Shop Time w/T.W. Friends

Prayers for both of you friend.

 

We're thinkin about you and yours there Toe. Hope it all works out fine.

Speaking of shaving and Bivouacs fit check comment, I've got scba fit check tomorrow that I have to clean shave for, can keep a tidy mustache but thats it. It's a class for our equipment, we all feel like we shouldn't have to go but some things you just gotta pay the cost and take the ride.

 

Lincoln (or Ford) never used a straight 8 engine. The big Lincoln power plants were V12 & V16!

Packard also offered a V12 from 1916-39, they and Pontiac held the (deadly for business) title of offering the last straight 8 engines, both flatheads until 1954.
Pontiac had the resources to modernize and carry on and Packard who did finally come out with a OHV V8 didn't.

Packard management was both genuinely elderly & out of touch, a sad downward spiral for a company who proudly used the slogan "Ask the man who owns one".

1932


1947

 

Collecting plates all the way back then

 

Cold day meet hot soup.
Homemade ham & potato.

I impressed myself - but then my standards aren't too high either...

 

Well colour me embarrassed! I was sure that the the late 30s Zephyr had a straight 8 option.

I'll stick to tractors...

 

That looks distinctly sup-able!

 

Real homemade too, I boiled a ham bone for 2 hours yesterday to make the broth, only thing out of a can is the corn.

 

Packard was marketed as an exclusive car where smoothness & durability was the paramount measure of quality. The larger models of the straight eight had 9 main bearings, very expensive engines to manufacture.

Packard spent decades refining the engines however their elderly management didn't read the changes in the market, (..."we've always done it this way...") their cars moved from "well off peoples cars" to became "well off old peoples cars". A deadly place to market from in the post war years.

Ford at heart was an economy company yet more agile, Lincoln being family had to both share the resources (tech) and change with the times.

 

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/any-woodworkers.271012/page-527#post-28342572

 

Or......goes right into the grate cover of the drain.

 

Thank you friends.
My fit test for SCBA isn't due until August but I see half mask coming due end of February. We all (maintenance hands) feel the same about the requirements, yeah.
Wife is in procedure now. She mentioned her Dr referring her to ILD Dr so I search what that is.
Then depression set in when I look at time to expire after diagnosis...3-5 years. Google sucks.
I hope and pray it's something besides that.
Geez.
Soup looks good @RustyGreen
I thought of you the other day; something about great value or off brand pepper vs McCormick. There does seem to be a difference for certain.

 

Maybe your handsomeness.

 

I shave with edge jell and warm water, disposable blade. Shave isn't as comfortable with the 2 blade disposable but them newer style multi-blade replacement at $5 or more a piece, nah.
I remember years ago an Aunt bought me and my cousin electric shavers. Something about patent lift and cut technology and my cousin said it felt more like yank, rip and tear
I agree.
That was my cousin Jimmy who passed couple years ago not quite 55. Stomach cancer.

 

About 2-3 years ago we added duals on the back of this guy’s tricycle. The front swings around and he puts it in the back of his Jeep.




What does he want done now you ask?

Duals on the front with a new adjustable fork thingy.

 

You are 100% correct Critter

 

Remember these huge exhaust tips?





That he put on this Jeep? Same guy with tricycle

 

Where the hell is he going that he needs that much rubber on the ground???? Must be a heavy sumbitch to pedal....