Lauren Child

He's got an account on the forum I think - have a search on the introductions and you should find it.

The US Navy Naval Safety Centre Photo of the Week is often quite good. This week's one (number 516) is also ladder based.

http://www.public.navy.mil/navsafecen/Pages/photo/Photo-of-the-Week.aspx

Welcome along - what models have you made?

If you are going for a soviet vehicle, go for an OT. The Czech & Polish vehicles tend to be better built than the general Soviet stuff.

Between the BMP and Abbott, the Abbott would win out for me. The FV43x series are very easy to maintain and keep running. Also, the automatic gearbox makes it really easy to drive. Make sure you get a good hull as the suspension bushes go and then it gets very expensive, very quickly.

If I were you, I'd also consider a CVR(T). It's lightweight which makes it reasonably easy to work on. It'll fit in an ISO shipping container to get it home, meaning you can spend more on the vehicle and spares. There is plenty of support and spares for it, and something like a Sabre or Scorpion has a good tank-like look about it. The gearbox is like a motorbike.

You can actually fit two CVR(T)s into a normal ISO container with a bit of wiggling, so there's space for spares if you pack it well. If you need to transport it long distances to shows etc. then it'll fit on a normal car recovery vehicle.

If I could fit in one, I'd have it in a heartbeat. Unfortunately they don't come in my size :banghead:

Thanks Lauren , thats good to hear from our girl on the museums team ! When you get a minute could you "just" line all the recovery vehicles up (in order of age) and call me so I can come and just wander around them like the sad indivdual I am ! :red: Keep up the good work mate !

With all of the changes in IWM London I think there will be a lot of re-arranging of vehicles - I'll see if I can tack your request onto our chairman's list, just for you

I wouldn't pay too much attention to talk of scrappage just yet. Disposals go through a very long process of being offered to other museums, other interested organisations, and finally offered up for sale, before they'd be considered for scrap. There are some very impressive procedures that the museum has to go through for disposals or swaps.

The only things I've ever seen scrapped are the odds and sods left over after we've made a good assembly out of two naff ones for a resto. Even those get picked through quite carefully

The chances of anything on that list getting as far as being offered for private sale, let alone scrappage, is fairly slim.

The 21cm K38 is lurking in the storage area of Duxford. You can/could see the carriage when you cross the footbridge from the carparks on the far side of the mainroad.

I think they brought it out to play occaisionally.

Here we are, memory's right.

 

It's been out for a couple of the Duxford MV shows, and is a monster to move. It's very very heavy. You only realise how heavy when you maneuver it across soft ground and see how quickly it sinks, causing some level of urgency to get it back onto a harder surface. Alas it's also sufficiently large and awkward to maneuver that a certain amount of off-road maneuvering is needed to get it back into storage. It's normally under cover (in recent years anyway) so if you spotted from the bridge it was probably being moved.

The photo's probably don't do justice to the size of the thing - it gets pulled by the Militant/MJ, and the barrell is longer than it by about half as much again (from memory).

I'm surprised it's on the list to go, but I'm sure there's a plan at work.

It's a pure guess but I'd say it's from a Bedford RL. The round cut holes look approximately the same spacing and size as the ones in the flatbed for tie down points.

Freeze spray should also shock fracture any corrosion, allowing penetrating oil to seep in further. If it doesn't come out just through the temperature effect, it may be worth a good soak in penetrating oil afterwards.

Right, that's it - I'm wearing gloves to type on here until everyones better, just in case.

To be fair, good on whoever's it is for trying! Here's hoping we see another Tiger on the move. I think they've got a lot of hutzpah for taking on a project like that.

Thanks to you both. I'll give both a shot.

 

Tom.

Let us know how you get on!

Since I have a Lafette 42 machine tripod restoration project in the offing I thought I'd ask those who use a lot of paint.

Therefore, does anyone know where I can get sizeable quantities of German WW2 colours i.e. Red Oxide, Panzer Grey and Dunkelgelb.

 

There was once a company called 'The Vintage Paint Company' which had stock colours and a match-up facility, however, they seem to have disappeared.

 

Any ideas who may specialise in this sort of stuff?

 

Cheers,

Tom.

Vintage Paint still seem to be going (or they were in October anyway), but every time I ask they say "not at the moment". I guess they've got something big on.

There's some contact details here - http://members.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewUserPage&userid=thevintagepaintcompany

You might be right Adrian. Do you think someone is doing the Johnny Cash version ? :-D

It's a 42, 43, 44, 45 Pzkpw Vi, Vii, Viii with an 88, 89, ....

MTW. Mechanical Transport (ie MT) wing?

 

Too mundane?

A bit of a go on google shows that there is a training wing in cyprus that's abbreviated "MTW", so one of the previous posts probably has it right

My Trendy Wolf? or My Tatty Wolf or Motor Totally W*nk*d. or Mobile Tea Wagon. or Must Tell Wife.

Clearly from it's position, it's "Mind The Wheel", and the other is "Painted Left of Vehicle Other Colour"

If it helps, the WOT6 part numbers are

51E-7566 - Pressure Plate

WOT6-7550-ASSY for the clutch plate assembly, which has

.. WOT6-7546 facing and cushion plate assembly

.. .. WOT6-7549 facing

WOT2 is 11in diameter, but comparing parts lists it's a different part number so it may not be the same.

If it's the same, then it's

11" External

6.5" Internal

0.137" thick facing, one on each side of the plate

0.669" internal diameter of flywheel pilot bearing

HMVF disappeared from mine, but a few days later it showed up in the search again so I re-added it. I think they may have been having some problems.

I'd imagine £6-9k depending on desirability.

The paramedic arrived at my front door 60 seconds before I dropped dead in the lounge........ hows that for timeing, he resuscitated me with a defibrilator, my heart stopped another twice on the way to the hospital. That paramedic was a young 24 year old man to who I owe my continued existence, he came to visit me several times during my recovery in the hospital, with the best will in the world nothing that I could do or say could express my gratitude to that young man, I did really try, I hope that I expressed myself adequately.

Blimey that was timing as you say! You're lucky to still be around

Cum on Jack, pull the other one.......

 

Just the one joke, no more, I promise!

Do I have to be the one to point out that if it's got another one that's not a boy boar. Your parents should have explained these things when you reached a certain age....

There's a line of bolts across the top into the bulkhead. I remember those when we were looking at it, but they didnt seem to release anything that wasn't welded in some other spot.

Well that beats the hand crank.

I don't know - I didn't think you could remove it - maybe I'm wrong or it's a different model.