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We were working 24 on, maybe 20 off at the time. Months on end. It was rare that I had anytime to myself, at work. Nights is where you really learned to do what you had to do, to keep 5-7 worn out POS gen sets running, and not letting the system go down. So when we had a little time to...

There was one on each side. The tubes on the bottom were where the Compressor Discharge Air expelled the dust.

Wonderful, simple tech. The M1 tanks use something like it.

It is such an angular glass/silica that it looks like a demon abrasive I have been told that it aggregates on jet engine blades. On 24 June 1982, the route was flown by the City of Edinburgh, a Boeing 747-236B registered as G-BDXH. The aircraft flew into a cloud of volcanic ash thrown up by...

The 9th Inf. Div. was for all intents and purposes, NON-OP. And not just a few weeks. My contact team at Yakama Firing Range had to turn in all their gear, trucks, test equipment and the whole 9 yards, to have it compleatly overhauled. My NCOIC loved to drink a few beers and tell the tale of...

I never looked at it. Never. Changed the air filter IAW the LO. No, thats not quite right. In Ft.Lewis, 1980, after St. Helens popped off, we looked every single day at our gen set ARI. Both on post and at Yakama firing range. Oil, fuel and air filters were changed every 25 hours. And we still...

I took an ARI, (air restriction indicator) apart in 1973? 1974? when I was bored stiff one night/morning, at 04:00. In the engine compartment, nothing has a spring so small and thin, that I can think of, other than the ARI.

I am going to guess, the air restriction indicator. But like everyone else has written, trash, toss it.