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Normally brass is great for electrical use but not when it's around a Lead Acid battery! The ever present traces of acid will quickly ruin it. The funky green that you see around terminals is copper sulphate, the product of the sulfuric acid attacking copper in the wires. Copper, of course, is a...

NO NO NO! Don't even think about using sodium Hydroxide! That stuff eats aluminium ten times faster than any acid ever created! Even a BRIEF exposure will ruin the finish on any aluminium on your engine!! Use baking soda, it won't harm aluminium. People think it's less powerful but it takes...

Well I finally found my manual and I got a bonus, I found one that I didn't know that I had! Mine is FM 5-20A and the one that I found is FM 5-20C. Looks like I need to find a copy of the Basic Camouflage manual. Here's some more details about them: There's a whole set of FM 5-20 manuals...

DC, I've looked all over but I can't find my camouflage TM right now but I think it's the same as this one on E-Greed WW2 1944 U.S. ARMY CAMOUFLAGE FIELD MANUAL FM 5-20 - eBay (item 400122773628 end time Jun-15-10 16:05:51 PDT) TM 5-20, 'Camouflage, Basic Principles' 1944. Speaking...

Three are a couple of clowns on E-Greed selling what they claim are M37 mechanical jacks. One claims that his came out of "a 1952 Dodge Weapons Carrier". Funny thing is that they quit building Weapons Carriers in 1945! To make matters worse, both jacks on E-greed are different and at least...

Somewhere I have exactly what you need. A copy of the U.S.A. Camouflage TM from ~1943. I just rescued it and to pry the pages apart! But I put where it would be safe and we all know what happens then. You can't find it!!! But it did read it closely and they only issued a net and nothing else...

Believe it or not, this is the first time I've ever told that story. Even my wife hasn't heard it. But that was nearly fourty years ago and I hope that the Sacramento cops have quit looking for us by now! But I can tell you that that was truely an Aw Sh*t moment when we found out that the car...

You think that's bad. My car once got hit by less than half a car! Many years ago a buddy of mine and I found a Corvair that had been dumped in a river. We pulled it out and took out the sub-frame with the engine, transmission and rear differential, axles and wheels and tires all in one unit. We...

I just looked at the other thread on this and it says that the three lead part is a 2N6388. Depending on who made it, that's probably an NPN Darlington transistor with an Ic of about 8 to 10 Amps, about 65 watts max dissipation (with heatsinking!!! Your board doesn't have any heat sinking so...

ANYTHING can be rebuilt! It's just a question of weather it's worth it or not. But your board looks like it's easily fixable once you find out what the parts are and locate some replacements. Can you tell if it's a multi-layer board or does it just have circuit board traces on one side or both...

The recent thread about Gillespie paint prompts me to ask if anyone has any experience with Nason paint by DuPont. I see a lot of people recommend the Rapco paints but the haz Mat costs are a killer ($80/gal!) and I used to use DuPont's Imron paint so I checked with the local DuPont dealer and...

(condensed version) You must have felt like Gulliver among the Lilliputians!

From what I've been told they weren't that tint originally but turned that color later due to repeated applications of Cosmoline. I later heard that the color change was due to a chemical reaction bwteen the (IIRC) manganese in the Cosmoline and the parkerizing coating material. I think I...

I can help you with that. Just give me your address and point out which ones are running!

No I haven't Mike. But that's a darned good idea! I live in the rust belt called Florida so I'd like to plate a bunch of stuff to try and protect it but I was concerned about it being too shiny but the 'parkerizing' would cure that. Can you tell me how you go about parkerizing stuff or do you...

Power is NO problem here! I have a number of lab grade power supplies (mostly HPs) that range up to several thousand volts and several hundred amps (not both at the same time!). Nearly all have Constant Voltage, Constant Current or Constant Power regulation. (I LOVE these things and I use them...

FWIW I have a '51 M37 with no seat belts but Florida recently (2009) passed a law that said that all occupants of a vehicle must wear a seat belt and shoulder belt. At least that's the PUBLIC version! BUT I just looked up the ACTUAL law (Statutes & Constitution :View Statutes : Online...

I've seen a lot of scams by people that were local and you could look at their vehicles! I can't even imagine anyone would ever consider buying a vehicle over the internet without seeing it and thoroughly checking it out first. And the E-Greed sellers want you to send them a significant amount...

No, that's not the same ad or description and the other ad had no pictures. Don't worry I'm too old and skeptical to fall for the tricks like you describe. :-? My neighbor (Columbian) sold a couple of real POS jeeps on E-bay so I would NEVER buy or pay for a vehicle without looking at it...

There was a brand new one on FleaBay recently. I expect more of them will turn up. NICE haul! You're a lucky man!