antarmike
-
Posts
5,852 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Gallery
Blogs
Events
Articles
Store
Downloads
Posts posted by antarmike
-
-
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=biff
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=mong
Definition three I presume, not very nice or P.C......
-
-
Guess who - go on then explain general mong - please:blush:
General Mong was Ming the Merciless' half brother? No ?
well how about this geezer?
http://nguyentin.tripod.com/lmlan-2.htm
Or this guy?
http://abeautifulfilm.coldfusionvideo.com/?p=545
Sorry just don't get it!
-
Just not safe on the ground, Apache would be the tool and you could "take a few out" to make room in Tesco's car park so you could land....
-
Who is going to ask what "general mong" means now??
-
I have a complete cast iron radiator that I believe is good. If of use pass me your mates number by PM. Mike
-
-
Putting steel wheels on the back end might improve the lift, and would be no greater wheel pressure on that axle, than on the front axle when carrying a load.
-
Can anyone tell me what colour the hydraulic tank filler is meant to be please.
Diesel - yellow.
Coolant - I guess blue.
Hyd - ?
On both mine the fuel filler is yellow and the Hydraulic tank filler is body colour Green/ black or IRR green.
One has OM33 stencilled on the side of the Hydraulic tank side, forward of the filler. The other is unmarked.
Coolant filler was originally same black as radiator header tank. One of mine still is black, the other is over painted same green as body, with black showing through the paint chips. Neither has any sign of ever having been blue.
-
-
Looks like the Mohne dam in the middle of the shots
-
-
You may have a problem if there are any luminous instruments. British gauges came as luminous, flourescent or plain. The former contain radium and many museums have a zero radiation policy and will not accept anything like that.
East Kirkby's Lancaster is probably full of Radium already!!
Not to mention all the crash recovered relics!
-
Thank you for your troubles, Mike. Most appreciated.
EB now proudly boastes first coat of Deep Bronze Green:shocked: The cam paint was coming off in lumps anyway. Never relised they had split rim Alluminium wheels though. Hence the over-inflating warning on all wheels.
Book says front 25 PSI 1.72 Bar
Rear 15 PSI 1.03 Bar
-
Thanks for those..There are some brilliant ones ion there...
-
Mk1 wiring iaigram..note no micro switches on mast on a Mk1. I don't know what else is different, but being Schematic it might be easier to follow.
Sorry I can't scan A3 in one go... Mike
-
-
Is there any chance that Mike or someone might have the MkII wiring diagram that could be emailed to me. Doing 'print screen' does not give enough detail on fine print.
Removing the injectors today - never been removed since new judging from the paint over them. Solid rust etc just below the weather seal. One was in so tight that it snapped in half. Injector pullers did not touch it. 1 1/2" opened-ended spanner and 7' of scaffold moved it:-D
Brake pipes off tomorrow.
I have Mk11 wiring Diagram, I have put it on here somewhere for someone else, but because I had to resize it wasn'r very clear. When I get a chance I will e-mail it to you if you can PM me an e-mail address.
-
Some for sale here
Water alone can be used
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrasonic_cleaning
quote Wiki "Ultrasonic activity (cavitation) helps the solution to do its job; plain water would not normally be effective. The cleaning solution contains ingredients designed to make ultrasonic cleaning more effective. For example, reduction of surface tension increases cavitation levels, so the solution contains a good wetting agent (surfactant). Aqueous cleaning solutions contain detergents, wetting agents and other components, and have a large influence on the cleaning process. Correct composition of the solution is very dependent upon the item cleaned. Solutions are mostly used warm, at about 50–65 °C (122–149 °F), however, in medical applications it is generally accepted that cleaning should be at temperatures below 38 °C (100 °F) to prevent protein coagulation.
Water-based solutions are more limited in their ability to remove contaminants by chemical action alone than solvent solutions; e.g. for delicate parts covered with thick grease. The effort required to design an effective aqueous-cleaning system for a particular purpose is much greater than for a solvent system.
Some better machines (which are not unduly large) recycle the hydrocarbon cleaning fluids. Three tanks are used in a cascade. The lower tank containing dirty fluid is heated causing the fluid to evaporate. At the top of the machine there is a refrigeration coil. Fluid condenses on the coil and falls into the upper tank. The upper tank eventually overflows and clean fluid runs into the work tank where the cleaning takes place. Purchase price is higher than simpler machines, but such machines are economical in the long run. The same fluid can be reused many times, minimising wastage and pollution. Carbon tetrachloride (CCl4, also formerly used in fire extinguishers for electrical fires) was used in the past, but is now prohibited as dangerous. If CCl4 fumes are inhaled through a lit cigarette, carbonyl chloride (COCl2, also called phosgene, a poison gas used in warfare) could be produced."unquote"
-
Is the best place to get the de-registration documents and anything else I need from, the address that AntarMike put up:
RLC Museum at Deepcut?
This must have been my old barracks before the who-ha. If so not sorry it has been closed in some respects.
If you want to trace the vehicle record card to find its service life then you should contact Royal Engineers Museum at Chatham for Eager Beaver, unless it is an RAF Eager Beaver in which case Royal Air Force Museum Hendon, If it is ex Navy or Marines I don't know.....
For a bare minimum info of date into service, date released (cast) and who to, will do you then these people may well be able to help. They won't have the record card, just date into and date out of service, and who it passed to.
Registration Manager
Defence Equipment and Support
Supply Chain Support
Building 154 Chetwynd barracks
Beeston
Notts
NG9 5HA
-
The concrete wall panels look interesting too.....
If you want to store your sugar beet....
-
One or two friends keep trying to tempt me to buy some ex military vehicle or the other, usually a truck. (I should say lorry, I've plenty of modern trucks already).
Ray
Truck is fine, most of the Manuals etc I have for the AEC Matador refer to them as "Truck"
It is a perfectly acceptable way to refer to a lot of Wartime and post war British Military vehicles....Probably better than the term "lorry" in a lot of cases.....
Keep on trucking.....
-
Hi Skint George and Niels v,
Question for Niels please. Is the AEC Command vehicle in the picture in the UK or Denmark? Skint George, Did you know that those AEC's (based on the 6x6 chassis 0854 used for the refueller and the Coles crane, I think) were actually built on your 'patch'. So the real 'blue thing' was actually built at Birtley, near the old ROF plant.:-)
Best wishes,
Mike.
Although similar to the O854 chassis the chassis for these was the model O857. Most obvious difference is the radiator is angled back and mounted lower......
-
I know someone who has been operating EB's in his business of tent and marquee hire, he told me that the steering wheel was a fork lift part, think he mentioned it was a Climax. Knowing how ROF made these machines from the parts bin (ie designed it with as many available parts from the Army parts system as possible), then it is entirely possible that the Orbitrol steering unit, shaft and wheel are all from the same source. If you have an army parts list, it might have a makers part number against this part and the NSN prefix might show the source.
As the Steering wheel is designed to be removable for air transport, held in by two lynch pins, it seems unlikely that it is a standard civilian part to me.
They also had a stub that replaced the proper steering wheel, complete with spanner flats so that the steering could be worked with a spanner when loading into Argosy/ Andover etc. That part certaily wasn't standard!
If ROF made that part they were certainly capable of making the real steering shaft....
Eager Beaver's
in British Vehicles
Posted · Edited by antarmike
Mong seems to have a wide civvy usage. My wife tells me that as a kid in South Africa, over 30 years ago it was a widespread insult used by other kids and its contraction from Mongaloid (then a common term for Down's syndrome) was well known.
Even though I hadn't heard it before its use seems to spread well beyond military usage.....and its civvy use may pre-date its adoption by some military types....
Biff is also widely used by the general public, its meaning includes " Best Friend Forever" ..Brother I'd Fight For,..or to carry out a sexual act, a cigarette or to smoke a ciggy, to bash yourself hard, etc. .and seems very imprecise as to meaning....even down to meaning a toilet, particularly an Elsan,,.it seems it can mean just about anything to anyone so little chance of me working out what it meant....It is suggested, that when used in the sense of an idiot, it alludes to Spina Bifida, so again perhaps not very PC taking the piss out of someone who has a disability through no fault of their own.....
I thought the army's recruiting slogan was "be the best you can" I would have thought that extended to being careful of the language that soldiers use, and the way soldiers respect (or in this case dis-respect) the people who you are suppose to protect....including those with Down's syndrome and Spina Bifida . It is a real pity if the Army has stooped this low for this to be widespread Army Vocabulary....
Anyway back on subject.......