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At the Munich October fest in 1974, I met one of the first Lady Generator Mechanics. Her, and 3-4 girl friends were drinking serious beer. I wanted to get to know the one young lady, in the biblical sense, so I plied her with Sekt, (champagne) and vodka. Along with beer. While chatting her up, I...

We used to pour in 5 gallons of denatured alcohol per 600 gallon pod of diesel, to get rid of the water in the fuel. We had bad problems with water, and winter always played Hel* with our gen sets.

Lance, Hermon Nelson heater. Oh boy. I will never forget the time I blew up the Hi-Power Radar section chief and myself on the radar berm. They worked on the heater for hours, nothing. It would not work. So they called me up. I pulled some maintenance on the fuel system, poured ethanol into...

If I were to guess, yeah, no thermostat.

On our mountain top missle site here in the winter, sometimes it would get down to -30. We had to go around and start every vehicle and gen set. Every few hours we had to wade through the snow towing a self made battery cart, with a 3 kW DC generator and 4 batteries mounted on it. Two guys with...

When I got out of the army, ethanol was not an additive. Real diesel, real gas. its been 25 years. Here is a story from WW2. My Father in Law was in the Wehrmacht. He spent 3 and a half years on the Russian Front, wounded three times. During the winter of 1942, the temperatures dropped to under...

You guys are spoiled. In the army, you dump in some gas, and that's all she needs.