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Cheers for the advice. I did ask quite frankly and there was a major discussion about it and the Uni has no rights to any thing the students come up with as long as members of staff have had no major input into the development of the idea. Anything the staff do will, of course, belong to the Uni. I just need to check what happens with regards to my thesis ideas. I guess I did copy a very British Scammell when I built my 6x6 though.

Ahem! We're not all like that, some of us Chinese do come up with original ideas. My three speed transfer box must be a one and only, for shear weight if nothing else! I have to come up with a new idea/concept every month for my MSc, its getting tough though. Must start looking into patents soon.

Thanks Simon, I was always worried about the Ebay ones being too good to be true.

On a similar line, has anyone used those rear view cameras that fit on the back of the car and has a little screen on the rear view mirror? I was thinking of something like that for the back of my trailer so I could 'see though it' with the rear view screen.

My Rottie would give that lion a run for its money. Until the lion catches her that is! She did used to chew old tyres though as dog toys just weren't up to the task.

Hi Scotian, It's just me, and one or two others here, who have a thing about 6x6's and Scammells. I built a 109 based Scammell miniature pictured on pg 13 of members vehicles What do you drive, thread. There is a thread here about it too, it was recently sold on Ebay by its last owner less engine and box and all the other good bits!

Maybe you should try it through a set of diesel injectors!

Good on ya mate, that's one great project to work on. What is the matter with the finish? Is it a bad paint job, tipex or guano?

I saw this on Ebay and for the price it is either an expensive (and extensive) rebuild or possibly a great axle to put under the back of that 6x6 vapour build project! You don't know just how tempted I am.

This is the thing with hi lifts, they only operate if there is a load on them, around 28kg, to maintain the lift pegs in place. When the tyre bead gave way the sudden loss of load caused the jack to collapse momentarily, unlatching the the lifting pegs, and then the weight of the Rangie came down on it. Nasty injury, Paul.

The original idea was that they would only get 10 yards up the road and their feet would come off. Painfull!

We thought of lots of ideas to stop the company vans being nicked in the past. This was when we were using Mk 2 Escort vans as they were the current model. The only one we didn't try (and don't try this at home kids as it would probably have worked) was to make a noose of piano wire, fit it loosly around the foot well and then pass the loose end through the transmission tunnel and attach to the prop shaft. We were getting desperate and all sorts of ideas were coming out at that stage. The anti theft in my S3 LR was to weld a 50x6mm flat bar to the side of the transmission tunnel and then padlock the transfer box lever in neutral and 4x4. Then when my gear stick broke off I made it a detachable one on twist lock and then used the removed gear stick padlocked across the pedals in sockets on each side of the foot well. It also had a numeric keypad to isolate and short out the electrics, it was hidden under the seat so it couldn't be seen even if the code was known, a secret switch in a hole in the dash and another key switch hidden under the wing to release electric door bolts.

No experience of wood gas but I have seen a pic of a Scandinavian attempt at doing this. Basically a car towing a trailer with a gassifier on it. It was just a big charcoal burner that was sealed once it was lit and the gases piped to the car. Found these images.

How about a pair of truck landing legs? I had a pair of long, upside down bottle jacks that were like a trailer prop stands. The body was at the top of an 18" tube and the jack leg pumped out of the bottom of that. It could be fitted to a trailer leg clamp and jacked downwards. They were rated at a ton each. I must dig them out one day. I also used to have an MG YB saloon from 1952 and it had a built in jacking system. A tank and lever pump under the bonnet fed a rotary valve that allowed any single corner, either side, front or back or all four of the jacks to be extended. The jacks were placed just in front of the front axle and just behind the rear axle. It was a great system. Ebay has a lot of hydraulic cylinders that could be used with a manual pump or a pto one I guess. There was also a company selling manual 8 ton, long rams similar to the ones used on engine cranes. This might be an option.

I might be up for that.

I had a V8 110 pick up for a while, a part ex I took for my AEC Matador, it was great fun until I had to refuel it, I don't think the fuel consumption ever made it to double figures! That was nearly a cure, for a moment or two, but I still missed it when I part exed it to get my Dad's Disco for him.

Here is a driver's handbook for sale on Ebay. It is a 3 ton 6x4 version.

Here is the page of the book it is on. The book is called Preserved Military Vehicles and the author is Keith Jenkinson, published by Rochester Press ISBN 0 946379 08 4

Not sure if this is the one.

Yeah, that's the thing. Batch burners are cool to the touch on the outside due to the insulation. Very little of the heat escapes from a short hot burn. Stack a load of storage heater bricks around the log burner to about 3' thick and then wrap it all up with about 18" of insulation then put the whole lot inside a sealed insulated box and fit a balanced flue. HTH

There is no cure. I am hooked on 109s and 127s and 6x6 Land Rovers. I don't have any LR products at the moment and I am studying an environmental architecture MSc so I am an eco worrior type but I still want a LR to play with.

I always brush painted. I've done white, blue, yellow, green, pink and black on a variety of Land Rovers. Yes, I had a pink Ex MOD 109, it was a similar shade to those pink Ford Ka's you sometimes see. I also did a pink and black S2 SWB for my ex wife many years back! I'll get me coat...:shame:

I have been lucky where I live now that there has been very little crime and what there has been has been opportunist. I've found the opposite of having a car nicked though, I have woken up to find an additional car on my drive that has been used in crime and dumped. The only other annoying 'crime' here has been my 75 year old Dad getting conned out of his Land Rover. According to Dad, some lad approached him and asked to buy his Disco. The lad offers my Dad £1500 for it and so my Dad in all innocence said something like 'dont be silly can't take less then £2000 for it!' The lad says 'done' and gives Dad £2000 and takes away the Disco and the reg documents. This is the story my Dad gave me for not having his Disco one day, it was worth £4500 at the time. The 7 seat 300tdi auto Disco was his pride and joy, spotless and with electric eveything and he used it to ferry around groups of relatives visiting from Hong Kong. To him it was his 'bling' to show off his retirement and it was odd that he should have sold it at any price. I think, given that my Dad is fairly streetwise, that he wouldn't have fallen for something so simple. I think he was intimidated out of the Disco and the reg documents. The lad gave a fake address and phone number which I went to the Police with. The Police caught the guy but when they asked my Dad to press charges he just burst into tears, hence me thinking it was intimidation, and refused to act saying that he only wanted the documents back so he could make it a legal deal with the DVLA. It took a lot of phone negotiation, with the various 'traveller' car dealers that the Disco had already passed to, to try and get the documents back for Dad. That, in itself was scary, even with the Police backing me. But eventually it was done and I 'bought it back' with the 10months of tax disc my Dad managed to swipe before the Disco went.

Hiya! Says somthing that I had to go back and look for the nice girl! Too busy looking at the truck

Show off! Back in my day, well, about 8 years ago, I took an air brick out of the front of my house and put a strop through and around a big bulk of timber to spread the load just so I could hand winch my AEC Matador up my drive. Pulling 7 tons up a slope with a ratchet winch was a pain.