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Welcome. I wound up with 65247, they likely shared the same warehouse for a time and may also have served in Somalia or Rwanda together. Are you thinking to restore 65216 to UN-livery, or going another direction? I wound up taking her down to a bare hull and when I'm not working on my running Ferret or almost-driving Spartan am still picking at the project. Your 65216 has a number of parts I was missing but might lack others. I had severe water damage which led to a lot of rot and also ruptured torsion bar tunnels. Make sure to check your motor mounts as they may have separated or are about to. Also, expect most or all of your axle stubs to be trashed if yours saw similar neglect to the other Belgian UN CVR(T) I'm aware of.

I'd love to find some as well. I did see a couple pair on Ebay a month or two ago, at the time I passed because a vendor I was working with said they had piles, only to find out later they were SA80 clips. 😞

A nice short writeup on the 7-pin is here, but still looking for ANR troubleshooting details. http://www.g0ozs.org/clansman/audio.shtml

The headset isn't working in the vehicle either (where both ANR and non-ANR headsets have been proven to work), so I assume there's something amiss with the headset itself. Is there a good HOWTO on headset repair? Even just knowing what each of the seven lines going to the headset do would save me from having to tear one apart to work that out. I did order up a pile of additional clansman gear and that included headsets, but most of them arrived as non-ANR headsets, crew-type, so it's something for the folks in the back of the Spartan at least. Thanks again.

Through the magic of Ebay, I actually got a pointer and picked up a wheel on the cheap. It's going to be nice to be able to work on things and do a rotation. Actually, lots of Ferret bits there of late, for instance I saw a Ferret fuel tank and some NOS tracta joints go cheap in the last week or so.

No, it continues. So far, I've only used it with the VRM-5080, so thinking on it I'm hoping that running through the full intercom it might be OK.

Thanks, with your reassurance I lubricated and exercised the connector body on the headset and with some force got it to click on. I hear a popping sound every .5-4 seconds, so something is not right with the headset, but I can hear something, so it's not totally defunct at least!

I bought an ANR headset and I notice it's marked BOWMAN. It look otherwise identical to a Clansman headset, and the connector looks the same, but won't quite connect to a standard pressel. Does anyone know if there is any reason I can't just change the connector and make it into a Clansman headset, or if there are electronic differences as well?

Email sent. Thanks.

Good to hear it's still out there and under power. Any chance the creator or new owner is available to fill us in to the details of what turbo was used, etc.? I'm a little tempted to do one in electric, as that would help with the Ferret's least attractive trait, the noise inside!

I'd love to have a spare so I could recondition one while still having a complete set on the vehicle. Posted to USA I'm afraid.

Ouch. Still, compared to this one for $43700 USD! https://www.ebay.com/itm/28541869572

Sold for a bit under 16,000. Seems reasonable.

Well, we all know how often the media gets details about vehicles correct, so I wouldn't attach too much importance to them flubbing so many details. If they are paying anything like 100,000K (USD.GPB,whatever) each and it's crowdfunded, they wouldn't be buying more than a couple dozen anyway and surely one could come up with that quantity through the simple expedient of posting you would be willing to pay 80K/ea on the classified section of this forum! 🙂

Another video *claiming* Scorpions are being bought for Ukraine. I'm not saying it's not so, but considering the hassle involved in moving even smoke dischargers, I'll believe it when I see one in the country,

I received the rest of my bushings, about half of the steel-bronze-PTFE and half sintered bronze. Mostly 2" like the originals, but I picked up a couple 5" based on the wear pattern I was seeing on the axle pivots. I'll bore a hole in them where you add oil. I'm not sure full-length steel would have been good when everything was new and tight because it would have reduced the oil reservoir, but now there is enough wear on the pivots I feel good about having enough volume in there. The steel ones just push in, for the sintered bronze, I had to turn them to the correct OD. I made a simple mandrel of a body of barely-touched aluminum, a stop collar, and end-cap to hold the bits on the arbor. As before, anyone wanting the tooling is welcome to it for the cost of postage and the proviso that you offer it up similarly when you are done with it.

Others have helped me out and I had a final drive sitting on the shop floor. I believe I used a deep socket as a body to pull against, a couple fender washers, and a stud, bolt, or some threaded rod to pull mine out.

Some of the parts for Clansman are really easy to come by, but some of the hardware I guess nobody saved. The hassle I had for a minute was the lack of correct standoff and mounting hardware for the Spartan. After asking around from my usual suppliers and being told no or expensive, I took the path of least resistance and turned a few. The brass isn't any sort of statement, I just had some correct size hex stock on-hand.

Got it. The tapped hole in the end of the driveshaft is a 3/8"NF. The plunger spring is 10 coils of .028" wire, .3"OD and about 1.2" long. The plunger, see below, but sorry, I shifted it on the paper, the .6" is the length of the .5" dia main body.

I'm sorry, but I'm not quite sure what you need here. Are you needing the thread for the end of the centre-shaft connecting the final drive to the gearbox? Also, the "pin" you are missing... is this the spring-loaded pin to hold that centre-shaft in position?

This is good motivation for me to check my clearances as my poor Ferret has very little power.

I'm not sure how "protected" a Scorpion is in the land of RPGs and such, but better than an armored car for sure and those tracks and low ground-pressure would sure com in handy during the rainy season in Ukraine. I agree that a GPMG in a good mount with some optics could be very handy. Allegedly, 76mm is still available: https://cvrtpro.com/shop/cvrt-scorpion/l23a1-76mm-gun-parts/

Is there profiteering going on? Why of course there is! Anyone doubting that hasn't looked at the history of warfare. The question is it "normal" war profiteering, or is it really corrupt? The MOD gave some, but not a lot relative to the number needed. There are still countries using 30 and 76MM in their military, so there must be *some* out there. I've now seen video of a killed Spartan in Ukraine as well as several live ones, so the vehicles are going there and being used. I think anyone who thinks there is "enough" material going into the war has perhaps not read enough histories of previous hot wars. It chews up men and material at rates we mere mortals can't begin to fathom. Consider the Russian army is resorting to dusting off T-55s and they are a vastly larger country with an arms industry that isn't being targeted by cruise missiles on an almost daily basis. Ukraine is also trying to not only replace losses, but double or quadruple the size of it's military, so even if you get donations and captures to replace all your losses and then some, there is still plenty of room for more!

Interesting. 110 seems pretty reasonable these days for a T34 in that condition, but I think it's a shame the ad doesn't call out it's cultural significance as a past object of folk-art.

Somebody is actually trying to send Scorpion(s)! I don't know where they are going to come up with useful quantities of 76mm? Repaircraft PLC had them in their fliers a decade ago and I don't doubt there are stashes somewhere, but it could be a real challenge. https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/fundraising-initiative-aims-to-send-british-scorpion-recon-vehicles-to-ukraine