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I'm going to go back down there and drop off a cd for him and if I know him our excursion into his old passion will trigger finding some more goodies and my brain will be unloaded enough to maybe absorb some oil info. He can quickly swamp me as he's spent a lifetime messing with little mechanisms. To him it's no big deal and probably boring to other people.
C-Bag: Look forward to hearing about his thoughts on lube for instruments. People like that are a real treasure in my book and make me feel alive with wonder, yacking about all kinds of "stuff". I recently had the pleasure of talking at length with someone who worked at Aerojet during the early years (Mid 50's to mid 60's)...still get a buzz a week later.
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One of my friends recently complained about having to do a project with about 1K rivets. Pop rivets, mind you, done with a pneumatic puller. I had to laugh and refer him to my RV project photos. On the plus side, I've got an excellent collection of clecos!
Ken: Don't think I could ever complain again after your intrepid adventure building a plane...let alone your GTR. We did have a pneumatic pop rivet tool but cutting, layout/drilling, support big sheets and forming the curves and seams (Oh My Seams), was really the harder parts of the job. Funny about the clecos...I got to tour part of the McDonald Douglas plant in Long Beach with my Dad and Uncle (who worked there 30 years). They had scads of roll-a-round