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Home early from the Yorkshire Water Wartime Experience! We survived the
torrential rain of Thursday night, all Friday and Friday night. It wasn't a
good sign when various vehicles were being towed INTO the site through the mud
by tractors. All the 4x4 military vehicles seemed to manage ok, but some of
the 2x4's and general traders/fairground vehicles got stuck.
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I don't think Friday saw all the planned school visits, though I did see a
number of school children hiding from the rain in the beer tent! Two marquees
were overturned immediately behind us on Friday due to very strong gusty wind,
but our tent survived by being roped to the truck and a nearby fence. Not so
much luck on Saturday as the truck was with the others on display, and the
steel frame tent took off and got shreaded. My weekend cost was £500, £100
on petrol and £400 on a destroyed tent! It has done us six years, but there
was still life in it yet, although after Friday, it was going to need
waterproofing again.
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There wasn't a great deal there on Friday, but I counted around 40 vehicles on
Saturday when the rain had broken up into showers rather than a constant
downpour. However, so many vehicles and dioramas had cancelled or just didn't
show, and it was a real shame after so much effort by Stuart and Ken. It has
the potential to be a great show, with the site being huge. The heavy rain
formed a lake in the arena, which must have contained a couple of hundred
thousand gallons at least, but that was still only a small fraction of the
arena space, and the arena was only one of about five fields available for
displays.
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So we packed up and left on Saturday evening,
but had further troubles on the way home. The area around Leeds/Bradford
has some pretty steep hills, and the Dodge brakes ended up over heating.
The fluid expanded until the free play in the pedal was gone and the
brakes locked on as the fluid couldn't return to the expansion tank in
the master cylinder. I had to
stop and completely slacken the master pushrod to relieve the pressure.
It then took the rest of the trip home, starting and stopping trying to
reset the best position for braking and free play.
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