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The only theoretically higher sulfur fuel I've run across is home heating oil (#2 Fuel Oil). I would be surprised, though, if they actually ship different feedstocks through the pipelines for any fuel in this viscosity range. I suspect HHO is the same #2 diesel you get at the pump with or...

Back when I was working as a lab chemist on government contracts (including a US Army one), I had to do exactly the same thing - manage my lab carefully for 10 months, and then carefully spend all the money I had saved in the last two. I called it 'end of the year mad money,' and after the...

That was exactly the conclusion I reached. The MEP-002A doesn't move. It sits on rubber pads on the corner of the parking pad. Some day it will have a shelter to live under. Right now it has a tarp. Portable generation needs are handled by a MEP-016B (actually an MEP-701A) if I need 240V...

Smart phone navigation software is getting crankier and crankier about leaning on the cell network for triangulation versus GPS. I'm sure that in cities this is a win (concrete canyons make it difficult to get a GPS lock), but if you're out in the weeds, the failure modes aren't always benign...

I've observed that my panel % Load meter indicates quite close to the as-configured standard. A purely resistive load (space heaters) does indeed indicate 80% load at 5KW. That said, I know that if I run my air compressor on the generator, the gauge will be a little more honest. My bigger...

TO AN 1-3-49 seems like the answer to most of your questions about the unit itself, and the other manuals explain how to use what to actually feed your aircrews. Very interesting reading about something of which I knew very little. Amusing that USAAF went through the aluminum ==> stainless...

DKW Munga 4 - built in the late 1950s. Note the Auto Union rings on the hood. Powered by a water cooled three-cylinder 900cc piston-ported two-stroke engine. Rated for more than 40 HP, so it must spin at least 5000 RPM to make rated power. Longitudinal engine and FWD transaxle with spur...

Some pics I took. Richard took a bunch as well. Rob demonstrating that sealing the exhaust system tightly before fording is a good idea, particularly on a piston-ported two stroke (it let water in at the joint between expansion chamber and muffler). For the record: the spring-fed Robinson...

My take on Mil Surp generators right now: If you're planning on using a set regularly (at least once a month) the MEP-80x series have a lot of creature features (and safety items) that the older sets lack. They're being currently sold off. Many are rough. They don't sit unused well, and the...

I threw granite gravel in my 002 fuel tank and shook vigorously with some stale gasoline when I cleaned mine out. That got the worst of the oily gunk off the bottom (sides were fine). Dawn and hot water completed the washdown.

I think I'd put a roof on it out of paranoia, but the basic idea looks really good. I presume you're planning on series/parallel and switching the elements in and out for different wattages?

One of the many reasons B-17s are so much more common than B-24s or particularly B-29s is because they were useful after the war in civilian life. They weren't horribly expensive to fly and were stable camera and fire-bombing platforms. The other WWII heavy bombers were bigger, fussier (high...

There is a right way to heat water with electricity. Guyfang correctly identifies one of the many wrong ways (yeah, that's scary). You're on the right track with water heater elements, but you need to put them in something groundable, enclosed and above the water level of the pool. Then you...

I have a photo somewhere of my Dad running a J-58 in the test cell with a J-57 running at full blast in front of it making hot air for the J-58 to eat. Of course, he wasn't my Dad yet - it was a long time ago.

One thing I will note: The very first time I watched the USAF Thunderbirds, they were flying F-4s. There's a lot of noise in 10 J-79s at max afterburner. And the F-4, being such an enormous sled of an attack airplane with lots of wing area, was really good at zoom-and-boom when lightly loaded...

My experience with the 111 was all with the SAC FB-111A medium bomber variant. It is sort of forgotten among the strategic nuclear bombers in between the big, workhorse B-52, the flashy and impractical B-58, and the entertaining, but never-quite-ready B-1B built by a machine tool company...

Yeah, well. As a SAC brat (who was at Loring at the time), I have to put in a plug for the other way to get your tragically broken F-4 (and crew) home: How to win the Mackay Trophy and save an unfortunate F-4 crew by doing the impossible (according to Boeing) with your KC-135. I do...

It probably would have kicked over faster if they weren't playing with the IP linkage. Obviously bad glow plugs or failing to RTFM and hold it on preheat for 30-60 sec before starting. They're cold-blooded beasts, but they do start just fine when properly maintained. Another old school trick...

First pass was a good effort and would have gotten full points in TA instruction. Second pass embarrasses some fast-mover tactical guys I've seen. Impressive. I'm sure USAF knows that this is the lowest usable payload C-17 in the inventory - the pilot's goombas obviously take up a lot of the...

Another angle is that the dash tag identifies it as a G2768 (I think, print is kind of vague). That's a specific quartermaster corps number that presumably has documentation wrapped around it.