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Buried Mk 1 Bren carrier restoration
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25-01-10, 05:02
derk derin
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: West st. Paul,Manitoba
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The restoration begins
One year after the recovery,I used 2 weeks of my holidays to go to Rob's house to start the restoration as I had stored it there until I bought my house.Rob was set up for restoring vehicles with torches and more importantly a place to do sandblasting.This is the start of it;
After sitting a year,poison ivy somehow started to grow in the carrier;
Rob pulled the carrier onto his lawn and started the stripping;
Rob was a big help as he was used to restoring carriers by now and I learned alot from him that week on the workings of the carrier dissassembly procedures which would later help me when it came time to put it back together;
After alot of hard work of stripping the parts out.We washed out the hull and prepared it for sandblasting;
I spent 5 days sandblasting the hull and I never knew how sand could work it's way into the crevaces of the body.I thought I was sealed up tight but sand will find a way in!
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