WHY? or alternate title: Can one of you Brits explain this to me?

[Richard Farrant]

Originally Posted by rob love

What was the capacity of the oddy that justified it's weight and complexity? Have you used them much Richard?

I must admit is certainly looks rugged enough.

Rob,
Not used the Oddy, but do have an Andy pump as Lauren has posted photos of, and this takes the standard 7 pound grease tin, which is quite a few cartridges. I have converted mine to use as an oil pump for filling wheel stations, bevel boxes, etc on things like Ferret, Dingo, Saracen, etc and it is ideal for that.

[Lynn Eades]

Thank you Lauren and Richard for educating me on Oddys and Andys.

Brains full.

[Robin Craig]

Rob,

If you are looking to tidy out the shed I am more than willing to set aside funds to buy the grease gun.

Second, may I use your pictures of the folding suitcase filter over on HMVF please with credit?

[rob love]

Robin

The grease gun is actually listed on collectors source website. They are located in Acton Ontario, so not terribly far from you.

Feel free to use the photos, either with or without credit. As far as I am concerned, once on the web they are public domain.

[Tim Bell]

Anyone know of any of these Fuel Funnel kits for sale please... I suspect it is a bit of kit I will find useful in a couple of years time... so now's a good time to start looking.

Cheers

Tim

[David Herbert]

I have only just found this thread so sorry if I am a bit late but the point of the suitcase fuel funnel is that holding twenty jerry cans while they empty is very hard on your back. Just up-ending a full can into the funnel is a luxury. A non folding funnel would take up more stowage space and get full of dirt when not in use. Us Brits may be crap at production engineering but we are good at ingenious devices.

Tim, these are not too hard to find in the UK, just keep an eye open at Malvern / Stoneleigh and Ebay of course. The rubber hoses sometimes have old age cracking but there are good ones out there.

David

[45jim]

When the "flimsy" was in use it had no ability to mount a spout and required a funnel. Expedient funnels and hoppers were made and distributed by REME in the Western desert to speed up the fuelling of vehicles and aircraft. A properly "engineered" hopper was designed in Britain just as the "Jerry can' was being copied by the Brits. The hopper was then suitably over-engineered to accept the "Flimsy" pol can and the new "Jerry Can".

There is nothing wrong with British engineering in fact, the British love engineering.