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06-12-12, 09:30
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A few little bits
So finally have got back into doing some work on the carrier this week, knocked out these shutter knob assys on the lathe in my lunch breaks at work this week, didnt bother to make it so the knobs screwed on just welded them in place. Made easier as I had one to copy and Colin's posts a while back to motivate me into getting onto the task.
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07-12-12, 01:07
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Veeery nice job lew.
 Colin.
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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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