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Hi Carl, Animated is one of my goals ;-) I like to keep things interesting. $60 is a great price for a Victoreen 700 counter. If I could have found one for that price there would be some in my collection. But as it is, I have been concentrating on mostly OD and battleship gray counters...

Does it really matter what year and manufacturer you report? How are they going to know? As long as the serial number matches something on your frame, you should be golden. Think about it: Here on SS is a collection of experts on HMV's that have a knowledge base that vastly exceeds anything...

Hi Carl, In the course of the time I have been here on SS, only two people have really ticked me off. You are definitely not one of them. If my posts are being perceived as angry, I will have to continue to work on my tone, as I am very very rarely angry about anything. I started my...

Sort of, but not really... Gamma radiation is gamma radiation. It's the quantity that kills you, not the source. The difference between a G-M tube survey meter, and a hand held ionization chamber survey meter is one of magnitude. I don't really want to get into the physics of the devices...

Carl, By definition, CD stuff is made for after the big one. As I said in my post, there are some sensitive CD meters available, but they are rare. I have been collecting geiger-counters, dosimeters, and other radiation survey junk since I was a lad, and I have had to wade through dozens...

Well, since we like military stuff, you should be looking for a PDR-27. The suffix letter is important, though. The PDR-27, 27/A, and 27/B use obsolete batteries. The PDR-27/C is a modified PDR-27/A with an upgraded power supply that uses 6 D cells... still pretty old stuff. I use PDR-27/P...

I think I was smiling for about a week after I drove mine home... It still makes me smile thinking about the trip. Welcome to the club! -Chuck

Many of us with historic policies, have a fairly low defined upper limit as to what the policy will pay to repair our trucks. Our insurance companies won't be afraid to total a car/truck if its repair costs exceed that limit. The HMV wasn't an active participant in the wreck. It wasn't even...

I would venture that the builder of the CPS1001 is a one man shop. The reason the price is so high is because of policies that went into place during Reagan. The military stopped ordering stock amounts of such devices, and went to a system where vendors would be paid to build a prototype...

In Maryland, Farm Tags are good for a 450 mile radius, and use includes maintenance needs of your farm home, meaning shopping, movies, etc.. To be eligible, you have to reside on at least 20 acres. Oh, and I wear a pair of hearing protector muffs. The deuce exceeds 85db in the cabin even at...

Driving a deuce sounds like you are driving a dump truck around all the time, but its feel is surprisingly small. You are way up in the air, the cab is tiny, and the windshield is close. Because the fenders stick out from below the hood, and are mostly out of your site line, they don't give...

Is the message really lost if an F250 weighs 4900 lbs empty, or 7000 lbs empty? Also, the PSI your tires put on the ground is going to be, on average, very close to the same as the tire inflation pressure. If that were not true, your tires wouldn't go flat when all of the air leaked out. That...

Out in the real world, there is a lot of confusion about what GVWR means. In a nutshell, it is the maximum weight your tires are ever allowed to put on the road. -Chuck

Yes, there has been quite a bit of PU truck model classification deflation over the last 20 years. The F150's are now really 3/4 ton PU trucks, and the new F250's are 1T easy. The point is still the same, if your driveway can withstand a full sized PU truck without problem, the deuce won't be...

How fast were you going? My personal rule of thumb for off road and high grass is a little plus of walking speed. Even at that slow speed, gopher holes really give the steering wheel a hearty tug. Glad you weren't hurt. -Chuck

Since the WI DOT maintains that it can't say if WI's HMV's are a safety hazard, because it cannot determine which of the currently registered WI vehicles are HMV's, I would think the best course of action would be to ignore the call for HMV reregistration in the Fall, and wait until WI DOT...

I can't think of anything that would burn the thief's hands that won't burn you.... or etch away the door handle, for that matter. -Chuck

Ford F250 = 5000 lbs empty on 4 tires = 1250 lbs per tire average Deuce W/W = 13,530 lbs empty on 10 tires = 1353 lbs per tire average Both the deuce and the PU truck are significantly heavier on the front tires than the rear, so they should be about the same amount over the average weight per...

Take a good mount, and make a mold using a pourable silicone casting compound. Then cast the new mounts using one of the two part urethane rubber compounds. The entire process is detailed in a book available from Lindsay: How to Cast Small Metal and Rubber Parts. -Chuck

Here is an interesting article on oil additives. It was originally printed in Road Rider magazine in August 1992. Road Rider is now Motorcycle Consumer News. Dig in, it's pleasant reading: Snake Oil! - Is That Additive Really A Negative? .: Articles This is what they have to say about...