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On 7/19/2019 at 9:39 PM, DrB said:

I'd like to stick around but there seems to be a dead hooker in my trunk.  I have to go find my shovel...

 

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Picture taken of Elon Musk's personal Tesla minutes before blasting it into space......

On 7/20/2019 at 9:52 PM, tous said:

See if they'll take a Nissan Maxima as an even trade.

 

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Eric has some bargaining room - he almost has two Maximas!

On 7/21/2019 at 12:43 AM, Eric said:

I wonder how this ended? People are so ****ing stupid. 

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I see that and I think of the time I was floating around in my (above ground) swimming pool as a kid, bumped into the side, and it broke open.........

Would've been a GREAT Youtube video...

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16 minutes ago, SC Tiger said:

Picture taken of Elon Musk's personal Tesla minutes before blasting it into space......

Eric has some bargaining room - he almost has two Maximas!

I see that and I think of the time I was floating around in my (above ground) swimming pool as a kid, bumped into the side, and it broke open.........

Would've been a GREAT Youtube video...

The weight of water (62.4 lbs. per cubic foot) makes that a miracle that kid hasn't been injured or killed by the balcony collapsing due to an overload.

Example:  if it's 12 feet long, 4 feet wide and 2 feet deep, that's 96 cubic feet of water at 62.4 lbs./ft^3.  or a total of almost 6,000 lbs.nm (3 Tons)

Let's assume my dimensional guessing  is off by 50%.  This is still a 3,000 lb load on a deck made to support a small number of people.

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15 minutes ago, janice6 said:

The weight of water (62.4 lbs. per cubic foot) makes that a miracle that kid hasn't been injured or killed by the balcony collapsing due to an overload.

Example:  if it's 12 feet long, 4 feet wide and 2 feet deep, that's 96 cubic feet of water at 62.4 lbs./ft^3.  or a total of almost 6,000 lbs.nm (3 Tons)

Let's assume my dimensional guessing  is off by 50%.  This is still a 3,000 lb load on a deck made to support a small number of people.

Not to mention the risk of push out on the railing, which is far weaker than the balcony beneath it. 

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3 hours ago, railfancwb said:


Seriously OUCH!


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That'll buff... er, grow right out. If he's really committed to it, he'll let it continue to grow as is.

Interestingly enough, that's the same reason my former Mother-in-Law now wears long pants when using the weed whacker.

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10 hours ago, railfancwb said:


Seriously OUCH!


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Doesn't happen if you have long hours on a grinder.  By then you have already lost that hair, or that shirt. Or coiled that long cord around the spindle a dozen times.

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13 minutes ago, tehan2 said:

too easy... everyone knows the front guy is steve mcqueen and the back guy is a famous chicken farmer

I always wondered how he accomplished so much with heart problems. How did the Army Air Corps allow him to fly, for instance? He had a hell of a life. 

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The Royal Air Force let Douglas Bader fly with two prosthetic legs,  so maybe a leaky heart valve wasn't disqualifying.

Mr. Shelby did indeed have a hell of a life and we are better off because he did.

 

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4 minutes ago, janice6 said:

I always liked "Super" over "Turbo".  Neighbor ran a "Rail" for years.

A hot rod guy I knew, when I asked, Supercharger or turbo? replied, if you can go up: supercharger.  If you can't, go sideways: turbo.

Unless the engine is exposed, it all depends on where the empty space is.

Is that a striaght-six or a straight-eight flathead?

Hard to tell even after counting the ports for  the exhaust manifolds.

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Just now, tous said:

A hot rod guy I knew, when I asked, Supercharger or turbo? replied, if you can go up: supercharger.  If you can't, go sideways: turbo.

Unless the engine is exposed, it all depends on where the empty space is.

Is that a striaght-six or a straight-eight flathead?

Hard to tell even after counting the ports for  the exhaust manifolds.

It’s a Packard Straight 8

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