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4 years 5 months ago #215533 by Mike Meyer
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Couldn't agree more Old Magnet, the old idea of giving unlimited free access to anyone who walks in the door, has been proven as a failed business model for attracting new financial members to ACMOC.

The one's that really get me cross are the guest members who don't even bother using the words please or thankyou at any time, and get on their high horse about tardy responses from members to their numerous questions, "come on, come on, someone must know the answer to this question????" they say.

Try going to a Cat Dealer for some expert help on your old Cat with a hourly rate of what, $165 a hour, the $40 it costs to join ACMOC is covered just in the mileage cost to get them out, just to be told, "Geez, this is a old Cat, I've never worked on one of these antiques, I don't even have any tech manuals for it" That's what I got told when I contacted my Dealer about pulling final drives on my D2 4U, and that was 8 or 9 years ago!

My ACMOC membership has repaid me a thousand times over.

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4 years 5 months ago #215542 by Old Magnet
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And how many cycles of management is it going to take to get their chit together!!!!!

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4 years 5 months ago #215584 by Deebo
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I’ve joined. Information on here is priceless.

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4 years 5 months ago #215586 by Mike Meyer
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I’ve joined. Information on here is priceless.


Well done Deebo, thankyou

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4 years 5 months ago #215588 by gauntjoh
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I’ve joined. Information on here is priceless.

Thank you for joining Deebo. We all appreciate it, especially a new member in the UK !
John Gaunt, ACMOC President and Director, UK

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4 years 5 months ago #215624 by Deebo
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Thank you for joining Deebo. We all appreciate it, especially a new member in the UK !


Thanks John, could I ask a UK specific question if you’ve a mo? I’ve an ex Forestry Commission D4 2T that I’m trying to get running. I read somewhere that all the D4 2Ts that came to the UK were Olive Drab, I’m finding some green below a pretty poor yellow paint job.. Can you confirm all the 2Ts that came here were green? And if so is there any way you know to trace their original unit or destination on arrival here? Haven’t decided whether I’m going to paint it or what colour yet.. it’s serial no. is 2T5130SP.
Thanks.

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4 years 5 months ago #215628 by Mike Meyer
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Hello Deebo, I'm saving a D4 2T myself here in Oz right now, it had green under the yellow and I'm painting it green once again, I've read that all Cats manufactured during WW2 were painted green before leaving the factory, and here in Oz, if a Cat came through a Dealers workshop after WW2 they were generally painted Cat yellow.

You will find John Gaunt a great guy.

Try and post some pictures of your Cat, everyone likes pictures.
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Mike
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4 years 5 months ago #215631 by Deebo
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Hello Deebo, I'm saving a D4 2T myself here in Oz right now, it had green under the yellow and I'm painting it green once again, I've read that all Cats manufactured during WW2 were painted green before leaving the factory, and here in Oz, if a Cat came through a Dealers workshop after WW2 they were generally painted Cat yellow.

You will find John Gaunt a great guy.

Try and post some pictures of your Cat, everyone likes pictures.
Regards
Mike


Thanks very much, Mike, that’s really interesting, I didn’t realise all 2Ts would have been green from the factory. Yours is looking great. Here’s mine;



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4 years 5 months ago #215635 by rax200
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Hii Mike,
I like the colour Olive Drab as you know i have 7J and now two 2T"S one early and one late which all had the the colour Olive Drab as the first coat of paint, one of them will go back to Olive Drab but with a low gloss.
The first is a early 2T, the second is 7J and the one on the truck is the latest a late 2T.

regatds
Daryl

1937 RD4 4G4368
1940 D4 7J3717
1942 D4 7J9915SP
1942 R4 6G2550SP
1944 D4 2T6584SP
1945 D4 2T8978SP
1946 D4 5T6271
1956 D4 7U37855
1954 DH226 S/N 89 Howard Tug
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4 years 5 months ago #215665 by gauntjoh
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Thanks John, could I ask a UK specific question if you’ve a mo? I’ve an ex Forestry Commission D4 2T that I’m trying to get running. I read somewhere that all the D4 2Ts that came to the UK were Olive Drab, I’m finding some green below a pretty poor yellow paint job.. Can you confirm all the 2Ts that came here were green? And if so is there any way you know to trace their original unit or destination on arrival here? Haven’t decided whether I’m going to paint it or what colour yet.. it’s serial no. is 2T5130SP.
Thanks.


Hiya, to be honest I don’t know much about the 2T.
My D4 had stood for around 20 years outside luckily with a tin can over the exhaust before I bought it. On the donkey engine one cylinder had a spark but no compression, the other compression but no spark! The lack of compression was stuck valve, freed off after removing the head. Plug leads solved the no spark problem. After 10 mins cranking the diesel on compression she struck right up, showering us in rust!
Pulled her home 12miles on a trailer behind my Field Marshall. Those were the days, would get locked up now if the police caught you doing that!
It looks like yours had a la plant chose blade on it, so possibly ex services? The carrier roller is different to the ones on my 7J which are mounted on a pedestal fixed on the inside of the track frames. Whereabouts are you located in Scotland ?

I just sent you a PM (Personal Message).
John Gaunt, ACMOC President and Director, UK

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