PS Magazine Issue 003 August 1951 Volume 1 Number 3 [1, 3 ed.]

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This is the story of Erwin, the boy who lived to invent things. Inventing was Erwin's only real passion .. •• •. his love, his life.

Who1 time he didn't spend inventing, Erwin !.pen1- reading about inventors great and small-a nd he thought Rueben Goldberg the greatest of the m all. The record doesn't show whether he eve r Invented onything revolutionory, 01' even very useful. But that is not important. As long os Erwin could be inventing something, he wos happy. Then Erwin got inducte d in to Ihe~ Army and adva nced very rapid ly to private- . first-class. He soon found his way in lo em M24 to nk, which g laddened his inventive heart-because as everyone knows a tank is on inventor's paradise. Every mother's so n of us who we nt throu gh basic inventing with our Erectorl our tricycle, on a lorm clock or two, an d maybe eve n 0 woshing mach ine, was' stopped (to our ever lastin g frust ration ) just short of the gron d piano. Not so with Erwin. That M24 was Erwin's piono. His heart sang. Erwin wa~ sure he could re~ design that tonk and show Ordnance a place 'or two whe re they cQ,uld have done be tter. Which, unl ike other tonkers you hove met, he proceeded to do. You could find Erwin out in the bivpuoc area any hour of day or nig ht, sing~ ing to the happy clang of his tools ... lighling the sky-with sparks from his welding torch. no time ot all his M24 had rai lings, ,a flight of steps, clothes hampers, several mo re mochine~guns, aloollocker, two ext ra escape-hatches, endearing Erwin to neighboring infan trymen in need of rest and concealment. Then the good life in Erwin's M24 wa~ cut short by on unfortunate accident a few w~ek5 ago in th e hills up near Hwachon. In the late dusk of Friday evening, Erwin's tank was wiped off the landscape by a sing le round of AP, which foun d a spot of ar mor ,plate that was softened up where Erwin had welded (loving ly, but too long) his beloved clothes hamper. MORAL? Who knows? If it had n't been for this one sma ll misadventure that spoiled all his other good and noble ~ o r ks , Erwin might have gone on to great 'things. . -B_ut olas, Erwin has just gone on. 2C

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LIFE OF AN AUTOMOTIVE PARTS MAN I work bellind the counter

I claim rm no mecha nic ·Yel when a job gels sick The m eel.snic comes to as k me To make the darn thing tick. I

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If the meeluwics would just tell me The Model-Make and Year. Forrest L. Gibson Oninance Corp' Thchnician

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HAS YOUR M38 GOT

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flOOWS .LlTTLE DROPS OF WATER AROUND THE EDGES WARNS YOU TO LOOK FOR TROUBLE INSIDE THIS CASTING

Maybe yours is and maybe it isn't but cnd of the thermostat recainer (see fig. ). don 't wager on a leak in your 1\.138'5 Then ),ou put things back where they becylinder head at the water-oudet elbow. long- you may need a new gasket (G503It could be i here. 0194030 Gasket, water Qullet elbow)As you well know, the w:uec-oudct d- and you're all set. It could be, though , that you'll find a bow houses the thermost at for your cool~ ihg system. In most cases the thermostat cracked or~dished elbow when you make within its retainer, tits snugly into ' the that check for leakage. The replacement hole in the elbow. They're made for each elbow you get (G.503-7371377 Elbow, other. But some of those holes are not water outlet) may have a hole" deep deep enough. enough to make a good fit. You'J1 save What happens. of cou rse, is that the yourself a lot of crouhle jf you'll check it tnermostat retainer sticks out of the too before fooling around with g rinding small ho le- and you don't get a nice ' down the thermostat retainer. But jf the flu'sh fit when you bolt the elbow on to the hole in the new elbow isn't large enough cylinder head. So the;e's your leak, gas· to hold this rctainer flush, you know what to do. ket or no gasket. The cracked elbows and gaskets result· H this leak is your only trouble. all you do is to have about Y8" (or enoug h to ing from aU these too small holes in the make the retainer flush with the elbow) castings, can be returned to the manufac· ground of[ all the way around the bottom turer for credit. 90

, Pvt. John Honbyer J learned about boulders in [he high ground up around T:legue one even ing last July when my commancler and an· other M24 crew were tryitl;g to break oue of encirclemen t by going cross-coumer. We must ha ve got excited and goc our· sel yes hung up between cwo bou lders. Broke a track connector just like (hac. Only one track conneccor. Nothing at all happened to the ocher uok, bue we had him stymied. Couldn't lIlove back or front, and he'd used up aU his ammo, so was nothing for Ihe guys to do but gee out and blow lip the tank. 1 know this isn 't maintenance, but it sure is 'a lesson for me and those O£her fellas .. bout good driving in rough

councry. f .. r as I know neither of those tanks

HATCH LATCHES

gd b.h. k if)w one of lhose tliings, you bel )"11 ~c(' th " t hatch is ready to bust out of.

Cpl. Sam S.c hwartz f r was !at(' one IIfrcrnoon when

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l\12·f recon placoon was going in after :Ill ;1011110 dUlllp up .. round Chong ju. 1 W;!s assistant gunner in number two tank ... ehe honest spor in rhe d iamond form;l· (ion ... whell ;til of a sudden nu mber olle uncovered a minco ~rllS{ have been douhIed up because ichlcw his right tf;!ck apart like it W;IS wairin' for bCc.lllse soon's it h~lppc ncd we took three from their 1ll0rt3r s