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Well, its been almost 50 years, so I can tell this beer truck story, without going to jail. We were driving in convoy to a field problem.
Here goes.
I don’t remember the year this happened. 1974 or 1975? BUT, I do remember how it all started, and how it ended. We pulled into the...
Its possible to clean them up. But they will never be as good as new. This kind of damage can often occurs when people shut the gen set off, without turning the load off first. For peace of mind, I would get a new K1.
Should you have other questions about your gen set, it would be better for...
This happened just 10 days(?) ago, not far from my town. Its Möchshof beer. GOOD BEER!! About an hour after it happened, every beer drinker in our Landkriese, (County) had these pictures and more on his cell phone. It was like a national emergency. Happens 1-2 times a year. Years ago, we were...
This has always been a HEMTT problem. From Day One. Some of the first HEMTT's to hit the streets here in Germany, were to the Patriot units. We had incredible problems with fuel systems. I was in a DS Maintenance unit, and my people were at first overloaded with helping our supported unit for...
Two nuts in the control panel floor. May need to see where they came from.
Six cargo straps to keep it in the middle of the trailer.
As someone who lost a MEP-115A 60 KW gen set, out the back of his M818 Drop Side truck, in the middle of one of the most congested intersections in Schweinfurt...
I never would have suspected they would have 2 identical looking starters with opposite rotations!
And that's why I wont nuke this thread. Someone could learn something here.
Are my eyes old? Some of the solder work there looks fishy also. To be sure, unsolder R14, the ohm it out. As long as you are in there, check out that butt connector also. I hate those things. Not to be trusted.
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