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Recent content by Capt Pat

  1. Capt Pat

    Starting CCKW Rebuild......Finally

    I looked at the 211/135 seats and there is NOT much difference, that's for sure. They didn't re-invent the wheel just for racks then like they would today. Just a much easier and common sense approach to it then.
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    Starting CCKW Rebuild......Finally

    Think I've got some troop rack hardware, most likely enough for a whole set here in Ohio. (you can have it, its been sitting around here quite a while, just pay shipping, or pick it up if you're over this way for the Findlay Ohio show. I've an original CCKW/CCW early all steel cargo bed, the...
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    XM816 Wrecker - Only Took Ten Years

    At least you've got a goo0d looking machine there, A member our HMV club here has a nice one and won't sell it. I HAD an older M-62 with a Continental R6602 in it, the rig needed quite a bit, and was planning to do it, but... (convinced my wife that because I had a 5 ton cargo and at that time...
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    New from Ohio

    Welcome from Sandusky. You'll find a good bunch of helpful people on here, and depending where in the state you are, there's parts for most everything, (like the Findlay, Ohio Armed Forces weekend event, vendors from all over the COUNTRY end up there.
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    Getting an old M725 running again

    I've got one here in Ohio thats been on the shelf for awhile if you're interested. Can check to see what shipping would be with an address.
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    navy/military boat section?

    You caught them just in time. If you can have somebody get to Sandusky, Ohio, I'll let you have them. (they'll fit in the back of a pick-up easily or an SUV if you don't carry a bunch of kit. Know anybody coming up to the National Rifle and Pistol Matches at Camp Perry? I can hang onto them...
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    Huge mistake. I won a GP auction…. Cali FMTV Project “ ‘Merica”

    GeneralDisorder is right, we've used the same tool successfully multiple times, and also cleaning all parts is KEY to putting them back together. They go in by hand without difficulty. If not, there's another problem. DO NOT FORCE THEM, the do bend.
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    navy/military boat section?

    I've got another little watercraft project here too. Fibreglas, a bit older, and contract built for the Army. A River Assault Boat, built by Correct-craft. They nested in each other and were carried in the back of a deuce or on a short trailer. Only know of one more on a trailer with an...
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    navy/military boat section?

    I've got TWO of those here in Ohio that we secured for our youth mentoring programs and found out too late they had been DEMILLED, and SERIOUSLY. Those troopers in Kentucky (where the paperwork said they were released from) SERIOUSLY over reacted when it came to cutting the air chambers. They...
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    1967 deuce rescue.......what to bring?

    we always make sure there's a back up plan like this. Always another fried/club member with the club's 'recovery kit' waiting for a call tht usually doesn't come but if it does, its a WHOLE LOT less than a recovery wrecker. (a deuce doesn't fit normal roll backs)
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    Gov Planet fee increase for bidders

    Its worse all round, our regional historic preservation and public education organization (I'll not use its name here, you all understand why) has /had access to Government excess property to use in our youth mentoring programs. (we have two that we sponsor) It was a neat way to secure things...
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    Steel Soldiers giveaway sponsored by unitedstatesoffreight.com

    I'm in as well, and THANKS.
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    MILITARY APPRECIATION WEEKEND, KELLEYS ISLAND, OHIO

    The Fathers Day Weekend June 15th and 16th will be the newly renamed Military Appreciation weekend at West Bay on Kelleys Island. All military vehicles and their drivers will be allowed free travel on the Kelleys Island Ferry Boat Company's boats. Any passengers have to pay only the normal...
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    Steel Soldiers giveaway sponsored by hawkerbattery.com

    Thanks to Hawker Battery for doing things like this, and I'm onboard with it. Will be looking Ron up this spring. Need more than just a couple 'me thinks'.
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    Christmas MV decoration contest - win a free year's membership

    It really is a LARC-V, big brother to the DUKW built for Vietnam. Thanks
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