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Only thing I’ve never seen at a military vehicle or airshow event is a “cattle car” from boot/basic training. You’d figure SOMEONE would have scavenged, repaired, found a use for one of those by now. If nothing else, you could also use it for picking up all the guys with FORDs (Found On Road...

I was going to post pictures, which I’ll get around to. I bought a power distribution box, made a 50 foot extension cord (6/4 rubber cable), another 30amp ext cord (coleman, premade/commercial) then made a 30 amp splitter so I could run TWO 4800 watt heaters. One I’d bought a year ago to load...

I can spend the next hour, hour and a half, using the search function on this website for “bulkhead fitting” or ask directly: What specific fitting do you recommend? Got pictures? Thanks.

Dow Corning 4 insulating compound works great for protecting rubber as well as being a very good dielectric grease. https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B0195UWAHG/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Price is the real question here. 2 pounds of indicating drierite runs around $25. The fittings - from Drierite co. I linked to - add up to about $80. Trying to figure out how to pick up parts at a bigbox hardware store, use some 3” PVC I already have and make end caps, insert some...

Already have that filter ready to go, more interested in keeping moisture OUT so it never has the chance to condense and rust out the drum in the first place.

Thinking about venting for 55 gal storage drums (what I’ve got), and came across this page. Drierite is interesting stuff, absorbs moisture faster than silica gel (which I use in my gun safes), and can also be reactivated: https://secure.drierite.com/catalog3/page19b.cfm “Regular and...

Chloroprene. From Wikipedia: Neoprene (also polychloroprene or pc-rubber) is a family of synthetic rubbers that are produced by polymerization of chloroprene ALSO from Wikipedia: Nitrile rubber, also known as NBR, Buna-N, and acrylonitrile butadiene rubber, is a synthetic rubber copolymer of...

File under: You pays your money and you takes your chances. Can't find my post on this topic from many months ago, but I'd bought TWO of these from Green Mountain Generators as spares (the update had already been done on my 802a, including the dremel cutout on the frame, but you never know)...

For those of us (you) who like things tidy, less risk of contamination: #10-32 SS hex screw (same as used on genset). Cap was $3.75 (got a 2-fer on the popular auction site for $7.50, shipped) Edit: 10-27-2018 An update to hardware fittings. Being intimately familiar with Murphy’s law, I...

Pretty sure I bought a set of screens from you [thumbzup] - once I had yours, they were pretty easy to copy/make from parts at the big box hdwr store [would've bought locally, mom-pop store I've gone to for 24 years - but I was told they're getting out of the screen making business, had no frame...

Diesel storage, filtration, and handling I got one of these (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07CTXQZTT/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1) to put inline with a handcrank rotary pump https://www.zoro.com/great-plains-industries-rotary-pump-123000-06/i/G1564215 or electric...

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RTV?Hole's for drainage/airflow. It's about 6 inches across on the 803a (IIRC, didn't measure).

Contemplating using acoustic ceiling tiles (fire-resistant), cut to fit, drill out holes. I’ll post pictures when I figure it out. I DID put some butyl rubber sound/heat dampening stuff (NOICO 80ml) on the top panels and it runs quieter than the 802a. Shoulda done dBa readings, have a meter...

No sooner had I cleaned out the nest, black cherry pit shells and other “stuff” (surprisingly little compared to what was inside the 802a I bought two-plus years ago) from the previous rodent squatters than I scared off a chipmunk who had come up through the drain hole. I’d made a set of...

Yep. Sides and rear (fuel tank end). Part #23 (manual is 642-24P)

MEP-803a insulation, sound controlling blanket did the search engine thing, got the usual 113,405 or so return hits on several different combinations of insulation, 803a insulation, MEP-803a insulation, sound proofing, etc.The insulation inside the cooling exhaust section of the genset is...

Welcome to the madness. I’d suggest going to the HMMWV forum and reading through the several hundred pages of posts on “what did you do to your hmmwv today” to see the kinds of problems that are common, solutions, suggestions, and more. Once you’ve familiarized yourself with that, and are...

Welcome to the madness. Enjoy your ride. Norm