The Gun Counter

This thread is for those little life lessons that are only obvious in retrospect.

I recently learned that minor bumps somehow turn into himilayan mountains when your transporting a 3000 dollar engine(especially if it isn't yours) thats only sitting in an undersized tire for containment.

I recently learned that it takes longer to actually find the stuff you need to move said engine(seriously, we spent 10 minutes playing with chain for the forklift), than to actually remove it from the back of the vehicle.

I recently learned that one should always ask "how big and how heavy?" before volunteering to help somebody to pick up a new kitchen table. I swear, Bob makes his discount furniture out of lead.

I recently learned that one of the best joys of bachelorhood is flooding your friends voice mailbox with Jay-Z's "99 problems" when he starts complaining about his girlfriend.

I recently learned that I'm apparently the only one who learned something recently, despite nearly 60 views of this thread.

Based solely upon the "instigator" of this thread, I suspect a trap...(See, I learned something. )

None-the-less: I learned that I should not look at on-line gun auctions on the same day that my paycheck is deposited to my bank account.

I learned that I should not drop my car off at the neighborhood garage with instructions to "do whatever it takes to fix it."

I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken.

Don't ask a barber if you need a haircut.

Flintlock Tom wrote:Based solely upon the "instigator" of this thread, I suspect a trap...(See, I learned something. )

The easy way is always mined.

There are things I have learned, but not recently.

Fer instance: When your back yard mechanic brother in law asks you to help him take some engine blocks to the scrap yard, stop right there.

When loading 4 large V-8 engine blocks into a very small 59 Chevy pick up truck, make sure the combined weight of the engine blocks does NOT exceed the entire GVW of the pick up.

Do NOT strap the largest engine block, a plymouth 400 CID complete with humongous auto transmission, to the tailgate because that's the only place it would fit.

As you are driving down the winding hillside road on the way to the scrap yard, do NOT act surprised when the front end of the aforementioned pick up truck starts coming off the road.

When your brother in law screams at you to climb out on the hood and hang onto the hood ornament to keep the front end on the road, without benefit of stopping the truck (thank God for running boards), it's time to look for a new brother in law.

tfbncc wrote:There are things I have learned, but not recently.

Fer instance: When your back yard mechanic brother in law asks you to help him take some engine blocks to the scrap yard, stop right there.

When loading 4 large V-8 engine blocks into a very small 59 Chevy pick up truck, make sure the combined weight of the engine blocks does NOT exceed the entire GVW of the pick up.

Do NOT strap the largest engine block, a plymouth 400 CID complete with humongous auto transmission, to the tailgate because that's the only place it would fit.

As you are driving down the winding hillside road on the way to the scrap yard, do NOT act surprised when the front end of the aforementioned pick up truck starts coming off the road.

When your brother in law screams at you to climb out on the hood and hang onto the hood ornament to keep the front end on the road, without benefit of stopping the truck (thank God for running boards), it's time to look for a new brother in law.

Is your brother in law Mr. Bean?

tfbncc wrote:a plymouth 400 CID complete with humongous auto transmission, to the tailgate because that's the only place it would fit.

Hmm, it may be something Chrysler puts in the castings, because the engine in question was a 440, along with a 727 torqueflite.

I learned that a T code is executed after a G code on the same line. At least on a Haas GT-10. Made for for some fun picking on a guy for crashing the lathe. But none of that is very witty or fun so I didn't post it.

A decision "cast in concrete" really is cast in concrete.

A small qty of front to back ties trump even a large number of strongbacks along the whalers. Esp, after a rain when stakes are in softer ground. Ignore the guys who always rib you for overbuilding everything. Ignore the voice that says "Don't worry it's a low wall, those forms can handle it on their own." Stick with the Grumman structural engineering principle: "Strong enough *2" and it's corollary "Overbuilt but ugly is beautiful."