Ace-Garageguy

I like pie.

Enjoy the simple things in life and try to focus on the positive instead of letting your problems get you down.

X-Files' Gillian Anderson was a babe.

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Disclaimers like "do not use this riding mower as a hedge trimmer" must be addressing this guy.

Just tried it, works fine for me.

Absolutely fascinating. I wonder just exactly what the function of the blue is to trick you into seeing red. If I was going to live forever, I'd definitely put this on my list of deep dives. Alas, the days grow short.

The other thing that sets really good mechanics apart from all the rest is that they understand the basics, and know everything that rolls with an IC engine works pretty much the same way, and they aren't intimidated by antique or newfangled variations on the original theme. The first mechanic I apprenticed under had worked on model T Fords when they were new, and he imparted that particular piece of wisdom to me. Sounds like your guys learned the same mindset.

When wrecking my lungs was as much a part of my daily routine as wrecking my liver, I was rarely without a Zippo. Cool little devices, ever so much cooler than wimpy butane lighters.

The Watson front-engined cars were heavily influenced by the Frank Kurtis "roadsters" that preceded them. For in-depth info on the Watson cars, I'd suggest you start here... EDIT: That twin-nostril nose, by the way, was a Watson trademark that appeared on many of his cars in various iterations, and a f'glass repop of it was even offered in the wayback in full scale as part of a "kit" to build a T-tub-based street roadster. Though I've never seen one completed, I have an ad for the kit in a '60s Hot Rod mag, and its 1/25 scale version is on the shelf in the "parts acquisition/research" section.

Hours sometimes pass like days, sometimes like minutes.

Good man. I'll use air (or electric) for most larger disassembly, but never never never for assembly. Years ago I knew a "race car mechanic" who assembled a 427 in a Cobra with air wrenches. Laughed at anyone trying to tell him about controlled bolt stretch, etc. Car scattered the engine, a rod through the side of the block, on the second lap.

A WHOLE lot of truth to that, and it gets worse with every generation of vehicles.

Yup, there are some good ones out there, but they're a tiny minority. I've been closely associated with the car repair/modification/restoration industry for over 50 years, and I can count the really good, competent, honest, and intelligent practitioners I've known on one hand. And that doesn't mean they all know everything about everything. What it does mean is that they know enough to know when it's time to do some in-depth research, get out the factory manuals, possibly learn something new, or admit that the necessary work isn't within their sphere of expertise or ability.

Not that long ago on a hiking trail, I came across a little box turtle that had very recently been stomped to death. Multiple sets of boot prints around it, so it was obviously several people who thought it was fun to smash a defenseless turtle. I'll spare the board the rest of my thoughts.

Well, ya got the yahoo cowboys at the tire stores who put every nut on with an impact wrench set at WIDE OPEN instead of a torque wrench (and stretch the studs which deforms the threads and seizes the nut), you got the knuckle-dragging hackers who have no clue but believe they're God's gift to machinery while they ruin everything they touch, you got the outright crooks, you got the people working on cars because they're "too stupid to do anything else", and then you got the little fellas with potmetal "tools" they bought at Offshore Junk Я Us (and not a one of 'em has a phone app to work it). That's the vast majority of what's out there. Use the right tool (or part) correctly and understand the job you're doing...on either end? Who you trying to kid, anyway?

Summer doesn't officially start until June 20, next Thursday.

When I clicked on it and it enlarged about 50%, I still saw the red...but if I got right up on the image, the red went away. PART of the way it works is that you're really seeing is gray as your brain blends adjacent black and white, but because we're wired for pattern recognition, and "remember" patterns we've seen previously and interpret things that are similar as being the same, your brain inserts the red where it's "remembered" it's supposed to go. I was looking out the window the other day and swore there was a huge hawk sitting in a tree, but when I got the binocs out it was only a pattern made by leaves that my brain had interpreted as "hawk".

Because all that subliminal product-placement over the years has programmed your brain to see Coke cans in random patterns? Just a thought...

Have Gun, Will Travel is still a most entertaining old TV show...assuming you can follow a plot and do without gratuitous horizontal activities, pandering to special interests, car chases, and things blowing up.

Purposes of some tools may not be readily apparent.

"Clothes make the man."

Lover problems like lying and infidelity and emptying the bank accounts to run off with Raoul the Pool Boy no longer affect fat old broke geezers.

Nope. Not even close. It's a GMC Roots-type "positive displacement" supercharger with a Potvin-style front-drive and manifold setup. The Latham unit is an "axial flow" supercharger that works entirely differently. POTVIN HERE: https://www.mooneyesusa.com/product-p/potvin2009.htm AND DISCUSSED IN THE THREAD BELOW:

Yes...as far as I know. Mark would most likely have the definitive answer though.