LP2a SAR restoration

[Phillip]

This fried egg ring is the correct mount for the WW2 Lensatic Sight for the 3" Mortar. I also found a local collector with the upper tube band - strange where this stuff turns up.

Just now searching for the lower band, leather cap and ball end for the tube.

Work on stripping suspension bogies continues (slowly) but here is the bearing for the steering column and some of the restored bits sitting on the shelf.

[Phillip]

How on the earth have I ever coped without an oxy set, this is the best thing ever.....

Siezed nuts, no worries - heat them up. Siezed clevis pins, no worries - heat them up. I feel like I've just found the wheel.

Almost finished getting the hull ready for the sandblasted, today removed the clamps for the track winch, cross shaft and rollers. Also continued to tap out all the threads.

[Dale Jordan]

Got to love that heat ! your new best friend .. Can we have some photos before and after hull is sandblasted are you taking your hull to them ? or are you getting a mobile guy out to you . Dale

[eddy8men]

a gas axe can give you a "nice edge" in a resto

[Phillip]

Snuck down to the shed this morning and tapped out the last few threads, phew, what tiresome job this has been, just when you think you've finished, you find another hole to re-tap, especially all those 0BA holes over the steering cam.

I am certainly a convert to welding nuts onto broken bolts to remove them. I've even found when they are flush you can weld on a washer and then weld on a nut to get them out. It's like magic.

Hopefully get the sandblaster to pick the hull this week.

[Dale Jordan]

That's a really tidy looking hull Phillip nice floor , Because your hot off the taps whats the thread size for the two horn button holes I can't find the correct thread and tap .

[Phillip]

Hi Dale,

Horn button screws - RH (round head) - 2BA x 1/2".

My horn has gremlins, it used to work, then it stopped, then I got it going again and now I just cannot get the thing to work .