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When looking for old timer sales in the Netherlands, I came across a 1964 military Magirus Deutz crane, a 12.6 liter V8 diesel engine (178D). Probably comparable with an M62 or M543. The trucks looks in very good condition, less than 2000 miles on the counter, so maybe a Nato POMMS depot...

Time to get on with it. :grd: After a hiatus of more than five years, I now finally am getting back to restoring our M51A2. I had a Dutch student (living in Portugal) over as volunteer, so I finally had the sorely missed Soldier B at my disposal for a few days. First thing I did...

I have a three problems. 1) Can I upload a video and embed it in a post? I do NOT mean embed a video from YouTube or such, but my own. 2) I uploaded some videos to our own websites in mp4 format and tried to link-embed them in a new post here. Embed does not really work (I cannot make it...

I crossed the Rubicon and joined the red team for once :clinto:. With tractors, I am always on the green team :jumpin: :tank: :mrgreen: (think agriculture: John Deere, and MV in OD) but this time .... After spending a few weeks pondering what to buy and where to get the $$, by pure luck...

Reading Dave Doyles appendix on coloring and marking and reading a ton of threads here, I realized my original ideas about which color to paint my truck were horrible naive even taking in account that the military never is known for its logic on important issues. I thought that at least...

Looking at my own old threads and some other old postings. When trying to follow links, I several times got a 404 Not Found error. Did this happen because of upgrading the forum or? Any way around this? Probably this was already noticed earlier, but I could not find anything on it. Or it...

Finally getting back to work on the M51A2 1973 multifuel dump truck. And now for the first time since I have the truck, it will not start. Background: the truck has been sitting idle outside for three years. Last time I started her up with the almost gone Hawker Armysafe's after a long period...

With the older 5-tons (m39 and o00 series), there is an ongoing discussion if and how to make the single brake system in a dual circuit, to help avoid catastrophic loss of brake power. I am looking into it again, and ran across the hydraulic or electric (mag) retarders as additional brake...

Not sure if this is the right place, but I would like to bring this to your attention and it might be of special interest to those in the Toronto region. I am spending some days in Newcastle, close to Toronto, in the Durham - Clarington area. Was talking with some officials and was invited...

Some veteran cars came through our town this weekend, and I will post them in another thread. However, this one earns its own thread. It is a Praga car built/delivered on 16 July 1916. Exact 100 years later, on July 16, 2016, our mayor awarded this car the first price. I need to get more...

Probably explained somewhere but search throws up too much answers (about pins in plugs, fifth wheel pin colors of electric wiring etc etc). Do the colors of the pins in the member map have any significance?

I was not sure if I should put a new thread in the mess hall or in conversations, so I tried to check what difference the paid membership made in accessing forums. I logged out and I noticed that as not-registered visitor, I do not see and cannot access the forum line "conversations" either...

Unexpected strong freeze coming up (around 20 F), so I better take some precautions. I mentioned problems with the cooling system of my M51A2 multifuel, better said, an undiscovered leak somewhere. That leak is still undiscovered, but the engine, when running, runbs smooth without any signs of...

Few years ago, I posted about these two Dutch brothers who owned yards on MVs. The brother with the German and Dutch MVs has updated his website with a video. Nice summary of what comes to the surplus sales in the Netherlands and Germany.

I uploaded a lot of pics for posting. Now when I look through my already uploaded pictures to reuse them again, I noticed that a lot of them are missing in my already uploaded selection. The links are still functional, so I suppose they are stored elsewhere but I do not see them anymore. Or do I...

I put a lot of pics from the GA Rally in a few albums. Unfortunately, they are not in the order that I like them to be. Any way how to do that without deleting everything and then uploading them one by one?

Unfortunately, I am not always online checking SS every day. As result, I mostly miss the start of the MV of the month thread or the vote MV of the month thread and have to go looking. Is there a way to AUTOMATICALLY being subscribed to each month? Or can you make the "MV of the Month" winners...

Noticed something strange while steelsoldering on my ipad. Once logged in, I can work normal as long as I stay in the forum submenu. When I try to go to today's post, the "you appear not to be logged in" page appears and the site works like I am not logged in??? Tried several times, so its not a...

Saw this article on re-use of old Hueys passing by (I switched to checking USA oday instead of CNN because the new CNN layout really really sucks). MAybe somebody likes to see it.

Hopefully, next week my M51A2 will get some action. We are going to level part of the area around my son's workshop and the earth will be dumped around the outskirts of his property and to fill up a ditch to move the passing forest road 10 feet. An old Russian excavator with me as driver...