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Old 31-03-25, 23:29
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Appreciate the input Ed. I am doubtful in this day and age it would pass through customs without an issue. I’m not sure I want to find out the hard way that it’s not allowed to be imported.
I’ll wait and see what Tim or the manufacturer has to say about it.
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Old 01-04-25, 02:00
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The 3 grenade bins were installed today. I was missing the front bin and one of the left rear bins but once again my good friend came through for me and supplied me with 2 for my project. I realize I have $20 dummy American pineapple grenades in there. For now it will have to do until 6 (cheap) No. 36 Mills grenades are found to replace them. The average price for them here is $300.00 to $400.00 each so will take many years to fill the bins!!!
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Old 01-04-25, 11:12
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My current loaded smoke bomb is an old Ford Transit oil filter. I'll send you a PM Tim as it would be nice to have something more realistic. Ron
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Old 01-04-25, 17:33
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I thought of an oil filter too for a quick & easy reproduction but all oil filters now have the flat spots on the end so it doesn’t look right. The 3-D printed plastic ones I have don’t look right either but it takes me 3 or 4 attempts at all my projects until I’m fairly happy with them.
Those replica smoke generators you have Tim are spot on. Just not sure of importing them into Canada. Will have to do some checking once I have more information.
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Old 01-04-25, 17:58
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I suspect if they are unpainted or certainly unmarked, the correct colour is Light Brunswick Green, they should be possible to ship. They are only a piece of plastic. The Mk 4 generator, which is the correct type for the discharger, did not have the wires for electrical ignition either so they would look even more innocuous.
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Old 02-04-25, 03:06
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Everyone that knows me knows that I’m always saving stuff that gets thrown away. Picking out old garage door rubber weatherstripping out of the garbage barrel paid off for me today when it was time to make all my rubber straps for my carrier. It helped to have some original straps on the carrier I got from Dave. I could do an exact copy. This project was relaxing!
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Old 02-04-25, 12:11
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Appreciate the input Ed. I am doubtful in this day and age it would pass through customs without an issue. I’m not sure I want to find out the hard way that it’s not allowed to be imported.
I’ll wait and see what Tim or the manufacturer has to say about it.
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you'd be surprised what happily goes through the post as a Lamp Base.
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Old 02-04-25, 12:23
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Anyone interested in repros, please PM me for the manufacturer's details.

He says he has no problem so far shipping them to Canada

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Old 05-04-25, 23:44
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I assembled all the brackets on my crewlocker. Riveted the canvas Bren cleaning tools pouch and stocked the interior with the small pack personal gear. I still have to find 2 more small packs. Lots of large packs around but small packs are hard to come by.
And on to the spare Bren barrel box next!
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Old 10-04-25, 03:21
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Today was the installation of the Bren spare barrel box. I must say I don’t really enjoy working with wood items. I measured the width of the bottom of the box and cut the blocks of wood to that width but at the top where the hinge is and the rivets that hold the hinge on prevented me from dropping it down into place so I trimmed the sides down until I could get the blocks at the bottom. Then I went to screw them down and I didn’t pre-drill the holes and split the wood so had to take it out, glue it back, let it dry and then re-install but pre drilled the blocks first! In the end it worked out.
The crewlocker was installed yesterday and I must say looks pretty good there!
I’m getting close to completing this carrier. It’s definitely going to need a good sanding down and repainting once I’m done all the fabricating.
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Old 14-04-25, 11:09
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Hi, What’s the item you got mounted on top of the kit locker box?.
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Old 15-04-25, 02:26
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That was an alternate spot to mount the crowbar that is mounted at the back plate with the other tools. Not sure why they would have a second spot to mount the crowbar. I would have thought it would be a good spot to mount the track jack but it doesn’t fit. I still don’t know for sure where the track jack was stowed on the Mark 1* carrier!
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