Revolting pedicament

Yesterday I find a cracked block and this shows up this afternoon. I think God is trying to tell me something
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Well you know I have torn down and rebuilt and restored 8 antique aircraft and (rebuilt 2 Continental engines 4 Lycoming engines 1 Franklin and a Jacobs radial engine), ,4 Corvettes (1 283,1 327 1 350 and a 383), 2 Austin Healeys (with 3000 CC engines), 2-55 Chevrolets (1 283 and 1 327), a 57 Chevrolet with (a 350), a 65 Ford F-150 (with a 390), a 66 El Camino Super Sport (with a 327) and a 2N Ford tractor and I think I can struggle through here too somehow these parts will work in the 8N I am doing just fine.
 
(quoted from post at 23:23:24 04/12/17) Well, then......why is it a revolting predicament???? :roll:
Because they're from Tisco? I use a lot of them on tractors.
Not sure I'd ever get in an airplane that used them though. :shock:
 
Because I have al of the parts ready to build my new engine and the block is cracked, I could have built my engine this weekend instead of looking for another block
 
I built a Franklin engine for a Stinson and actually had to use steel liners from NAPA as Franklin engines went out of business in the early 60 s. The cylinders were aluminum with steel liners shrunk into them and then locked into place with locking pins. I turned the OD of the liners to get .005 interference fit and then heated the liners to 250 degrees and soaked the liners in dry ice and alcohol. Once they were in the cylinders I took them to a machine shop and had them power honed to get the right clearance. Air cooled aluminum engines grow so much you set them up tight when they are cold because by the time you get to the runway they have expanded out to satisfactory clearances. Whats fun is building your own airplane from scratch and then flying it and thinking about every nut, bolt, weld and glue joint you ever did while you were building it.
 
(quoted from post at 21:08:24 04/12/17. Whats fun is building your own airplane from scratch and then flying it and thinking about every nut, bolt, weld and glue joint you ever did while you were building it.


...and which cotter pin you left out.
 
Aint that the truth, I ll spend a week or more going over and over one after I finish the restoration before I go fly it. I m 66 and started flying with my dad at 5 and I m still around so I guess I have been lucky so far.
 
I was a mechanic on Heavy lift Helicopters for 35 years, They are not very forgiving. Was around two crashes one pilot error the other was unproven but we suspected a part failure.

There are old pilots, and there are bold pilots but few old bold pilots.
 
I guess that's how I have lived so long I am a devout coward when it comes to flying, I have flown into some ridiculously short and narrow strips, some with 45 degree doglegs, and even some roads with ditches on each side but I have always known mine and the airplanes limitations. In over 50 years of flying I have never broken one. I have lost an engine or two ( I was ferrying them back for restoration and the engine didn't make it) and had one in flight fire ( a hole burned through the exhaust pipe and caught the firewall on fire) but I always have a safe place to put the plane down. I always looked at helicopters as a massive flying oil leak surrounded by 2,000 moving parts all going in different directions at the same time and trying to fly apart. I have flown a Bell 47 but somehow I never got the urge to get rated in a helicopter.
 
Long ago, after a bit of instruction in helicoptering, I became convinced they could not fly at all with all those parts going in every direction..., they were just so ugly the Earth repelled them. Now I live where Marine Ospreys go over nearly every day, and I commented to the CO at the base one day that I thought the Ospreys took the worst of a helicopter and mated it to the worst of an airplane and that's what they got. That resulted in a pretty stern lecture from a friend; persuasive but not convincing.
 
"they were just so ugly the Earth repelled them"

There are some people I wish this worked for too.
I'm not talking about their physical appearance though. ;)
 
(quoted from post at 09:05:26 04/13/17) Well you know I have torn down and rebuilt and restored 8 antique aircraft and (rebuilt 2 Continental engines 4 Lycoming engines 1 Franklin and a Jacobs radial engine), ,4 Corvettes (1 283,1 327 1 350 and a 383), 2 Austin Healeys (with 3000 CC engines), 2-55 Chevrolets (1 283 and 1 327), a 57 Chevrolet with (a 350), a 65 Ford F-150 (with a 390), a 66 El Camino Super Sport (with a 327) and a 2N Ford tractor and I think I can struggle through here too somehow these parts will work in the 8N I am doing just fine.

You may be the real deal I live 35 miles from Fort Bragg we are blessed with airplane/helicopter mechanics. I can say they are the most useless MF's I have ever ran across they can not do a damm thang unless someone is holding there hand and has a good pointing finger...

I do understand the difference it would be nice to have someone check off all my work I am not perfect. Once in awhile I get bit I make no excuses no one dies maybe that's the difference but you touched it you own it top gun are not...

I am lucky to have a machinist if he says he can fix it I don't doubt him. I relate broken stuff like you block to a broken transom in boat. If I are someone else fixes it I will always be look'N back at the transom every time i gun are hit a big wave that's not the way I want to enjoy my boat...

I have been around some good mechanics when they aged out and have been in retirement for sometime I would ask them a question on some old chit sometimes they would tell me they forgot it :shock: I am reaching the point I understand it now...

It does not matter were you have been are what you have done basics still rule wither it fly's floats are burns rubber...
 
That's exactly the reason why got my Airframe and Power plant mechanics license with Inspection Authorization. None of the new guys knew anything about tube and fabric airplanes, gas or Tig welding was a black art to them and God forbid you needed them to look at a wooden wing structure. If the airplane wasn't aluminum or composite they were lost and I just got tired of having to have something I did inspected and signed off by someone who had no idea what he was looking at so several years ago I just took the tests and got the license and now I can roll an airplane into my shop and when it rolls out I sit down and sign everything off and don't have to mess with anyone else. But like here I love to listen to other folks ideas and suggestions and take the ideas and suggestions I like and use them.
 
Yeah they fly over our farm all the time we are only about 50 miles from Parris Island, I kinda like the way they whistle in flight though. I really like it when the Army Rangers at Ft. Stewart are having a night exersizes though because helicopters and C-130 s will come by here at tree top level. I have been out flying my ultralight late in the afternoons and had them come blasting by me and damned near scare me to death. They have come by so close I have seen the pilots in the helicopters looking at me and smiling as they went by.
 

I have offered my son and his yankee wife a good lot to build on FREE his wife says theirs a train track that borders it I don't think I could stand the noise... I said you now live a mile form it do you hear a train she said YES :!: I said you will learn to pay it no mine just like you do NOW :!: I am sit'N here now waiting to the 10:15 am-tract to tell me to GO TO BED... I can tell by the rumble if he's run"n late are ahead... :D
 

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