Mack NR color

[Gunner]

добрый день Slava!

Спасибо мой друг!! I thought I was on the right track but as you noted one of the words was wrong which made a big difference. I will be seeing my friend who does the artwork tonight and we will make up the English version of the plate. I will post the results so you can check our work.

The plate clearly refers to the recoil system of the gun and is a guide to the Gunners on adjusting the fluids and the gas pressure so the recoil will work in all weather. Extremes of hot and cold as enjoyed in Russia and Canada can make a big difference in the efficiency of the recoil. When it gets too cold the system will become 'looser' and it will slam back and forth with poor buffering so the Gunners must add more pressure. As the system gets warm the pressures rise so the Gunners need to release some pressure or the recoil becomes too stiff!

There are places that can etch the data plates as on older vehicles. they use the same artwork but use a different ink that is resistant to the acid so the printed areas do not etch. You should be able to find someplace in Russia that can do this... try photographers with older darkrooms. If not, there is a chap in Poland who does good work and he might be able to make the plates you need. He posts on the G503 and the CCKW forums. I can look up his contact info if you wish.

Thanks again, Slava!

Ура! Mike

[Slava]

Hi Mike,
I suppose the mistake was a big trouble, you had good chances without it.
Sorry you had to wait my visit, lots of to do.
Please check out for Polish artist, I'm being in Poland some times in a year, it's not too far. Photoetch is a problem in Russia now, especially for marking plates. It comes close to criminal by the way of stoling cars. There was no problems in Soviet times when lot of people works in a military production and did magic works during his job time having all materials for free. It's gone now...
Vlad

[George McKenzie]

Hi Slava What a great job you are doing .I hope your MLU friends know that this truck has 24" rubber and masive rear ends .Lot's of heavy things to lift . There is one close to where I live sitting in a yard that was a airforce truck .Would it have a plate like the one you have ? It would be in English .George

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Slava

Please check out for Polish artist, I'm being in Poland some times in a year, it's not too far.

Hi Vlad,

Check eBay for the seller "lt.horne".

Impressive restauration you are working on, keep up the good work!

Hanno

[Gunner]

Hi Hanno: thanks for that... I just found hi on the g.503 as well.

Slava: look at http://motors.shop.ebay.com/lt.horne/m.html and on g.503 search for lt horne.

Ура! Mike

[Gunner]

Hi Slava go to g.503 forum and look at memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=4291

Cheers! Mike

[Slava]

Hello George,
How does your search for Lanova engine?
I have the plate but with another ch-number, I think it's good to have a clear one to fill it from my frame. Lend-Lease vehicles haven't plates in Russian so English comes well. What's a truck in a yard not far from you living? Didn't you make photos? I'm in interest for some cab parts including dash board, windshield frame and cab canvas frame as partly also.

Hi Hanno,
Holland is the main source of parts and info for my project so I like the country of wind mills too much. I saw a pair of CMPs in Marshall museum, they are impressive of they hood appearence
Thank you for the link

Mike, thank you and waiting for the artwork

Yea, that Polish chap has lots of.
Now the problem is to get a time for one more deal

[Slava]

Some progress during the summer.
Have bought 11 brand new tyres and fit them up.
Also the frame is under construction.

[Slava]

Got the frame finished!

This part of work took more than a half year.
I did two frames apart, clean them up, sand blasted and pressed in all new rivets.
So, step-by-step.
I was afraid to start this work because of need to assemble all pieces back. I needed to re-rivet the frame with no experience of how to do it.
Discussing with most friends gave me a fact that nobody have it done before. I googled "rivet works" (in Russian) and found out that I need U-press and rivets of soft steel to heat them up to red light. Started to look for the U-press, found a firm, ordered, waited for 2 monthes and recieved.
Test rivets got me the mind I need fluid supply power station instead of the hand pump the firm sold me with the press. I asked and they gave it to me for a lease. Had to take it 6 times for a week during the work.
There were 2 frames I wanted to make the good one from.
As I told I was afraid to part everything out without shure I can get it back. So I started on the first one in early June, after recieving the U-press. I took out a "butterfly" (bogie) crossmember, blasted it sand, painted at friend's shop and started to press rivets in.
Forgot to add, I bought 12 meters of 40 mm OD soft steel wire and ordered nearly 150 rivets of different lenghtes to fabricate of it.
Original plan was to clean up metal parts, paint and rivet them. Due to a heat influence I waited a paint burned off around rivet's heads so planned to re-blast assemblies and repaint. To my surprize and great pleasure paint got Ok after riveting, it made my way easier, without overpainting. Rivet's heads only.
My first steps: