra work / materials..

    ABRO or other contractors would have been reconditioning in 1993 , 101" were being demobed in droves in 1993 but contracts would have been placed well in advance and would not be cancelled..

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