Motivational Poster Thread (warning content)

hot diggity · Jul 9, 2020

hot diggity · Jul 9, 2020

hot diggity · Jul 9, 2020

Cruisin Sloth · Jul 9, 2020

WOW ,, Id love to be there 2 hear !!

OldDude49 · Jul 9, 2020

OldDude49 · Jul 9, 2020

OldDude49 · Jul 9, 2020

mysterymet · Jul 9, 2020

OldDude49 said: ↑

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No love for the fly swatter? Come on now. That was my Mom’s paddle of choice!

hot diggity · Jul 9, 2020

hot diggity · Jul 9, 2020

Alf60 · Jul 9, 2020

Tully Mars said: ↑

True Story.
Way back when I was asked to restore two engines for the Smithsonian. One was a straight 8 that was rare because of the fact it had a crankshaft and another mid shaft to increase the stroke or some such thing. Anyways there were only 4 known to exist so I got tapped to repair this one that had fallen from the loft during a barn fire and shattered.
ANYWAYS, the other was a single cylinder engine. They told me this was the only one of it's kind they knew of. I had to fabricate a large portion of the left side of the cast cylinder. Something had happened and that side was blown out. I made a rough cast iron repair section and then fit and braised it into position. Textured and machined it. After applying fresh cast iron paint you could not tell it was ever damaged. While tearing down the little engine I figured out why it blew. I recovered 5 jacks from inside the engine. I can only assume how they got there. They were cast iron jacks. Much heavier than the type above. I never said anything and after bead blasting and coating them with oil they reside in one of my tool boxes to this day.
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Those jacks you found in the water hopper are quite common in old engines. They were used in the casting process to rattle around in side the water jacket to clean out sand left over from the cores in the casting process. They often got lodged inside where they could not be remove.

hot diggity · Jul 9, 2020

hot diggity · Jul 9, 2020

SB21 · Jul 9, 2020

mysterymet said: ↑

No love for the fly swatter? Come on now. That was my Mom’s paddle of choice!
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I was going to say ,, they've left out quite a few ,, " weapons of ass destruction " ,,