On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 23:38:38 +0000, Larry wrote:

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote in
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Sounds like Larry was the Navy's go to guy for tough problems.



There were 3 of us. One was a Machinery Repairman 1st, one was a Chief
Electrician's Mate and l'il ol' me.....(c;

"What size crane are we gonna need to get it off the flatcar onto the
pier??"
Sometimes "logistics" was more of a problem than "procurement". It was
hard to trade for "logistics". A free brand-new 12 cylinder diesel
generator isn't any good if you can't get it home. I often thought they
gave them to us just to see if we could successfully move them out of
salvage.....hee hee. Hmm...we'll need some new switchgear....hmm...

I set a 3/4 ton Dodge power wagon on its tailgate with its big wheels
sticking up on the main drag in front of the Shipyard power house one
day. How embarrassing. There was one too many triwall boxes full of
"gifts" in the bed, hanging over the tailgate. I knew it was a little
light steering when we left the salvage yard after discovering all those
new motors headed for the dump. I backed under the load and we
continued, gingerly, back to our stash going easy on the clutch after
that....(c; We laughed for hours after pulling it off. Those motors
made life on many cans much more bearable that year. FREE always fits in
a ship's budget....(c; I loved stuff that "didn't exist" on some
database and couldn't be traced. Condition R-4 was SUPPOSED to mean it
couldn't be fix and was scrap.....not "traded for coffee" with AD-24.

You know, and I say this as a compliment, reading one of your posts is
like reading a Tom Clancy novel.

"I picked up the AD-24 which was attached to the UDAP 1525 armature
and reversed it in position to the ACT on the LSD parrallel to the
TCH-12 which of course multiplied for FOR to the CE and made mil-spec
coffee."