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moonlite 37

03-25-2008 14:16:50




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Repair shop at a local sawmill hired a new kid who claimed to be a mechanic but could not verify any work exoerience. First two days he somewhat bragged of his accomplishments as a mechanic. Last week about two days prior to him being hired the other mechanic had overhauled a big V8 Detroit but dad not replaced the exhaust stack. The shop is a metal building with a low ceiling. This kid fired it up and when it started he got scared abd ran out of the shop in fear that it would blow up. He had never seen a Detroit before. He has not told any more stories of his mechanical experiences.

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1936

03-26-2008 08:22:12




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 Re: Funny Thing Neighboring Shop in reply to moonlite 37, 03-25-2008 14:16:50  
Don't go to Lowes which I like their store and any younger type where the the ceadar decking is. The a$$ of his jeans was dragging out is tracks. No experience required to be hired any place these days. Bring back the draft!!!!! !!!



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Amarillo Doug

03-26-2008 07:47:59




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 Re: Funny Thing Neighboring Shop in reply to moonlite 37, 03-25-2008 14:16:50  
Once sent a kid out for a bolt stretcher.Ran him all over town looking for one.Never did find it.LOL



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Mike M

03-26-2008 05:27:51




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 Re: Funny Thing Neighboring Shop in reply to moonlite 37, 03-25-2008 14:16:50  
A salesman here at work was going around talking about halogen fluid he musta read a joke on the web ? I got tired of hearing it so next time his car came in for service I billed him for some. LOL That stopped that !



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tiresntracks

03-25-2008 22:26:48




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 Re: Funny Thing Neighboring Shop in reply to moonlite 37, 03-25-2008 14:16:50  
A guy that I used to work with said,"Detroits don't run away. Detroits overspeed, mechanics run away". I guess its true.



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RodInNS

03-25-2008 20:40:18




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 Re: Funny Thing Neighboring Shop in reply to moonlite 37, 03-25-2008 14:16:50  
Not to say that this kid is too bright.... but you need not expect too many people/kids today to have any idea about old Detroits. You might stop and consider that Series 60 with DDEC came out something like 20-25 years ago and that combined with the B series Cummins pretty well nailed the coffin shut on those old screamers because the 60 series replaced the 71/92 series highway engines and the B series abolished the 53 series industrial applications. I took heavy equipment repair in high school in the mid-90's and the only reason I know anything about the old Detroits is because my teacher was a Detroit man. Save that I'd know absolutely nothing about them... Even at that time we spent a lot more time on Cummins, Cat and the various Bosch/CAV/Standyne fuel systems rather than Detroit.
For all their infamy, I've only ever seen probably a dozen of the damn old things, and that's about enough in my books...
They were the most efficient contraption ever devised for converting diesel fuel into noise and smoke.

Rod

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Goose

03-25-2008 20:04:24




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 Re: Funny Thing Neighboring Shop in reply to moonlite 37, 03-25-2008 14:16:50  
When I was in a jet fighter squadron in the Marine Corps, the engine shop got a new Pfc right out of school.

One day the MSgt in charge of the shop told the kid to get him 50 yards of flight line. The MSgt nailed the kid on that one.

A couple of days later, the MSgt was building an engine and told the Pfc to get him a tailpipe stretcher--which there actually was. These particular engines had a curved fairing on the back that fit over a lip on the back of the engine and was clamped down with a lock ring.

The tool to expand the fairing to fit over the lip on the engine probably had some fancy name, but it was commonly referred to as a tailpipe stretcher. The good Pfc wasn't going to be burned twice. He argued for fifteen minutes that there wasn't any such thing as a tailpipe stretcher. The MSgt had to show him one to convince him.

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Sagebrusher

03-26-2008 06:15:58




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 Re: Funny Thing Neighboring Shop in reply to Goose, 03-25-2008 20:04:24  
Goose " The good Pfc wasn"t going to be burned twice. He argued for fifteen minutes that there wasn"t any such thing as a tailpipe stretcher. The MSgt had to show him one to convince him."

It sounds like the Corps went through the same "destroy the military" Klinton/McPeak scheme to foist Malcom Baldridges sham of Total Quality Management "TQM enforced, form a voting committe for EVERYTHING--LEADERSHIP PROHIBITED" that almost destroyed the Air Force during the nineties. When I was an Airman I NEVER argued with a Senior Non-Com and when I became a SNCO I NEVER felt the need to argue with a junior grade. Explain and draw pictures once in a while but never argue. . . Cheers Don

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37chief

03-25-2008 21:56:25




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 Re: Funny Thing Neighboring Shop in reply to Goose, 03-25-2008 20:04:24  
When I was in, the new guy was sent to supply for prop wash. That was a few years ago. Stan



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gmd

03-25-2008 19:47:10




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 Re: Funny Thing Neighboring Shop in reply to moonlite 37, 03-25-2008 14:16:50  
Occasionally I have to run an old sheepsfoot roller at work and that has a teeny weeny Detroit with a straight pipe on it. Man that thing is a Screamer. Never used ear plugs until I ran that thing. Even with ear plugs its bad. Anyway had a kid come in and he was supposed to be the "King of all equipment" and ran this ran that etc... First day there he ran the skid loader around with the bucket teeth off the ground, Could not move dirt to save his life.

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Nancy Howell

03-25-2008 19:21:35




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 Re: Funny Thing Neighboring Shop in reply to moonlite 37, 03-25-2008 14:16:50  
Ask for a left-handed monkey wrench or a can of compression.



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e

03-25-2008 17:32:06




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 Re: Funny Thing Neighboring Shop in reply to moonlite 37, 03-25-2008 14:16:50  
Reminds me of a mechanical engineering intern we had a few years back when I was working at Cummins. He was working on a test fixture and went up to a nearby technician with a ratchet and asked for one that went the other direction. I hope someone sat him down and tried to persuade him to find another major LOL!



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cj in wisconsin

03-25-2008 16:59:41




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 Re: Funny Thing Neighboring Shop in reply to moonlite 37, 03-25-2008 14:16:50  
I talked a kid into going to the local hardware store for a brass magnet, the funny thing is the lady at the store and him looked for 20 minutes, never found it. LOL



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RobMD

03-25-2008 16:56:21




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 Re: Funny Thing Neighboring Shop in reply to moonlite 37, 03-25-2008 14:16:50  
I'm pretty darn good with mechanical work, but I would fully admit to not knowing a single darn thing about detroit diesels. All I do know is that they scream.



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Steven f/AZ

03-25-2008 16:36:05




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 Re: Funny Thing Neighboring Shop in reply to moonlite 37, 03-25-2008 14:16:50  
Time for fresh blinker fluid? Perhaps a new muffler belt?

I've met a few younger fellas who thought they were "ace" mechanics... fun to mess with!



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Bob

03-25-2008 19:56:45




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 Re: Funny Thing Neighboring Shop in reply to Steven f/AZ, 03-25-2008 16:36:05  
Don't forget the high speed bumper bolts!



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sheeptick

03-25-2008 16:24:52




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 Re: Funny Thing Neighboring Shop in reply to moonlite 37, 03-25-2008 14:16:50  
I can understand him running, back in the 60;s those old detroits, when they were overrapping were a kind of terrifying thing, we would jerk the air filters out and stuff coats or whatever into the intake to shut them down.some of you guys talk about agreat sound from some of the tractors when pulling, ther was nothing that compared to a old detroit when it was running awayy and you couldn;t shut it down

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RN

03-25-2008 17:15:43




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 Re: Funny Thing Neighboring Shop in reply to sheeptick, 03-25-2008 16:24:52  
Didn't have emergency shutdown intake plates then? RN



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Bruce Hopf

03-25-2008 16:14:20




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 Re: Funny Thing Neighboring Shop in reply to moonlite 37, 03-25-2008 14:16:50  
yeah, or send him out for a left handed metric adjustable wrench.



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ericlb

03-25-2008 16:09:27




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 Re: Funny Thing Neighboring Shop in reply to moonlite 37, 03-25-2008 14:16:50  
thats always fun to see just how much mechanic they are,back in the mid '90's i had a fresh graduated ace mechanic talking to me in the parts store [ the kid had every tool he'll ever need in his hip-roof tool box] i got him, by having him check the upper radiator hose on my car for me, i had at that time a 1964 corvair... the kid spend 30 minutes looking for it.. once he found the engine that is..

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Old Roy agiin

03-25-2008 20:13:59




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 Re: Funny Thing Neighboring Shop in reply to ericlb, 03-25-2008 16:09:27  
Bet he didn't have a skyhook in there either.



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Aaron Ford

03-25-2008 15:28:39




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 Re: Funny Thing Neighboring Shop in reply to moonlite 37, 03-25-2008 14:16:50  
Aw heck, y'all are just being mean to the young feller. You just need to be familiar with his abilities and that takes time.

Now send him out to change the spark plugs in that Detroit and it may answer some questions for ya...

Hee Hee

Yup, I am the one that sent that poor young lady out for K9P. Figured she was too smart to fall for prop wash or muzzle blast. Could got her on the 10 feet of flight line, though...

Aaron

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Brokenwrench

03-25-2008 14:30:45




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 Re: Funny Thing Neighboring Shop in reply to moonlite 37, 03-25-2008 14:16:50  
They`re plenty loud even with the muffler on.

If they want to keep him busy for a while, tell him to fix all the oil leaks :)



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steveormary

03-25-2008 15:42:54




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 Re: Funny Thing Neighboring Shop in reply to Brokenwrench, 03-25-2008 14:30:45  
Ah heck,send him out for a bucket of steam.

seveormary



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s.crum

03-25-2008 21:44:15




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 Re: Funny Thing Neighboring Shop in reply to steveormary, 03-25-2008 15:42:54  
Don't laugh at that one! Had a new guy at work one night that made 7 trips between the extruder floor and the boiler room (200' of hallway and 3 flights of stairs) before the extruder operator told him he needed to get a lid on his bucket to keep the steam in! Then the extruder operator called me and b***hed me out for not giving the kid a lid! I think the kid did a few too many lids already.



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TimV

03-26-2008 08:03:06




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 Re: Funny Thing Neighboring Shop in reply to s.crum, 03-25-2008 21:44:15  
Yup--had a steam-operated press go down and sent a kid on 3 trips to the boiler room with a 5-gallon pail and a rag stopper, only to have the steam "leak out" before he got back to the press. Probably could have had entertainment for the rest of the shift, but the third trip he bowled over the plant manager when he came flying around the corner with his bucket.....



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NC Wayne

03-25-2008 18:28:32




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 Re: Funny Thing Neighboring Shop in reply to steveormary, 03-25-2008 15:42:54  
We sent a guy out once for a bucket of live steam when I was in the Navy. Smart a$$ got us back though...He came back with a bucket of water claiming it was steam when he left but it condensed on the way back... Of course then there were frequent the trips for the new guys to the next ship for keys to the sea chest so we could get the steam blankets out for the boilers, a yard of gig line, trips up the chain of command all the way to the Captain with a chit for an electron analyzer and dozens of others I can't remember right off....One of the best though consisted of sending guys up to the base of the mast with a crank handle telling them to lower the mast so it didn't hit the old Cooper River bridge down in charleston. The looks of sheer terror on the guys faces as the captain screemed up to them to get that mast down...just as we cruised under the bridge looking so much like it was going to hit..were priceless.

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old popper

03-25-2008 16:46:54




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 Re: Funny Thing Neighboring Shop in reply to steveormary, 03-25-2008 15:42:54  
Or a can of compression.



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