SNL-G508 PDF!

[pfarber]

Here's a gem.

Go to http://www.tm-ww2.com/index.php?cPath=59 and order the SNL-G508 on CDROM for like $20.

I have a copy ordered, so I will post a few pages to show what they are like.

Its about time CCKW TMs got on CD... and not just the few TM10's on e-bay.

[retro-roco]

Paul,

I've puchased a CD from him with two manuals for the Chevy 1-1/2 ton, one for the bendix hydrovac (have an original, but hate to "bugger" it up), and a manual for the Ben Hur family of trailers. I've owned the CD for a few months and have to say that it is VERY well done. I recently bought a Ben Hur water trailer, and now I can see just how many very hard to find parts I'm missing!

Of course everything says TM-WW2 on it as water marks, but he has to protect his work somehow. I have to also say that his water marks are not NEARLY as annoying as the ones used by the Army MHI for their manual scans. They are virtually worthless as printed hardcopies. What a waste of tax payer money!

I'm sure you'll be happy with your SNL-G508. OK, maybe YOU won't, but most people would!

[pfarber]

As long as the watermarks are not intrusive its fine by me. My paper copy from Portrayal Press has seen better days.

I hope the PDF has a search function.

I'm just glad to see the SNL available for less than $100 (I have seen originals go for just over $200).

So $20 is a bargain.

[pfarber]

Received the CD SNL-G-508 today. About a weeks time to ship from France. The cover and CD art are VERY nice and it appears that the SNL is duplicated EXACTLY. I used xpdf (I mainly use Slackware LINUX, but also Windows for graphics work) and I had full use of the PDF. Links work and the text/picture are EXCELLENT.

Another nice attention to detail is that the pages are rotated from portrait to landscape as necessary. The part number are landscape to they read across the screen like the paper TM, and images/figures also switch as needed. Nice touch to keep everything laid out so you are not tilting your head to look at the figures.

In the xpdf I could not use the search function. So hitting F3 and typing in cylinder got me nothing. I will try later in Acrobat Reader 8.0 and see if I can search. It would be nice to search the catalog by part number, but most PDFs are not OCRd, rather they are vector images.

The watermark is NOT obtrusive, but I DID find some handwritten notes. The original PN was crossed out and another number written in. I find that odd that it was not corrected.

Heres an example of the writing, the numerals are clearly European.

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Quality of the scan.. my favorite object, the fuel bowl sight plug (AW) that some people say are not there

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Printing out a page is pretty painless. Quality is excellent although you can tell if the image was edited. I printed page 110 figure 03-1 and there were some 'shadows' (for lack of a better word) that look like either scanning artifacts, processing or clean up artifacts. Nothing that takes away from the image quality. Not as good an an original TM, but a very nice gray scale, not the blotchy black and white of old scanned TMs.

All in all I rate this CD an 9.

The pros are its reasonable cost. No where else are you getting an SNL-G508 for $20, and the chapters are linked. The watermark is unobtrusive (the original work is public domain, and publishing of the CD give the author NO COPYRIGHT WHATSOEVER) I can see why they put it there. The images are clean and clear.

The only down side is that some part number are unreadable due to handwriting. I found the one example by chance, I hope there are not many more. OCRing the text would have been a great bonus.

[pfarber]

I have to ding the ORD-9-SNL-G508 from TMWW2.com Several pages are missing. Some pages are only half scanned.

Pages 3 and 161 are incomplete.. I tried both Foxit and Adobe Reader... both show the same thing. Down to an 8 out of 10.