From: Ron (rojoha@adelphia.net)
Date: Mon Dec 20 2004 - 13:09:38 PST
Au contraire, Mr. Bloom....
The page deals with operation of Cat products in Northern climates and
above the Artic Circle, where working temps below -60 degrees F are common.
The idea behind the sweating statement is that if you are damp inside
your clothing and you machine croaks on you, your survival time is measured
in minutes if your insulated layers are not dry.
Several good sites dealing with construction problems and operation of
the DEW and Pinetree lines in the 50's and 60's and the Trans Alaskan
Pipeline in the 70's -80's can be found by Googling.
Things like brake fluid isn't at -50 degrees F, and flexible hydraulic
lines aren't either. At -60 degrees F dozer blades crack and shatter like
glass when they hit large rocks. But they figured ways around it and 'Got it
done'.
BTW... The DEW line construction program had an amphibious component
that rivaled in complexity and timing anything during WWII. One component
sailed from the West Coast (Long Beach and Seattle) the other from the East
Coast (Philadelphia and Halifax) and a barge lift down the Mackenzie River
in NW Canada to the Beaufort Sea. A lot of MV's (M35 gassers, M37s,Weasels
etc) went up there and never came back.
A 30 minute movie (propaganda film???) in 2 parts, by Western Electric
about the DEW Line (aka Project 572) construction can be downloaded at
http://www.archive.org/.
Type in DEW line in the search box and pick your preferred format (mpeg
2,3,4 or real player). You can also find neat movies about the bad old days
of the Cold War here, with lots of MVs blown up during H bomb testing, Nike
sites, SAC and even Burt the Turtle!
Regards, Ron
----- Original Message -----
From: "m35products" <m35prod@optonline.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: 19 December, 2004 21:38
Subject: Re: [MV] Pure Silicone Spray as a starting fluid.
> That has to be the work of a hacker, or a disgruntled writer, who thought
> that he could slip it in. (He obviously did) apb
>
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