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Propeller Specialists Build Red Wagon

INGENUITY OVERCOMES DIFFICULT SUPPLY PROBLEM -- Rather than tote water for cleaning solvents by bucket over the boggy tundra, propeller specialists Sgt. J.O. Huckstep, Cyrene, Mo., and Sgt. J.O. Ellis, Louisville, Ky., built the little "red wagon" at the right out of a patched up belly tank and junked parts of odd pieces of equipment and in order to further the "bucket and rag" procedure they connected the tank to a small, portable compressor and hot to a nozzle which enables them to direct a high-pressure spray against the precision parts of a "prop" dome under-going periodic cleaning. The propellers them-selves are hung from the portable hoist under which the men are working and given the same treatment. Propellers.