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Honda has diesel generators, but they are double or triple the price as I could find on short notice. Then again, if you are talking a gen that can take over your home power supply for the next x weeks or months, it is not realistic to expect that you can find a reliable low cost option that...

Second most of the earlier posts. Get a medium sized Honda with the output for what they need. We (my son) uses one for his welding and drilling jobs when installing forged fences etc somewhere without power available. Or if the power goes out in his workshop which is in the middle of nowhere...

We used an old Citroen BX and a Toyota Landcruiser to help out after a flooding due to rain and too much canalized and narrowed run-off brooks. The biggest problem was to get the water across the remains of a flooded river with the roads out. To explain, the water had mostly receded leaving a...

When looking for old timer sales in the Netherlands, I came across a 1964 military Magirus Deutz crane, a 12.6 liter V8 diesel engine (178D). Probably comparable with an M62 or M543. The trucks looks in very good condition, less than 2000 miles on the counter, so maybe a Nato POMMS depot...

With the reference to the Cold War and Reforger, that made my vote easy. Most units stationed in Europe had their own MVs and equipment. What most people don't know is that a lot of additional material was stored in the so-called POMCUS or Pomms depots, waiting for a war that never came...

First Central European SteelSoldier meet was a great success. The first Central European Steelsoldier Meet was a great success according all participants. Gifts were exchanged, making everybody very happy. Mike (SCSG-G4) as he looks outside the MKT at the rally. You can see the grass in...

I think its still how it came from the military. Knowing what little of the history of the truck, I think after the military the owners did little more than keep the thing running and paint RAMBO on the nose. As far as I can see, it definitely is the original Ross Hydrapower. As to...

Actually, the truck is in rather decent shape for its age. The steering and brakes are the biggest problem, but that can be easily solved. Body work: its not really that great, but can be restored without major problems. The frame is hard. One or two air lines to the front connectors are...

Let's see if the video works. https://youtu.be/2MyLTl0aTKw This is after a three-year hiatus. Is this a smooth running engine or what? I was surprised how good it ran and how little exhaust smoke there was. The language spoken is Dutch The red tank behind the truck is the planned air...

Time to get on with it. :grd: After a hiatus of more than five years, I now finally am getting back to restoring our M51A2. I had a Dutch student (living in Portugal) over as volunteer, so I finally had the sorely missed Soldier B at my disposal for a few days. First thing I did...

Don't know what to say apart from THANKS.

The little hammer you see on the smithy page is an Ajax 1a 35 kg spring hammer. What you see there is the historic forge that is open for public. Our son has a real workshop elsewhere in the forest, with two more spring hammers, a Beche 125 kg hammer, a more modern Russian 250 kg hammer and an...

Maybe the audio is a problem of how I converted the video from mov to mp4 using VLC. So if I have a video on my own website storage or amazon, and use the flv format, it should work? I just don't like youtube, that's all.

Welcome from nearby Czech Republic. If there is going to be a German SteelSoldier meeting, let me know. Although be sure, I will not come in the truck: that would cost about 400 EUR or more just in fuel (by private car about 90 EUR or less). Don't forget top put a pin for your location in the...

I have a three problems. 1) Can I upload a video and embed it in a post? I do NOT mean embed a video from YouTube or such, but my own. 2) I uploaded some videos to our own websites in mp4 format and tried to link-embed them in a new post here. Embed does not really work (I cannot make it...

Hopefully make that Friday morning in person. Does the 13/16 6-point fit the 13/16 4-point from the wheel nuts?

Other heavy duty stuff :beer:

Swamp Donkey, it's stupid but the bolt size and wrench size had me mixed up. Actually, that's the same in metric, so I should have just ignored the bolt sizes. You are right, but even here we use metric but for the drives we still use 1/4, 1/2, 3/4. Maybe because saying "I have a 12.7 mm...

NICE LOOKING TRUCKS ... That's all you can say ???? :wink:. I would say this is close to blatant sadism. Then again, seeing your avatar, :drool: you probably have at least on nice looking MV as well. Standard 5-tons and certainly deuces are relatively easy to find still in Europe...

I go a bit confused and crazy here when trying to find conversion charts for standard to standard, with differences between US standard bolt-nut size and wrench sizes. The problem is, you guys use strange measurements like 3/8, 7/16, 1/2, 9/16, 5/8, 3/4. The US standard to metric converters...