OErjan

6 persons, should be easy. how about a quick Muurikka stir? a Muurikka more or less is a shallow steel dish, originally intended to be used as frying-pan over a fire, charcoal grill or similar, even seen it done on a gas BBQ and there are special gas "rings" to buy. the great part is that you just have to rinse the muurikka out with hot water and then wipe it with a crumpled page from a newspaper (that is if you have not overheated and welded stuff on), before you begin next time heat oil in it wipe with paper and and rince. the fun part is that all it takes to cook with this is a knife, cutting board and something to stir with, or do as we usually do prepare at home and just pour ingredients in (saves on carying board and kitchen knife), forgot to add a pot to boil the potatoes in. to eat and save on washing up just use a plate and spork. quick guide to Muurikka cooking. cut some sausage and/or meat into pieces same with potatoes, tomatoes, carrots, canned corn and/or babycorn, some peas WITH pods, bean sprouts and such. first boil the potatoes, I usually boil them almost ready day before and let them finish in Muurikka, or buy ready boiled potatoes and just cut and stir in. to prepare food just heat Muurikka put some oil in when hot (test with small piece of sausage) throw in meat first let it become almost finished then vegetables in order of cooking time. I usually begin with carrots and potatoes then finish with bean sprouts and pea-pods... here is one I found on-line with bit more substance to the proportions. replace the meat with salmon or other fish perhaps some spicy sausages if you wish. to get more do a google image search for Muurikka recipe, use the google language tool to auto translate from Swedish to English. I got the one from above from here (the swedish version), in link below I used language tools to translate to some sort of English. http://translate.google.com/translate?&langpair=sv|en&u=http://www.muurikka.se/recept.php

sadly I have no ex service military radios to speak of, an old WW1 era receiver and the mangled chassis of a Paraset (tube sockets most resistors and the AF choke are gone), is about all. mainly I repair/renovate domestic radios from tube era, mostly same circuitry and variants are same for most all types, be it receiver end of a modern TV or a military comm-transceiver. like with engines, guns... there are few basics that remain no matter what size, type, era and so on, the rest are refinements attempts to rectify actual or imaginary problems in a particular design or attempts to bypass patents... As I said we see it in most any area and as with engines... a schematic and basic data is an huge to get it working as it should, but most likely not needed to get it running if nothing major is broken.

Yes indeed, it is just now a nice clear day and -10°C here in northern Sweden, in a few weeks it will start getting really cold. R, uhm, they start sticking together at about -18°C or so, not that cold.

thanks Michel, I have already found a few topics of interest to lurk over, and look forward to more.

as it say in title, greetings from northern Sweden. I am a blacksmith/welder/machinist with some skill with radios (mainly pre 1970's tube era types) and as a result basics of other parts of the field of electronics. sadly know little about military vehicles but I am here to learn and to help wherever I can. I hope you can forgive me for mangling the English language. Örjan