For the Garage

[CINDERS]

Here's something for the discerning buyer if you have a few grand lying around though the postage could be a bit heavy........
Be a bit hard trying to hide it from the wife but no one will ever back into you again?

Calibre/Item: Tank 75mm
Make: Sherman
Model: M4
Condition: Very Good
Price: $75000
Advertised: 24/05/2017
Licence number:
Phone:
Comment: Once in a life time chance to own your own WWII Sherman Tank. This Sherman has original running gear and was built up for the series "The Pacific" at a cost of well over AU$250 000. Powered by a Cummins 903 Diesel, through the original gearbox and diff, this tank drives and handles exceptionally well. Weighs in at 16 tonne. The Turret traverses and the gun elevates through manual controls. Wired for reversing camera and comms. Excellent promo vehicle, museum or serious collector. Genuine enquiries only please.

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[browningautorifle]

Then we'd be loading 75mm for it. I could get the short shells here and we'd have to use sand cast lead projectiles...I think. Then off to your outback to shoot...

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[henry r]

That is going to take more than one or two wheel weights per projectile... but I'm keen.

[Ovidio]

Want it so badly.........................

[Peter Laidler]

While on the subject of Cinders garage - and garages generally....... Here goes! Has anyone had a bad experience with (EVANS) waterless coolant in car/vehicle engines. Reason I ask is that I have it in my 2001 Mini Cooper and it's perfect but want to put it in my old 1969 Cooper S but...... I know it boils at 171 degrees and you can run the system without a radiator cap (I have, in order to boil off the water that remained in the system after the change). So, to recap, anyone got anything bad to say about it?

[browningautorifle]

one or two wheel weights per projectile

I'm thinking we'd need to buy wholesale...downrigger balls...the big ones. We can smelt them here...

[CINDERS]

Our climates heaps different Peter so I cannot assist you I worked in garages for 4 years as lube & driveway all of our own personal cars I run straight Glycol in them due to having a higher boiling point as you know our Northwest temps can get near 50+ Celcius but thats why I live in the Southwest......

[Flying10uk]

but no one will ever back into you again?

Some years ago at a classic vehicle show I witnessed the civilian owner of a preserved Humber "Pig" armoured car decide that he needed to reverse his armoured car. The only problem was that there was a chap sitting in his recently restored classic sports car, minding his own business, directly behind. The chap driving the armoured car must have been very hard of hearing because almost everyone near was shouting "STOP" at the top of their voices, yet the driver kept reversing, oblivious to the sports car behind him. Fortunately someone managed to jump up onto the Humber driver's door-step and shout "STOP" directly into the driver's ear which he did hear just in time with about a millimetre to spare between the 2 vehicles. Although it was almost comical to watch, it certainly wasn't funny for the driver of the sports car who probably needed a change of underwear at the very least. You would think that common sense would tell owners of preserved military vehicles or other types of vehicle that have poor visibility to the rear to get someone to watch them reverse and ensure the area behind them is clear and safe.

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On the mines equipment that is in operation like Haulpaks have a 50 meter exclusion zone period no if buts or maybes go inside that at you own peril health wise and job security.
One instance proves how things may change; The mine manager was showing a noob around the site and went down the pit without alerting the 988 loader operator, they parked up in what he considered a safe place wasn't the loader was cleaning up the floor and reversed towards the Hi-lux only stopping with the counterweight a mere couple of inches away from the front windscreen the bonnet being underneath the cwt. With 2 very petrified occupants despite frantic calls on the managers 2 way.
The investigation proved there were errors on both sides A) The manager not getting a pit permit despite him being the manager does not exempt him from getting one rather than just driving down there except in an emergency.
B) The loader operator had neglected to come off channel 40 (was talking to the truckie) C) Assumed the pit was empty so was focused on where he was going next instead of his reversing camera.
It was unclear whether the managers Hi-lux interior needed cleaning afterwards but I do know upper management tore him a new rectum and was lucky not to lose his job.

Back to the thread I am unsure about the tank in question as I cannot remember seeing pics of those types of attachments on the front glacis plate with them deployed in the Pacific, have seen the wading arrangement for the reefs on the rear deck but not the added stuff for the driver and bow gunner.