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Thanks for taking on this effort, Matt. Volunteers are what the sponsoring club - MVMVC - needs to make the rally successful. It is appreciated.

They are loud, and use quite a bit of fuel - but they do work well. It will serve your needs in short power outages, but I don't think I want to take mine camping.

Dang. Only 50 miles from me. That means I have to think about it. Trouble is, I've got plenty of projects and nowhere near enough time to complete even half of them. Guess that ends my thinking about it :-)

What town is it located in?

And in Deerfield, NH as well tomorrow and Saturday.

No. We were there last weekend cleaning up the field and camping areas and found a piece of burned wood, and were trying to figure out how it got there. It's not a normal sight in the camping area. I've worked traffic / parking for the event before, and the Fire Chief often goes in...

Are we talking about flea market selling spaces, or camping / show spaces? We've sold out all the normal flea market spaces already, but have managed to add a few more. If you show up and one of those spaces is open, you pay for it and you can set up. If there are not any open spots remaining...

I'll be there in the M35A2C. I had better be, because it's only a 26 mile drive. Full information is here http://canadianmilitarypattern.com/Weare%202014%20Ad.htm

A machine shop with an EDM can burn the tap out for you, too. Works well. If it were me, and I didn't have a lathe handy, I'd just cut a slice of round brass or steel stock of the correct diameter, drill the 4 mounting holes and the one center drain hole and tap it. Would take longer mounting...

My MEP-003A has a two-pin slave connector. I use this all the time to slave the generator off the M35 when the weather is cold and the on-board batts can't crank it fast enough to light.

I bought a truck from them about 5 years ago. They are reputable. Ken Kublo is the owner, if memory serves.

My 003A has it.

The Weare, New Hampshire Military Vehicle Rally is this coming week/weekend - starting Thursday, July 25th, and running through Saturday, July 27th. We typically have more than 100 vehicles on display with a flea market, food, and fun for everyone. Please see http://www.mvmvc.org/ for more...

Very nice.

Good clean pump diesel will be fine; it's what we've used for years to clean out the gear cases of many old industrial machine tools before replacing the oil. As for diesel being abrasive, think about injector pumps - they have profoundly small clearances and are lubricated by diesel fuel only...

You don't mention which genset you've got, but generally speaking, yes - that's how the AUX system works; it runs the AUX pump to top off the day tank until the float switch in the day tank reports it's full. Then when the float switch drops below a pre-determined level it enables the AUX pump...

Generator failure whack-a-mole. Problems that are static and consistent are much nicer to debug, but as I get older it seems fewer and fewer of them are that way.

Will it fire on a very small amount of ether in the air inlet (without using glo-plug preheat, which would be a hazard given the air inlet heater)? Just the smallest squirt should at least get it to kick a little. Don't like using it, but in this case it might be a good diagnostic tool. What...

I've not seen this in an air cooled genset like an MEP-003A; they tend to run hot enough to make this a non-issue. YMMV, but wet-stacking in a 003A is the last thing I'd worry about.

Need to know specifics about your loads to do a proper job, but generally speaking an MEP-002A would work for most people, with an MEP-003A for those more power hungry. Management of loads and fuel consumption are factors in the choice.