The end of an era?
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I'm moving more and more twds the hand me down Aston Martin...... Some call it a Buick Park ave but,it will always ways be my Aston?Which besides the $$,uhhh would have less than zero purpose for.Have had M/C's that can do a "ton" in first gear.... cars/trucks have too many wheels?
pokute
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I never saw a Pinto do anything strange, but I remember seeing Chevy Vega's blow head gaskets all over the place!
Lion batteries require special charger circuits and safety circuits. Elec. torque control is great if done correctly. Super Caps are even neater, you can discharge a one farad 3 volt cap in microsec. just don't hold on to it. Charges as fast if you have a big enough supply. What is the IH front end spec? Guy around the corner is on his second restore project (scout). Used to work with a guy who carried water around in his Vega as the head plug was gone. He also loved his BMW( NSU version) with the always failing elec system. My torque wrench is a beam type I got when the wife & I changed the head on the Rabbit.
Ian
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Bret, that was the first thing that jumped into my mind when splody gm pickups was mentioned. Agenda much? Naw.....couldn't be....
I hate jeeps. Strong, but appropriate word. Poorly engineered from a mess of second-hand components made by other car companies, no two ever made alike. It didn't get better when AMC was out of the picture, either...enter Peugeot, Renault, Eagle, and later Daimler, throw in OBD I and II, and you have a real mess from a technician's standpoint.
I hate jeeps. Strong, but appropriate word. Poorly engineered from a mess of second-hand components made by other car companies, no two ever made alike. It didn't get better when AMC was out of the picture, either...enter Peugeot, Renault, Eagle, and later Daimler, throw in OBD I and II, and you have a real mess from a technician's standpoint.
OK... no big deal here but,had to go way old skool drilling holes and subsequently screwing screws.
So close to a wall that NO kind of drill motor was gonna work.And there sat the new Hibachi's....heck,there was a cpl DeFault corded drills too.
Nope,had to stop the dang show and go get a Stanley Yankee push drill and a plain ole screwdriver.....either that or bugger up fresh drywall.
So close to a wall that NO kind of drill motor was gonna work.And there sat the new Hibachi's....heck,there was a cpl DeFault corded drills too.
Nope,had to stop the dang show and go get a Stanley Yankee push drill and a plain ole screwdriver.....either that or bugger up fresh drywall.
Ian
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When I get my wood shop finished and all the stuff finally moved out of the welding shop and set up properly, one of my first projects is going to be making something like that. I've always wanted a solid maple tool cabinet, three banks wide, 30 deep, 42 tall with a checkerboard end-grain cherry/maple top. Somebody has to keep KV and Blum in business
Ahhhh..... throwing "spalted" Maple in the furnace as this is written.Years ago we called it rotten?But this is "soft" Maple.Which would be slackjaw,"that can't be your toolchest",dontcha know.
Last toolchest I built went in the machine shop.Had a leftover pce of black granite from a $$$ kitchen.Pretty cool house,late 1700's,Cherry raised panel doors.But anyway,got this granite.Then,used a factory sheet metal,3 sided "Kennedy brown" enclosure that wasn't used on a furnace swap out on customer house.It's the two sides and back.
So,granite hillbilly surface plate top....ripoff Kennedy machinist chest sides...I used white oak Gerstner inspired face frame/drawer fronts.Inset drawers with cockbeaded edge treatment.Put it all on steel castors.It's pretty cool?Took a little too long which is NOT how these things need to be done.Each build IMO only has so much "incentive" time in it.So you have to learn and practice,"making" time....or they dragarse and become one more unfinished burden.
Last toolchest I built went in the machine shop.Had a leftover pce of black granite from a $$$ kitchen.Pretty cool house,late 1700's,Cherry raised panel doors.But anyway,got this granite.Then,used a factory sheet metal,3 sided "Kennedy brown" enclosure that wasn't used on a furnace swap out on customer house.It's the two sides and back.
So,granite hillbilly surface plate top....ripoff Kennedy machinist chest sides...I used white oak Gerstner inspired face frame/drawer fronts.Inset drawers with cockbeaded edge treatment.Put it all on steel castors.It's pretty cool?Took a little too long which is NOT how these things need to be done.Each build IMO only has so much "incentive" time in it.So you have to learn and practice,"making" time....or they dragarse and become one more unfinished burden.
Ian
Notorious member
I've never words put to it quite that way, but you sure did capture it.
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Bret, that was the first thing that jumped into my mind when splody gm pickups was mentioned. Agenda much? Naw.....couldn't be....
I hate jeeps. Strong, but appropriate word. Poorly engineered from a mess of second-hand components made by other car companies, no two ever made alike. It didn't get better when AMC was out of the picture, either...enter Peugeot, Renault, Eagle, and later Daimler, throw in OBD I and II, and you have a real mess from a technician's standpoint.
From my point of view all of them, of every make and model are worthy of hate at times! Had to change a simple fan motor on a 99 S10 Chev the other day. Attempting to get one screw out cost me an 1/4" drive socket and a 1/4 to 3/8 adapter I was using as a "handle" on the socket. They are both down in the fender well someplace. Maybe some guy with little girly hands could have wedged his mitt over at a 90 degree angle and gotten that screw, but darned if I could Musta taken me 1/2 an hour to get that one stubborn screw. Should have been a 10 minute job.