paulob1 Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Well we have started its going to be a long sloiw process to get the old girl looking good. we are not going to get her running completely, the turret I suspect will remain dead for some time... so far, we have just looked at the following getting everything moving hatches, gun lock, catches, manual controls. we have broken the mechanism on the commanders GPMG mount no idea where we will get one of those from but search is on... items I need are the rear track cover, drivers side, new bins still missing the front ones have the rear ones agreed...trying to remove the old ones without destroying them, near side repairable i think, off side too far gone...also need new skirt tops, they are very thin and in a bad way... the cabin is a mess but we will get to that last I suspect...just stopping it filling with rain is a good start... going to erect a big marque and get it to be able to drive in...this will keep the old girl dry and allow us to do more work on her...greasing things and changing grease nipples is going to be a big task... I will try to post pictures if i remember to take them... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andym Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 Do you keep getting the same Dancover storage shelter adverts at the top of HMVF as I do? :-) Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0644hunt Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 Hi I would be interested in what shelter you get to keep her dry. I am looking for one for mine. Which is big enough but will not blow away as well. Sent from my GT-I9505 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulob1 Posted February 23, 2015 Author Share Posted February 23, 2015 I bought an old marquee a few years ago, its big and tall enough with a few mods so we will put that up and then put the tank in there, we have sides and loads of covers to keep it dry..site is pretty windy so we will make sure it is heavily tied down... when we get the museum proper I plan to cover most of the vehicles with marquees....until I can get planning permissions for enough buildings..going to be a long hard slog getting to the museum though... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enigma Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 I bought an old marquee a few years ago, its big and tall enough with a few mods so we will put that up and then put the tank in there, we have sides and loads of covers to keep it dry..site is pretty windy so we will make sure it is heavily tied down... when we get the museum proper I plan to cover most of the vehicles with marquees....until I can get planning permissions for enough buildings..going to be a long hard slog getting to the museum though... You'll get there, keep up the good work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulob1 Posted February 24, 2015 Author Share Posted February 24, 2015 I am not known for giving up.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulob1 Posted March 2, 2015 Author Share Posted March 2, 2015 now moved to its restoration position, we will strip and store repair recover and repaint the parts here and put them back on...she should be a nice looking mostly working tank by the time we are done...not sure about the turret but we will see how that goes... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulob1 Posted March 14, 2015 Author Share Posted March 14, 2015 Son got more bits working today, interior lights more wipers, need some periscopes...still got to get the turret control gear installed, got to collect it from Baz...and some other bits... still got to find the front bins...no responses on these yet... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rwesselink Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 I can really appreciate the work you are putting into restoring your Chieftain. I am ahead of you by about 8 months in restoring my Mk 10 in Oregon, USA. Lets stay in touch and share information. I will post if I can figure out how to some photo of my project.. I really would like to find some specific parts.. As you can imagine it is even harder being in the USA to get and find parts... I would love to get the main gun control box and some extra track links my tracks is very shot... looking forward to staying in touch thanks Rick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulob1 Posted March 16, 2015 Author Share Posted March 16, 2015 yep you are definitely ahead of me on this...PM me a list of items you need and i will keep you posted if i get anything. I am trying to build up a collection of stuff and have bits amassing slowly... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antar Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 I can really appreciate the work you are putting into restoring your Chieftain. I am ahead of you by about 8 months in restoring my Mk 10 in Oregon, USA. Lets stay in touch and share information. I will post if I can figure out how to some photo of my project.. I really would like to find some specific parts.. As you can imagine it is even harder being in the USA to get and find parts... I would love to get the main gun control box and some extra track links my tracks is very shot... looking forward to staying in touch thanks Rick[ATTACH=CONFIG]102513[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]102514[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]102515[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]102516[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]102517[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]102518[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]102519[/ATTACH] Rick....I cannot see Mark in any pictures ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rwesselink Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 Am afraid if I show Mark's face someone would capture him , hold him hostage and I would never get him back over to the USA.. He knows his stuff !!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulob1 Posted March 18, 2015 Author Share Posted March 18, 2015 gue running, a bit rattly and smokey..hopefully nothing too bad in this...some of the turret items have started to work but we have most of it unplugged so we have a way to go working out cables to where etc... oh joy, Brad wants to get the old girl under permanent cover, but no easy yet... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antar Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 Am afraid if I show Mark's face someone would capture him , hold him hostage and I would never get him back over to the USA.. He knows his stuff !!!! He's a good guy he was with us on Sunday while we were working on this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulob1 Posted March 21, 2015 Author Share Posted March 21, 2015 yes we have to get the fuel pump back in ours a fit the crane operational mechanism and she is all up and running again. we have a lot of work to do on the chieftain and still just collecting parts for now... still in dire need of the front offside storage bins, nearside recoverable, offsides gone completely.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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