Aerial mast base

[nigel ward]

HI all
I have just spent the last hour replying to all who have made comment since my last input to this thread and than managed to stuff it all up with the press of the wrong button.

I acknowledge you all and thank you for your input.

Please find photo of original and repro hinge bolts and locking bolt for arm. The top ones of each item are the original the others are repro.

The grease nipple shown is what is required for the hinge bolts.

I will be at the d-day events this year. Looking forward to meeting some other carrier owners

Nigel

[Adame]

Hi Nigel

I would like to buy one if you make some.

Thanks
Adame

[nigel ward]

Ok Adam
Your on the list.
Nigel

[nigel ward]

Hi All
Please find photo attached of the first aerial base mount as it has come off the laser cutter. I intend folding this one into shape, welding and riviting where required.
Once this is done, it will be checked against original, adjustments made where required and than I will do a estimate costing.

The costing will be posted for all to....
1. die in fright
2. think I'm mad
3. think its a bargin

The indication so far is that I have to be nuts. But the whole idea is to devide "nuts" by 10 or more units and all will be good. The good news is that I'm mad enough to do it anyway.

Now......Jordon, is this the stage at which you would like to purchase?

Till next time
Nigel

[Dave Page]

Hi, amazing job you are doing! The slide-on, brass grease nipples are available at:
www.vintagecarparts.uk - part number 107
Cheers,
Dave

[Grant Bowker]

I think the web site is actually:
http://www.vintagecarparts.co.uk/
If it isn't the same company,they also sell a grease fitting as part # 107.

[Dave Page]

Hi Grant,
yes, that's them.
Dave

[lssah2025]

I think there might of been a aerial base No 2 on Ebay recently. I was wondering what it was (since I don't have a carrier and didn't know what exactly it was) it was metal and looked just like the drawings. I don't think it sold and he wanted like $30 for it. The guys ebay name is BC-191 out of Holland, I buy a lot of 19 set stuff from him.

Lance

[Mike K]

Is this the base in question ? A fellow MLUer emailed these AWM pics to me

BTW the 11 set pictured would be a EK Cole British one, not the el cheapo AWA Aust. clone.

For those who have the cheap Aussie power suppies, the genemotor casings are made from a terrible, nasty pot metal that tends to crack and expand, probably from impurities in the base metal ( zinc ?) . The best solution is to squeeze super glue into the cracks. Sometimes the casings are distorted to the point of jamming the rotating armature .. the ball races each end , are out of alignment. I cannot imagine why or who was responsible for AWA making such a botch up of the job. During the war ,the sets were not issued to units until many faults were worked out. At wars end here, the first set the Aust. army junked and declared surplus was the 11 set . With around 6000 made , think of the wasted man hours of labour and huge cost.

[Ron Pier]

Hi Mike Kelly. Long time no speak. As you know I have an 11 set in my PU that you helped me with. Hopefully here is a picture of my ariel base. The bacolite mushroom was turned down from a ground station ariel mast, and fitted into an alluminium base that I had cast from a wooden pattern that Rory made.

Ron

[Mike K]

Originally Posted by Ron Pier

Hi Mike Kelly. Long time no speak. As you know I have an 11 set in my PU that you helped me with. Hopefully here is a picture of my ariel base. The bacolite mushroom was turned down from a ground station ariel mast, and fitted into an alluminium base that I had cast from a wooden pattern that Rory made.

Ron

Hello Ron

Yes, been ages hasn't it . The antenna base on your PU looks the part I must say .. well done. Would you be so kind to post some photos of the 11 set mounted in your truck .. would love to see it installed where it was intended to be. I guess the rubber watershed is next ... maybe try a soccer ball cut in half , painted black !
Mike

[Philliphastings]

Hello Mike, thanks for the pics and info on the WS No 11. Please read the following and take it with a grain of salt.

'Having carefully read your comments on the quality of the Australian No 11 sets ( which my grandfather proudly assembled during the early war years), I went out to the shed and scooped up all three sets I had and smashed them !

No sense saving something so abundant and of such poor quality as you have pointed out now is there ?

Now I have more room on my shelf to collect rusty Landrover parts...'

Seriously though, None of the above is true.

I still intend fitting my Australian manufactured No 11 set into the Mk1 Scout carrier because:

1/ I have at least one complete working set in excellent condition.

2/ The scout carrier was discovered in Western Australia and shows obvious signs of having seen Australian Service, including having been rebuilt at 5BOD Nungarin prior to disposal.

3/ The only Genuine British EK Cole and Co manufactured Wireless set No 11 I have ever seen is still crumbling to white powder in a blackberry bush invaded shed belonging to a well known military hoarder in Perth. It may once have been a proud, top quality Military communications set but is now too light to be a boat anchor and too heavy to be a paperweight.

Having said all that I hope you will forgive me for being proud of the Aussie made set afterall. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Cheers

Phill