Remembering back when...

[clovis]

  On 8/19/2014 at 1:40 AM, farmer1 said:

Reminds me of a story dad told, growing up during the depression a neighbor's tractor had an oil leak so he hung a tin can under it to catch the oil and would pour it back in ! Times were hard indeed.

I love that story!

People of today's society have no idea how hard life was years ago for some folks.

[Art Anderson]

  On 8/19/2014 at 1:40 AM, farmer1 said:

Reminds me of a story dad told, growing up during the depression a neighbor's tractor had an oil leak so he hung a tin can under it to catch the oil and would pour it back in ! Times were hard indeed.

One of the best stories out of my Grandpa Anderson's household was from the Great Depression: In January 1930, Grandpa and Dad (who was 26 at the time, still helping out on the 300-acre farm) came into West Lafayette to hear the US Secretary of Agriculture give a talk to farmers, about what to expect that year: "Boys (my farther's words here exactly as he related them many times), you will never see corn go below a dollar (per bushel)!" Dad said that by November 1930, corn was down to just 30-cents a bushel on the Chicago Board of Trade, and that winter, they burned ear corn in the heating stove at home, because coal would have cost 2-3 times as much as the corn would sold for.

A lesson I have never forgotten.

Art

[1972coronet]

  On 8/19/2014 at 1:40 AM, farmer1 said:

Reminds me of a story dad told, growing up during the depression a neighbor's tractor had an oil leak so he hung a tin can under it to catch the oil and would pour it back in ! Times were hard indeed.

Sounds like the Constant-Loss Lubrication of some Motorcycles !

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total-loss_oiling_system

It would appear that wikipedia has aligned constant-loss with total-loss . Certain motocycles (think : BSA) had a lubrication system which included a spoon which was used to refill the crankcase with oil , as those engines would leak like a sive .

On the other hand , there are the two-stroke Detroit Diesels ; those are 'Total-Loss' by nature .

Edited August 19, 2014 by 1972coronet

[Ju Ju]

You go ahead and bore that AMC 360 3 hundred thousands over size if you want........

  On 8/16/2014 at 9:31 PM, DynoMight said:

Sigh. Not all of us are like that... Currently helping my dad re-build a AMC 360 bored .30 over..

[Ju Ju]

.003= 3 thousands of an inch

.030 = 30 thousands of an inch

.300 = 300 thousands of an inch

You may want to master using and reading micrometers before jumping into such an ambitious project ?

Maybe a learn how to use a pair of telescoping gages too ?

[Tom Geiger]

  On 8/19/2014 at 12:20 AM, pharoah said:

LOL Great story. Did she break up with him later?

Several times. Last time took!