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feeling dumb
41chevy replied to Willie dog's topic in Antique and Classic Mack Trucks General Discussion
Like Bob said sand them clean and try them. The one photo seems to show it only on half way. Try Bobs suggestion. t isn't hard to "wedge" them a bit and have them bind. -
Obama was a divider both by race and party. Anyone who has witnessed events over the past 8 years must have seen that. Showed distaste for Christians, Republicans and the Constitution.
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feeling dumb
41chevy replied to Willie dog's topic in Antique and Classic Mack Trucks General Discussion
Assuming those are the rims off the chassis originally I'd measure the out side diameter of the spiders verses the inside diameter of the rims. Possible they are specific to the steer and rear. I've seen it before, rarely but I have seen it. Paul -
Looks interesting, especially with the tanker unit. Paul
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They have an internal automatic adjuster set up that compensates for pad wear. No fade, shorter stopping distances, no pull and pad wear is at least 2 times better shoes.
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Welcome!! Great looking project. Twin sticks aren't bad you can puck it up fairly quick when you need to. THey are neat for shifting gears backing up. Paul
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Thank him for me. Paul
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A great book if you ever get it to read. WE were lucky. Paul Here is a small excerpt from it. "Reflections on Pearl Harbor" by Admiral Chester Nimitz. Sunday, December 7th, 1941--Admiral Chester Nimitz was attending a concert in Washington D.C. He was paged and told there was a phone call for him. When he answered the phone, it was President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on the phone. He told Admiral Nimitz that he (Nimitz) would now be the Commander of the Pacific Fleet. Admiral Nimitz flew to Hawaii to assume command of the Pacific Fleet. He landed at Pearl Harbor on Christmas Eve, 1941. There was such a spirit of despair, dejection and defeat--you would have thought the Japanese had already won the war. On Christmas Day, 1941, Adm. Nimitz was given a boat tour of the destruction wrought on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese. Big sunken battleships and navy vessels cluttered the waters every where you looked. As the tour boat returned to dock, the young helmsman of the boat asked, "Well Admiral, what do you think after seeing all this destruction?" Admiral Nimitz's reply shocked everyone within the sound of his voice. Admiral Nimitz said, "The Japanese made three of the biggest mistakes an attack force could ever make or God was taking care of America. Which do you think it was?" Shocked and surprised, the young helmsman asked, "What do mean by saying the Japanese made the three biggest mistakes an attack force ever made?" Nimitz explained. Mistake number one: the Japanese attacked on Sunday morning. Nine out of every ten crewmen of those ships were ashore on leave. If those same ships had been lured to sea and been sunk--we would have lost 38,000 men instead of 3,800. Mistake number two: when the Japanese saw all those battleships lined in a row, they got so carried away sinking those battleships, they never once bombed our dry docks opposite those ships. If they had destroyed our dry docks, we would have had to tow everyone of those ships to America to be repaired. As it is now, the ships are in shallow water and can be raised. One tug can pull them over to the dry docks, and we can have them repaired and at sea by the time we could have towed them to America. And I already have crews ashore anxious to man those ships. Mistake number three: every drop of fuel in the Pacific theater of war is in top of the ground storage tanks five miles away over that hill. One attack plane could have strafed those tanks and destroyed our fuel supply. That's why I say the Japanese made three of the biggest mistakes an attack force could make or God was taking care of America.
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TeamsterGrrrl Trump is a drama queen, all bluster and nothing to back it up. For example, I'd like to see us renegotiate NAFTA, but treaties are contracts between nations and can only be changed by mutual agreement. Hillary has blood on her hands and is a liar, Obama is divisionist, a Racist and a liar so what is your point? Every president and in fact every politician from top to the bottom lies and changes positions as the political winds blow. Whine about it to people who don't care what you think or get out and DO something. Go start a movement, protest, get lawyers and file suit. Take physical action against him.
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You Australians and Kiwi's fought right with us in Vietnam. Damn good to have you with us IMO. Paul
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No ties. Just a unique unit IMO. Paul https://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/cars-for-sale/fageol/unspecified/1897709.html?refer=news 1925 FAGEOL 6 TON Flatbed Canopy Body Covers a GE HI VOLTGAGE SYNCHRONOUS AC MOTOR WITH DUAL GENERAL ELECTRIC DC 125 VOLT 150 KW @ 1200 AMP GENERATORS. Originally owned by Warner Brothers and was used to power countless movie sets with DC electricity. Maxi six-wheeler unit (tag axle) and a Hall Scott gas engine power the vehicle.
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Only five of the 335 men who survived the unprovoked attack that sunk the USS Arizona on Dec. 7, 1941 remain alive. Donald Stratton, 94, is one of them. He has added to the historical knowledge of that day and the beginning of America's entry into World War II in a new book, "All the Gallant Men: The First Memoir By a USS Arizona Survivor." Typical of so many men of that era, the book (written with Ken Gire) is less about Stratton, a 19-year-old kid from a tiny Nebraska town ravaged by the Great Depression, and more about the men with whom he served. According to the book, total casualties at Pearl Harbor on that fateful day amounted to 2,403 dead and 1,176 wounded. Many of Stratton's shipmates lie interred in the bowels of the Arizona, which still secretes oil, a constant reminder to "never forget." People too young to have known men of that era, or who never asked grandparents about their World War II experience, will find in Stratton's book a quality that has declined in modern times -- modesty. "We were not extraordinary men," he writes. "Truth be told, most of us had enlisted because there were precious few jobs to be found where we lived." The isolationist spirit was strong in 1941. Here's Stratton on the patriotism that overwhelmed isolationism after the attack: "Love for country welled up inside seemingly every American, coming out in the songs we sang, in the movies produced, in the newspaper articles that were written. ... We were ordinary men. What was extraordinary was the country we loved." Compare this sentiment to what we see in today's movies, newspaper articles and songs. Stratton writes, "We loved who (America) was, what she stood for. We loved her for what she meant to us, and for what she had given us, even in those meager times." People of that generation were taught to be grateful for the little they had and not to be envious of others, who might have more. That's another contrast with the envy-greed-entitlement spirit of our age. Besides the USS Arizona's 1777 killed in action, there is the forgotten ships. 429 killed when the USS Oklahoma capsized, most recovered in late 1943 when she finally was salvaged. Most are buried in the Punch Bowl in mass graves as unknowns. There was lastly on the USS Utah capsized with 64 killed and never recovered and are still interned on the wreck. BB-37 U.S.S. OKLAHOMA. My Uncle transferred to the Okie after surviving the Japanese attack on the USS Panay in 1937. He felt a Battleship would be safer. http:// http://
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I agree, but (always a but) I find it odd that the person who was 4th out of 4 with 1% of the total vote, wanted a recount. I'm curious what the DNC has promised her. Especially after seeing her on BBC News America saying "she (Jill Stein) feels the recount results may be compromised, because no independent party over saw the recount".
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The recount effort underway in Wisconsin is turning out to have some disappointing results for former Green Party nominee Jill Stein and former Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. By the end of the fifth day, and after more than 1 million votes were recounted, Trump grew his lead by just over two dozen votes. The Wisconsin Election Commission posts daily recount results. Wisconsin has until December 13 to complete the recount. The Day 5 spreadsheet shows that many counties, including populous ones, are nowhere near completing their recounts. The Electoral College meets on December 19. The Day 5 results contain all of the previous days’ tallies also. Green Party candidate Jill Stein paid $3.5 million for the Wisconsin recount, alleging unproven fraud. Hillary Clinton has joined in the recount, and Donald Trump has labeled it a scam. Stein is also pursuing recounts in Pennsylvania and Michigan. The Michigan recount started December 5, and she is suing to force a Pennsylvania recount in federal court. The Commission spreadsheet does not tally the recount results but rather simply lists them by municipality, contrasting them with the original returns. Heavy went through the spreadsheet and tabulated the data submitted so far for each municipality by county for both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. The Commission noted that absentee ballots for Milwaukee have not been recounted yet “because the city counts its absentee ballots centrally (not at the polling place) on Election Night.” The numbers will be updated when they are recounted. Meanwhile in Pennsylvania, Clinton has only gained five votes after the state’s two largest counties completed their recount. Wisconsin Tally
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AC Logger in Oregon.
41chevy replied to 41chevy's topic in Antique and Classic Mack Trucks General Discussion
Yes, used until mid to late 1922. Definitely one of the early ones. Paul -
B80X Mack # 1343
41chevy replied to parksmotors's topic in Antique and Classic Mack Trucks General Discussion
They made a lot more B81X and SX 2626 . The fenders for your B80 are multi piece and a metal shop with a metal bending break can easily form up the parts. Some o time with a MIG doing Plug welds and your ahead of the time and cost of finding decient used replacements. Looking at your photos I personally would straighten them out, Bumper too. A bit of heat and a gentle tug and 90% will straighten. The aren't torn or rotted from what the photos show. Paul -
Got a good example. Bought 6 plates of 1/2'' x 6'' x 3' High Brass alloy for some parts for and AC-6 Mack. I had it sitting under tarp in my garage. The crap started to get very light rust in spots laying in the garage for a bit over a year. Crap was expensive and find out it comes from Bangladesh and apparently has what ever was laying around tossed in it.
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Mercedes-Benz launches work-focused G-Wagon ute
41chevy replied to kscarbel2's topic in Odds and Ends
I have a Styer/Mannlicher AUG- A2 they make quality products. Wouldn't mind if the remade the Styer RSO. Good ATV. -
AC Logger in Oregon.
41chevy replied to 41chevy's topic in Antique and Classic Mack Trucks General Discussion
Quite a few AC chassis were converted to Chevrolet 6 cylinder in line, Ford and Lincoln Flat head V-8's to make them more drivable. This is the first I've ever heard of with a Packard V-8. The engine it self is rare, only two or 3 year production run 352 or 374 cubic inch. Truck also appears by the cowl and radiator area to be a 1922 or older coil radiator unit. A 1923 AC the cowl would be cut shallower with a square radiator top tank that w are familiar with most. Chevy 6 cylinder powered. This company ran dozens of them up to the late 1940's. http:// 265 Chevrolet V-8 powered. http:// -
Like Obama and Lynch. But on the plus side, every time one of them lies and Angel gets it's wings.
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AC Logger in Oregon.
41chevy replied to 41chevy's topic in Antique and Classic Mack Trucks General Discussion
The photo and the ones sent to me of the old steam train engine were taken in Washington State. The AC was taken off the Pacific Northwest Trail off of Bloedel Logging Road. The balance of photos were from the Bloedel-Donovan Park. Same place I think . Paul -
AC Logger in Oregon.
41chevy replied to 41chevy's topic in Antique and Classic Mack Trucks General Discussion
I may haver more, he sent me a CD with a zillion photos of old abandoned trucks on it. I'll send him an mail, him and his wife are touring the country in a big RV (she has terminal cancer). Could be in Washington State. I figured the Pacific Northwest because of the moss. I'll know sometime tomorrow. -
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