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Posted by IHank on February 10, 2001 at 16:30:30 from (207.177.47.142):
In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Has any one used water glass posted by Burrhead on February 10, 2001 at 11:52:41:
JCB & Burrhead- Please don't characterize the discussed repair as "crude craftmanship"... Please, check out and read John Steibeck's "Grapes of Wrath", about the Joad's and the 1930's, and get some perspective on where lots of these out in the boonies and on the spot repair tricks come from, that lessons learned the hard way & long ago show up here every so often. The water glass, aka sodium silicate, was part of an Army support maint. procedure, which I did on a buch of M-37 Dodge Powerwagons in the early 70's, when I was a Natl. Guard Tech. after I got home from Vietnam. They were flathead six engines with a production lifespan from someplace in the thirties to the early sixties, and built in many variations. They were good enought that the commies copied 'em and we captured some in the Ashau Valley in '68. I'm digressing, another story... The water glass treatmetn was ridicoulous! Nothing wrong with the cooling system, but orders were to do it. So, we did... Shortly after the trucks were shipped out to ??? for ??? purposes, and the fleet was replaced with the new M-880 series Dodge 4X4, a spl. version of the 318" V-8 & Torqueflite equipped commercial 3/4 ton pickup. It had many end user variations and it was a good truck. A big weak spot was that the spec writer dummies didn't order posi-traction differentials in 'em... The good news is that there was no more doing the water glass trick in the formal maint. schedule. Seriously, check out Grapes of Wrath and you'll get some understanding of where lots of what seems technical madness here comes from. IHank
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