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For us tracer was 1 in 4 for light and sustained fire on the gpmg light role with the fitted bi pod and sf with a large tripod 800 meters in the light role 2400 in sf on the tripod
1 in 1 was used when in L37A1 configuration and fitted to an armoured vehicle as the coax to the main armament
as i was infantry for 25 years and at times a wee bit restless i managed to get through most of the fighting roles in our infantry and managed to get qualified to teach all weapons apart from the heavy mortar but i did manage to get in all the specialist areas and on occasions got pulled from my regiment for special assignment
I think i still have most of my albums but at times taking photos was not on the agenda
Sorting out some of the countries problems would be easy give sufficient resources and the correct manpower however would not be politically correct :s
Brian

Hats off to you Brian, I salute you, Smitty and my stepson. All career infantryman. And to Rubyred, Sharpscuba and all the other brave Cav, and Infantry persons that did hard combat time in a hard war. You guys are the exact other end of the spectrum from the garbage looting the streets.

I always had my little 127 Kodak strapped to my belt in Nam (kinda like now on rides). I had some pretty amazing pics. Shucks if the camera would have done video like nowadays, I'll bet I could have sold much of it to the History channel. But it's the pics of the men that I miss the most. Pics of our engineer company guys driving doziers thru the Jungle and almost down sides of mountains. Pics of our C-4 and dynamite crew. Pics of the 11th Armored Cav when they came back out of Cambodia on QL13. Pics of the infantry recon platoon just before they would leave the wire at night. Standing there smoking a quick cigarette before disappearing into the jungle. It was amazing the amount of ammo those (sometimes small) guys could carry. The looks on their faces said volumes of expressions. They were perfect in every way. No weakness (shown anyhow), no lazyness, no slacking. Just straight forward duty, business and bravery. They were the absolute best of our nation though our nation did not know it at the time. I was always in awe of them and respected them immensely. Was friends with a few of um. One still lives here in Florida last I spoke to him bout 20yrs ago. He got on with Post Office due to his disability from Malaria. But he had some other complications that eventually caused him to loose that job. Not real sure what ever happened to him.

Sorry to ramble, the wife was telling me about a German Shepherd dog many yrs ago that I would not let my Stepson keep because we already had too many animals. Hearing bout it made me feel really depressed, sometimes I was so inconsiderate to those kids. I didn't even rememer the dog. I was working 60hrs a week and all I could think of was too many animals. Amazing how stupid I was sometimes.

Anyhow hats off the weight pullers of this world and to the garbage, well their times coming. And can't wait to try the kickstand thing. Yep startun to feel better already.

 

[BigG]

I like wisconsins Rule, But what about lights triggered by weight only. I sat at one light for about 6 minutes at 5:30 AM.

 

[Joyflyin]

I am not aware of a system that ever used the weight of the vehicle to trigger the stoplight. The more metal mass the better but technically your weight will not be the trigger. It could be said that weight plays a factor as the more metal mass you have to influence the electrical loop on the road surface the more weight you have.

Tank, I don't know if it was weight related or not, but at one of the office had a gate that if I rode my bike to work, I had to run lengthwise across the cut out section to get the gate to open, or, crawl under the gate & hit the code. OR, I could just wait until someone else was coming in, but there was no schedule on that.