Can't find any nuts, but a clue here. A spanner from a set I purchased in 1971 (made in Sheffield, Hooray). The distance across the flats is about 0.52 inches, or 13.2mm which is the AF dimension of the most recent 5/16" nut. So for a late 1/4" nut you need a 3/16" spanner Have a dad who always ran British cars....then YOU buy a Harley Davidson - and THEN you learn ALL about "reducing" sizes of nuts!!!
I'd never consider starting a plumbing job without my King Dick. Reaches places that other tools can't get to! http://www.********.co.uk/WW2talk/kingdick.jpg Excellent to stir the paint in a Humbrol tinlet too!
Excellent to stir the paint in a Humbrol tinlet too! No no, its not working. Perhaps I need to download a pdf manual. Can't even get the lid off. http://www.********.co.uk/WW2talk/duckegg.jpg
i have gone digital Looks like analogue to me. Good old regen receiver. Some of the simpler spy sets were of this type, which could emit a strong signal and give the receiver's position away. I believe the best spy sets were those designed and built by the Poles. There are some at the Royal Sigs. museum, but when I visited I was more interested in their crypto stuff. Gonna need to go back sometime.
Actually - I've always found that an oldfashioned nail file was great! The little "hook" on the pointy end would fit under the edge of the lid, then the other side levered against the body of the tin....and PING! Lid flying through air and landing painty-side down on mother's best carpet...
No no, its not working. Perhaps I need to download a pdf manual. Can't even get the lid off. http://www.********.co.uk/WW2talk/duckegg.jpg Rats, I have all my stuff packed up, otherwise I'd show you one tinlet from the original batch, the ones coming with a mock yellow and brown camo pattern on the band around the lower tin, where this one has these squares. We used to joke that if we stirred the tinlet well the camo scheme would come right off the tin with one brush pass At the time these "Authentic Colors" were the only thing to be had, they were a revolution! Before that we had only gloss paints to which we had to add an awful crumbly "Matting Agent", or else apply a coat of #49 Matt Varnish, guaranteed to go deep yellow-brown in the first two weeks. Yuck! But nice spanner, I used to have one of those, gotten from my father, but I lost it somewhere long ago.
or else apply a coat of #49 Matt Varnish, guaranteed to go deep yellow-brown in the first two weeks. Yuck! And it wasn't necessarily very matt either! The Airfix matt varnish was better...but you had to be VERY careful with it, because no matter HOW hard the paint was you were coating, the Airfix matt varnish could act as a solvent. And it was a COMPLETE bastard on top of gold paint...