The BHC BH8 Warwick - FINISHED!

[PR19_Kit]

50?

Now there's an idea.   

[Rick Lowe]

50?

Now there's and idea.   

But perhaps for a Different forum... depending on where your mind goes, obviously. 

[jcf]

50?

Now there's and idea.   

But perhaps for a Different forum... depending on where your mind goes, obviously. 

Welp, it already has the black rubber part taken care of ...

[scooter]

50?

Now there's and idea.   

But perhaps for a Different forum... depending on where your mind goes, obviously. 

There's a list somewhere in the forum already...

[Rick Lowe]

 

[PR19_Kit]

Those tiny container kits that I mentioned in the 2026 Stash thread took no time to build, they're very well designed and go together really well. I've done LOADS of them for my model railway (railroad as it's American....) layout and even more for deck cargo on my never ending 1/144 scale Atlantic Conveyor model.

Unfortunately a  20 footer was too long, so I sawed it in half to make a 10 footer, as Arun doesn't do 10 ft. container kits.

Here it is with a Scale Reference Swann-Morton No. 7 blade. It was the smallest reference thingie I could find....

The pic's about 3 times full size on a laptop screen.

[Gondor]

That reminds me of the old Air-Transportable-Units that I used to work in when I started in the RAF. Six-foot cubes, that's the external dimensions. Add inside, for the HF transmitters, two 19" racks, oh, and there were two doors on that cabin type, add in a fold-down table and a document holder, a fire extinguisher, a termination panel, as well as an electrical control panel for the electrics, you could say that it got quite cosy inside a cabin at times.
The reason these cabins were Air-Transportable was due to the ability to fit a pair of wheels onto each side. There was a set of adjustable pins to help with alignment, and then bolts were fitted to hold them in place. The wheels were raised or lowered by what was in effect a bottle jack, which raised or lowered both wheels at the same time by turning the jack in one direction or the other. With a set of wheels on each side, a tow bar could be added to either end to allow movement. Shackle points were available at all the corners, and apparently, the whole setup could fit inside a Herk.
I must find some pictures of the cabins.

[NARSES2]

That reminds me of the old Air-Transportable-Units that I used to work in when I started in the RAF. Six-foot cubes, that's the external dimensions. Add inside, for the HF transmitters, two 19" racks, oh, and there were two doors on that cabin type, add in a fold-down table and a document holder, a fire extinguisher, a termination panel,

Forgive my ignorance, but what is a termination panel ?

[Gondor]

That reminds me of the old Air-Transportable-Units that I used to work in when I started in the RAF. Six-foot cubes, that's the external dimensions. Add inside, for the HF transmitters, two 19" racks, oh, and there were two doors on that cabin type, add in a fold-down table and a document holder, a fire extinguisher, a termination panel,

Forgive my ignorance, but what is a termination panel ?

A termination panel is what it says. In this case, it's where cables terminate, and others, in this instance, on the outside, can be joined. We used a field telephone cable called DON10, which was two insulated wires twisted together. Each wire had three strands of steel wire as a core and several other copper alloy wires twisted together with them. Horrible stuff to get to go where you wanted or to cut or join.

[scooter]

That reminds me of the old Air-Transportable-Units that I used to work in when I started in the RAF. Six-foot cubes, that's the external dimensions. Add inside, for the HF transmitters, two 19" racks, oh, and there were two doors on that cabin type, add in a fold-down table and a document holder, a fire extinguisher, a termination panel,

Forgive my ignorance, but what is a termination panel ?

A termination panel is what it says. In this case, it's where cables terminate, and others, in this instance, on the outside, can be joined. We used a field telephone cable called DON10, which was two insulated wires twisted together. Each wire had three strands of steel wire as a core and several other copper alloy wires twisted together with them. Horrible stuff to get to go where you wanted or to cut or join.

We used to use WD-1, similar to your DON10, for our analog phones but it sounds like it was easier to manipulate, cut, and splice.  It was also useful for trip wires, field expedient HF antenna, and connecting clackers to claymore.  And shocking the new privates when hooked up to a ring generator.

We also used WF-16, which was a pure copper two pair wire that was really sensitive to splices, and super fragile.  You could only put in two or three splices before you had to rerun the whole line.

[Gondor]

I did manage to find a picture of a cabin on the internet, not a very good one though.



It's the one on the left of the radar. My apologies to Kit for hijacking his thread.

[PR19_Kit]

That's OK, the 10' container will be used for similar tasks on the BH8 anyway, so ,it's all very topical.

[kerick]

The USAF used to have a similar trailer device. Good for roads or ramps but not in the field.

[scooter]

The USAF used to have a similar trailer device. Good for roads or ramps but not in the field.

Now, if they stuck it in the bed of a deuce or 5 ton, like the Army did, then it wouldn't be a problem

[kerick]

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