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Wow Will... That looks fantastic!
Took a lot of effort on your part, but it looks really good.
Tim
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Wow Will... That looks fantastic!
Took a lot of effort on your part, but it looks really good.
Tim
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Look at you go.!!
You have come a long way since the paint by # set I got for you last Christmas.
Seriously that looks very Good.
Nice Job. Did you put some clear coat or something on them to keep the sun from taking it's toll on them. Sadly everything sits outside.
You have come a long way since the paint by # set I got for you last Christmas.
Seriously that looks very Good.
Nice Job. Did you put some clear coat or something on them to keep the sun from taking it's toll on them. Sadly everything sits outside.
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I think since the decals are vinyl, no clear over them. I am afraid that the paint might eat the vinyl. I would then need to start over, don't wanna do that. We will just make a cover for the operators compartment so that the controls are covered and out of the sun.
Made a few more changes, but no pics. Mounted the Oxy/Acet tanks. I will get a pic of that plus the acetylene tank. It has a 1942 date stamp.
It is almost ready to go out for display. We plan on moving the V100 to the spot where this was, the tug is there now, and putting this in the aisle, roped off, so people can do a 360 of it.
A bit of good news, the Army is scheduled to remove 3 vehicles, I think, or is it two and some mortars? I don't remember. I do know that an M75 and an M42 will be leaving at our request and will be freeing up some room in the display area.
We have a couple of artillary pieces that are in their transport configs. I would like to get one set up in firing configuration, maybe throw some shell casings around the piece. That is for another thread!
There is also another interactive display that BLK HMMWV worked hard on that need some assembly and a mount made up. Again, for another post!
Made a few more changes, but no pics. Mounted the Oxy/Acet tanks. I will get a pic of that plus the acetylene tank. It has a 1942 date stamp.
It is almost ready to go out for display. We plan on moving the V100 to the spot where this was, the tug is there now, and putting this in the aisle, roped off, so people can do a 360 of it.
A bit of good news, the Army is scheduled to remove 3 vehicles, I think, or is it two and some mortars? I don't remember. I do know that an M75 and an M42 will be leaving at our request and will be freeing up some room in the display area.
We have a couple of artillary pieces that are in their transport configs. I would like to get one set up in firing configuration, maybe throw some shell casings around the piece. That is for another thread!
There is also another interactive display that BLK HMMWV worked hard on that need some assembly and a mount made up. Again, for another post!
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Checking in guys, any chance the Eaton fire can make it down to the museum? We are watching this with disbelief.
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No, thankfully, we are good except for alot of bad smoke and ash. I was there today to load out a piece that needed to leave, and I gotta say, I live 18-20 miles NE of the compound, and the smoke was horrible.
There is at least one member here that was within 2 blocks of the main part of the fire. He and his are fine, got evac orders and was able to come home after some time. All is well as of right now. The area north of him that is a very big Christmas light display for the area, has been going on as long as I can remember, that is gone. 1950"s ranch style houses, most there longer than the "celebrities'" that have been effected by the fires in Pacific Palisade's. We are 30-40 miles from those. I have been to his place and helped him get things in order
The Eaton fire is what we are close to. I do know 10 or so people that have lost their homes up in the Altadena area, apx 10 miles north west of the Museum.
As for me/us/family, we have lots of power outages, I, thankfully, only lost power for 18 or so hours, lost water service for just a bit. My son, 1/2 mile from me, lost power for 36 hours.
The wind was strong enough to snap RR crossing arms in half. A mess of trees down, most pine type, go figure. A ton of transformers blew up. A mess of shingles off of roofs.
My son moved into a place and the tree in the front, the house faces south, the way the wind was blowing, and the wind blew a tree over in his front yard that has a 3ft or more diameter trunk...a pine...and that in turn fell onto the lines that power the street lights, concrete light poles, puled the wires from the pole across the street from them and then the pole in front of his house, thankfully, did a slow motion fall into his '16 GMC Denali Yukon XL. Went across the B pillar on the pas side, across the sun roof and onto the DS A pillar. No glass broke, but the roof line is bad. I think it will be totaled. Spent some of yesterday cleaning out the Jeep so his wife and the grandies have transportation while it is at the body shop to see if it it junk or not.
Today, spent time cleaning up, filled 3, 90 gallon green cans with debris.
The wind is picking up again now. They expect Sunday to be like Wednesday.
My generator has not been put away. I have fuel for the car, gen and truck. Have ammo, food, water. If stuff gets ugly, as long as the redwood to the north of me doesn't fall on the house, we will be OK here and the Museum is pretty much in the clear, if anything falls, not too much can get damaged. Craig is a bit stressed, who isn't, but I believe we are going to be fine. The Museum has not lost power or water and the fires are a very long way away.
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On another note, I do have some pics to put up here of some more forward progress, but things have been a bit hectic what with the desert trip with the fam and the weather.
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I think you're talking about me
It's been a crazy few days, that's for sure. I did get a few hours of sleep last night after being up 36 hours. I'm still on my emergency generator going on 3 days.
Suppling power to both neighbors on either side of me. Close to 30 homes effected on my street. I'm in the fire area being called the "Eaton fire"
I'm blessed to have Will as a friend. I do poke a few of his buttons and stir a few pots but it's only because I'm older and wiser, ok because I have more hair than him. Ok More grey hair anyway.
He was kind enough to come move some stuff to a safer area just in case the worst happened.
About 5 hours later I was told to get out. The fire was about 2 blocks away, winds were blowing my way at about 60-80 mph.
Everything was on fire.
I was fortunate to have something to come home to other then a little roof damage I'm golden.
I just found out about 5,000 homes near me are gone.
The police officer trying to keep the looters away is from Hermosa Beach.
He said the national guard will be being deployed in a few hours.
It's a mess but I 'm trying to stay positive.
I set up a charging station on my front porch for everyone to use to charge phones and electronics.
I'm running temp power to my two neighbors on either side of me.
Also Making about 400 plus lbs. of ice a day for all that need it to try and keep any medication or food stuff from spoiling until power is restored.
As I type this, the independent power guys from out of town are trying to string new lines between 3 poles on the side of a hill across the street from me in the dark. No access for bucket trucks from below so they are having to doing it by hand through all the thick vegetation that didn't burn.
Once they are done, they will turn it over to the city guys who might turn it back on if the winds don't pick up again.
Fingers crossed. It just happened, were back on city power!!!!!!!!! WOO HOOOO
I've spent the last few days setting up generators and repairing generators for people that don't exercise them.
PSA if you have a generator exercise it. Don't wait till you need it in an emergency.
If its gas powered, Put fuel stabilizer in it. Date your gas cans, rotate the fuel in them.
Shut off the fuel supply and run it dry don't just shut it off and leave fuel in the carburetor.
Will taught me that. He is good for something you know.
BH
It's been a crazy few days, that's for sure. I did get a few hours of sleep last night after being up 36 hours. I'm still on my emergency generator going on 3 days.
Suppling power to both neighbors on either side of me. Close to 30 homes effected on my street. I'm in the fire area being called the "Eaton fire"
I'm blessed to have Will as a friend. I do poke a few of his buttons and stir a few pots but it's only because I'm older and wiser, ok because I have more hair than him. Ok More grey hair anyway.
He was kind enough to come move some stuff to a safer area just in case the worst happened.
About 5 hours later I was told to get out. The fire was about 2 blocks away, winds were blowing my way at about 60-80 mph.
Everything was on fire.
I was fortunate to have something to come home to other then a little roof damage I'm golden.
I just found out about 5,000 homes near me are gone.
The police officer trying to keep the looters away is from Hermosa Beach.
He said the national guard will be being deployed in a few hours.
It's a mess but I 'm trying to stay positive.
I set up a charging station on my front porch for everyone to use to charge phones and electronics.
I'm running temp power to my two neighbors on either side of me.
Also Making about 400 plus lbs. of ice a day for all that need it to try and keep any medication or food stuff from spoiling until power is restored.
As I type this, the independent power guys from out of town are trying to string new lines between 3 poles on the side of a hill across the street from me in the dark. No access for bucket trucks from below so they are having to doing it by hand through all the thick vegetation that didn't burn.
Once they are done, they will turn it over to the city guys who might turn it back on if the winds don't pick up again.
Fingers crossed. It just happened, were back on city power!!!!!!!!! WOO HOOOO
I've spent the last few days setting up generators and repairing generators for people that don't exercise them.
PSA if you have a generator exercise it. Don't wait till you need it in an emergency.
If its gas powered, Put fuel stabilizer in it. Date your gas cans, rotate the fuel in them.
Shut off the fuel supply and run it dry don't just shut it off and leave fuel in the carburetor.
Will taught me that. He is good for something you know.
BH
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Yes my friend, I was spreading lies and rumors about you!
Glad things have calmed down for you. My girls live in a complex at the 210 and Los Robles. They are still under evac orders just because of the smoke and ash. Shelby sent a pic of the complex pool, it is black. The inside of their apartments are filled with ash. What a mess!
Here is a pic of the crane operators dash panel after paint and nice decals on the data tags. A BIG thanks to Tim Mullaney for the help on this!
Glad things have calmed down for you. My girls live in a complex at the 210 and Los Robles. They are still under evac orders just because of the smoke and ash. Shelby sent a pic of the complex pool, it is black. The inside of their apartments are filled with ash. What a mess!
Here is a pic of the crane operators dash panel after paint and nice decals on the data tags. A BIG thanks to Tim Mullaney for the help on this!
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The tree that pulled the light pole down across the Denali,
The tree at my Daughters complex, one of them.
The tree at my Daughters complex, one of them.
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OK all, a little bit more forward progress on the M62. This thing is in the short rolls, I can see the end in sight!
Today it was 44 degrees when I got to the compound. Sat around just a bit to get the coveralls warmed up and make it more comfortable to work.
Checked the oil, coolant and gas in the truck. Had 2.5 ish gallons in the jerry can we are running off of. I have some batteries in the truck, can't remember what they are except they are HEAVY, a regular charger will not charge them and they are heavy...wait, I said that. They are not lead acid. Anyways, I have not fired the truck in a couple of months. No charger on the batteries. Today, 45 degrees, no running for the last 6 weeks easily, it cranked kinda slow, but after 10-15 seconds, the beast lit off, ran a bit rough but eventually smoothed out. Ran it long enough to get some heat in things.
I put all of the levers and things in place in the cab, went to the rear, disengaged the clutch....FROM THE REAR!....put the pto in gear, throttled it up, again, FROM THE REAR! and proceeded to spool out what we thought was 113 feet if 1/2 inch cable from the hoist drum. Turns out it was only 95 feet total. According to the TM, there should be 113 feet.
I was able to locate and remove, easily I might add, the wedge for the drum to cable securement. We have 120 feet of new, 6 x19 wore rope donated to the wrecker project. We will give the man that donated the new rope the old stuff so he can re spool his M37.
With the roadblock removed, the swage socket would not fit through the shive areas in the end of the boom, so I just whiz wheeled the end off. I did get the old cable and wedge out of the socket, but the wedge is not re useable. We are waiting for that, hopefully it will be here next week.
Anyway, I got the new rope un tangled, run back into the hoist drum, wedged back into place and 120 feet of new wire rope is now installed onto the hoist drum of the wrecker body!
Before the removal, there were 6 1/2 open grooves on the hoist drum, using a 3 part line with aps 12 feet of wire out of the end of the boom in 3 parts to the hook. I wound 3 more revolutions of cable onto the drum and measured the remaining rope off of the end of the boom. If I cut 7 feet off of what is left, we should end up with the 113 feet as stated in the TM with about 10 1/2 feet of room left on the drum so that if a single part line is ever used, we will not be out of space on the drum.
Math, whoda thunk I'd still be using it at my age!
OH yeah, I forgot to mention that that 2.5 gallons of gas lasted long enough to warm the thing up, spool out the wire, position the drum two times to remove the wedge and then pull the wire out. It ran out of gas while trying to secure the new rope in the drum. That was a total of 15 mins, maybe!
Today it was 44 degrees when I got to the compound. Sat around just a bit to get the coveralls warmed up and make it more comfortable to work.
Checked the oil, coolant and gas in the truck. Had 2.5 ish gallons in the jerry can we are running off of. I have some batteries in the truck, can't remember what they are except they are HEAVY, a regular charger will not charge them and they are heavy...wait, I said that. They are not lead acid. Anyways, I have not fired the truck in a couple of months. No charger on the batteries. Today, 45 degrees, no running for the last 6 weeks easily, it cranked kinda slow, but after 10-15 seconds, the beast lit off, ran a bit rough but eventually smoothed out. Ran it long enough to get some heat in things.
I put all of the levers and things in place in the cab, went to the rear, disengaged the clutch....FROM THE REAR!....put the pto in gear, throttled it up, again, FROM THE REAR! and proceeded to spool out what we thought was 113 feet if 1/2 inch cable from the hoist drum. Turns out it was only 95 feet total. According to the TM, there should be 113 feet.
I was able to locate and remove, easily I might add, the wedge for the drum to cable securement. We have 120 feet of new, 6 x19 wore rope donated to the wrecker project. We will give the man that donated the new rope the old stuff so he can re spool his M37.
With the roadblock removed, the swage socket would not fit through the shive areas in the end of the boom, so I just whiz wheeled the end off. I did get the old cable and wedge out of the socket, but the wedge is not re useable. We are waiting for that, hopefully it will be here next week.
Anyway, I got the new rope un tangled, run back into the hoist drum, wedged back into place and 120 feet of new wire rope is now installed onto the hoist drum of the wrecker body!
Before the removal, there were 6 1/2 open grooves on the hoist drum, using a 3 part line with aps 12 feet of wire out of the end of the boom in 3 parts to the hook. I wound 3 more revolutions of cable onto the drum and measured the remaining rope off of the end of the boom. If I cut 7 feet off of what is left, we should end up with the 113 feet as stated in the TM with about 10 1/2 feet of room left on the drum so that if a single part line is ever used, we will not be out of space on the drum.
Math, whoda thunk I'd still be using it at my age!
OH yeah, I forgot to mention that that 2.5 gallons of gas lasted long enough to warm the thing up, spool out the wire, position the drum two times to remove the wedge and then pull the wire out. It ran out of gas while trying to secure the new rope in the drum. That was a total of 15 mins, maybe!
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Okay we're getting in the short rolls. This is probably going to be one of the last updates on this Beast.
Couple of weeks ago we got a new cable on but the plug that came out of the clevis is not reusable. Turns out they never are because that's the part that deforms itself to lock the cable in the nut and Clevis.
It took a little bit of research but I did find what I needed to do the job. Cable places want $160 for this piece but McMaster sells it, it is furnished by ermetto. The same piece that cable companies wanted to sell me for $160. It's $30! In this particular case it's a half inch 6x19 with a wire core wire rope. We ended up using a split plug, a single piece type.
I was able to cut 7 ft off of the cable that we spooled onto the Wrecker, it only takes 113 ft and we got 120.
Like I said, not much more left. Just the operator bows,install the dash, make some type of covers for the dash and the new wire rope and it' done!
Here are some pictures of the Old Wire Rope, the old plug that is not reusable and some images of the plug from Ermetto
and the cad drawing from McMaster.
Couple of weeks ago we got a new cable on but the plug that came out of the clevis is not reusable. Turns out they never are because that's the part that deforms itself to lock the cable in the nut and Clevis.
It took a little bit of research but I did find what I needed to do the job. Cable places want $160 for this piece but McMaster sells it, it is furnished by ermetto. The same piece that cable companies wanted to sell me for $160. It's $30! In this particular case it's a half inch 6x19 with a wire core wire rope. We ended up using a split plug, a single piece type.
I was able to cut 7 ft off of the cable that we spooled onto the Wrecker, it only takes 113 ft and we got 120.
Like I said, not much more left. Just the operator bows,install the dash, make some type of covers for the dash and the new wire rope and it' done!
Here are some pictures of the Old Wire Rope, the old plug that is not reusable and some images of the plug from Ermetto
and the cad drawing from McMaster.
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Very Nice.
Your going to need a vacation from that thing soon.
Your going to need a vacation from that thing soon.
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Dude, I am ready. The heavy crap is killin' me. I actually gave Jacob all of my 3/4 drive stuff, 7/8 thru 4 inch, Snap On 3/4 drive ratchet head, 24 inch and 48 inch handles as well as all my wrenches greater than 1 1/4 from my shop tool box. I have absolutely ZERO interest in doing heavy stuff anymore.
HOWEVER, there is the issue of a tank with a locked up p-brake that needs attention. I will ask here for help and probably bug you too. I am interested in that, only because it is a big chunk of armor, but not looking forward to what it needs to try and figure out what is wrong. Mostly the 6 batteries up 10 feet and down 7 and the climbing up and down. This is the reason for the wrecker revival. Hopefully it will not come to pulling the pack. I do not want to do that again. Well, unless we can get many hands,
I do have to say that making the cradle for the SF refueling pod cradle was fun! Got to exercise my wood skills that some good friends taught me!
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Im ready to drive one of them again. To bad we don't have the field next door anymore.
Just tell me when.
Just tell me when.
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I feel for you Will. I love working on heavy junk. Construction equipment. But had to stop. I will be 71 in a few days and its just too heavy. My shoulders are wrecked.
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Yeah. I'm not but 65 but I have started slowing down.
Work for a while. Sit down and take a rest.
(Rinse, Lather, Repeat)
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That's how you do it. Everyone is happy that you come and fix stuff, so they don't care if you take a break. Sometimes if I didn't make any noise for an hour, someone came out to make sure I hadn't keeled over with a heart attack.