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An auto mechs glossary of terms...... 1. Bronx Body Filler - duct tape 2. Polish Creeper - piece of cardboard 3. Carolina Chrome - silver paint 4. Redneck Ratchet Wrench Set - channel-lock pliers 5. Milwaukee Metric Wrench Set - crescent (adjustable) wrench 6. Trucker's Torque Wrench - hammer & chisel 7. Seattle Socket Set - pipe wrench 8. Speed Bolts - rivets 9. Hot Wrench - oxy/acetylene torch 10. Bankruptcy Starter Kit - toolbox 11. Test Leads - warning of an upcoming drug test 12. Backwoods Buzz & Brake (Cleaner) - starting fluid 13. Spark Plug Cleaner - starting fluid 14. Auto Parts Store - a place to find novelties, toys, trinkets and just about anything, other than that, which the name implies. 15. Throttle Body Cleaner - starting fluid 16. Tennessee Torx Wrench - allen wrench & a hammer 17. Air Wrench - what the one in my hand becomes, shortly after I bust a knuckle. 18. Expense Account - where you keep what was formerly pense. 19. Overhead - airplanes, sometimes 20. Customer - any tradition that is observed more frequently than others, is more "customer". 21. Mechanic - pretty much any damn fool, with enough money in his hand to buy a wrench....just ask 'em! 22. Engine Degreaser - starting fluid 23. Scales - will usually get ya' busted 24. Shelf - any ledge or relatively flat surface 25. Injector Cleaner - starting fluid 26. Pittsburgh Petrol - water 27. Starting Fluid - ? 28. Lighter Fluid - to make stuff not so heavy 29. Dry Gas - my ass! cold too! 30. Detroit Diabetic Test Kit - utility knife 31. Heat-Shrink Tube - can't figure how it works, since it's the cold that makes my tube shrink! 32. Maul - where the wife goes, to spend my hard-earned money. "T'was ever thus."

We were supposed to have a "tailgater boogie" here, at Skydive Appalachia today but it was cancelled. After a trial run, we decided it was way too dangerous.....even goin' from the ladder-racks, nobody's s**t opened, before they hit the road. "T'was ever thus."

I.V. is quicker! "T'was ever thus."

Who sniffs the other's butt first, the Officer or the Enlisted Dog? Leg humping's probably a courts-martial offense. Things will be different, in the chow line...."Ya' want some three-day-old, rancid, rotting meat and a soup bone, ta' go with them 'taters?" I wonder if the burying of ammo mags in the backyard, will be a problem? "T'was ever thus."

Nothing better than "The Magnificent Seven"! "McClintock", "The Sons Of Katie Elder" and "The Cowboys" were good too. "T'was ever thus."

Looks like they'll have to install fire hydrants, in the latrines and add butt-sniffing regs, to the manual. "T'was ever thus."

Yeah, them too....but they've got the chewin' tobacco smile, to go with it. "T'was ever thus."

Close! ahh, yes, went and drown some bait today, fresh dinner I always thought it was close to a quart. "T'was ever thus."

Hillary, maybe?! "T'was ever thus."

Dunno why.....PA chicks've been doin' it, for years. "T'was ever thus."

Hmmm....wonder how killer bees would thrive, over there? Maybe send some "bug bombs"?!

Not really...that shit's like talcum powder. Bummer....well, might make a nice, smooth sheet of glass.

That ain't gettin' him outa' anything, sooner or later.....! Here's the Worst clamp design ever. Pic. Makes my a** hurt, just lookin' at it. They make the screw-heads out of soft lead, so they round-out, right away. "T'was ever thus."

Yeah....when they're full o' the good stuff!! "T'was ever thus."

An old semi-truck rim works much better, you can usually pick 'em up pretty cheap at most any junk yard. A drum, when full, is incredibly heavy, awkward and kinda' dangerous....they either leak or build-up pressure, there's no happy medium. They take up more space-per-volume, than any other container....stacking is always severely limited or impossible, altogether. They're a pain in tha a** to load or transport, being round and for the most part, top-heavy. I've known several people, that got broken legs when they tipped a drum over, while trying to roll iton edge. In most cases, getting anything into or out of them (heavy viscosity), is akin to filling a saltshaker, through the little holes in the lid. The old military "Jerry Cans" were probably the best design, for liquid storage and transport. "T'was ever thus."

I'd really like to meet the guy that invented that clamp....and beat his freakin' a**!! Probably the same guy that invented the cotter pin, the oil drum, "Jesus clips" and a couple of other, of the world's most useless inventions. "T'was ever thus."

Ain't that the truth! If I recall correctly, the Suadis, like the Egyptians, seized the wells, refineries, etc. from the American and British oil companies, in the first place. All that sand....

I'd recommend a hop 'n pop, take the op to see what that canopy thing is all about....something you probably haven't had much of a chance to do, yet. Open high and play with it....just stay off the front risers, below 2000 ft. "T'was ever thus."

Vote for Hillary.....or the cat gets it! "T'was ever thus."

Corrosion is NEVER insignificant! I also have to doubt that Kansas has absolute zero humidity. Corrosion is an electrical process....that's how batteries work. Corrosion is a triad....anode & cathode (dissimilar metals) and a conductor (electrolyte). To prevent corrosion, the triad must be broken...either by insulating the dissimilar metals or eliminating/insulating the conductor. Aircraft are made from different types of aluminum (usually 7075, 2024 and 6061), each with a different alloying element and most aren't compatible. Most generally, they're insulated with sealants but those break down after time, restoring the connection. The moisture in the air, however minute, is the conductor (electrolyte) and without paint to insulate, completes the circuit. Usually three or four mils is the recommended maximum paint thickness and on a 182, it's a negligible weight gain. The benefits of paint, far outweigh the downsides. "T'was ever thus."

As I recall, the F-14 Tomcat carried as much as a half-ton of paint, including primer. "T'was ever thus."

Sometimes ya' gotta' extinguish one o' those "thuffffffffffFFWWITTTT.....gulp....haaaahhckhkckckhkkh(choke)hckckhckckkkhhkkkk...." things. "Fire in the hole!" "T'was ever thus."

Those Munchkin chicks are sooooooo hot!!!

Well....kinda' sorta', I suppose. I met a woman on the internet, from St. Petersburg and we became interested in each other. I'm in PA so I figured....no biggie, Florida ain't so far. Ooops! Having never physically met her, I took off for Russia, with an engagement ring in my pocket. A couple months later, I gave myself a leave of absence (self-employed) and went back for the summer, to get married and do some jumping. I'm just a regular Joe and she isn't royalty or anything but we were married in a huge marble palace, on the banks of the Neva...that was pretty cool. It'll be 8 great years, in June. "T'was ever thus."