Otter LRC CM4647296 comes home

[Bob Carriere]

.... I was wrong, it looks more like regular cab 13 rad.... your dis-assembly process is fun to follow on the forum....... it is just so massive!!

[Jordan Baker]

Radiator removed from the chassis. It’s quite the heavy duty mount that it sits in. Nice to see all the KG#3 paint when taking things apart. Interesting Dutch rebuild brass tag on the radiator top tank. Also some hand painted white numbers on the top of the tank. Appears to be 1953 and 254.

[Jordan Baker]

Lastly some updated pictures of the engine compartment now that the radiator is removed. It is nice to see spots of the GM chassis black and then over painted with KG#3.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Nice find! Bloksma Radiateurenfabriek (radiator factory) was a medium sized company founded by Mr Bloksma in 1920. In the 1970s they had 15 branches, which were later sold to the branch managers or amalgamated into Bloksma's Nederlandse Radiateuren Fabriek (Netherlands Radiator Factory, NRF) (https://www.nrf.eu/about-nrf/our-history/)

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[Jordan Baker]

Hanno

Any idea if this makers plate could be dated?

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Jordan Baker

Any idea if this makers plate could be dated?

Jordan, possibly by the someone at Nederlandse Radiateuren Fabriek (Netherlands Radiator Factory, NRF)? https://www.nrf.eu/contact/

[Grant Bowker]

Originally Posted by Bob Carriere

.... I was wrong, it looks more like regular cab 13 rad.... your dis-assembly process is fun to follow on the forum....... it is just so massive!!

I would be cautious assuming that the Otter and cab 13 CMPs used the same radiator.
My cab 13 has the overflow pipe running from a small dome located in a depression directly in line with the upper hose to the thermostat housing rather than into the filler neck. This isn't a firm indicator since it is completely possible that radiator may have been replaced by a non-original one at some time (although it does have both the overflow tube and the steam tube fittings and has one of the larger type drain cocks at the bottom tank). A quick look at the Otter parts list and the list for all CMPs issued 1942 listed different part numbers for the radiators. I also checked the C60X list since it also uses the 270 engine and again the radiators were different. I'm not sure how different but something was different to justify different part numbers...

[Jordan Baker]

Thanks to Frank Von Rosenstiel, the radiator and the mount were the same as the CCKW. A quick google search found that they do look the same. The only difference is the Otter rad had a different fill port on the top.

[Jordan Baker]

Just a small update today. Finally got around to changing out the gauge cluster surround to an original NOS one. Also a picture of the gauge cluster with the glass removed showing the gauges and the gloss white and black paint inside the unit.

[David Dunlop]

Evening, Jordan.

What was the purpose of the horizontal bands of black and white paint?

David

[Jordan Baker]

David,
I’m not sure but I suspect it was to help evenly distribute the light from the two small dash lamps and help light up the bottom ones. The gauge clusters I took apart all had the remains of the white and black paint.

[Jordan Baker]

Small steps. Ignition filter refurbishment all done. I replaced the main wire with new wire and braiding. The original was broken in a few places. The filter components inside were bypassed as the part number on the case is for a 6v vehicle. I did not want to burn anything up running 12v through it. But it’s also easy to revert back to the original if needed down the road.