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230-250 is about where I am after a traffic run. Before I exercised the pistons , I could smell brakes after a long drive with stop/go traffic and 95F temperatures.

Where would we be without Amazon? They have a great search engine, and darn near anything available. The only soft spot is in machine shop supplies, but I've read that they want to get deeper into that as well. A good source for industrial supplies, nuts & bolts, etc, is McMaster-Carr - great...

Aluminum Riv-nuts would probably do a nice job of mounting lights to the pans - and by using Riv-nuts instead of bolts, a light could be replaced with a different one at some time down the road.

I think Amazon and McMaster also have something kinda similar - referred to as "insulated ferrules". There's enough room on the insulated portion to wrap on a wire number. Ferrules really make for a solid connection on cable plugs and sockets - no loose strands floating around, and a LOT easier...

If any of you will be doing any wiring on your projects (which means everyone who doesn't use kerosene lamps...), you will see that many of the projects on these pages use Blue Sea panels and components. Blue Sea makes really excellent equipment, and you can get it at about 40+% off retail from...

Some time ago, a friend of mine who is an ambulance electrician showed me wire ferrules - I'd run into them before and didn't know what they were. These are a thin tin plated copper sleeve that can be slid over stranded wires and crimped before the wire is terminated in a clamp-type connection...

That's the kind of driving that I did when I found my front brakes were warmer than I liked. We pulled the front wheels, popped the brake pads out, and then exercised the pistons by pumping them out to a wood stop block. We then pushed them back in with a large C clamp. After this had been done...

A long time ago, one of my guys was doing a tune up to one of our forklifts, and he managed to drop a stainless screw down the carb throat. The simple job he had been doing turned into removing the head to find the screw. One hour became one day. It takes a very small mistake to result in a...

One thought down the road might be to prowl through some junk yards and look for the bits and pieces for an automatic leveling air suspension package. One came standard on my Medic Master / Freightliner, and I really saw how well it worked when my son loaded nearly 1000 pounds of railroad air...

And I, being an engineer, just drink my Folger's coffee - but I keep a 5 gallon bucket under my desk.... (I have a restaurant coffee maker in my kitchen -- 12 cups in about 3 minutes!). If you're pumping up the HP, at what point do you need an exhaust temperature gauge? In your note, you...

Looking at your To-Do list, I noticed that you want to run a coffee maker from an inverter. If you're using the standard ambulance inverter, it's probably a Vanner with a 1050 watt output rating. It doesn't have much of a surge rating - 1050 watts will be about it. I had the same challenge, and...

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I need to clarify: can you use a Sawsall to cut the end off the bolt where it is?

Any chance of getting to them with a Sawzall?

When GEV removed my light bar, they covered the holes as shown in the photo - they suggested a GEV plaque for the center wire hole, and I agreed. A couple of marker lights took care of the edge holes. With access being through the cutouts for the emergency / scene lights, any hardware on the...

When GEV removed my light bar, they plugged the inner holes with some snap-in plastic plugs, and added some clearance lights in the outer holes.

When you work to remove a module-mounted light bar, you realize very fast that this must have been the first thing they bolted to the module - before anything else went in, so they had great access... My own light bar had been modified by Medic Master so they could use a standard bolt for the...

I can scan documents as either photos, or as PDFs using Adobe - the only problem is the physical size of the documents. The drawings are "C" size ( 17 x 22"). With the equipment I used to have available before I retired, I could have scanned the entire drawing in one bite. Even better, the...

Manuals for these things are nearly impossible to find if your maker is gone. I was able to track down a manual for a nearly identical Medic Master (1999 on a FL chassis). It only took 2 years to find. When Medic Master went down in 2008, files may have gone to American LaFrance - but they...