Hi there

[Meter rat]

Hello and welcome from Argyle and Bute. I afraid I am unable to help you with regards your Panther. One, I am in Scotland. Two I do not know anything about them. I am unfairly picked upon for my dislike of German WW2 stuff, and Tigers in particular. Well WW2 stuff in general, unless it is interesting and different.

Where do Canada, Australia, and NZ com in?

Help out a forum member from NJ, USA.

Don’t forget, America was part of the empire, until you all started drinking coffee, because you didn’t want to pay tax on tea, and you threw all your tea into sea in Boston Harbour in a temper tantrum.

[tankme]

Welcome to the group. Forums were the original social media before MySpace and Facebook. Before that we had bulletin boards on dial up modems. Yeah, I'm that old that I had a 1200 baud modem when I was 15. I like to tell people I was around "BI" (before internet).

[HERMAN BIX]

They are commonwealth countries which were once part of the Empire

We down here in New Zealand are those "Frightful Antipodeans" which is a different breed to those "Awful Rebellious Colonials" up in North America!!
The Australians were "Convict Stock" sent for pinching loaves of bread & other things, to begin a new world, the hard way!!
Turned into bloody good Cricketers mind you

[michaelwhittmann]

Don’t forget, America was part of the empire, until you all started drinking coffee, because you didn’t want to pay tax on tea, and you threw all your tea into sea in Boston Harbour in a temper tantrum.
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Boston Harbor not Boston Harbour.
U like your u's.

[MrChef]

Welcome to the forum. Check out the build section where you'll find lots of nice builds showing the process of how they were built and for the most part the finished results.

[Meter rat]

Boston Harbor not Boston Harbour.
U like your u's.

Boston HarboUr. Nope. Still not right.

[Herr Dr. Professor]

"When the final attempt at compromise failed, [on 16 December 1773] Sons of Liberty leader Samuel Adams gave a signal from the podium to a ragtag group of men who led the way to Griffin's Wharf. There they dumped an estimated 92,000 pounds of tea in 342 chests—worth more than a million British pounds—into the harbor."
https://www.suffolk.edu/news-features/s ... -tea-party

I just love iced tea! But maybe not with salt.

[michaelwhittmann]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYqfVE-fykk

[AlanWhite]

Very funny mate

[HERMAN BIX]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYqfVE-fykk

GOLD..................infuriatingly true, but Gold

My apprenticeship meant learning to measure in Thou, and zero-points of a mm, and to know the instant quantity of either when compared to either in a measurement value................
Now, after years in the oilfield, I have feet & inches(joint length) Barrels(Bbls) (which is 159L) for fluid volume, meters &mm for diameter not related to drilling hardware inches for drillpipe designation, PSI in downhole & air pressure, GPM (gallons per minute) for fluid flow rate, CFM for compressed air capacity & delivery from an Aerial Booster , Pounds Per Foot (PPF fluid weight/viscosity in a column, AND weight measure of steel pipe in an imperial dimension like 9 5/8th called Casing) and Im living in a metric country
Some years ago I had to hand carry some A4 paper...........copy paper, up to Oklahoma, as they were submitting a tender for a massive offshore rig build into Egypt, and the tender specifically demanded that the submission of hard copy documents be on A4 paper.
They were buggered. No A4 up there, none at all ! Even copier paper is a different size FFS !