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20-12-12, 03:54
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bit more progress.... painting bits
opened xmas pressy to myself early, more paint. turned the garage into a spray booth.
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20-12-12, 03:58
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and some more bits painted
I turned the air pressure down a bit and didnt get so much overspray
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20-12-12, 04:03
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onto the fuel tanks
sealed the fuel tanks today, used POR 15 and it appears to have done a nice job, although when it was still a bit cold it didnt want to move about, lucky it got to 36 degrees today, time to go fishing I think. Brackets came up alright as well.
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20-12-12, 05:37
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Hi Lew, good job. I see by looking at your parts there is little to no difference between Aust and NZ carriers.
Colin.
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20-12-12, 07:44
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Looking great Lew. It must be a good stage of the project, because you would feel like your nearly there.
Colin, they were built here to prints supplied by the AFV section, Australia. We used the Australian manuals, but there is a page stuck in the front of my book which covers the differences. It appears the use of mufflers and the muffler fittings, were the main mod. to cover the other things that may have varied; Ours all used the 1941 V8 Mercury motor. We had modified sprockets to suit the Canadian made cast steel track links (no idea whats different) (If I recall from Jeff Plowmans book, over a million track links were made in North America (probably Canada) The spare track adjuster wheels were all steel (no rubber tyre) but could only be used on the adjusting plate. All the spare track adjusters were cast steel ( the original ones were fabricated) The couplings were all the VR type (Victoria Railways??) TL78044 to TL78243 (last 200 carriers) had the mufflers. All carriers had 3 brush generators. All had the batteries fitted positive to earth. Any modifications (official Australian) were duplicated with reference to spares. All this is roughly copied from that page. How much of that is different from Australian built LP2As?
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20-12-12, 09:02
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Hey Lynn, I would say none as there are all of those variations here. Some with and without mufflers, 2 and 3 brush genny's. Even the all steel adjuster wheels where here as I have them on the front steer carrier.
"Very interesting. Colin.
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21-12-12, 20:24
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If you look at the floor of an Aussie LP, you can see some differences in the way things are done. In some Aussie pics I've seen, there is a plate with all the mounting holes for seats etc drilled and then the whole plate is welded in, instead of the kiwi ones, where we use steel blocks.
Looking great Lew, I'll drop those bits off today.
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