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Nice job, 14k diesel is nice to have. Glad to hear you had no major damage from the storms. The shoreline not far from me didn't fair too well with some major damage.
Reminds me of a customer of mine, had a Navy surplus generator. It was apx. 6' long, 5' wide with wheels and a trailer hitch so it could be towed over the road. Enclosed, kind of like a construction air compressor.
Old but well made like yours, 4 cylinder diesel and had a bar with flood lights on a telescoping mast. They built large custom homes and used the unit to power the job sites until they got temporary services.
I fixed a few minor issues on it, painted it white, (it was Navy grey) and lettered it. Nothing like you did but enough to make it presentable.
 
Jim C;27490 said:
bob, do you know what it is? make, model? is it a military genset?
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Jim, I'll try to get some info on it this week.
 
Look good Jim. I bet those things sell well in your neck of the woods.

My next house is going to have a permanent propane powered Generac.
 
well you dont want to get too nuts around the windings. my first instinct is to blast and clean it fresh metal but i cant to that because you will destroy the varnish and ruin things. all i could do really is spend some time with a wire wheel, roloc discs and some of those 3m bristle discs. this is why i used por15 on all the internals of the generator.

andy what is nice about those is they are totally automatic and the fuel doesnt go bad. great for the wife since she doesnt have to touch anything and you'll know all is good if your not around. bad thing is they really suck down some propane. they will drain a bottle in no time. if there is some type of disaster they can run out of fuel easily and propane in a disaster situation can be hard to get. if your in an area that rarely loses power, few hours here and there maybe occasionally a day they are super and will last a long time. if you lose power alot or only occasionally but when you do its extended periods you dont want one. they are not prime power generators. you have a life expectancy with one of about 1000hrs give or take maybe 500. alot depends on load too. a couple days of pulling near max kw and you can easily melt down the gen end. they are just not made for that. kohler is the same boat but a little better. onan does make some high quality standby units but of course the better you get the more $$ your talking about. give some thought to your usage and what you expect to get out of it. if you think propane might not be good for you, when the time comes check out www.hardydiesel.com you can get a perkins, kubota, isuzu powered gen good for 20k hours. they sip fuel and you can have them autostart just like a propane setup.
 
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