From: R. A. Moir aka RAM (cyclopsram@starband.net)
Date: Sun Feb 16 2003 - 17:39:47 PST
Steve, do you keep the POS in the ROD or the POD ??? acronyminally
speaking... RAM
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve & Jeanne Keith" <cckw@attbi.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>; "R. A. Moir aka
RAM" <cyclopsram@starband.net>
Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 18:57
Subject: Re: [MV] Respect for the boys
>
> Actually, the Raymond Ordnance Depot (ROD) is a Miracle Steel Building
that
> a bunch of people, and especially my wife and I put together (kit) NEVER
> AGAIN!
>
> Now the POD, Pembroke Ordnance Depot is a Morton Building. I gave them a
> check,
> 2.5 days later they gave me the keys....
>
> The ROD will be here in 100 years. The POD, being basically a pole barn
will
> have its
> poles rot off in 50 or so years. I will not care as I will have a dirt
> blanket by then...
>
> Having said that, the POD is like a giant ice box! It is COLD in there!
The
> vehicles however are
> out of the elements. In many ways, it is more important in the summer when
> the sun does
> its dirty work on the OD paint, changing it into the color of Battleship
> Grey....
>
>
> Steve AKA Dr Deuce
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "R. A. Moir aka RAM" <cyclopsram@starband.net>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 5:17 PM
> Subject: Re: [MV] Respect for the boys
>
>
> > Our electricity is about 15 cents a kwh...so Kerry will need diamond
> > bearings in his electric meter....We have a seemingly unbreakable
contract
> > with Canadian Hydro for some of the most expensive power in the
country...
> > Kerry, your next vehicle should be a Morton Building...make that two
> Morton
> > Buildings... one for me... Ask Dr Deuce how important the buildings
> are
> > at the Raymond Ordnance Depot...It never did get above zero here today
> > ..only to about 20 below tonite predicted due to the cloud cover from
the
> > snow flurries the folks in PA , DC, and Joisy Shores are having.. RAM
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Bruce Beattie" <bruce@eecs.berkeley.edu>
> > To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> > Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 16:43
> > Subject: Re: [MV] Respect for the boys
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Hi Kerry,
> > > Get an industrial heater blower combination in a cage. It kinda
> looks
> > like a metal milk cratewith some big heating resistors and a centrifugal
> > blower blowing on them. Had to do some work on a friends car in
> Connecticut
> > about 20 years ago in the middle of a cold snap, and I can still
remember
> > what a godsend that heater was. The other thing to go along with that is
> > > some of that heavy clear plastic sheating that is used in
construction.
> > Just jury rig some stuff aroud where you have to work. Throw this stuff
> over
> > it, and set up the heater. This way you don't loose any light, as with a
> > tent or tarp. Be sure to use a heavy gauge extension cord.
> > > Bruce MVPA 23824
> > >
> > > kbernste32@aol.com wrote:
> > >
> > > > As RAM said, Vermont's reminding its inhabitants of its latitude.
> > Against my preferences, I've spent the day with the toolbox under our
> truck
> > outside in -20F, I'm typing with my fists right now. The whole time I'm
> > thinking "How did the boys do it in Korea?" a couple minutes at a crack
> > holding the socket wrench is about all you can do. They must have been
> tough
> > nuts.
> > > >
> > > > Kerry Bernstein
> > > >
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