MackTheFinger Posted August 5, 2019 Report Posted August 5, 2019 That's almost a motorcycle and I just love motorcycles!! 1 Quote
pflaming Posted August 5, 2019 Report Posted August 5, 2019 “chitty, chitty, bang bang” car? Who was the actor? Oo, eej, oo, ah, ah, bing bang. . . .Oh how far we have digressed! Quote
Plymouthy Adams Posted August 6, 2019 Report Posted August 6, 2019 Chitty was driven by Dickie boy.....you would be surprised at the many interesting details of the 7 cars used for the film and where the name for car came from..... I understand the car was only driven when the owner felt chitty.... Quote
Todd B Posted August 10, 2019 Report Posted August 10, 2019 On 7/24/2019 at 9:30 PM, Don Coatney said: Today I needed some stainless feather washers so I stopped at a Advanced Auto Parts store. I asked the kid for stainless feather washers, he couldn’t find them in the computer so he asked a lady who worked there. She pointed us to the assorted fastener area and the kid said “is stainless metal or plastic?” I said what the hell are you working here for if you don’t know that answer. I then said, so I suppose you have no idea what a feather washer is? He replied, “ no clue” My first and last time I’ll ever stop at one of those stores again. Quote
Merle Coggins Posted August 10, 2019 Report Posted August 10, 2019 I don’t even know what a feather washer is. Quote
Todd B Posted August 10, 2019 Report Posted August 10, 2019 Interesting, we always called them feather washers, google search calls them a star washer. I suppose now you’re gonna tell me Stainless comes in plastic also. Quote
Don Coatney Posted August 10, 2019 Author Report Posted August 10, 2019 46 minutes ago, Merle Coggins said: I don’t even know what a feather washer is. Nor do I Quote
TodFitch Posted August 10, 2019 Report Posted August 10, 2019 1 hour ago, Merle Coggins said: I don’t even know what a feather washer is. 1 hour ago, Todd B said: Interesting, we always called them feather washers, google search calls them a star washer. I suppose now you’re gonna tell me Stainless comes in plastic also. I know now. Would that be an internal or external star washer? (Or “Shakeproof Lockwashers” as the 1928-33 Plymouth Master Parts Book calls them.) Quote
Plymouthy Adams Posted August 10, 2019 Report Posted August 10, 2019 (edited) feather washer keeps chickens clean down on the farm... I admit to the fact that I have never in my life ever heard the star washers called as such......must be a local thing....I always called a pallet a pal-et down here they call them pal-lay....and instead of a paper clip they call them Gem clips as Gem as the local suppliers name... Edited August 10, 2019 by Plymouthy Adams Quote
TodFitch Posted August 11, 2019 Report Posted August 11, 2019 3 hours ago, Plymouthy Adams said: ...and instead of a paper clip they call them Gem clips as Gem as the local suppliers name... Back when I was getting my mechanical engineering degree I got a job as a “Summer Engineering Aide” with the state highway department. The job was basically being a “gofer” on a survey crew. Mechanical engineering and surveying are two different fields so there was a difference in terminology. But I was young and did not want to admit ignorance on anything. So when a term or phrase came up that I was unfamiliar with I’d look it up in the section on surveying or civil engineering in Encyclopædia Britannica in the evening. I figured out most of the lingo that way. For example, the tape measure marked off in tenths and hundredths of feet was called a “chain” because historically they used chains. And that a “vertical curve” was actually a parabolic curve. But I never figured out why they called the nails we drove into the asphalt for temporary location points were called “PKs”. So at the end of the summer I finally asked why the nails were called that. The crew chief looked at me like I’d just fallen off the back of a turnip truck, walked to the line wagon and pulled out a box of the nails. The logo on the box showed that they were manufactured by the PK Manufacturing Company. 2 Quote
pflaming Posted August 11, 2019 Report Posted August 11, 2019 (edited) That car is loaded. It must have been upgraded for the task. Edited August 11, 2019 by pflaming Quote
DonaldSmith Posted August 11, 2019 Report Posted August 11, 2019 Post 1501 is the "Sir Vival", front end articulated, rear end '48 Hudson. On 8/4/2019 at 7:45 PM, BigDaddyO said: 1 Quote
Plymouthy Adams Posted August 12, 2019 Report Posted August 12, 2019 make a nice clown car at Disney World Quote
Plymouthy Adams Posted August 19, 2019 Report Posted August 19, 2019 cut the man some slack...he is wearing gloves and carrying a chebbie wrench 1 Quote
TodFitch Posted August 19, 2019 Report Posted August 19, 2019 3 hours ago, Plymouthy Adams said: cut the man some slack...he is wearing gloves and carrying a chebbie wrench And the stand is on a jack so they are using it as a "jack stand". 2 Quote
Dodgeed Posted August 21, 2019 Report Posted August 21, 2019 On 8/19/2019 at 10:53 AM, linus6948 said: Gives me the willies just looking at it; can't imagine me getting under that contraption. ? 1 1 Quote
Don Coatney Posted August 24, 2019 Author Report Posted August 24, 2019 Tired of the average coffee table 1 Quote
casper50 Posted August 24, 2019 Report Posted August 24, 2019 Dang I'm tired with this already. lol 1 Quote
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