Vintage Military Manuals & Parts
Because of numerous fake accounts being added, we have chosen to add the re-captcha back to the site when using the checkout feature. Please login if you already have an account as this will remove the re-captcha requirement when you … Read More
We have seen a slowing of the page loading time on the critical shop category page as we have added additional categories to browse. We are now up to 54 main categories available from the “SHOP” page. With this many … Read More
We have taken the step of adding “Basic” language support for French, Italian, German, Dutch, Polish. Because we are using only a rudimentary system for translation, i.e. GOOGLE, the translations may not be accurate, but will give the idea of … Read More
A new customer contacted us regarding an issue he was encountering while trying to place an order for parts. He was receiving an error from our Re-captcha (anti-spam) plugin prior to being re-directed to PayPal. This error seems to be … Read More
“Lazy” image loading has been enabled for the site. This will decrease the page load times for what is visible at any given time. But, as you scroll around on the pages, the previously unseen images will load as they … Read More
As I look through the logs of activity on the site, I can see that there is a substantial portion of the daily visits that come from Europe and elsewhere. It seems the most common countries, where English isn’t the … Read More
We are experimenting with live chat on the website. If you have questions about a product that you would like kenet to answer while he is online, use the live chat button. This button will appear as an orange circle … Read More
We have again reduced the size of the product images to aide in the more rapid loading of product pages. The new file size will vary from 100-130k per image. This will decrease the load time for each new page. … Read More
Working from the feedback received at the MVPA convention, we have made some adjustments to the site to assist in the speed of page loading. We have used an image optimizer that reduced the size of all images by 10%. … Read More
We’ve received some constructive feedback while at the MVPA convention in Louisville. A regular visitor to the site described the time to load some pages as taking “minutes”. We are currently looking into this situation and are hoping to resolve … Read More
The website has been taken off of “Vacation” mode. All items are again available for sale. We have made an attempt to accurately remove the sold product from the website that was sold at the convention. However, it is possible … Read More
From June 3, to June 24th the website will be in a “Vacation” mode. No orders will be accepted during this period as most of our inventory will be in route to the 2018 MVPA convention in Louisville Kentucky as … Read More
Anyone know why the Ordnance Department decided to change the ink color for the cover text on this publication? I’ve seen three different colors so far, black, red, green. I don’t think I’ve seen this in other manuals published by … Read More
We’ve decided to experiment with posting some representative examples of items to Ebay. While these items are on Ebay, they cannot be purchased through the website. Please use the provided links found on the product pages to bid on the … Read More
You can now create your own wishlist for this site. This is the same feature that large sites like Amazon and Ebay have. On Ebay, it is called a watchlist rather than a wishlist. By clicking on a product in … Read More
The website is being slowly updated to allow for offers on most manual/book products. Most new product added, will have this function enabled at the time of the listing. Older, existing, product will be analyzed and added to this functionality. … Read More
We’ve added a product page view counter today. This system will track the number of product page views, excluding the admin views, on a daily, weekly, monthly basis. Look for it at the bottom of the product pages, just above … Read More
