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[Split_Pin]

Dez,  this came up in a Bus Facebook page I follow but as it has details of a London location I thought you might like to see it.

 

[LightBulbFun]

2 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

Dez,  this came up in a Bus Facebook page I follow but as it has details of a London location I thought you might like to see it.

 

thats cool! not seen that one before, I appreciate the heads up  

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2569675313253986/posts/3755599047994934/

somewhere in this thread or maybe the youtube thread, is a video of the last day of RT buses in regular London Service (which was Route 62, 1979) and you can spot a Model 70 in the background in one of the scenes in that video  

I know @Remspoor commented on it because his dad was involved IIRC and there was a curious scale model of a B type bus or something along those line as well

[Remspoor]

Bugger the driver is hiding. So I cant see his face. Cannot confirm if it is him or not. What is the video?

[busmansholiday]

Something to keep you gainfully employed..

What happened to, and what is it,  lot V26 ....

 

[LightBulbFun]

35 minutes ago, busmansholiday said:

Something to keep you gainfully employed..

What happened to, and what is it,  lot V26 ....

 

pretty sure thats a french thing a bit outside of my wheelhouse 

but most foreign countries never developed anything as advanced as the full bodied vehicles we had here in the UK

so in Europe they where stuck with machines like that for a long time

[egg]

Can't find anything about a Motoconfort Deray anywhere online for the life of me!

[LightBulbFun]

12 hours ago, Remspoor said:

Bugger the driver is hiding. So I cant see his face. Cannot confirm if it is him or not. What is the video?

here we go  its a fairly well digitised video, so you can even spot the background chod quite well  

https://youtu.be/559nWORDSFY

[Remspoor]

24 minutes ago, LightBulbFun said:

here we go  its a fairly well digitised video, so you can even spot the background chod quite well  

https://youtu.be/559nWORDSFY

The image you have in post below is not in the same video as linked above.

 

20 hours ago, LightBulbFun said:

thats cool! not seen that one before, I appreciate the heads up  

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2569675313253986/posts/3755599047994934/

somewhere in this thread or maybe the youtube thread, is a video of the last day of RT buses in regular London Service (which was Route 62, 1979) and you can spot a Model 70 in the background in one of the scenes in that video  

I know @Remspoor commented on it because his dad was involved IIRC and there was a curious scale model of a B type bus or something along those line as well

 

[LightBulbFun]

4 minutes ago, Remspoor said:

The image you have in post below is not in the same video as linked above.

oh, when I said this

20 hours ago, LightBulbFun said:

somewhere in this thread or maybe the youtube thread, is a video of the last day of RT buses in regular London Service (which was Route 62, 1979) and you can spot a Model 70 in the background in one of the scenes in that video  

I know @Remspoor commented on it because his dad was involved IIRC and there was a curious scale model of a B type bus or something along those line as well

that was a separate statement just to say theres funnily enough another scene quite similar to that  

[Christine]

Scruffy Bodger has ripped the guts, bulbs  and ballasts , out of 2 massive explosion proof lamps, removed from the Mersey Tunnel service tunnel . Sucessfully replaced with colour changing LED s .. Very awesome 

 

[AdgeCutler]

Sexy!!! NOS and correct type wing mirror now fitted to Brian.

[Snake Charmer]

42 minutes ago, AdgeCutler said:

Sexy!!! NOS and correct type wing mirror now fitted to Brian.

Looks expensive and fragile, is it all plastic?

[LightBulbFun]

1 hour ago, AdgeCutler said:

Sexy!!! NOS and correct type wing mirror now fitted to Brian.

Awesome!  Brian looking sharp as always  

39 minutes ago, Snake Charmer said:

Looks expensive and fragile, is it all plastic?

they are indeed, hence why they are so rare these days, they where OE fitment from the Invacar Mk12c and AC Acedes Mk14A, to sometime in the later part of the Model 70's production run (not yet nailed down exactly when they switched away, but for Invacar they where still present during the NVW-P block however gone by the TTW-R block I think)

but they where so fragile/prone to getting broken that very few machines kept them for long, I would say based on anecdotal evidence that by the end of the 1970's, start of the 1980's most machines had replacement metal bodied equivalents fitted

 

[Christine]

Looks a bit 60s National Health ... like the kids glasses everyone took the piss out of  at school! 

[AdgeCutler]

The only other application I’m aware of was on the works Mini Cooper rally cars, weight loss! Though, why you’d need a mirror is beyond me.

[AdgeCutler]

6 hours ago, Christine said:

Looks a bit 60s National Health ... like the kids glasses everyone took the piss out of  at school! 

I don't know? It has a certain charm, in keeping with the vehicle but maybe I'm just odd. I always favoured the band camp girl in American pie much to the confusion of my friends.

[Eyersey1234]

@LightBulbFun this has just come up on my Faceache feed

[Christine]

I saw a Bentley with 5PAK  registration  ! 

[bobdisk]

On 23/03/2024 at 08:30, AdgeCutler said:

Sexy!!! NOS and correct type wing mirror now fitted to Brian.

Definitely fragile plastic! Desmo made metal version of this as an accessory which can be put on cars of this age, and here when plastic breaks

[brummiejon]

On 24/03/2024 at 07:30, Eyersey1234 said:

@LightBulbFun this has just come up on my Faceache feed

I spotted that too but you beat me to it..

[brummiejon]

On 23/03/2024 at 09:51, LightBulbFun said:

Awesome!  Brian looking sharp as always  

they are indeed, hence why they are so rare these days, they where OE fitment from the Invacar Mk12c and AC Acedes Mk14A, to sometime in the later part of the Model 70's production run (not yet nailed down exactly when they switched away, but for Invacar they where still present during the NVW-P block however gone by the TTW-R block I think)

but they where so fragile/prone to getting broken that very few machines kept them for long, I would say based on anecdotal evidence that by the end of the 1970's, start of the 1980's most machines had replacement metal bodied equivalents fitted

 

I would be tempted to use it for shows only, it wouldn't last 5 minutes where I live

[Scruffy Bodger]

On 23/03/2024 at 07:02, Christine said:

Scruffy Bodger has ripped the guts, bulbs  and ballasts , out of 2 massive explosion proof lamps, removed from the Mersey Tunnel service tunnel . Sucessfully replaced with colour changing LED s .. Very awesome 

 

Grass!

[LightBulbFun]

in REV news , she has assumed the position as they say!

front axle has been taken apart 

and the old kingpin has been extracted  

not sure if everything has been put back together with the new kingpin or if additional work is required, but hopefully it is plain sailing from here on out!

[LightBulbFun]

@wuvvum quick random question, do you happen to have a picture of the Citroen Belphégor you used to own?

I know there is one somewhere on the site but with the search function currently having issues, I cant find it

 

its nothing* to do with this AC Acedes Mk15 at all...

[egg]

I like your man's safety* footwear there! Great to see Kingpin progress. Assume that's corrosion on the pin itself.

[Snake Charmer]

Great to see some progress. 😎

Are these jockey wheels going as training stabilisers?  😁

[Saabnut]

Yep. Stabilisers.  

New kingpins will be delivered tomorrow as I only got back from the NEC today. There is no way to apply lubrication to the kingpin as original so options to fit grease nipples are being considered.

[Snake Charmer]

4 hours ago, Saabnut said:

 There is no way to apply lubrication to the kingpin as original so options to fit grease nipples are being considered.

Seems odd, AC were rather fond of grease nipples or did Invacar do things differently?

[LightBulbFun]

8 hours ago, Snake Charmer said:

Are these jockey wheels going as training stabilisers?  😁

6 hours ago, Saabnut said:

Yep. Stabilisers.  

I think once Duncan has sufficent behind the handle bar time in REV he will find them to be unnecessary! I am told that once you get used to the pitching and rolling inherent to a 3 wheeler, you can chuck a Model 70 about with quite a bit of vigour 

(shame this one was filmed on a potato that was then mashed through god knows what compression software)

7 hours ago, Saabnut said:

New kingpins will be delivered tomorrow as I only got back from the NEC today.

yeah sorry about the PM on Thursday, it was only after I sent it and started seeing NEC stuff fill my feed did I realise "oh yeah he is at the NEC this weekend!"

7 hours ago, Saabnut said:

There is no way to apply lubrication to the kingpin as original so options to fit grease nipples are being considered.

2 hours ago, Snake Charmer said:

Seems odd, AC were rather fond of grease nipples or did Invacar do things differently?

thats interesting, the Model 70 is wholly an AC design, especially the parallelogram leading arm front suspension, so in theory you can blame AC for that, unless Invacar went rouge! but I note that in the grease chart there is no mention of greasing the kingpin 

although I note there is something that looks be pointing to the back of the hub saying "grease" perhaps that is referring to the kingpin? the one below "oil swivel pin",

@Zelandeth does TPA have any grease points for her kingpin?

[Snake Charmer]

1 hour ago, LightBulbFun said:

Although I note there is something that looks be pointing to the back of the hub saying "grease" perhaps that is referring to the kingpin? the one below "oil swivel pin",

Wheel bearing?