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Old 07-18-2010, 10:46 AM   #81
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I googled brown water navy 67-70 and what a trip down memory lane. My last few months in westpac - managed to get transfered to HMM265 and they were on the USS IWO JIMA off the coast of DaNang the summer of 69. Great duty, second only to VMGR 152 at Fatuma on Okinawa. Glad your still kicking and bus building Keith.

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Old 07-23-2010, 05:42 PM   #82
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Old 08-02-2010, 09:16 AM   #83
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Old 08-03-2010, 01:46 PM   #84
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Well now - my reserve price for the lazair projects has been met. So now I need a new airplane - anybody out there got an airplane that they would trade for my bus project ?
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Old 08-04-2010, 07:50 AM   #85
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Great story in the ebay add


its not much to look at, and well its not mine.... and i have no idea where it is, trade? :P

What are you looking for plane wise? *curiosity*
A little bit of Bondo, a fresh coat of paint, and she'll be like new........
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Old 08-04-2010, 06:12 PM   #87
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Old 08-23-2010, 04:34 PM   #88
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Old 08-23-2010, 07:05 PM   #89
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Hey everybody - there is something that Ive been meaning to address in this forum for awhile and now is a good time-

It's about the coefficient of friction -- remember that Harry Chapin song about 30,000 lbs. of bananas, well anyway - there's more than a few people with CDLs they can probably speak on the subject as well as I and though I do not have a CDL. I am a locomotive engineer now retired and know a little bit about hauling tonnage. On the railroad the joke is, uphill slow -- downhill fast -- tonnage first and safety last. Not that we really felt that way and sometimes in spite of our best efforts we would still run into each other.

Of course the train crashing into another train is a big old nasty mess, which brings me to the point, when your on the road, the 40 footers are around the 11 ton -- 20,000 plus pounds and although we have great brakes on these buses, depending on the grade and whether or not you're ascending or descending the stopping distance will vary with the circumstances and needs to be on your mind as much as a sport plane pilot needs to always keep an eye towards an emergency landing spot , should the engine quit.

If you use anything to keep the throttle locked in a position, your setting yourself up for disaster. Most of us have a minimal experience driving this tonnage around and I know I personally can't imagine having to drive without my cruise control on my car and we all know how annoying it is when we run into that person in traffic that won't adjust their speed when passing and using the cruise control.

I don't remember who it was, but the story went something like this, they had the throttle locked and when traffic ahead became congested and went from 70 mph to 5 mph he had to take to the median to avoid running into the traffic ahead. We all know that under those circumstances and if there were fatalities involved, the government state or federal will be all over the skoolie.

One spectacular incident will have the authorities and the press putting all our projects under a microscope.

If you have any kind of the throttle lock on your bus disable it and at the very least do not use it. I know my right foot and leg got so tired the last time I made a long trip but I made my self pullover and rest and walk it off.

Yes the big semis out on Highway do have cruise control but on most - as I understand it these days - is automatically disabled when you turn on your headlights. There are so many variables when you have that much tonnage going down the road highway speeds. Small cars are completely defenseless in the event of a crash and if there were children involved, what you all know what I mean. Be safe, plan ahead and don't let yourself get too tired while driving.

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Old 08-24-2010, 11:57 AM   #90
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I'll take slowing down 11 tons over slowing down 40 tons any day though..... But good analogy. Another point is to always inspect and lot-check your brakes before going down the road. Just a thought.....

BTW, what happened to all that beautiful wood? Need some help with it?
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Old 08-24-2010, 12:30 PM   #91
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Hey timmylc , what happened to the website - after I posted last - suddenly the website was gone - I thought was it something I said - hope it was something on the website end. oh ya thanks for the coment on one of my flying stories.

Hey Doc - I don`t know if I could handle all day long at 53mph. When I made my first trip in the bus - Gillette WY to Rocky Point NC around 1956 miles it was torture - I was this slow moving yellow island in the right hand lane of the interstate system. In the three days it took drive that distance I passed one vehical and that was an old pick up in Ohio ,with an old couple driving along at 50mph - I went by at 60mph and that poor little 3208 was wound up to 3000rpm. Not good for the long term on the engine. But anyway everybodies situation is different and other than tires we will probley not use up the bus in our life time. The frames and suspensions are good hundreds of thousands of miles and the engines if well maitained are good for 2 to 5 hundred thousand and I have peronally put less than 8 thousand miles on mine in the 7 years that I`ve owned it.

The green is base coat that has me thinking camo now but anyway these things seem to take on a life of their own.

A coal train in my time was about 10,000 tn. and a mile and 2/10 long. Five units with 3000 horsepower a piece and the ringing in my ears is still there today.
Today they use distributive power and run around 15,000 or more and are a mile and a half long or more. The rear units are run by remote control from the lead unit works great except when they don't.
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Old 08-24-2010, 04:21 PM   #92
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Yeah, that bugs me about my Thomas - that the top front cap is so "anti-aerodynamic". I mean, I know we are essentially driving down the road in huge bricks, but the designers could have at least created the illusion of aerodynamics. Sheesh!
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Old 08-24-2010, 10:54 PM   #93
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Well I posted at around 8pm monday and I could not log in to the skoolie site untill 8pm tonight. No matter if came straight here by typing the address in or using a link from the other websites that I use to link to this site.
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off topic but yeah, I couldn't reach the site then either
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Old 08-25-2010, 10:47 AM   #95
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Its good to know it wasn`t just me
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Old 08-25-2010, 02:23 PM   #96
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While the web site was unavailable a day or so ago, I looked up the Thomas Project by Les Lampman, whose engine compartment is designed with doors that open at the middle with hinges on the side, http://skoolie.smugmug.com/Illusion-...Anh2k/OriginalI like it. So I'm setting up to convert mine to that style.

As for the trade a plane deal, I'm still open to any offers or suggestions but it's kinda like my old Porsche, every time I started up and drove it I fell in love with it again and selling it was one of those things that just became easier and easier to procrastinate and put off.

It's been fun learning to maintain a 3208 and I'm looking forward to the day it runs off of bio diesel, that day will indeed be Mission accomplished.
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Old 08-28-2010, 10:18 AM   #97
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Old 08-30-2010, 07:19 PM   #98
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The engine lid had warped in the process of laying out all those louvers. Plus both hydraulic lifts were broken to some degree or another one had a broken the end but still functioned in the other was, without any lifting capability.

So since I like the other idea of hanging the double doors from the vertical hinges and I enjoy using my plasma cutter, I decided now is a good time for the change. Plus all these church pews that I got, have presented themselves with veneer possibilities for my front door. I am exploring those possibilities right now, and should have a couple of pictures pretty soon to show where I'm going to go with it. Ran out of lag bolts and time for today.
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Old 09-03-2010, 07:53 PM   #99
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working on it - got work to do on the house too - and still lots of work to do -
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Old 09-03-2010, 08:22 PM   #100
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Have one more pic -sub framing - trimming the windows - and then while I there the steps need rebuilt -
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