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I was working on my boat trailer the other day and I needed some 3/4" wrenches. I was trying to get to various bolts in various positions and I didn't know exactly which would work best. I didn't want to crawl in and out from under the trailer 6 times so I thought I would just grab all the 3/4 wrenches. That turned out to be a bigger task than I had thought. I was interested to find that by the time I had picked out all my 3/4" wrenches, I had more available than any other size. I'm wondering if this is just an oddity of my tool collection, or if this is a statistical fact born out across the business. Is 3/4" really the most popular size? I own 15. (My next closest was 9/16", at 11 wrenches.) So for the sake of my quasi-scientific curiosity I'm asking you to look in your drawers and tell me what you find! No no, Plymouthy, the tool box drawers please.

Lord I hope it don't need a valve adjustment after every run!

I used to put one kid in front and the other in back, and take them hill climbing on the dirt bike. We fell off a couple times too. Their mom wasn't happy, but they survived and both grew up to be great parents. I took them many times in the P15 and my '59 Edsel, with no seat belts, and they survived.

Thank God the fire season is over...

My man cave is attached to the house and to heat it (now that it is insulated fully) I simply open the door to the house, I actually plugged in a little electric heater yesterday though cuz it got down to 28 degrees. That's very cold for these parts.

The guy had balls the size of King Kong.

I moved to Clovis CA, where it almost never snows. In 40 years it has snowed about 3 times, and once it actually lasted a half day before melting. Having chopped ice and shoveled heavy snow in Washington, New York, Minnesota, and Utah, I feel like I've done enough of that in this life. I have 6 sets of various tire chains, but they've been in a box since 1975. Unless the Ice Age starts soon, they're gonna stay there.

How very sad. May the Good Lord watch over you folks out on the road Dan.

Happy Thanksgiving from the West Coast. I cooked a half ham and 20lb turkey & along with my lovely wife and daughters we fed the whole clan. 7 hungry granddaughters mugging the camera:

OK, I DO NOT recommend this procedure, but gasoline is the world's cheapest paint thinner. I knew a guy who sprayed many cars using gasoline & evidently it worked. Of course gas was 26 cents a gallon back then, and there was no EPA; but of course the explosion hazard is high and the vapors will choke you. "White" gas was made as a cooking gas and it has no lead, but it does have stuff in it (as does auto gas,) to help prevent rust in the tank. I believe that's what leaves the real residue.

That's one whale of a car 'Sailor.

Dad also served with the 692nd RES and DUADS as well.

I collect photos of old planes. I wish I could remember where this one came from. Reno Air Races maybe? Anyhow, for fearless American aviators everywhere . . .

http://abc30.com/society/veterans-day-celebrations-start-early-in-downtown-fresno/1602006/ I had to work today, but the parade went on without me. Largest one west of the Mississippi.

My thanks to all of you guys and gals who served our country. I drug these out of my desk, in an old fruitcake tin where they have lived as long as I can remember, because these are things I want to remember. These were my dad's, except for the stained patch of the 381st SMW. Not sure where I got that one. Dad wore the ADC patch from the mid- 60's onward. SAC before '64 though. The catholic stuff was Dad's, the Baptist stuff was Mom's The folding screwdriver reads "Go Airforce". Mom had scouts (boy and girl) in our home, and the scout pins belonged to Mom and my sister. There's a tiny pin (upside down in the pic) which reads "21". No clue what that's about.

I never owned one myself. I used a piece of piston ring embeded in a wood handle to clean the piston grooves.

Never got to go myself. Rather sorry about that too. Hopefully I'll get to go to Barber's some day.

My sister-in-law drove a school bus for years. She used to tell stories about how tough the CHP inspectors were during the final examination when she was first licensed. He kept asking her questions and she managed to answer every one. He could not trip her up, so finally he asked her, "How many bolts does the mudflap have?" She didn't want to hesitate, and she didn't want to guess, so she blurted out, "Enough to hold it on!" She drove that catterpiggle school bus over Pacheco Pass twice a day for 20 years.

Hey Plymouthy, I apologize for trying to bait you. This all sounded very mean-spirited when I re-read it this morning. I've actually always loved minibikes myself. I like the color too. I've owned two cars that were about that color. But being a hotrodder at heart, I think it deserves a larger engine.

I make enough money pushing buttons. You can do the minibike selling thanks. And I'd suggest you either sell it fast or buy a helmet. I've ridden enough motorcycles and skateboards to know to never get on one without a helmet. Seriously, Plymouthy. People may think I'm a helmet nazi, but after 7 motorcycles, and dozens of skateboards I know better, and so do you.

I knew it reminded me of something....

Oh, Plymouthy, what I meant is that I can't imagine you (or anyone) wasting time on that glorified lawn mower.