Otter LRC CM4647296 comes home

[Jordan Baker]

Interesting wartime promotional poster I found.

[Jordan Baker]

Turret basket being worked on. Some detail pictures of the retainer chains and pins. The one tube was cracked/split with not much holding it. I broke off the tube then bolted hem to the turret bearing race. This ensured everything was lined up. The mating surface was prepped for welding. There was also a pretty bad split in the other tube. The ends of the split were drilled out and the split cleaned up. Everything welded up nicely. Now to get the upper tubes removed from the lower tubes. Currently they are rusted in place.

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Turret basket all welded up and the main parts now all separated.

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Lastly some interesting stampings found on the turret lower bearing race.

The -010 I’m wondering if it would be a shim size. When I removed the bearing race there were a pile of shims that came out with it. I’ve saved them all. I didn’t measure them but they did look to be about 10 thou thick.

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Busy afternoon pulling more parts. I used the overhead gantry crane to safety lift off the turret and lower it to the ground. I figured I may as well save my back and also remove the chance of dropping it and having casting crack. The lower race was also removed where I found three more shims

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Next up was the wireless rack. 4 bolts hold this overbuilt piece of metal in place. It’s nice that all the wiring clips were still in place along with the earthing strips.

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The rest of the interior equipment panels were also removed. Everything came out very easily with the nuts undoing without much persuasion. The one equipment divider will need to be replace due to metal rot. Of interest is how the top edge was constructed with the piece of flat bar inside the safety edge. Also of note is the same P37 tabs riveted to the WS19 spare valves in storage bin