Pulling the wool over our eyes.

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IaGary

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• Sep 5, 2009

• #1

Noticed alot of people trying to sell things in the discussion forums lately.

Their post usually seem like they are just trying to find what something is worth but then say they need to price it to get rid of the item.
Looky here.

 

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IH2444

Well-known Member

• Sep 5, 2009

• #1

I have a rare 1948 Henweigh. How much do you think it would be worth?

 

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ILLEFTY

Member

• Sep 5, 2009

• #1

About 3 or 4 pounds

 

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Anonymous-0

Well-known Member

• Sep 5, 2009

• #1

Your Henweigh is worth about the same as my Hammerfor.

 

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Old Roy

Well-known Member

• Sep 5, 2009

• #1

Hey I'll trade you a truckload of featherlax for that hammerfor.!!!!

 

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Anonymous-0

Well-known Member

• Sep 5, 2009

• #1

Roy, I am interested, but I don't need a a whole truckload, make a counter offer! I have a roundtoit I do not need anymore.

 

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IH2444

Well-known Member

• Sep 6, 2009

• #1

A pound is worth about 1.75 dollars?

Not nearly enough for a rare Henweigh.

I'll just put it on Ebay and get at least 6 pounds from some idjit.
Plus $19.95 shipping and handling.

 

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Traditional Farmer

Well-known Member

Location

Virginia

• Sep 6, 2009

• #1

Falls under the "Too insignificant to worry about catagory for me" Some folks really need to find a hobby to keep them occupied.

 

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Old Roy

Well-known Member

• Sep 6, 2009

• #1

I'll have to check for sure I think I may have a couple lerts left, you want a lert ?

 

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Gary from Muleshoe

Well-known Member

• Sep 6, 2009

• #1

What is pneumatic fluid going for these days. I also have a 500' roll of flight-line I would like to get rid of.

 

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SDE

Well-known Member

• Sep 6, 2009

• #1

When I was in the the Air Force we could get a "yard" of flight line, but I have not seen any for sale.

Some people were sent to the electric shop for vortex generators.

Vortex generators were metal brackets attached to the wing at a slight angle to disturb the air flow going over the wing.
Steve

 

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Old Roy

Well-known Member

• Sep 6, 2009

• #1

Sorry I'll have to take that offer back, wife threw those out last week, but I do have three giddy up hitches.

 

Fawteen

Well-known Member

Location

Downeast Maine

• Sep 6, 2009

• #1

I'll swap ya for a spool of chow line.

My old table-top radio is on the fritz, anybody got any fallopian tubes?

 

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paul

Well-known Member

• Sep 6, 2009

• #1

When the for-sale messages get to be about 50% of the content of a forum, interested & interesting people tend to disappear - too much junk to sort through to keep their interest.

Then the site becomes a ghost town, with only ads & 15 year olds with nothing of value for anyone to read.

Has happened to many, many web sites like this.

Might be insignifigant to you, but lot of folk actually like this site, and hope it continues on for many years.

Good to sift out the trash every now and then.

--->Paul

 

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Fordman6442

Member

• Sep 6, 2009

• #1

Trying to fix my truck but having trouble finding a couple things. I need 8 cans of compression and can't find lining for the Jake brake.

 

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Anonymous-0

Well-known Member

• Sep 6, 2009

• #1

Somebody left the door open an some Talers got in here!

 

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Anonymous-0

Well-known Member

• Sep 6, 2009

• #1

I have a box of post holes and a case of winter air for the Missus' car tires left over from last year.

 

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Old Roy

Well-known Member

• Sep 6, 2009

• #1

I have a 55 gallon drum of steam. will that Help ?

 

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thurlow

Well-known Member

• Sep 6, 2009

• #1

EXACTLY............

 

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ScottyHOMeY

Well-known Member

• Sep 6, 2009

• #1

We're always here.

 

Goose

Well-known Member

• Sep 6, 2009

• #1

When I was in a jet fighter squadron in the Marine Corps, we got a new Pfc, right out of school, in the engine shop. The MSgt in charge of the shop got him on the old "50 yards of flight line" bit.

A few days later, in the process of building up an engine, the same MSgt told the kid to get him a "tailpipe stretcher", which there actually was. It was a tool to expand a metal fairing to install the fairing over a lip on the back of a jet engine. A lock ring was then installed around the fairing. I'm sure the tool had a high-falutin' military nomenclature, but it was commonly know as a tailpipe stretcher.

The young Pfc wasn't about to get taken a second time. He argued for fifteen minutes that there wasn't any such thing. The MSgt. had to get one himself and show it to the Pfc before he was convinced.

A "can of relative bearing grease" also got a few yuks at newbies' expense, "relative bearing" being a navigation term.

 

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Anonymous-0

Well-known Member

• Sep 6, 2009

• #1

Ayup.

 

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Hoss In ME

Member

• Sep 6, 2009

• #1

I used to weld a lot of pipe,which I retired from so Ive got a lot of rootpass left over ifn anybody needs a couple feet. Hoss

 

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Traditional Farmer

Well-known Member

Location

Virginia

• Sep 6, 2009

• #1

Well we're all here and posting so I guess that proves your theory wrong

 

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RandyB(MI)

Well-known Member

• Sep 6, 2009

• #1

"Lookey here"??? That's like showing a drunk a stop sign!

 

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504-2

Member

• Sep 6, 2009

• #1

I had a customer ask to have the air changed in her tires because they had winter air in them! Back in the gas station days one guy was always sending someone after chrome plated muffler bearings.

 

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ScottyHOMeY

Well-known Member

• Sep 6, 2009

• #1

Hey! My '64 Beetle had muffler bearings. And they squeaked. But it didn't affect her performance!

 

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ChrisinMO

Member

• Sep 6, 2009

• #1

When I was in the NROTC, one of the lieutenants in the unit told of one of his midshipman cruises. He was sent to get a bucket of steam. He went and took a couple hour nap. When he woke up, he got a bucket and put a few inches of water in it an returned with it. He said he apologized for the delay and it took so long to get back that all the steam had condensed, but he was willing to go for some more!

Christopher

 

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ChrisinMO

Member

• Sep 6, 2009

• #1

Man could I ever use some post holes. Every one on our place I had to build by hand. What store sells them, and would it be safe to buy wallyworld's chinese made post holes? ;>)

Christopher

 

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Richard from SE AZ

Member

• Sep 7, 2009

• #1

When I joined the Navy in '63 I went into aviation and attended B school in Millington TN which is just outside Memphis.I had a couple of weeks before my class was scheduled to start so I worked wherever I was needed. One morning I was sent from the shop to another facility to get a 5 gal. bucket of prop wash. Needless to say I was run all over the base from one place to another to get it. Never did find it. For those of you that don't know what prop wash is, it's the air turbulance created behind a turning propeller.

 

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Ill John

Member

• Sep 7, 2009

• #1

Once sent a young man to the mechanics shop for some rubber welding rod, mechanic gave him one rod inside a piece of rubber hose, he brought it back, struck an arc, commented that it's the worst smelling welding he'd ever done.

 

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CJ3b_jeep

Member

• Sep 8, 2009

• #1

When I was in the Air Force it was Pitot tube grease.