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[Holmes]

(07-31-2006, 08:57 PM)M1A2Tanker link Wrote: Really?  Why didn't you mention that when I visited you? 

And there's no radiator on the Abrams...unless you're talking about the air cooling system via the V paks...

Howitzer improvement...that was for Long Tom I think.  That and the Paladin.  Could be wrong though...

We made somethin for the abrams.. not sure wth it was now... some form of heat exchanger.  Your right on the howitzer... Paladin rings a bell in the ol noggin. The M9's was my favorite one... they were huge radiators... and dang near bullet proof heheheh. The bradleys weighed in at like 350 pounds and had to withstand 13 G's and not leak... those were fun to test. Had one fall off the paint liine once... knocked a hole in the concrete floor, and bent a mounting bracket on the radiator... but the thing didn't leak! LOL

I helped design a new bradley construction... all steel welded construction (vs. the traditional copper/brass and soldered)... that was alot of fun. I designed a welding procedure to weld the tanks on to the headers without causing the already pressed in tubes to not leak... I literally had a waterfall thing right on the metal and welded inside the fall... was neat. ah those were the fun days lol. I even drove the prototype up to our main plant and they stuck it on this huge vibrating machine that could produce like 15G's plus pump running temp. collant through it at 200+ degrees ... it held up to 13... think it finally started rattling apart at 15 after about 20 minutes of continuous hammering All that work just to shake the f**k out of it heheheheh.