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    And it’s also completely typical. We’ve all wrestled with those things.
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    I have run into that with oil filters on cars. About the only way to have a completely dry oil filter gasket is to clean the gasket...
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    Well, it did eventually come off with use of a persuader. ;) Unless I were to have some kind of filter that had specific...
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    rickf reacted to Ray70's post in the thread 802a on trailer. How much does it walk? with Like Like.
    The trailer itself and quite often the rectangular metal plate connecting the 2 rails ( on the HMMWV style trailers ) will vibrate quite...
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    rickf reacted to Guyfang's post in the thread Oh yes! with Like Like.
    Maddawg means a Herman Nelson heater I think. The winter of 1974 was a cold one. The 24G Radar mechanics were working a bad radar...
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    I have an 002 and it is plenty stable. Set the trailer brakes or chock the wheels and it will go nowhere. You absolutely need to bolt it...
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    rickf replied to the thread Oh yes!.
    You will have to PM Mike on the details. I am pretty sure at least one of those times it was a civvie stove. All ribbing was in jest and...
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    rickf replied to the thread MEP-002A No Power To Control Panel.
    If these are not the specified brand of oil filters you are probably going to find out that you do not have the correct top can gasket...
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    rickf replied to the thread MEP-002A No Power To Control Panel.
    Man, after buying all of those parts I sure hope you get it running!!! I tend to want to have it running or at least know for a fact...
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    rickf replied to the thread Oh yes!.
    Sleeping with all the noise was not much of an issue, the sudden wake up when the guy camping next to you fires off his balky gasoline...
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    rickf reacted to Toolslinger's post in the thread Oh yes! with Like Like.
    I will tell you, that when your choice is no heat and power, or sleeping next to a 1600 watt 3600 rpm Winco with a rotted out muffler...
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    rickf replied to the thread Oh yes!.
    Followed very shortly after by the LOUD clacking of the CO wanting to know who the idiot was that let the set run out of fuel!!!
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    rickf reacted to Chainbreaker's post in the thread Oh yes! with Like Like.
    My nightmare would be to wake up to just the sound of clacking fuel pumps!
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    rickf replied to the thread Oh yes!.
    Now, if anybody could sleep within 100 yards of those little 1.5K screamers then you are walking dead!
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