Recent content by Wrench Wench

Hmmm. 9 1/4 hours and 600 miles west to Salina and BFR or 12 3/4 hours and 750 miles east to TNJ... Decisions, decisions. I think as soon as I have $6k burning a hole in my pocket, I'll be out Glen's way looking for a running M809 or M939 series truck, a trailer and a bunch of goodies to haul...

Those prices floored me too. I'm largely in the OP's shoes WRT CUCV shopping.

It's an SEE and at this point, if one of them is to make its way to the mainland, it'll be doing it on someone else's dime and someone else's time. I'll continue looking stateside.

What would be involved in extracting a military truck from Puerto Rico to the mainland and thence to Indiana?

If you want to run two generators in parallel, you're absolutely right. It's a pain in the keister. However, there are transfer switches that can take the input from two (or more) generators, wait until a genset is up and running, stable, and generating good power, tweak the new one to get it in...

Every time I'm reminded there were mules on GL, I never think "donkey/horse" hybrid. I think M274.

I would hope it was not repaired and returned to service. I hope it was defuelled, the ordnance de-milled and returned to their original locations on the plane, and have it placed in a military aviation museum with each and every hole documented for what it came from and what damage it did to...

My reaction to this whole thread:

When I was a physics undergrad, we had an emeritus professor who was old as the hills. He gave a talk about electrical safety, describing how whenever he was working with an electrical experiment on the bench with his right hand, he always kept his left hand tucked into his back pocket, or...

I've heard of "wrapping yourself in the flag" before, but that was ridiculous. So, was the scantily clad young lady the future Mrs. Sgt. Tillis, or the future Mrs. PFC Gordan?

As far as the rattlecan over the CARC to obscure the truck's original markings in the first place, just get some acetone or paint thinner and remove the rattlecan atrocity. The original markings are still under there, just waiting to be revealed. As far as actually recreating original military...

Be sure to tell everybody here where and when you plan on trying to fire that thing for real. Because I want to be NOWHERE NEAR THERE.:beer:

When I get a 1009, I'll put antenna mounts and antennas on all four locations and make the door insignia as follows: Of course, it'll be centered and in differing font sizes, but you get the idea.

If the only operative part of the electrical system that is truly 24 VDC is the starter, then great. That's perfect. You're not going to be blasting the audio system while starting the engine as a matter of course. That seems like a perfect opportunity to share the 24 V system between the...

If you're handy with a soldering iron (and SMT components), there a company in Sweden called 41 Hz. They sell kits based around the class-T Tripath audio chipsets. They have a product feature matrix up on Google docs: https://spreadsheets0.google.com/ccc?key=tPUHWscGEOtbjquP9YZCCeg&hl=en#gid=0...