Ranger Raptor Photos Thread - Post Your Random Dailys 📸

[Blue_Raptor]

First off-road trip

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[embedded rock]

Just noticed these lights in the front door panels.

 

[PA RR]

Ambient lighting is awesome love it!

 

[OxygenMask]

Started working on sealing up the bed area. Getting the bed rail cap off was NOT fun... Only broke one clip.

 

[superj]

to bad you cannot fill that plastic cap with something to make it more solid before you put it back on

 

[embedded rock]

Like Hysol EA9309? That would make for a pretty stout bed rail cap. It's used to repair Chinook rotor blades.

 

[superj]

do you guys get a lot of tip strikes on the 47? i see it happens on the 60 alot but i never really hear about it on 47s. @embedded rock

 

[embedded rock]

While my days as a 47D mtp are over, but I do recall replacing blades due to strikes. Some could be repaired in the unit, others were sent to CCAD for depot repairs. Nearly as many snapped landing gear from desert landings.

 

[superj]

While my days as a 47D mtp are over, but I do recall replacing blades due to strikes. Some could be repaired in the unit, others were sent to CCAD for depot repairs. Nearly as many snapped landing gear from desert landings.

i used to built you guy's engines. i work at ccad. my wife builds the hot sections on the t55 714 currently. i built the t55 712 and 714a and a-l conversions for a while

 

[embedded rock]

i used to built you guy's engines. i work at ccad. my wife builds the hot sections on the t55 714 currently. i built the t55 712 and 714a and a-l conversions for a while

How cool is that! I went through that 714 fielding at Campbell. Pretty impressive over the 712's.

 

[superj]

yeah, i was really impressed by the 714. double the hp and a lighter engine.

the 47 can really pick some stuff up now, ha ha ha. you could bend the airframe before but now its probably very easy to do.

when we were converting from the 712 to the 714, i was one of the three mechanics who engineering picked to help test tooling and equipment. honeywell wasn't really helpful to the army with that engine and wouldn't give us access to the tech manuals, dmwrs, or tooling so we had to do it all on our own. it took 2 or 3 years to get that stuff set up enough that engineering signed off on overhauls and testing.

 

[Dino Jockey]

Who ever wrote that contact up, screwed the pooch by not getting manuals w/ new equipment.

 

[superj]

exactly what one of hte engineers said

 

[RIVAL 4x4]

 

[OxygenMask]

That's the first RR replacement bumper I've seen that I like!

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