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Frank, if you try it and your truck goes faster than before, then check the oil with a geiger counter! Maybe a few free protons give your turbo an extra kick!
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Guys,
a friend of mine needs two good fueltanks (left/right) for his M818. They need to be shipped to Germany. Can someone please point me / him to a relyable source where these could be purchased in the States?
TIA,
Mark
Back in the mainframe-operating days we used industrial orange oil to remove stuck envelope-stickers out of chain printers, which could be a horrible mess. Worked superb and smelled god. That stuff dissolved and cleaned almost everything and does no harm to ones health.
I would say try it.
I also burn used oil from diesel-electric generators and transformer-oil. I dilute it with a little gas (petrol), let it sit for a few days or even weeks and filter it with a 20micron sock filter before dumping it into the tank. The deuce loves it, no probs so far and...
ahrghh I need one, but I seem to live on the wrong continent for my hobby.
If such a item surfaces at all here it sells for phantastic prices.
It took me over half a year to get my VIC-1 parts together... now I look for the mounting brackets for the mx-6707 matching unit... nada... sigh
Funny, yesterday I wrote a pm to Steelsoldier asking what he feels about a historical "VIN Registry" on SS. I proposed a table-like structure which has the VIN along with some other information (vehicle configuration, location, date of drmo(if known), thumbnail-picture). One row per vehicle...
Lucky guy :-) I hope I will have that experiance one day, too.
I love the sound of these big radials. Last year I had the pleasure of a flight in a T6 Texan, with a full aerobatic session. I'll never forget that. The planes from that era are truly outstanding.
I don't know how many Me109s...
To my understanding there were three mirror styles on the deuce.
The oldest mirror is a small round one on one strut as mentioned and pictured before.
The intermediate one where a single arm supporting the mirror was welded to the bolt of the front window mounting. Here you have some...
You're lucky that nothing worse happened, one easily can develop a hefty blood poisoning when a foreign liquid is injected into tissue (and probably ruptures blood vessels) with high pressure!
A friend of mine pressure washed his car once and ripped a nice junk of rubber out of the tire - we...
hmm that rather looks like a well put retarded cluster-drop from an osprey on a high speed level run from the 2 o'clock position.
Nice truck, I agree that this an excellent restoration project! I love those restoration posts with photographs, so keep us up to date with your project [thumbzup]...
It looks so easy and clean on the pictures, but I know this is a difficult and time consuming job you are up to.
Great work, I really look forward to see more of the progression!
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Cheers,
Mark
I'd be careful around the knuckle boots, expecially those with the zippers and when they are older or are of a certain bad quality (a strong power blast can easily rip a lightly deteriorated rubber boot apart).
I also refrain from blasting the tool box directly, because that can the drench...
You're right, I' aware of that. The company which I get the oil from separates pcb contaminated oil because it needs a special disposal treatment, so I can be quite sure that I get only the non-PCB stuff. According to them there are very few transformers left which are old enough to contain...
Welcome! I lived in New Haven CT back in the eighties for two years.
A friend of mine is very knowledgeable about WCs, I'm sure she would be happy to help you out with questions, see http://www.commandcar.com !
Ahh yes, and: pictures :-)
Cheers,
Mark
It seems that this truck was further developed into the T55E1, see
http://www.warwheels.net/T55E1MotorCarriageINDEX.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T55E1_Motor_Carriage