RARE and Expensive WW2 jeep Accessories! $$
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- Who would have thought all this cheap stuff would be so rare and cost so much a few years later?
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Probably the most detailed ww2 jeep I ever seen
If there are any capacitors in any of the gear -or in the radio when you secure one- I suggest you replace those before powering. Passage of time itself compromises capacitors.!it may damage the other components if powered. Thanks for the great content.
Yes you MUST REPLACE CAPACITORS before powering ... Old capacitors were made of paper and other things and they dry out ... powering before replacing them 'could', and is likely to, overheat them and they can catch fire !! .. BEWARE !! See "Mr Carlsons Lab" channel on UA-cam to learn how to replace them .. not that difficult .. BEFORE POWERING PLEASE !
@@davidparsons4654 I came here to say this. As a ham radio op, dryed out caps are terrible.
I also saw a selenium rectifier. Need to cut that and any others and add a silicone diode. Need to see if you need resistors . There are plenty of videos that explain it.
I saw what looked like an Air Gap Capacitor, This should be (properly) cleaned!
In my 67 VW, I had to use a hand scraper internally to be able to look out the windows in the winter
Trico & Anco are still in the wiper business! Really cool seeing them wartime wipers made by them.
Fun fact-we still have hand operated windshield wipers on the Abrams tank in the drivers station…complete with foot pump washer too!
Vacuum wipers slowed way down and sometimes stopped while driving up a hill in the rain. They went really fast while going downhill.
They were 'powered' by manifold pressure.
Vacuum Tubes required Alternating Current. Since Cars had Generators and not Alternators, they needed a way to make an imitation of Alternating Current. The Vibrator had a small electric motor that would shove a plate back and forth between contacts causing polarity changes. To make it more like normal Alternating Current, they used a large Air Gap Capacitor (those two round metal discs that you see when he pulled off the inner lid).
In 1990 my uncle purchased an M38 from auction that had a multitude of strange radio mounts (noted in the bill of sale) that we then found were for "Air Force Radios". we tried at the time to figure out the history (Impossible for many reasons) and went on driving the machine around. Later (During the 2000's) we found that the Jeep had served at a SAC base from the 50's into the 80's and while not all radios were "cleared" we were able to figure out some of the radios included. This is is important history for a Jeep collector, as well as an enthusiast (I just like jeeps of all kinds) as well as the collector.
Enjoy this everytime
Another rather neat accessory for the Jeep is the litter kit to easily turn a standard Jeep into an ambulance. Mine was made by the American Chain Link Fence Company in 1945. The kit was designed to be fitted to MB/GPW Jeeps, though I have obtained photographs showing it being fitted to M38 and M38A1 Jeeps.
I heard that for the Swiss Jeeps there were small wiper motors that were run by standard batteries. Never seen one of those personally.
Nearly all of the former Swiss Army Jeeps were purchased by farmers in the mountains and most of them were run to death. It speaks for the extreme reliability that you could still see them quite often on farms until they got collector vehicles and were bought by specialists who restored them.
I’m all for the new windshield wipers! Anything to make a unique Jeep is awesome!
Those boots you have are pretty rare. My dad had a pair from the Korean war. They made them for wacs during Vietnam.
I have what is my 3rd jeep in my 55 years of life at this point. In my teenage years I had two DJs, which were both left hand 2 wheel drive postal jeeps. Me and my dad converted the first 69 flat grill into a single cab with a dog box in between the wheel wells on the back (we loved hunting rabbits) and the second was a 1971 extended grill that was converted with swingout doors. I mysteriously stripped the transmission out of that one getting stuck, thinking it was a four-wheel-drive.😢 My current jeep is a 1997 TJ that I have put more money into than it is worth. I was in a 39th infantry Regiment, 9th infantry division reenactment unit, and I struggled contemplating finding an MB. I’ve enjoyed your escapades for a few years now!
Wow! Great effort yields great joy..
excellent as usual thanks green dot from nz
You are more than welcome
I enjoy the facts and information you supply on your dedication to the WW2 Jeep .
Shame there doesn't seem to be others covering the rest of the period vehicles is such detail .
I recommend a Thompson sub machine gun from Umerex. Totally legal air gun.
Okay so you have yourself the power supply and it's looking pretty clean inside. So the odds are that your valves are good and your trouble areas could be, the electrolytic capacitors could be dried out and the vibrator contacts could have corrosion on them, so at some point you're going to have to look into having those capacitors replaced and maybe the vibrator. a really top-notch Electronics guy can get inside and put new capacitors on the bottom and leave the old one in place so you don't notice it. they do make solid-state replacements for vibrators but that's something you're going to have to look into cuz any original vibrator even new in the box can still have the corrosion issue and what the vibrator does is convert DC to AC power mechanically. I have a 1952 m38a1 with two period Correct Korean War vintage radios inside and I was fortunate enough to be able to acquire power supplies that had good vibrators. you may hook yours up and it works perfectly I'm just letting you know about things you should be aware of. also it's a good idea if possible to power up your power supply slowly instead of all at once. What I would do if I was in your position is turn on the power supply with the vehicle off only running it off the battery and after it runs for a while and has a chance to warm up I would switch the power supply off start the Jeep and then restart the power supply or if you know an Electronics whiz have them hook it to a 6 volt variable power supply and slowly bring it up to full voltage. I know this is a long post and I apologize but I love your channel and I love your jeep, jeep people need to stick together and I can't wait to see it up and running with a working radio.
Yes, reforming the electrolytic capacitors like this gives them a chance to recover, but there is still no way to know when a partially dried capacitor will short and take out other expen$ive components. The idea above about fitting modern (i.e., much smaller, physically) replacement capacitors and leaving the originals visible is common in functional restorations of old electronics and highly recommended if you don't want to remove the original components.
@@bobvines00 yes and reformed caps can run hot which could be bad in unvented water tight equipment.
Great score on that NOS equipment, but _absolutely_ check _ALL_ electrolytics capacitors for both physical _AND_ electrical leakage to avoid smoking the expen$ive transformers, etc.
Please retain _all_ of your NOS packaging to go with your Jeep. I think it will add authenticity(?) to the Jeep if you (or your heirs) ever decide to sell it. Where in the world do you find these NOS items!?
My '46 Willys CJ-2A (early model) has a single vacuum wiper for the driver, with a "hand crank" for when engine vacuum drops when trying to run the wiper. The last time I really drove it in the rain was in Birmingham (Alabama) in hilly areas, so I often had to steer, shift gears, and assist the wiper when it rained, so it _could_ keep you a bit busy at times. ;)
MAP = Military Assistance Programme: a post war equivalent of Lend Lease.
Great thanks Michael
It IS nice to have the Anco windshield wipers BUT Rain X goes a Long way if you DO get caught in the rain !! Also , as others have pointed out , 80 year old electrolytic caps can (and will) cause problems . When you find the radio all the pieces should be checked and powered up slowly by a qualified tech.
8:05 “look at there beautiful valves!” 😂 boy that’s a tube!
British English.
Who would have thought all this cheap stuff would be so rare and cost so much a few years later? yup 80 years only a few
I thought it may be to hold a bottle of coke. Trouble with that is, you wouldn't want to open after a drive. Lol
I have the original Wing Mounted Decontaminator on mine. . They are very difficult to find .
I have the complete Radio set up as well again which I bought many years ago
I bought the original Anco hand operated wipers in the original Nos Box many years ago
Mine also has the Mount and 50 Cal 🙂
A top job Matt, love the radio equipment the BC Signal Corps equipment was built to last, i converted a signal corps BC-348 receiver a few years ago, to run on uk mains, sometimes the old mica capacitors can go bad, that or as long as no one has modified it you should have no issues, are the frequencies listed as Kilocycles or Megacycles? ?. Exciting bringing something like this back to life.
Nice Jeep, good video!
Ha! learn something new everyday. I didn’t think about Anco & Trico being in business in the 40’s and certainly before that.
Not sure how the numbers change over, or if they are the same or not.. and if still used.. but within a couple decades, Canadian armed forces still used prc 25, and 75.
Goid stuff, nice details
Just imagine firing up the original radio for the first time and talking to someone in Normandy, France in 1944!!!!
figured it'd be for a flash light, perfect spot and size
Hi there I love your channel and content. In reference to your radio. I know that other people on the comments already suggested replacing capacitors. My advice, if you can, is to contact another youtuber that I followed in the US under the name of Mr Carlson’s Lab. He makes a lot of vintage radios restorations from that era. Maybe He can give you great advice or even find for you the radio you are looking for. He have a lot of vintage equipment and experience playing with. Thanks for keeping working on your channel and content. Greetings.
Just keep the power cable on the opisit side of the Alternator and keep the antenna cable and or any Auxiliary cables away from the power cable run the power cable on the opisit side to the Alternator It can causes an intermittent flux in the power and actually revs up with the acceleration peddle it's odd but we get alot of these in the workshop people scratching their heads bewildered by it I know exactly what they have done as soon as they say "we fitted a new radio" haha!
Great stuff man. Keep it going!
Radios? Are their US tank or armored units operating in your area with whom you can communicate?
Yes
2nd Armored Div should no doubt be near by.
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this was cool. i learned to drive a stick shift in germany in 1985 on a jeep. i got caught in the captains jeep doing donuts in the gravel at the motor pool. good times
Amazing!!
I think the M1A1 Thompson is a fairly expensive accessory.
I want some of them wipers!! You should get onto Joes motor pool and do a colab to produce reproduction ones :D
1:23 you were being shot at! Step on buddy!!
Can you still put the windscreen down with those wipers on?
yes
Hang on....! .... so I've got to believe that you haven't opened up that Radio power supply unit until filming...?
Does your Jeep have the machine gun mount, is that something you want to addd? Or would a radio Jeep have a gun mount?
no mount on this one but all frames had the place for it on the frame
When I was driving the stoneage Jeep in the Army in 81 in a snowstorm, (probably a WW2 Jeep, the Swiss Army bought tons of Jeeps and trucks of the US Army in 45), the sergeant beside me started wiping the windshield manually. I really thought the mechanics of the wipers were broken. But I learned that they came like that from the factory.
The story I was told is that the Swiss and other nations bought vehicles by km! The US Army parked GMC trucks, Dodge WCs and mainly Jeeps bumper to bumper on the German Autobahn. They were cheap as the transport back to the States made no sense. In the Eighties those vehicles got rare even in the Swiss Army. A few Jeeps and GMC trucks were still in use. The Dodge WC I saw were parked and no longer used.
In a similar way our Airforce bought P51D Mustangs. The last one I have seen in the air was in the early Eighties as well. A pilot flew this thing with a dday paintsceme full throttle and at an extremely low altitude through a valley near Berne. With the noise it caused I think you woulde be in big problems doing that today.
When did the military start using the flash light holders? I have one on my April 1942 gpw. It's not clamped on. Its welded/permanently attached to the steering column. Figured it was a replacement steering column put in at a depo rebuild.
They didn't, its just something people did!
7:55 😅
i cant imagine the batteries can still hold a charge? good luck
I'm glad I came across your channel, I've been trying to find details of the jeep because I'm building a 1/16 scale model and there's an overwhelming list of photos with engine details that aren't original. Yours seems to be one that I can try and replicate. I've also noticed the tools on the drivers side are also painted, is this correct? Cheers
Pioneer tools were generally painted but you can find photos with the wood unpainted but this is less common
how did you mount the rifle rack with the canvas bag on the rack? did you have to punch a hole in the canvas for the carriage bolt? cheers!
So was did every WW2 jeep made have the S for suppressed?
i want one ,
What about the machine gun and stativ in the middle of the jeep???
I have that on mine and the 50 Cal
As others have commented electrolytic capacitors will almost certainly need replacing.
They do not age well. Replacing with new old stock will be just the same problem no matter how well stored they were. The electrolyte dries out from the spiral wound up paper like core.
I think this will be problematic for someone who wants to keep the original look versus a working unit. Vintage radio restorers may be the place to start asking about new reproduction capacitors.
But you would have to make clear your expectations before doing any work on your 6V step up converter unit or radio unit. You can see a place in the converter housing for spare capacitors. That is a tell tale sign about the nature of electrolytic caps. They must have been pretty problematic quality back in the 1940s to begin with. You may be able to install an alternative type of capacitor whose modern equivalent is much more compact thus enabling their hidden installation to get a functioning converter set and you could retain the original caps in their place but not connected. (also so you don't throw them away or keep them separate and lose them).
Amazingly there are still manufacturers of valves.
Also, have you thought about the other Antenna mount that is positioned on the rear of the jeep?
A less dangerous position I would think. There is even a stowage basket that attaches to the rear of the jeep that mounts around the rear mounted antenna and spare tyre. (if you temporarily need extra stowage space for outings!)
US Flag should be on the left of the windshield?
awesome a working radio how many people are on those frequecies? can you talk to anu one? other ww2 hobbiests?
Where did you find your rain master wiper and windshield lock from I’ve been searching for a couple of years
1941 you can See on my Kanal, , aber what is on the lebt side ?
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Where do you get those stuff!!😲
I enjoyed the vid and the kit that you have on your jeep. However, I am surprised that you are allowed to drive on public roads with the sharp serrated wire cutter mounted on the front. In a collision with a pedestrian it could cause a fatality.
Yes Driving a jeep into a pedestrian would cause a fatality!
@@builtnotboughtmadeinphilip3955 I beg to differ, they are capable, of cutting, tearing and ripping....That is why most bonnet ornaments except those specially adapted, like those on a Rolls Royce, are banned, it is why bull bars are banned.
Dude... that's what you got out of this video? Let me guess, you live in California?
I am supervised that the battery box is mounted underneath the vehicle power supply. I would mount them the vehicle power supply on the bottom then the battery box on the top so it and the radio could be removed leaving the power box installed
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Hi matt I have a complete engine radio isolation kit for the gpw jeep I got it from usa many years ago I have only ever seen 1 on ebay years ago it has the instruction sheet with it and consists of ALL in steel with release clips on it if your interested contact me roger in Sheffield .
Hi Roger, I would be interested, something interesting for the channel! You contact me on facebook facebook.com/Greendot319
@@Greendot319 Hi matt im not on facebook my partner is will contact you tomorrow cheers Rog with pics
Hi Roger, nothing received :(
@@Greendot319 Hi Matt my mrs is trying to contact you via facebook but its not easy its put us on hold so if you get a message from Diane Abbott its from her .Ive took 15 pics of the devices and would watsap them to you but my son Chris cant find your number,ROG
HI Mat weve sent you info and pics of isolation kit did you get it Roger?
6volt 😮
When kept in proper tune 6 volts work , they used 6 volts in many vehicles like the Dodges and Gmc's from the Alaska to to North Africa and more back in the Day .
Others like the Half-tracks and Command cars ran on 12 volts can't recall others with out looking them up .
Tubes
You say Tomato I say Valves
A tube is a electric valve.
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