Carrier Assembly; Helpful hints, tricks and traps

[Lynn Eades]

Hi. I thought I'd start a thread that covers some of the BASICS of assembling a carrier of British or Canadian origin. Some things are seemingly obvious, but not everyone has access to the same info. For example I have some books that cover both British and Canadian carriers. I would not expect the Canadians here to have British manuals. There are many differences between the seemingly similar. The little "*" or the lack of it, in the carriers nomenclature, covers a raft of differences.
The various manuals and parts books with different print dates have not each time covered all the info. An army mechanic would have been familiarised with the carrier via courses and training. Often, we manage to round up most of the components and have to figure out how to put them together or make what's missing.
Ultimately this is hopefully a resource for that hard to find stuff about the basic running gear of these machines.

I'd suggest that if some wants to do the same for an Australian / New Zealand LP2/2a, then that should be a separate thread for the sake of simplicity.