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06-04-15, 07:18
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Well the Calgary gun show was great and had a lot of goodies, Purchased a few items and even filled robs pockets with a little cash and had a great chat as well as with his side kick Derk.
After the fabrication of those bits I spent some time to straitening out the drivers and gunners bins as they were slightly pretzel shaped from being in the ground, Overall I was very happy with the end result 
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06-04-15, 07:34
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Now that was done I got all of the vision slot shutters and hardware ready as I had some repo and original pieces that I am using for my carrier. One of the items I cam up with is the specialty screw heads that go through both of the plates and the glass frames. A while back I was at a friends where he was restoring a M3 scout car and it used a lot of countersunk slight dome head bolts and when I looked at them they looked like the ones used on the carrier as I had a couple original ones for comparison. As I was using the specialty nuts on the back side that were of the BSF thread and the scout car bolts were too short anyhow I just cut them down and got some BSF bolts and welded them onto the ends and did a slight bit of back cut on the counter sunk side and presto it worked great and you cant tell the difference.
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06-04-15, 07:40
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Now that was done in was time to get ready for another painting session so I decorated the tree once more. There were a lot of little bits and pieces to hang
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06-04-15, 07:50
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Once hung a I prepped a bunch of the bins and brackets as well for a full session of painting I had to do some minor repairs to some of them like replacing the small ball studs that the straps attach to as well as some replacement steel as some of the pieces were rusted out. I found that Holly has these ball studs that are used with there carburetors.
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06-04-15, 12:28
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excellent work and you make it sound so easy
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_______________________ 1941 mk1 mortar Carrier 1941 Mk1* Carrier 1942 Mk1* Carrier 1943 T16 Carrier 1945 Mk3 Dingo 1941 Mk3 Covenanter 1941 Mk4 Churchill AVRE (now sold) 1944 Mk6 Cromwell (now sold) 1952 Mk3 Centurion 1952 ARV Centurion 1952 ARV Centurion 1953 Mk3 Centurion (breaking)
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07-04-15, 03:43
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Progress
Dave,
Great to see you back working on your carrier. The workmanship is extraordinary. Looking forward to the day you fire her up. Peter
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