antarmike

http://www.haynes.co.uk/wcsstore/HaynesPublishing/images/PDFs/H4212spread3.pdf

Car brakes do not meet EU directives as regards being automatic reversing type.

Ok folks,

 

my over active brain has come up with a thought, how much does the chassis and rear tub of a 109" weigh?

 

Had a thought whilst driving my bus yeaterday( got to do summat to relieve the bordom!!!), buy a 109" mot failure, take everything from the front to the rear tub out (engine,gearbox, front axle, seats bulkhead etc) and turn the rest into a trailer, and kit the back out with the full complement of radios to display with the 9x9 command tent.

 

What does the collective brain think?

 

I await your responces with anticipation!!!! :-D

 

TTFN

 

Mark

You are not allowed under current regulations to build trailers out of "Car" parts. The brakes do not meet current standards for trailers. If you do this, legally, you will have to ditch the back plates and fit proper trailer brake parts.

There are other photos and accounts. Here are a few more pictures.

 

The CVR(T) and BV 202 are very close after the end of the war.

 

The Eager Beaver is about a month after.

 

There is an account of 3 Wombat fitted Land Rovers belonging to the Paras being loaded to the ELK.

 

R

I do wish it was possible to get the reg of the Eager Beaver, but its just not possible! I can't rule it out as being my one!

I had an Honest John, when I was a kid!

Is the such a thing of a Civilian Mobile Nuclear Artillery,

 

The nuclear artillery that gets me was called the Davy Crockett a nuclear mortar bomb fitted on a 155mm recoiless gun firing a weapon with a yeld of upto 250tons equiv. out to a max range of 4,000metres. :nut: it was carried in a M113 personel carrier

 

Steve

I suppose when terrorists finally get hold of Nuclear weapons, they will be still be classed as civilians..........

The originality brigade then come in force to point out the original bulb was 28V and the replacement, like all modern bulbs is only 24v.

This would lead into a technical discussion as to whether to reset the voltage cut out coil, how it can be done and whether the same AVO previously mentioned would be accurate enough to reset the cutout.

 

4 more to get into personal attacks over their political views.

 

 

During which personal attacks one member threatens to knock another's *lights" out.

It then needs someone to point out that in that phrase the word is lites not lights, and three more follow with dictionary definitions of lites, and its etymology.

What about the one to say the light bulb is too wide and you can't legally change it...

 

(Sorry couldnt resist - ducks for cover...)

probably someone (not me) would sthen ay it is the wrong wattage and doesn't comply with lighting regs, closely followed by three people asking whether it has to comply with current lighting regs or regs that were in place when the truck was built.

At which point someone will wade in with "I hope it had a broad Arrow on it otherwise it will spoilt the "Authenticity" of the Lamp.

Followed by an in depth discussion by three members as to who made the original bulb, and whether it wouldn't be better to try and find a NOS bulb.

It then will need another member to asks for photos and dimensions because he wants to build a 1/35 Scale model and wants to get it right.

It then needs a new member to post that he doesn't have a light bulb yet, but one day when he has saved up he wants one because "they are really Cool", and he has joined the site because it has so much information on light bulbs.

This will be followed by four members welcoming the new member, and inviting him to introduce himself properly in the "introductions and welcomes"

It will need another two members to realise that the old bulb will need disoposing of, and pointing out the best place to do this, and a third person to point out some obscure piece of legislation saying you can't throw dead lamps in a bin or a skip, but they must be reccycled through appropriate facilities...

By halfway down the list someone would have suggested it might be an electrical problem, not a fault of the lamp, and twenty people would have jumped in telling us how to check the wiring, which model AVO to use and how, and posting six possible versions of wiring layout, dependant on model, contract number and year of build.....

But prior to changing the light bulb, the person who had done this would probably have posted a question as to "whether the light bulb needs changing" and "my bulb doesn't give out any light when switched on, is this normal?

Mike,

 

Have you tried buying this stuff? I've had a quick look around and can't see anywhere that sells it. I guess it's due to the hexavalent Chrome, which is not good for you!

 

Chris

http://shop.oval.co.uk/epages/62071729.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/62071729/Categories/Primers

http://www.shopzilla.co.uk/7Y_-_cat_id--16695__keyword--zinc+primer

I use a Zinc Phospate etch primer on mine, you can get it in red.

The recommendation for Aluminium was always Zinc Chromate.

http://www.dstan.mod.uk/standards/defstans/80/207/00000300.pdf

All vehicles with slave sockets are 24 volts. Putting one on a 12v vehicle is asking for trouble....

So why aren't they on the 24v Land-Rovers?

And a couple more "in service" shots

the "infinite inprobability drive" caused a platoon of soldiers to appear 3 miles above the planet, and before they had time to come to terms with being soldiers, they had to come to terms with not being soldiers anymore... sorry Douglas Adams.....

wot no Pakistani Antars!

I for one fully understood what Stuart was saying. The standardised military waterproof dashboard was fitted to some Explorer contracts as fitted to Champ, Humber 1 Ton, Martian ect. These had a matching sender bulb, which is what he is after.

Surely with a capillary sender unit the bulb, capillary and gauge are one unit, they are filled and sealed. If you only have the gauge in a dash, you cannot connect a capillary tube and bulb to it. Or am I missing something. This is what I have on the Scammell in my shed, and on my spare engine.

With an electrical temperature gauge you need a thermister, Temperature dependant resistor or similar to connect to it via an electrical cable, and then you can change the sender but keep the gauge. If you have a fluid or vapour filled bulb, in is connected to the gauge at manufacture and cannot be replaced independently of the gauge.

Talk of a "bulb" indicates use of such a system.

I am saying I only have the capillary system, and I therefore cannot help

http://www.hqrafregiment.net/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=38

Quotefrom a member of 63 Sdrn

"The convoy stretched for two miles along the road from the first to the last vehicle. We were escorted by the police from Gutersloh and then again in the UK to our first stop at RAF Odiham where we were to consolidate, take on further equipment and receive more detailed intelligence and orders (in theory anyway). We spent two nights at Odiham during which time our Rapier fire units, missiles and vehicles were moved to Davenport Docks and embarked on the Atlantic Causeway, sister ship of the ill-fated Atlantic Conveyer which was sunk by Exocet missiles on 25 May. Five of the Squadron’s technicians were tasked with accompanying this valuable cargo."

Believed to be a 63 squadron Rapier 101 Falklands, but might well not be!

Probably C & U current at time of vehicle first registration -not year of construction

 

Steve

A vehicle is judged by current C and U regs. These contain exemptions for vehicles built before particular dates. The responsibility of every vehicle owner, before taking it out on the road, is to ensure that his vehicle complies with all the C and U regs as they apply on that particular day. At present all vehicles used on the road have to comply either with Road Vehicles (construction and Use) Regulations 1985 ( or current STGO regs)

(likewise current Lighting regs must be adhered to, and again these will state age of vehicle to which they apply.) Currently all vehicles on the road must comply with Road Vehicles Lighting Regulations 1989.

63 Sqrn RAF Regiment Rapier 101's Falklands victory celebrations London