Hazmat 1's new 2nd piece
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Was gunna say I was there last saturday and it wasnt there
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If I remember correctly, the problems with the Seagrave Towers was that the front of the cab flexed when the center Jack was deployed. Something like that certainly shouldn't be the problem with the 2nd piece for the Hazmat considering it doesn't have any stabilization jacks. It would have to be a problem with the actual design of the chassis/cab not being rigid enough!69 METS said:
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This would be funny if it wasn't sad.
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I forget what chassis this unit was built on, wasn't the same custom one in the rescues? If it was something different in the 1st of a kind could possibly be a design issue with how the interface between the glass and cab was designed.raybrag said:Seems to me it would be either the cab cutout or the glass out of spec (in any event, a quality control issue).:-[
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Not hearing anything, probably not anytime soon.
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the duct tape and chewing gum aren't holding yet, they may switch to super glue......lol
It appears the cab is the same as the rescues, hazmat 1 main unit and truck company's. With there being the problem with this particular unit I'm guessing something happened during the build and something is slightly out of spec. I am sure there is probably some back and forth on how it will be fixed and both sides not agreeing on how . This is just purely a guess but if it was just a windshield that's my guess. I would imagine that the current second piece is pretty worn down, the unit was one of the units donated after 9/11 and the main unit has bees replaced twice already I think. I'm sure they could use a backup second piece as well, does anyone know if the old second piece is still around? I know at one point they had a fully stocked reserve main and second piece as well as spare main piece. I think the reserve second piece was used as the spare for the second piece when it went down but I haven't seen it in awhile. I think it was a crew cab international very similar to squad 1's old TRV. I think I read somewhere that the old 2nd piece and the old TRV were originally purchased as salvage units but those units were disbanded or something.