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From: "Paul Hazell" <p.hazell@WORC.AC.UK>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 09:41:03 +0100
Subject:       Re: Hi folks!  (+Paint Query)

Richard Marsden wrote:

>to have any. Safari Engineering have some, but the smallest quantity they
>currently have is by the gallon (L45). They suggested I phone back
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>airbrush, so an aerosol would be ideal for the scratches (and brush-on for
>more substantial bits).

Hi Richard,

I own a SIII lightweight resplendent (?) in NATO green. I got my paint through 
P.A. Blanchard (they advertise in LROI) tel 01430 872765. The smallest quantity 
they could supply me with was 5L at a cost of about #20 (I think anyway- it was a 
while ago). They have to courier it to you which puts the prise up a bit as the 
GPO won't deliver "chemicals" and this includes paint. I wouldn't bother buying a 
smaller amount than that even if you could - it gets used eventually...

As for aerosols. Some paintshops do make "one of" aerosol cans but its expensive. 
You'd be better of buying one of the Humbrel airbrush kits ( jar, spray head and 
aerosol air canister) for touch up work. They only cost about #10 and do a really 
good job (thin the paint by about 50% with white spirit for spraying).  Plus 
there's the advantage that the next time you get a scratch ;-) it's there ready 
and waiting to go! I've found it useful.

Hope this helps

Paul Hazell (SIII Lt/wt 1972)

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Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 13:14:00 EDT
From: "Steve Reddock" <steve_reddock@uk.xyratex.com>
Subject: I'm going away, I may be some time...

Stop cheering! My long promised and much rescheduled free holiday - err
I mean business trip, has finally be fixed. I am off from Thursday 25
April for a week or two, so you will have to manage without me!

All list admin stuff will have to be handled by my co-mug Ian Robinson -
you're on your own pal!

And my LR is still a bare chassis! It will get finished some day.

I may be able to get access if I can hack from one company with a
supposedly secure network to another separate, supposedly secure
network, but as it is not definite you had best be warned that I won't
be around.

But don't worry, I'll think of you all as I blow my previous expense
account record in to the weeds!

Live long & prosper, Steve

Steve Reddock, Xyratex       | Just as he thought he had
Ext.(01705) 486363 x5209     | clinched the interview he was
IBMMAIL (GBXYR96P)           | visited by the ghost of Usenet
Steve_Reddock@uk.xyratex.com | Postings Past.

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Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 20:56:15 +0200
From: lopezba@atnet.at
Subject: Avon tyres/tires

Dear specialists,
idly leaving through my SI Parts Catalogue the other day, I came to the 
place where it said that the original 7.00-16 tyres were either Dunlop RK3 
or Avon TM. I sat up straight as I remembered that two of the tyres on my 
1958 SI were Avon tyres - a brand I had never heard of, I am sorry to say, 
but had assumed to be cheap no-names that the PO got at one point or 
another. So today I checked, and here's what it says on my tyres/tires:

AVON
TRACTION TM MILEAGE

90 degrees clockwise:

Regd. Design No 865220
E24687

90 degrees clockwise:

7.00-16 C
6 Ply Rating

90 degrees clockwise:

(a picture of parts of Stonehenge)
Made in England

I assume that E24687 indicates the year of manufacture. Does anyone know? Is 
it possible that these are the 38 year old originals? They still have a lot 
of profile (more than my rear tyres, which are Semperit and ready to be 
replaced).
Curious
Peter Hirsch
SI 107in S/W
Vienna, Austria (officially 1,000 years old this November 1)

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