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    FFR ammeters wiring

    in Lubrication, Batteries & Electrics

    Posted

    1967  ,  is it a Rover 9 or 11  ?

    Have a look on Ex-MLRA   ,   I think the blog by GAVFOZ  -  his was a Rover 11 and I think FFR,  lots of photographs - may be something.

    More  S2A    Toastie   types  88"    Rover  8   -  by such as John Hughes ,  Stivvy,  Nils and one or two more.    I think you would have to contact and request specifically what you need.     A LWT  Rover 1 / 2A  FFR  would hardly be much different ,  I once stripped off flex. conduits from a 109"  to swop over to a LWT and was surprised they were same lengths/identical around the shunt box.

    Possible cracked block

    in American Vehicles

    Posted

    I remember a hydraulic moulding press made by Daniels where the hydraulic ram cylinder sprayed the machine shop with a mist of Shell Tellus.  A new cylinder was ordered and fitted. I then with a sledge smashed the original cylinder , the wall thickness was 2" +  & oil had tracked through the CI abt. 2 feet before escape to outside.  

    On a thin water jacket like this , similar porosity problem - so I drilled to investigated , luck was in and I used the smallest taper plug (with threadlock) - it was only 1/8" BSP ,  I would probably have gone up as far as 3/8" BSP.   After a few years - I ground off the square head and painted over - invisible repair at £ zilch cost.     Devcon on similar CI  recip. pump crankcases  & engine casings - the norm if not extensive.

    More AJAX problems , they should have tried Vim

    in Tracked vehicles

    Posted

    You couldn't make it up  !

    80 years the nutter Geoffrey Pyke  of the 'Pyke's Uphill Rivers' project and  Habbakuk project ,  a  2.2 million tons displacement aircraft carrier (x50 the displacement of a battleship)  - made from frozen Pykrete (sort of a frozen woodchip) - a prototype was built in Canada.   Pyke's  fast armoured snow vehicle for northern Norway  - apparently led to the   M-25  Weasel.     Pyke for his efforts was paid just over £30 per week, that during WW2 was absolutely  ££  top $  for a unknown deep thinker (but he was a crony of Churchill's cronies) ,  put it all down to inflation and out of 10 + totally barmpot idea - you might just get something that both works and is serviceable under the battle conditions it was intended for,  there again AJAX could just be  lots of  £££££  funny money for the few.

    New member with a classic Mini

    in Introductions & Welcomes

    Posted

    48 minutes ago, John F said:

    You can make a Freedom of Information request to the RAF to get information about your Mini, see https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/select_authority

    There's an example FOI response for someone enquiring about a Land Rover here: 
    https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/merlin_report_for_land_rover_con

    AFAIK  -  you just have to ask the RAF Museum , no need for a formal FOI  (like with Army Vehicle)  and RN would be a real problem in any case as they re-cycle the  VRM.   IIRC  -  does not this RAF Museum person who does the search attend this forum in his civvy hat  ?

    Poland and WWII

    in Other Chatter

    Posted

    I have just a few books on WW1 & WW2  - on the eastern front , written in English by people of Polish origin ,  I think the only books same but Russia are by Victor Suvorov  -  same problem to me , when you are reading along if these strange names & strange place-names don't register in my brain , then I have great difficulty to absorb the book.

    Poland and WWII

    in Other Chatter

    Posted

    Many Polish surnames end in ki (Sikorski)   - it always sounds more Russian to me ,  but with Russian & Austro/Hungarian  empires & 'pale of stttlement'  - could be all sorts of origins.   The words were always the same if Poland was mentioned ,  Zacky would pull my arm and whisper in an ear  -  Tony , Poland is Catolik  !

    Poland and WWII

    in Other Chatter

    Posted

    How history is lost ,  for 5 years I worked alongside a man who was then a machine tool recon. fitter.  His name was  Fred Zak ,  he was only known as Zacky .  I don't know - you never asked , was Fred his real name ?  was his surname  Zak or Zack ,   was either a abbreviated longer Polish surname  ?     He was attributed with 3 tours , I don't know how this was calculated  Polish / RAF I suppose.   I understand he was apprenticed with Polish air force , he did airframe/engine , he was a part trained pilot .  A ex-pit fitter (uncouth , who got by without technical college)  one day tried mirth ,  it started with Zacky's  spelling of  "fibra washers"  & then more or less that he should not have been present.  I tore strips off the pit-fitter as Zaky was officially charge-hand fitter (he had moved north with the firm mid-1960's from Harmondsworth) & he should show more respect to his 'superior' .  Knowing that if he got up from the card table & struck me he would be sacked.    I could have asked Zacky lots , I didn't  - only twice did he mention WW2 , that afterwards he went home to Poland 1p.a. to see his mother and that he had been a Lancaster rear gunner and was most surprised that it was never his turn to be hosed out of the turret and that it was his choice to re-muster as aircrew (this was soon after the incident)..

    series 2 piston bore

    in Blogs of MV restorations

    Posted

    S2A  were the days of 'selective assembly' and graded pistons (check crowns for size & grade).  If worn you could use oil control rings ,  3 slip hones are overtaken by  "Flex-Hone"  many engine plants inc. Perkins have used them for 40 years +   Snap on (among others) sell them.  With 2.1/4 pet. I use a Makita variable drill 0 ro 500 max. rpm.    Any ridge , you can use a buster called a RIDGE REAMER ,   I just use a die-grinder to remove stock & finish with round India slips.

    Modern equivalent of a Goodyear hi-miler?

    in Trailers, plant and equipment

    Posted

    16 minutes ago, MrEd said:

    My narrow track trailer tyres are unserviceable. Rims are fine but the tyres are perishing and not really for for use. 
     

    can anyone recommend a source of hi-miler or a modern tyre, that looks the same as the hi-miler in 6.50x16 but that don’t break the bank?

     

    i have Michelin 7.50x16 on wolf wheels at the moment, which work fine but would like the option of ‘originality’

     

    thanks all

    ed

    Sankey  NT  did use a Goodyear "Hi-Miler"   was a range of tyres that included the Extragrip.  (similar x -ply by Dunlop & Firestone also used) that was in fact a 6.00x16  ,  it was a trailer tyre  , marked such.   The tread was a multi sipe zig-zag  ,  effectively a Black Cab TAXI TYRE   ,  Austone may still do them (they were seriously £ cheap) but most modern cabs use different tyres.   I use 6.00x16 radials  -  Michelin  XCA  (highest quality  TAXI tyre)  now  NLA.

    Poland and WWII

    in Other Chatter

    Posted

    1 hour ago, John F said:

    I'd be interested in hearing more about Poland in WW2.

    Back in the 1990s I provided the wedding Lightweight Land Rover (her idea) to the grand-daughter of a chap that won the Virtuti Militari Silver Cross, Cross of Valour and British Military Cross at Cassino. I met him at the wedding, he was full of life.

    Poland WW2  is in fact all about the international agreed free port of Danzig  ,  + the  "corridoor"   and requests for road/rail 'corridoor' across the "corridoor" to East Prussia.   Hitler did try for a win/win situation .  The Poles had French support (effectively British support) that was a joke.   Beck & others were bragging they would and could march their armies down the Unter den Linden (Berlin) in under 24 hours.  Of course all Germany was willing to give the Poles a bloody nose,  intransigence by the Poles over free port rights and improved German access to East Prussia cost them their country and kicked off WW2.

    Poland and WWII

    in Other Chatter

    Posted

    Poland after WW1 was run more or less as a military non democratic government , opportunist invading by crossing borders to take other land by conquest.  They were driven off the field by the Germans , granted rights in the UK that no others were given (actually they were kept out of Bletchley Park , but allowed similar  IIRC at The Rubens Hotel , London.  I have more than sufficient reading on the subject , not of any great interest to self.

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