The Original Old Farts Club

[Bubba]

Hey with all my Life stories I just thought I should write a book
One that will actually sell copies and not just be offered for sale on amazon.

"The life and Times of Roster" or Roster Cogburn maybe?

Bubba

 

[Bubba]

Ok, was trying to talk myself into not going to Sam's Club. Now I see pharmacy closed .
That's the excuse I was looking for. 70 ish. Sunny. Need an excuse not to mow. Better ask Roster?

Bubba

 

[joeb631a]

I like Joes answer
Not since he left college

 

[NewbOldster]

Even do a broking motor mount on one side by jacking just that side up and reaching down just as the jack slipped?

I worked with a guy that had an engine drop on his hand when he was doing motor mounts. He was out of work for around 6 weeks, as I recall. But then, old Leonard liked his thermos full of Irish Coffee, too.

Worst that ever happened to me (thankfully - my arms are scarred all up and down, and I've lost part of almost all of my fingernails at one time or another, but never anything major) was when I was reaching into the engine compartment of a Ford Airport style bus I was PDI'ing. Last one of the week, at 4:30 on a Friday before my coming Christmas vacation. A radiator hose label was fluttering under the hood and I stuck my hand in to grab it, but the alternator had a different idea - the generator cooling fan took off exactly half of my thumbnail, all the way back to the first knuckle. I could see the cartilage.

That. Effing. HURT! Spent my Christmas vacation with a throbbing thumb.

 

[Bubba]

wished they deal with the maggots in Washington !

Roll out the guillotine, and off with their heads

 

[Bubba]

that sounded so romantic

It does, doesn't it. Hmmm.

 

[Bubba]

Never seen it, but the long hairs who scalp themselves always looked painful.

Bubba

 

[Bubba]

My hand has been smiling at me all day. I think I will take it out to dinner.

Majestic Steak house I think. Jazz band in the lower room. It's an old restaurant, still has the secret door by register stand that went to speak easy part in prohibition. Sat in on a few card games in there.

Bubba

 

[RosterMan]

Ok, was trying to talk myself into not going to Sam's Club. Now I see pharmacy closed .
That's the excuse I was looking for. 70 ish. Sunny. Need an excuse not to mow. Better ask Roster?

Bubba

I say get on that new puppy mower and ride............
Wish I had some lawn that needed to be cut

 

[Bubba]

ok enough is enough. Where are my Chrimera 3 squeezins?

 

[Hippie420]

My wife loves the forensics shows, and I find it fascinating that the timing of the arrival of various insects at different points in the decomposition process allows for determining time of death, etc.
I couldn't survive in a lab, either. My wife was a cubicle dweller for many years, until she got an office. I couldn't have done a cube, either. She thinks I'm nuts as it is...spending a full 1/3rd of my day in a little box would put me over the edge. lol

I used to watch them all the time. My wife calls 'em "how to get away with it" shows.

I've personally known two different people who were killed under cars. The last one was a friend who was changing the pinion seal in his rear differential. Had one side up on a floor jack (no GD Jack Stands!) with all four tires on the car, and as he was tightening the pinion nut, the Expedition rolled off the floor jack and the pumpkin landed on his chest. It cracked his sternum, which was apparently survivable, but he suffocated under the rear end because nobody was around to help.

Safety has always been first and foremost with any endeavor I undertake. The guys in the shops I've worked in all knew that I was the Shop Safety Notsee because I was always quite vocal about it.

I'm heading up shortly to get some brake pads for mama's car, and when I put them on, I won't be under the car, I'll be sitting in a roll-around creeper seat - there will still be a jack stand supporting that car.

The kid down the road was working on his car. I'd warned him NOT to trust a bottle jack and to put jack stands under it. He got in a hurry and didn't listen to me. The bottle jack bled down, he couldn't get out, and he couldn't inhale and passed out. His dad came out to yell at him for tying up the garage too long and when he didn't answer, he kicked his foot. Getting no response, he jacked the car back up and pulled the kid out from underneath. He woke him up by slapping him, and when the kid came to, he kept right on slapping him.

That was the method Hippy said to use.

Nope. My suggestion was the way I did mine, with either a heat gun or a hair dryer. You can use any heat source, even an incandescent lightbulb in a pinch. A torch works, but you'll run a risk of melting it if you're not careful.

 

[RosterMan]

I ride up and down the blocks near me and cut overgrown lawns for free

 

[RosterMan]

I used to watch them all the time. My wife calls 'em "how to get away with it" shows.

The kid down the road was working on his car. I'd warned him NOT to trust a bottle jack and to put jack stands under it. He got in a hurry and didn't listen to me. The bottle jack bled down, he couldn't get out, and he couldn't inhale and passed out. His dad came out to yell at him for tying up the garage too long and when he didn't answer, he kicked his foot. Getting no response, he jacked the car back up and pulled the kid out from underneath. He woke him up by slapping him, and when the kid came to, he kept right on slapping him.



Nope. My suggestion was the way I did mine, with either a heat gun or a hair dryer. You can use any heat source, even an incandescent lightbulb in a pinch. A torch works, but you'll run a risk of melting it if you're not careful.

How there is a book I could write

 

[RosterMan]

I used to watch them all the time. My wife calls 'em "how to get away with it" shows.

The kid down the road was working on his car. I'd warned him NOT to trust a bottle jack and to put jack stands under it. He got in a hurry and didn't listen to me. The bottle jack bled down, he couldn't get out, and he couldn't inhale and passed out. His dad came out to yell at him for tying up the garage too long and when he didn't answer, he kicked his foot. Getting no response, he jacked the car back up and pulled the kid out from underneath. He woke him up by slapping him, and when the kid came to, he kept right on slapping him.



Nope. My suggestion was the way I did mine, with either a heat gun or a hair dryer. You can use any heat source, even an incandescent lightbulb in a pinch. A torch works, but you'll run a risk of melting it if you're not careful.

If you are good like Roster you wont burn it

 

[Hippie420]

Nobody is as good as Roster.

 

[NewbOldster]

No way, it is because Snap off now makes the tools in Chya

All of them do. They either assemble them in the USA out of Chynese parts, or they're made in Chyna to the manufacturer's specs.

I have a pretty strong Nationalist bent, and I'd love to only buy American, but the world market bein' what it is, I really had no choice. I own some old, OLD Craftsman stuff, and a whole lot of MAC, 'Scrap-Iron', and MATCO tools. Even a few Cornwell tools. My tool inventory about 10 years ago was well over the 6 figure mark, counting diagnostics and storage.

Lots of those tools were "Made in China" and are quite high quality. I can't lie.

 

[RosterMan]

All of them do. They either assemble them in the USA out of Chynese parts, or they're made in Chyna to the manufacturer's specs.

I have a pretty strong Nationalist bent, and I'd love to only buy American, but the world market bein' what it is, I really had no choice. I own some old, OLD Craftsman stuff, and a whole lot of MAC, 'Scrap-Iron', and MATCO tools. Even a few Cornwell tools. My tool inventory about 10 years ago was well over the 6 figure mark, counting diagnostics and storage.

Lots of those tools were "Made in China" and are quite high quality. I can't lie.

Yes we were sold out a long time ago

 

[Bubba]

I used to watch them all the time. My wife calls 'em "how to get away with it" shows.

The kid down the road was working on his car. I'd warned him NOT to trust a bottle jack and to put jack stands under it. He got in a hurry and didn't listen to me. The bottle jack bled down, he couldn't get out, and he couldn't inhale and passed out. His dad came out to yell at him for tying up the garage too long and when he didn't answer, he kicked his foot. Getting no response, he jacked the car back up and pulled the kid out from underneath. He woke him up by slapping him, and when the kid came to, he kept right on slapping him.



Nope. My suggestion was the way I did mine, with either a heat gun or a hair dryer. You can use any heat source, even an incandescent lightbulb in a pinch. A torch works, but you'll run a risk of melting it if you're not careful.

I have a heat gun, might be too much. Had to heat up a magazine tube about 260 or 10 mins or so before the glob of Turkish lock tite let go. Maybe the hair dryer would be best.

 

[Hippie420]

My cheap little China Freight has two heat settings. Either one is capable of melting the cap into a blob unless you're paying attention and don't keep it back far enough or hold it in one spot too long.

 

[Bubba]

My cheap little China Freight has two heat settings. Either one is capable of melting the cap into a blob unless you're paying attention and don't keep it back far enough or hold it in one spot too long.

Its probably the same one I have!