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  1. Meplat
    Already been tried. Flip through Hunnicutt's "Stuart", and you'll see why it failed. Again, it forces one into a defensive, rather than an offensive position.
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    Already done on a larger scale. The downsides are - "Your traverse and elevation is absurdly limited". (Unless you want a Churchill GC) You are forcing yourself into a defensive stance. (Tanks with DP guns, like the M4 medium are better on the advance than the defense, in that they are allowed more gun mobility). Casemate "tanks" are for the most part acts of desperate compromise. You are either trying to save money, or work with what you have.
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    I'd bet a lot, look at the T28 trainer, a plane designed to have "less than steallar" take off behavior, in order to simulate the way early gas turbine mills behaved on takeoff. Having only flown stick in a T-33, I can say it is very unnerving. I am a low time "pilot", but my time is mostly in taildraggers, and cropdusters, with relatively high power to weight ratios. The T-bird was "Move it steadily forward, and wait for the push. " And then it was assholes and elbows to get the gear up and the flaps up before they decided to fuckoff and part company from the airframe.
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    "If you put too large of an engine on an air frame, you turn the damn thing into a death trap." Effectively. You run into a case of the dog eating it's tail. The very features that made the airframe wonderful to handle, are now co-conspirators in the pilots murder, once you stick a bigger mill in the works. The rarely seen Beech QU22 is a great example. Near 400 HP in what is basically a Beech Debonair is not a good combo for inexperienced pilots.
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    Oh boy, that is pretty good stuff. Kind of akin to the affection affixed to the M-14 in the U.S.
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    Never ever sell a first gen G17, in the hopes that a G17L will come into the shop. You will end up with a Pre B CZ-75 longframe. Never pass up an inexpensive early Bushmaster SP-1 clone, as you will end up with a 1 of 2000 R6700CH, that , while stupidly accurate, weighs as much as your Garand, and cost three times as much as the Shrub. Never build "the perfect" 870, as you will sell it , thinking "I can build another". Eventually the world runs out of good, old, sub $200.00 870's to build on. Never buy an Enfield. Let alone a No4Mk1*, as it will get you into handloading, then black power cartridges, then collecting odd British Militaria, then odd CANADIAN militaria , followed by collecting Japanese then French. A Lee-Enfield will also spoil you on bolt-actions. A Krag comes close. Maybe a Winchester 54. Everything else will be "clunky".
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    And is either too young or too ignorant to look back at the many Executive Orders that have fucked bits of the Second (and others).
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    Not a beginner's piece. Too easy to get burned/frustrated with one "as your first". Lots of the low priced ones are iffy about QC, some of the high dollar ones can be pretty bad as well, and overall they need a bit more "logistical support" than some more modern offerings. Mags for example. LOTS of really really shitty 1911 mags floating around out there. As your first, yes. Once you get a bit more familiar with handguns, they are tough to beat. But they are not something you slap training wheels and a bright orange flag on, and toodle down to the range with, as "babby's first pistola".
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    Those were the York, and some Tecumseh, single/twin piston units. They were basically air compressor designs that were being used for R-12. If it has a divorced lube system for the crankcase, you can (sometimes) get away with it. Barrel style or pancake style compressors will just shit out metal shavings and/or bits of carbon though.
  10. Meplat
    Most AC's in cars in the U.S. are single cycle. Cool only.
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    Because closing a valve is pretty abrupt, and the fluid will not compress. (that is what the cushion cylinder is for) You also do not want freewheeling when you are 100+ feet in the air trying to manuver around say, stadium lights. You are not controlling the valves from the basket, you are using electricity to drive solenoids. You can get some "throttling" but once the valve shuts, there is no freewheeling. It still causes wear, just to a different component. In this case, the fluid itself, and the motors. (and the tires). That is how most brakes work on the stuff I deal with. No pressure = locked brakes. There are even systems to allow you to move them, if the drives are dead, via a hand pump and locking valve, to "lock" the brake stack or pin-cylinder open. The sole issue here is having an accumulator big enough to make it work as more than a surge supressor. You need a BIG tank to make this worthwhile.
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    The charcoal can just collects fuel vapors from the tank and carb when at rest, then burns it when you first start. The four were probably carb, fuel tank proper, a vent to the overflow/expansion tank, and a signal to the intake manifold. And yeah, it was probably clogged. There is a gauzy kind of filter at the base that is supposed to be cleaned every so often. Getting rid of useless shit under the hood, when and if you can, in the name of improved maintainability and longevity is definitely Meplat approved.
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    Using an accumulator is almost a necessity in a hydrostat drive, simply to keep the thing from throwing you through the glass (or over the edge of a lift basket) when you stop moving. Without some kind of accumulator (or cushion cylinder) if you let off the drive, it would lock the wheels immediately (instead of slowing a bit before stopping). If you hit the E-stop on say, a big JLG/Grove or Genie boom lift while cooking about at high speed, it WILL come to damn near a dead stop, immediately. If you just let go of the travel stick, it will "soft stop", effected by the cushion cylinder in the drive system (an accumulator of sorts.). You can use hydrostatic pressure to lock/set brakes (Called a line lock, you can install them on almost anything with hydraulic brakes) but most use a spring loaded brake (either drum, disc or pin and pawl) that requires the application of hydraulic pressure to release the brake.
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    You need a differential valve. Here's a diagram of a simple platform lift with wheel mounted hydrostat motors and a differential valve system. As to using a pump/motor for gearing, the answer is "maybe". There are swashplate pumps and motors, but they are very expensive and tend to be much larger than an equivalent gear or vane type pump/motor.
  15. Meplat
    Probably just whatever small arms propellant was on sale at Academy, or similar. Makes for a lot of smoke and a bit of fire, but in a plastic pipe, hardly an explosive. But it will be sold as being equivalent to comp B, regardless of how impractical and unlikely to detonate the ridiculous contraptions were.
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    The "bombs" will be made functional. Rest assured.
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    *Leftist newswriter with spurious grasp of history asks ^ "Hmm, I'd better ask someone at the local gun control Gaus about this". *Average citizen who paid attention, laughs and says * "Ask the Vietnamese".
  18. Meplat
    WTF , TWO? THEY MADE TWO?!? 87bajillion T-34's made, and they only make TWO of these.
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    External cooler. If you know someone who can score one, an old aircraft oil cooler is the berries as a transmission cooler, and they tend to be very cheap.
  20. Meplat
    Dear easily frightened person. Nobody gives a fuck. In much of the U.S. you could paint yourself blue, wear a loincloth and march down the sidewalk playing "Scotland The Brave" on a kazoo, and most people would not give a fuck. Much of what you see on the news regarding the U.S. (or anywhere) is garbage meant to make you afraid and easily manipulated. As you have been. Nobody is going to beat you with a shoe because you look like you have an arab (likely to be taken as "mexican" or "cuban" in Orlando) hubby, nor are people going to insist you sit in the back of the bus. Quit believing the bullshit and try to enjoy yourself, for fuck's sake.
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    "Vox" is in my round file, right next to "Salon", under the heading of "Bad Fiction".
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    Businesses taking the attitude of "Fuck Thy Neighbor" in a circumstance like that, often experience some pretty serious backlash once shit returns to normal.
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    Other than the "Blue Wave" the Ty D Bowl man experiences.
  24. Meplat
    Anytime someone brings up the "serious discussion about gun control", I ask them if they are next going to have a "Serious discussion about the inconvenience of the First Amendment" . That is the direction they are headed.
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    It was pretty common for U.S. tanks to arrive with MG's separate. They'd ship the tank when it was ready and figure the rest was "plug-n-play" as far as the MG's. (For the most part, they were).
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