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A museum in College Station, Texas is doing a great job restoring an M50A1 Ontos for their museum. They don't have the radios for the restoration, so I'm donating an AN/VRC-8 and AN/PRC-10 to help them out. The other components needed are an AM-598/U to power the PRC-10, an AN/UIC-1 Intercom...

Last Sunday (21 Nov.) I had an opportunity to take my M1028 from North West New Jersey to the Reading, PA area. I have been looking for a pair of replacement doors for my M1009 and found them through the Steel Soldiers classified. Member "tlucca" had a set for sale thanks to some mods he was...

Seems that it is my turn to be stumped by a couple of bumper numbers on my new toys. The pioneer trailer is marked: 77C(?) (could be a 2nd letter or just rust) and 306E (306th Engineers I would assume). The person I bought it form got it from DRMO (yes that long ago) in New Jersey. However...

The GOOD news is: I now have an M1028 Shelter Carrier with M250 Electronic Equipment Shelter, a former RATT Rig minus the radios, modems, etc. The bad news is that my current insurance carrier won't insure it. Initially the phone clerk said that the vin was no good. I explained that it was...

Hardly qualifies as a road trip, I had to work out of the Traffic Operations Center in Elmwood Park for 2 weeks instead of the Hanover Yard, HOWEVER, in the course of scouting for important things .. like the Dunk'n Donuts I found an interesting lawn ornament at the Elmwood Park Recreation...

Here is a new one - for me anyway. Yesterday when I parked the truck at home the idiot lights for oil and #1 alternator remained on after I turned off the ignition. When the vehicle is running everything reads fine. What happened and where do I start to correct this? Thanks - Preston

I'm looking at buying an M715 from a SS member and will need it moved from IL. to NJ. Anyone going to Aberdeen that might be able to move it this direction? Truck is running. I'm going in for hernia surgery next Friday so won't be real spry for awhile, plus using sick / vacation time for...

Information on the following is now available in the reference section: SUPPRESSOR, ELECTRICAL TRANSIENT MX-7778/GRC (MX-7778A/GRC) I uploaded the following manuals for your reading pleasure: TM 11-5915-223-12 TM 11-5915-223-12-HR TM 11-5915-223-24P TM 11-5915-224-14 TM 11-5915-224-24P I...

I just uploaded a copy of AR 850-5 which covers the marking of assorted equipment, including vehicles. Read it and the changes and it should answer some of the questions about the meaning (or at least origin) of bumper numbers, as well as showing what goes where on a variety of WW II vehicles...

The Military Transport Association of New Jersey has a two day event at the Sussex County Fairgrounds, 37 Plains Road, Augusta (Sussex County) New Jersey. This is the 35th anniversary of the show and it should be a great one. web site is: http://www.mtaswapmeet.us

Does anyone have any experience with the STE/ICE-R vehicle analyzer? Is it worth buying for the M series vehicles? I have an M1009 and will eventually have some other related toys. Any thing problems with them? Any thoughts on a reasonable price? I tried to download the TMs and of course...

I ran across this last week during my travels. It seems that the Parsippany, NJ VFW post obtained an nice lawn ornament: an M60A3 tank! No one was around, but it was a recent delivery judging by the tracks in the lawn. I'm guessing that it arrived for Veterans Day. Its nice to see some of our...

This one I can blame on you guys! A short time ago one of the members did a road trip which, of course, involved stopping at every weed covered field containing piles of rusting military metal - aka salvage yards. Soooo, the topic of Pioneer Tool Trailers emerged - new to me. So I asked some...

Here is my M1009. I got it registered and it passed NJ state inspection with no problems. The dog informed me that he didn't like the back seat - big dog, not real comfortable seat. So the seat has been removed. Last weekend being Veterans Day weekend I drove the M1009 for 3 days - lots of...