Cmp c15a gs

[Bob Carriere]

..... you might want to consider a small plastic squirt bottle to run the engine without a fuel tank...... but you will need a student to squirt repeatedly to keep the engine running....... truth be known I have moved trucks across the yard using squirt bottles...... Rob was my official squirter sitting on the fender of the Dodge power wagon while I steerred the bugger to a new location.

Job well done Joel

Bob

[Marc van Aalderen]

Originally Posted by Bob Carriere

..... you might want to consider a small plastic squirt bottle to run the engine without a fuel tank...... but you will need a student to squirt repeatedly to keep the engine running.....

And also to put a single layer of cloth or a rag over the carb and squirt the fuel on that so the air sucked through it takes the fuel with it more evenly.

Good show you guys have got it running!

Cheers,

[Grant Bowker]

Originally Posted by Bob Carriere

..... but you will need a student to squirt repeatedly to keep the engine running....... Rob was my official squirter sitting on the fender of the Dodge power wagon while I sterred the bugger to a new location.

Bob - In the current environment in Ontario, you should know better than to suggest a student doing the squirting. A teacher might do it on the basis that they should know what they can and can not do safely and are more or less responsible for their own safety. The teachers are also held responsible for the students' safety, even if the student does something that common sense and the instuctor say not to do. Even if one teacher squirts while another teacher drives there will be someone who will say that by demonstrating the technique they have led a student to do something irresponsible in future. I disagree with the concept of everyone except the individual being responsible for their own actions, but the concept is out there.

I haven't heard of charges or lawsuits following from the Ottawa student who died while cutting a drum that had held peppermint oil, but.............

Rob falls in the category of "old enough to make his own decisions".

[Joel Culliford]

No need for squirting, so everyone relax. The students filled the gas tanks and we got the lines working so that we can now start her up and drive it to move it.

We also found a company that will paint her for free. We are going with dog terd brown.

Does anyone know where to get the instrument cluster (speedometer, gas gauge etc). The one in the 42 CMP is pretty beat up and I do not think much works on it?

Joel

[Howard]

I have been following this story with great interest. Congratulations & keep up the good work!!
H

[Marc Montgomery]

perhaps others can confirm or rebut, ..

.I don't think brown- dog turd or other- is appropriate for the year.
.perhaps cab 11 or 12, but cab 13 ?

I would tend to think that a shade of flat olive/green would be more appropriate for the type...or go exotic with mickey mouse ear camo pattern

[Joel Culliford]

Our reenacting/educational group represents the PPCLI. More towards the Italian campaign. That would have fallen into the dog terd brown years. The idea then is that it was a 42 CMP repainted for the Italian campaign. We actually thought about painting it green then do a repaint brown so that some of the frame parts would have been green from underneath.

Joel

[Marc Montgomery]

my understanding is that the new Cdn vehicles shipped to the theatre got sidelined to the British, and the Cdns got mostly the rather tired vehicles used by the 8th Army in N Africa..so possibly they would have been sand coloured prior to painting.

|In looking at some modelling sites- where these issues are also heaviily discussed..

"The vehicles sent from Canada were often one basic colour. CMP trucks were still being sent to Italy during 1943 in ME Light Stone 61 and many were never repainted. When they were, SCC 2 brown or Light Mud would have been usual for the period. You can accurately leave off the disruptive colour "

Personally, I might go with the sand (light stone) or light mud...than the turd brown..it would be accurate it seems, looke much nicer, AND make a very nice change as there arent that many Cdn restored vehicles in the sand colour...and you get a chance to educate the public about Cdn actions and contributions in a theatre (N Afr) that most Cdns dont know about....in addition to Italy



perhaps some other folks have some thoughts on this?