Red and white nuts

Jon Skagfeld · #1 14-10-04, 02:09

Ahhh...lovely autumn day...what to do?...So...

With cans of paint at hand, I painted my nuts, one cluster red, the other white.

No rude comments please.

Only those with knowledge of, or in possession of CMPs can relate to the above.

Keith Webb · #2 14-10-04, 03:04

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Originally posted by Jon Skagfeld

No rude comments please.

C'mon, Jon

Rudeness is our business.

I just hope you display your nuts responsibly.

Hope you remember not to fiddle with your red nuts while there's still pressure in there.

Also, half you white nuts have left hand thread, so be extra careful with those.

I think I'll paint mine too.

Tony Smith · #3 14-10-04, 03:24

The white nuts must be hard to find in the snow when changing wheels! For the very same reason, our Aussie nuts are quite Drab, although some Aussies have Black nuts.

#4 14-10-04, 04:45

One was red and one was blue, one had spots on his ring dang do.

Bob Moseley (RIP) · #5 14-10-04, 06:24

Hi all you nutters
I don't know where I got this information and whether it is even correct. Red painted nuts obviously for the split rims, white painted nuts for the hubs, but to differentiate between the left and right hand threads, one of those sets was painted blue.
Bob

Jon Skagfeld · #6 14-10-04, 06:27

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Originally posted by Art Johnson
One was red and one was blue, one had spots on his ring dang do.

Christ, Art, that prompted a few memories of the "old days" when we'd sit around, beers in hand, and sing our lungs out.

Wasn't this song about two flies?

Jon Skagfeld · #7 14-10-04, 06:35

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Originally posted by Bob Moseley
Hi all you nutters
I don't know where I got this information and whether it is even correct. Red painted nuts obviously for the split rims, white painted nuts for the hubs, but to differentiate between the left and right hand threads, one of those sets was painted blue.
Bob

Blue nuts(apart from the usual nudges and winks)...can you try to remember the reference for this particular application?

I've not seen, or heard, of blue being used on Canadian CMPs.

Perhaps a Holden, etc thing?

Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP) · #8 14-10-04, 07:01

Blue nuts were from lack of use...

Tony Smith · #9 14-10-04, 08:57

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Originally posted by Bob Moseley
Hi all you nutters
I don't know where I got this information and whether it is even correct. Red painted nuts obviously for the split rims, white painted nuts for the hubs, but to differentiate between the left and right hand threads, one of those sets was painted blue.
Bob

This must have been on the Sigs Vans, Pronto Jnr! Blue and white striped wheel nuts and red locknuts on top. Pride of the Signal Corps, you were!

#10 14-10-04, 09:38

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Originally posted by Jon Skagfeld
Ahhh...lovely autumn day...what to do?...So...

With cans of paint at hand, I painted my nuts, one cluster red, the other white.

White nuts are parade only bull as far as I know.

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No rude comments please.

Now you are joking Skags, will that be before or after hell freezes over?

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Only those with knowledge of, or in possession of CMPs can relate to the above.

Oh! Not just CMPs, I've got 120 red nuts. . . . . . . .

R.

#11 14-10-04, 17:36

Jon I honestly forget what the subject of the song was but I do recall it was a favourite of our Transport Sergeant. It was just the mention of the colours that brought it to mind. Frankly I don't remember any of the nuts being painted different colours.

chris vickery · #12 14-10-04, 19:06

I know I've seen a few restored cmps with red and white nuts but it was my understanding that the factory only painted the rim nuts red and all others were factory paint colour (green, brown etc)
Any other ideas out there?

Alex Blair (RIP) · #13 14-10-04, 21:09

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Originally posted by chris vickery
I know I've seen a few restored cmps with red and white nuts but it was my understanding that the factory only painted the rim nuts red and all others were factory paint colour (green, brown etc)
Any other ideas out there?

Hi Chris
The manuals only mention red nuts..
Field shops probably did the other colours for mechanics and maintenance people that possibly could not read or write..remember the time and the need for able bodied men...their formal education wwere sometimes not that great..colour codes solved lots of problems,especially internationally..

Pete Ashby · #14 15-10-04, 19:54

Hello to our Antipodean chums,

Blue nuts must be a problem caused as result of the heat you chaps live in down there.

Seriously........ I think you will find that early stuff had only the ends of the threads painted red on split rims.

With the British army white wheel nuts were not around until national service days when bags of bull and bored squaddies were the norm.

As for stripped nuts, I'd reach for the ointment chaps and see the MO

Pete

Keith Webb · #15 15-10-04, 22:07

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Originally posted by Pete Ashby
Hello to our Antipodean chums,

Blue nuts must be a problem caused as result of the heat you chaps live in down there.

Surely blue nuts happen in cold climates. The couple of times I've been to Canada I worried about mine turning blue as I traipsed through snow to examine CMPs!

#16 15-10-04, 22:26

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Originally posted by Keith Webb
Surely blue nuts happen in cold climates.

Sure you're not confusing that with our Parus caeruleus ?

R.

Jon Skagfeld · #17 18-10-04, 07:03

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Originally posted by FV623
Sure you're not confusing that with our Parus caeruleus ?

OK...since no-one else has asked...wotinell is "Parus caeruleus"?

#18 18-10-04, 07:50

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Originally posted by Jon Skagfeld
OK...since no-one else has asked...wotinell is "Parus caeruleus"?

Blue tits.

R.

Pete Ashby · #19 18-10-04, 21:53

I knew that !.......... I just didn’t want to give him the satisfaction of asking (small British bird of the Tit family)

Pete

#20 18-10-04, 22:16

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Originally posted by Pete Ashby
I knew that !.......... I just didn’t want to give him the satisfaction of asking (small British bird of the Tit family)

Of course, the sort of thing you and I learnt in school, all the Parus family are Tits:
Parus major
Parus ater
Parus Palustris
Parus biarmicus
Parus montanus
Of course these are the British Tits, the genus has a far bigger listing for world Tits.

R.

Bob Moseley (RIP) · #21 18-10-04, 23:50

Jest all you must you dis-believers. I will track down the source of this information, its not something one would make up. In the meantime carry on with your derision, it makes for amusing reading.
Bob in the lions den.

#22 19-10-04, 06:07

Am I to assume that all you people are a bunch of Tit watchers?

Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP) · #23 19-10-04, 06:20

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Originally posted by Art Johnson
Am I to assume that all you people are a bunch of Tit watchers?

Er... mostly because we don't have any ourselves... <cough> ...had a nice female cardinal in the feeder this afternoon, though... beau'iful plummage...

Tony Smith · #24 19-10-04, 06:42

G Jamison posted this pic in the thread cover girl which plainly shows Drab nuts, although if you look at the picture for too long, you might see a set of Blue nuts

(no avian fauna in this picture!).

#25 19-10-04, 06:56

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Originally posted by Art Johnson
Am I to assume that all you people are a bunch of Tit watchers?

Tony Smith is I see.
The surgeon did a good job too.

R.

Keith Webb · #26 19-10-04, 07:04

I can't recall seeing those in Lithgow... did you take that picture in Yass?
A friend of yours, perhaps?

#27 19-10-04, 07:34

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Originally posted by Keith Webb
I can't recall seeing those in Lithgow... did you take that picture in Yass?

Not many in Portsmouth or Southampton and perhaps not many to the pound either. Perhaps Bristol City?

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A friend of yours, perhaps?

Do tell, an intro would be nice; should we bring our own marking chalk so we don't go round the same bit twice?

R.

Tony Smith · #28 19-10-04, 09:48

Graeme is from windy Williamtown, Victoria , Keefy, a location which if I understand correctly will induce a case of Nipplus Battery Terminalus on any topless girl most days of the year! If there were more lasses like this in Victoria, I'm sure the population would swell appreciably (er, in numbers, I mean)

Keith Webb · #29 19-10-04, 18:44

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Originally posted by Tony Smith
Graeme is from windy Williamtown, Victoria , Keefy, a location which if I understand correctly will induce a case of Nipplus Battery Terminalus on any topless girl most days of the year! If there were more lasses like this in Victoria, I'm sure the population would swell appreciably (er, in numbers, I mean)

LMAO

You're a wag, Tony! We're all "swell" people South of the border.

#30 19-10-04, 22:45

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Originally posted by Tony Smith
Graeme is from windy Williamtown, Victoria , Keefy, a location which if I understand correctly will induce a case of Nipplus Battery Terminalus on any topless girl most days of the year!

Oh, I understand now, the Oz English for:

Champagne corks
Navvies thumbs
Chapel hat-pegs
A Braille T shirt

Sometimes we hear the description; "You could tie-up the Torrey Canyon with those". Some of you will need to go Google "Torrey Canyon" though I regret.

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If there were more lasses like this in Victoria, I'm sure the population would swell appreciably (er, in numbers, I mean)

No, you're right on both counts surely, taken in chronological sequence that is.

R.