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Has anyone got one, or used one? They start at about £100 on the net. Powder is about £15/kg.

I have some new steel railings to paint, and other steel and thought it would give a quicker, better result.

The ones I have are still available but they are charcoal/black.

Electric ariels do take up a lot of space for the motor and cable drum.

Have you thought of fitting a flexible ariel like those fitted to the roofs of VW Golfs etc. if you can get one, then you can just unscrew it and store it in the car?

Totally agree with the previous posts.

Those foolish enough to think 'new' or 'NOS stock' (usually cheap rubbish) will always be there will no doubt find at some point that they have a scrap car, all for the want and need of an old restorable part that people through away.

I have a garage and cellar full of old spares and panels that will go for scrap, and it goes against the grain.

I think it is called a disposable society, now with finite resources.

3 hours ago, Martins Stag said:

Is it that simple? I assume it needs not to touch the steel bodywork of the car too?

 

It is that simple, and is efficient. The bodywork paint and the rubber provide the insulation. The main point being, drivers' side, away from the ignition coil.

A more efficient method I used on my saloon was a length of aluminium tape burglar alarm engineers use on windows attached to the rear windscreen connected to a length of coax through a block connector.

Either way, there are no holes in bodywork for rust to get started.

Instead of an automatic ariel you could do what I have done. Get a length of rigid brass wire (brazing rod or similar) making sure it is insulated from the outer cable. Connect that to the centre cable of a length of coaxial cable (the other end fitted with a coaxial plug) and slip the length of brass rod underneath the windscreen seal on the drivers' side inside the car. The rod forms the ariel.

No problems with vandals, forgetting to retract the ariel etc.

3 hours ago, Howard said:

I read this and fell about laughing. Whatever will the Yanks shoot down next! Santa needs to be very careful next Christmas since he is already tracked by NORAD..

From Aviation Week Network:

"A small, globe-trotting balloon declared “missing in action” by an Illinois-based hobbyist club on Feb. 15 has emerged as a candidate to explain one of the three mystery objects shot down by four heat-seeking missiles launched by U.S. Air Force fighters since Feb. 10. 

The club—the Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade (NIBBB)—is not pointing fingers yet. 

But the circumstantial evidence is at least intriguing. The club’s silver-coated, party-style, “pico balloon” reported its last position on Feb. 10 at 38,910 ft. off the west coast of Alaska, and a popular forecasting tool—the HYSPLIT model provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)—projected the cylindrically shaped object would be floating high over the central part of the Yukon Territory on Feb. 11. That is the same day a Lockheed Martin F-22 shot down an unidentified object of a similar description and altitude in the same general area.

There are suspicions among other prominent members of the small, pico-ballooning enthusiasts’ community, which combines ham radio and high-altitude ballooning into a single, relatively affordable hobby.

“I tried contacting our military and the FBI—and just got the runaround—to try to enlighten them on what a lot of these things probably are. And they’re going to look not too intelligent to be shooting them down,” says Ron Meadows, the founder of Scientific Balloon Solutions (SBS), a Silicon Valley company that makes purpose-built pico balloons for hobbyists, educators and scientists.

The descriptions of all three unidentified objects shot down Feb. 10-12 match the shapes, altitudes and payloads of the small pico balloons, which can usually be purchased for $12-180 each, depending on the type.

“I’m guessing probably they were pico balloons,” said Tom Medlin, a retired FedEx engineer and co-host of the Amateur Radio Roundtable show. Medlin has three pico balloons in flight in the Northern and Southern hemispheres.

Aviation Week contacted a host of government agencies, including the FBI, North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), the National Security Council (NSC) and the Office of the Secretary of Defense for comment about the possibility of pico balloons. The NSC did not respond to repeated requests. The FBI and OSD did not acknowledge that harmless pico balloons are being considered as possible identities for the mystery objects shot down by the Air Force.

“I have no update for you from NORAD on these objects,” a NORAD spokesman says. "

It's called 'friendly' fire, over s****, and over here!

3 hours ago, Tim Bancroft said:

Thanks Howard, I always thought a 'rivet counter' was the same as a 'bean counter', an accountant!

Learn something new everyday!

And thank you for entering the RBRR.

Make sure they are correct scale.

2 minutes ago, Kevin R said:

Didn't they stick lentils on Spitfires to resemble rivets to assess the effect on airspeed in WW2 😂😂😂

Yes, and the speed increase from using flush rivets probably saved this country from tyranny.

Please don't mock those who have served or supported those who do/did.

I am more concerned and very annoyed when so called 'experts' falsify and re-write history, such as when a well known publisher of car repair manuals published a book about Main Battle Tanks. The 'expert' who wrote the book clearly stated that Vickers, designed and built the first Challenger MBT's, and, were responsible for using Rolls Royce CV12 engines as it's powerpack instead of the Leyland L60 used in Chieftain. All wrong.

Another so called 'expert' wrote a series of books about Rolls Royce from its inception to the present day, he too said Vickers insisted on the CV12's and built the first Challengers.

How do I know, I worked there when the ROF was designing the Challenger, and there when they were first handed over to the British Army in March 83.

I have quite a few, all to go along with a lot of other spares I will never use.

If you want one £15 but the input shaft has some rust on it (stored in the cellar), the rest of the box hasn't been touched?

I live about 2 miles from the M1/M62 interchange.

18 hours ago, RobPearce said:

Some had the tee, to feed both the heater and the bypass, while some fed the heater from a tapping in the head (between the rear two head nuts). It looks like this engine has that tapping but with a blanking plug fitted.

The square headed 'bolt' similar to your gearbox drain plug.

On 05/02/2023 at 12:01, Alan Armstrong said:

That all for your comments and putting me on the right track.....I cant believe I overlooked the float chambers, which gives you the   answer in itself!......MMM lucky me I now have bought a fuel pump!...just another item missing from this engine.

 

The easier type of pump to get on with are those with a lever underneath to hand prime petrol if the car has been garaged for a few weeks. Saves the battery cranking the engine. Leyland unfortunately went to the non prime able version for the Dolomite etc.

Tim is correct in the first reply.

If your pipes are connected to the fuel pump someone has really cobbled things and put large adapters on because the outlet on the fuel pump is 1/4" (as per the pipes you have ringed).

If you try and start the car and it fires YOU WILL be in significant danger because fuel will get through your set up but you will not have valves to stop fuel flow because petrol won't be going through the carb float chambers.

13 hours ago, thescrapman said:

Try COH Baines?

Agree, they have a downloadable pdf so you can check profiles etc. and will send you a sample.

15 hours ago, Adrian Girling said:

Wikipedia says it was launched at the Albert Hall on 22nd April 1959 which suggests it really is an early one!

Unique and possibly the oldest surviving model?

4 hours ago, glang said:

For improved heating it would probably be worth trying to block this valve bypass route so that ALL the coolant to the manifold also goes through the heater (as is the case in more modern vehicles). The only down side would be that if the heater valve is closed on a cold start the pump will have no flow path as the engine thermostat will also be closed plus of course there will be no warming of the manifold to reduce the time the choke is needed....

One solution/improvement, block the bypass AND adjust the cable to the heater valve so that the valve can't be completely closed?

17 hours ago, iani said:

I am pleased to say that I now have a heater, it's rubbish but it is working

They are supposed to be 3kw plus, depending on physical core size but they are all rubbish, from the Standards through to the Dolomites.

11 hours ago, Adrian Girling said:

Don’t know if the windscreen is the same as the 13/60 but I have one free to collector at TW20 post code not a million miles from Ewell

Identical.

Looking at what can be seen of the bodywork and door bottoms they look to be in good condition. If it has been permanently stored in the same place then there should have been a good air flow around the underneath, therefore little deep rust?

Be interesting to know the engine number, given the white clocks it is probably a very early car.

A rare vehicle worthy of saving and restoring if everything is original,  and still on cross-plys (original?) but with Vitesse bumper overriders? Wish I had the time and space, .

Good luck with the sale.

1 hour ago, thescrapman said:

I suspect there is air stuck in there.

i tend to fill my MK1 via a heater hose as the heater is higher than many other Triumphs.

 

Or remove the top heater hose with the engine running.

I fitted a bleed valve in the metal pipe at this point.

When you switch the O/D on you should hear a distinct click. When driving and you switch it on it reduces engine revs (not power) so in effect you can take the engine revs back up by accelerating, so going faster with less strain on engine and gearbox etc. It depends how you drive, I go in to 3rd, then 3rd O/D, then 4th gear, then 4thO/D.

No doubt there will be others with a different interpretation, or be more technical.

2 hours ago, Howard said:

 Initially I tried home printed transfers, but they were not nearly dark enough,

 

 

Did you use an Alps printer?

3 hours ago, yorkshire_spam said:

Looked him up on Facebook and dropped him a message as I'm just down the road in Halifax. 

 

I'm about 50 miles from Keighley but if he is on the Leeds side let me know if you need help. It's a disgrace to take advantage of someone so vulnerable.

23 minutes ago, Amy Wade said:

They certainly do sound like a waste of space, looking at his post I think he's got a positive earth car & they've probably fried the regulator and dynamo by swapping the battery leads without knowing what they're doing. They need to be named & shamed.

From memory, and having done it years ago the way you convert a car from pos to neg earth is to 'flash' the dynamo to reverse its polarity, then reverse the battery. But as you say if they have they could have damaged some electrics.

2 hours ago, Alan Armstrong said:

 

The last comment made to use the unused painted over small grommet (i would replace it) below the choke aperture could take half the wires and so just drill a new hole to take the remainder. the smaller hole mentioned, appears to be unused...I have checked several photos of bulkheads etc...

 

Instead of drilling a new hole open this hole out with a conical multi-step drill.

42 minutes ago, RobPearce said:

The garage sound like a waste of space. I do hope YS can help the guy get it sorted.

Rip off cowboys after a cheap car? They want naming and shaming, then reporting to Trading Standards.