dirkthe1

I think, but I'm not expert, it was a recoiless rifle gunship. they used to have a 105mm recoiless rifle mounted on the back. You find them in Cypres alot. Although I thought they were only 2a's. So i could be wrong

Does anyone have any suggestions on finding S111 Vent panels. After a bit of poking, mine is most definately swiss cheese. I know ashtree do them for 300ish, but as Im not worried about originality, etc, I'm open to suggestions. The other idea is does anyone have the drawings for the part/ or has knocked one up themselves? I'm happy to lose the vents anyway. Cheers Geoff

Wow. thats one lucky fool. I wonder if not wearing steel toecaps actually saved his foot there?

Did you manage to get the oil out of the concrete? That could be nasty if it stains

I stand ready to be corrected, but does bio diesel not produce xx% less emissions then normal diesel. And how does this compare to a small car running normal diesel? Also are they really comparing themselves to the suffragettes?!

Your forgetting that the post office cant accept items over (insert low number here) kilos. i think a ton is more then a 2 man lift you know!

The auction house opposite pub on the midhurst road might be able to suggest someone? at least they might know someone local. Palletways are always quite good (I think its frederick miller that covers haslemere) we send some fairly large kit with them and the drivers seem good.

I would be geuiniely interested to hear how exactly he gave his car to a garage, then never heard anything back! One would assume if it was reported stolen, the vehicle should have flagged up.

Bit of a strange one, but does anyone know anything about these- they are south african origin but I belive there are a few in the UK, more in hungary, etc. If anyone knows of one in the UK, it would be fantastic to see one! thanks to any suggestions

I stand corrected! Interesting to know!

Its the crown exemption (although I dont think its called that any more) laws i think-same as why MoD vehicles dont need an MOT. It looks like they have taken a Snatch 2 and added a few bits- The doors, door surrounds, lights, roof-even the bull bars look like they are Snatch ones with a plastic bit on! Although that would make sense as the MoD have quite a few sitting around doing nothing! One would hope they havent gone out and bought a brand new vehicle

if google ads pay per click on a link, is it worth, from the forums point of view, some sort of volountary link clicking thing to earn the forum more moeny?

I put in another vote for RS-they are very helpful on the phone and stuff comes next day. cpc/Farnell keep losing our orders recently

I have seen them struggle-we did an auto conversion into a very heavy 110 and the HP22 just didnt like it. If you stick the uprated one in, I would have thought you shouldnt have an issue. Dont get me wrong-they are very useful-particulaly towing a chipper with a load in the back, and with a v8 on the front-well i am very jealous! I had a search and couldnt find much-even my old post didnt have anything as i asked a similar question. It isnt an ex mil rapier converversion is it?

Out of interest which box are you putting in? as judging by your name your a lopper in which case i wouldnt put an auto box in. Mounting wise you are only limited by the length of the selector cable, and finding somewhere strong enough to stop the body of it moving when you change gear. I think there are a few examples in old posts. I have seen it (recently i think) mounted as per the manual box, however raised up about 12 inches in a sort of cubby box you can still get 3 in there, but its just a bit friendly I beleive ashcrofts do a replacement tunnel-have a look on the site, however from memory it was very wide so your middle passenger would have no leg room

A year or so ago theives stole a balloon round my way-police recovered it when it was found on ebay

Is this the same guy who claimed to be an ex special forces major?hmmmm. Someone get a copy of that video and put it up!

A particularly good spade

it looks like someone has tried to build a faux jackel-with a pile of scrap. It would be interesting who exactly the current owner claims to have worked for-there arnt that many companies who were building that sort of stuff at the time this would have been built.

And if it was red that had been in the tank a long, long time (so much so there was 4 inches of sludge and sediment at the bottom? I threw a load of the "nappy" absorbant mats down which got alot of it, its just its a nice flat screeded workshop floor!! Im presuming it would have to be something with ammonia in it to get it out well?

As it sounds really. After losing a few litres of deisel on a nice conctrete floor, its stained rather nicely. Can anyone suggest a cleaner/solvent that will remove it? I have tried the swarfega oil and degreaser which hasnt done much to it (in fact i think it may have made it worse!)

The carver clamps are fantastic-although as said, expensive. For stuff thats not heavy duty the generic quick clamps are mighty handy-purely for the fact you can do them one handed and flip them round to use as spreaders aswell. I wouldnt mess around with b and q. last time i looked the stuff was all silly prices and soft as butter. I seem to remember some really cheap ones shattered when they were dropped which was worrying. Try and get some old ones second hand-as said car boots are a great place for them. If you did want the buy some, the record ones are very good and reasonably priced

The only thing thats worth bearing (pardon the pun) in mind is the hydraulic ones and alot of the legs on cheaper sets dont like heat. That said the cheap 3 leg sealey ones are great and cheap.

Failing that speak to the EMLRA-one of the guys there does it for a small fee i think!

I can understand what your saying, but personally I think its good they dont. By ringing you can establish much more-wether the parts on the shelf, wether its OEM, pattern or refurb item (or if they have these), etc. The possible advice they may give, either with fitting instructions or possible mods (i dont know your level of engineering skill, but everyone had to start with no knowledge once). Then finally you can quibble on price, blag discount. I still reckon if you know what you want its quicker the scrolling through pages on net. Maybe its just me, but i prefer speaking to people.