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This paint job is 12 years old. Used Desert Sand color from Home Depot. It weathered sort of pink and didn't hold up well. But, that was 12 years ago, and someone asked about long term testing. Surface was sand blasted, primed with POR-15, cured, sanded, washed with degreaser, topcoated with...

Is your dog's name Lucas?

Perhaps you have an impedance mismatch. The Ipod headphones amp is probably 4 or 8 Ohms impedance (not DC resistance) and the input impedance to the VIC-1 is typical military 600 Ohms impedance. A matching transformer might be all you need to fix the level problem. We know the VIC-1 amplifier...

Little skinny jumper cables work fine to boost charge a battery from another vehicle, given time. There are two ways to "jump start" a vehicle. The most common (as posted above) is to use high current and the energy of the remote battery to do the cranking. That for sure takes high current...

I tried ceramic balancing beads in 14.5 x 20 Michelin XL tires with poor results (up to 20 ounces per tire). The beads helped but the tires still had bounce problems. I had them spin balanced and fixed the problem. Balancing is necessary, IMHO, not because of the improved ride but because of...

Be sure to ground the UHF coaxial connector sleeve after you screw it on tight at the base of the antenna. That creates the ground reference for the base fed 1/4 wave ground plane.

Please take this in the way I intend, to hint of unsafe conditions. With such a high offset, 2 " tubing will bend easily, especially with that heavy trailer. Those two thin braces will hold practically nothing in compression. If you make a hard stop, your rear door will be wearing the hitch...

The M-105 (or any small trailer) is hard to see past the bed on my U-1300 Unimog so I have a piece of 4" diameter white PVC pipe to strap to the back of the trailer for critical backing. Hang the pipe in the tailgate chains loop if your trailer has chains. The pipe ends can be seen easily and...

Most likely what is happening is that the CB is reducing power to protect itself from high SWR, and only showing low SWR. 113 inches is quite long. You really need to have an external SWR meter. Cheap ones are on 'that auction site' all the time for under ten bucks. IMHO the older ones...

Actually, the MS type sections are hard steel tubing with light copper coating. If you crush them they split so you can't cut them with pliers or diagonal cutters. Not even a tubing cutter works. Best way to cut them is a grinding disk, or score them around the outside with a file then break...

You nailed it when you said "manually switch the antenna". As long as you do that the AS-1729 will work fine for the R-442 receiver. Using the AB-15 and its elements avoids having to do the manual switching, plus it's a much cheaper antenna. Bob WB4ETT

I have just picked up a light tower trailer equipped with an MEP-017A generator. Looking around on SS I don't see anything like it. My intended use is for radio communications so the lights have been taken off. This is an older set, 1970. It has been painted white but is OD underneath...

That would be Keasler's, (423) 614-3000, http://www.keaslerinc.com/ They always have neat junk (that's JUNK of the good kind).

So, my old Ford with a 7.3 indirect injected Diesel, 22 to 1 compression, seems to meet those simple specs. Is it therefore a multi-fuel? There has to be more to it. yeah, I know, search, which I shall......

I had a Ford steering wheel on a company van do that. I think it's just the plastic breaking down from sunlight or maybe undefined greasy grime from former users. I used steel wool to wear off the surface down to harder plastic.

I picked up an AS-3900 at the GA SS Rally and looked at reflected power (return loss) from 10m ham band up through 6m band. Results were similar to the test referenced: not good enough anywhere for direct connection to a transceiver. SWR was nearly flat at 31 MHz, but that does no one any...

The Solargizer should work and light the LED with a fully charged battery if in good sunlight. The only conditions I've observed that keep the LED from lighting are poor sun, or dead batteries (the Solargizer requires battery voltage to work). (or a bad connection somewhere...) BTW, the LED...

Sure looks similar but looking at details: grill is different, front of hood has different shape, and latter picture does not look like cab is blended into the body...can't tell for sure. That sure is a cool truck.

With many unanswered questions about what a Solargizer really puts out, I ran some tests. I used a smallish 15AH 24v battery to test with (needing to set up close to power for the O'scope). (used Concorde aircraft battery, RG-24-15). The Solargizer is model 735X150 IS24L, an Ebay purchase...

The Solargizer is different from a 'normal' solar panel because for a normal panel to charge a battery, the panel output has to be higher voltage than the battery. The Solargizers use a small panel that only puts out 4 or 5 volts. That voltage is processed by the box to put out a higher...