1958 F.W.D.

Yeah. Eff that. The older I get the better and better North Carolina is looking.

Do NOT under any circumstances ass gasoline to diesel fuel for use in a diesel engine. You are adding a flammable liquid with a flash point of -50f to a fuel designed to flash at 130f. Great way to pre-combust and blow pistons apart.

New engines do ok on it because it gets burned off in a timely fashion. Go ahead and park your car for a few months though and come back and see what happens. And then there's E15. Google how many manufacturer's will NOT honor warranties if you put E15 into your car.

Corn gas has become quite an issue with those of us having gasoline engines in our antiques that do not run very often. In the summertime when I am constantly taking the FWD to shows, less of an issue. Now that the end of the show season is on the horizon, I have begun topping off with non-eth (which I am fortunate to have a source of about 10 miles away.) You can put all the additives you want into corn gas (StaBil, StarTron or what have you) but you are only buying time- the inevitible "Lacquering" of the corn gas can and WILL happen- and if you have plastic, rubber or neoprene parts in your fuel system you will pay the price dearly. Treating corn gas is not a sure save, in my opinion the only way to avoid problems with corn gas is to burn it off relatively soon. Nationwide list of sources of non-eth gasoline www.pure-gas.org As for the older oil burner that we own- one quart of cheap ATF every fill up.

Yes. 7pm. I believe I recall hearing something about Greensboro and/or Gothenburg may have dictated the date.

There are very few videos of it pumping in existence. What is out there are mainly converted 8mm movie reels. There is a video of the Super Tender's Intelligiant Deluge Gun (capable of 5000gpm) being fed by three or four pumpers at a muster in California about 10 years ago. If you are interested in the Super Pumper System, I highly recommend the book "The FDNY Super Pumper System" By Jack Calderone (FDNY Battalion Chief, Ret.) published by Fire Apparatus Journal publishing. Tons of information and lots of fantastic b & w and color pics

Space is limited for the luncheon. Attendees are selected on a first-come, first-served basis. Museum Volunteers receive slots as well. And finally, when Greensboro calls up and says "Hey can you please save 10 seats for so-and-so who will be in town that weekend" it translates into "you will save 10 seats for so-and-so who will be in town that weekend." So yes, unfortunately some folks have been bumped, please do not be offended. This is the first year that this has happened. Some thought is being put into next year's event that will hopefully eliminate this issue.

The FDNY's Mack Superpumper's main pump was driven by a 1400HP Napier-Deltic Engine which drove a DeLaval three stage pump, 8800gpm at 400psi or 4400 gpm at 700psi. I have seen one of the engine manuals in the archives at the Mack museum. Also, a gentleman on Long Island, NY purchased the spare engine that FDNY had on hand through an auction site. He advertises it for sale occasionally but of course wants some kind of astronomical amount for it. https://firematic.com/napier_deltic.htm

Post pictures of loose equipment please. I will take a peek, if I see anything that piques my curiosity I will call you.

Post some pictures of the loose equipment and the L Model and post them here please.

BODEEN, WHERE IN MD ARE YOU LOCATED??

From what I see on his Facebook he's a busy man

It was cool to meet you Larry. I think something happened to Large though when he sat in the car- he started talking about dragsters.....and in the pictures, he had some kind of evil grin on his face. We may have created a monster letting him sit in there!!!

What a fantastic show!! My first time!! I had to work the part time job doing some electrical inspections in Harrisburg, and planned on coming down after that so Large made the trip with me. We did 17 inspections in Hbg, and then headed down to Lititz around 1230, but as it turns out my inspections list had a bunch of addressed in Lititz including right there on Brunnerville Road, so we hit those two and parked at the show, walked around and swapped lies I mean talked to everyone including Ron, Doug, Ken and got to meet the famous notorious Larry "Freightrain." What a cool guy! Let Large sit in the dragster!!! I think Large may have had something bite him because he was talking about the dragster on the way home!!!

You can get new and rebuild kits from Wagner through NAPA. Take the wheel cylinder to NAPA and drop it on the counter. DO NOT TELL THEM WHAT IT IS OFF OF. Drop it on the counter and say "I need two of these or rebuild kits." Any parts man worth his weight will pick it up and cross reference the casting number, if you were to tell 75% of parts guys these days that it is from a Mack, they will go into vapor lock.

I may or may not make an appearance. I have scored a part time job inspecting electrical meters that PP & L is replacing throughout central and eastern Pennsylvania, and I will be in the area on Saturday working, but I get paid per inspection so I need to get the numbers in before I can screw off. If I can get them in I may grace everyone with my presence LOL

if memory serves me correctly this was for sale not long ago

Where in Maryland are you? Can you take some pics of the equipment??

They made it to the Hellertown Truck Stop. Last time he was here, it was winter and there was too much salt on the roads- so the FWD didn't leave the garage.

The bleeding hearts can make all the feel-good laws that they want to. They can pass legislation from now until the end of time. But no matter what they do, the weapons are out there and readily available on the black market to whomever wants them. In the end, all the feel-good laws will only affect one group of persons: those of us who are law-abiding and legal gun owners. For those of you hell-bent on passing gun control legislation in the interest of protecting people: More Americans are killed annually in drunken driving accidents than intentional and unintentional weapons discharges *combined* When may I expect your demands to outlaw automobiles or alcohol?

God I'd love to have that.

Even though he does not come on here very often, I wanted to let everyone know and extend my congrats to Slpwlkr, who made his ladyfriend Kimberly an honest woman yesterday. NoClueJoe was one of the groomsmen and cleaned up surprisingly well!!!! They will be honeymooning out east later this week and I hope to see the newlyweds here at the Hellertown Truckstop for dinner one night.

Well? What is it? A River or an Ocean?

May be interested in any firefighting equipment.