LRDG Pattern condensers

[Charlie Down]

Hi Jordan,
To be honest I know little about the Jeep fittings. The condenser looks similar, but seems to be made of thinner gauge metal, especially the lid which is much thinner than the 1533X2 version. The dents also suggest a thin gauge metal for the sides, although the condenser location on the trucks would protect it from most knocks I suppose. I haven't checked the dimensions, but I suspect the jeep condenser would be smaller as it wouldn't need the same capacity as a truck, but the hose connection looks the same, although the vent tube is much shorter. I presume they would have been made in the same workshops, so similarities would be expected and to be honest the design would need to be the similar because of the avaliable materials and tooling.

[rupert condick]

Hi there
there isa firm that does repro. expansion tanks.
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Austin K2Y in Malta,
these tanks appear to be fitted later in the war.

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the origanal trial were with a 2 gallon tank (POW),
so I suspect the round tank to be 2 gallons as well.

regs
Rupert

[Charlie Down]

I think the difference in vent tube length was due to the location of the condenser. On the Truck anything venting could go over the driver, hence the long tube to divert it downwards, but the Jeep's condenser location at the front was too far away from the crew to cause any problems, and the short tube would allow the driver to see any venting steam over the bonnet/hood to warn him of any over heating. Seems reasonable but will now be proved wrong!

[Charlie Down]

Found these images of the condenser mount.
This is on a Sudanese Defence force truck but these were closely modelled on LRDG trucks so confident the details are relevant.
Apologies for not recollecting the source, maybe Kuno Gross.

[rupert condick]

Well done!

looks like the same pattern,

regs
Rupert

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Frédéric Durras in France builds these replica expansion tanks for replica SAS Jeeps:

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Source: https://www.facebook.com/1557407999/...CmvUBNh4l/?d=n

[Lynn Eades]

And grills for slat grill Jeeps, by the look of it. Dimensions would help to work out the capacity of the tank. 6 1/4 gallons to the Cu.Ft. Metric is easier.