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    Can anyone help me with removing a flywheel?

    Don't know what type of puller you are using but if you can tighten it with an impact wrench it seems to almost always work for me. Also a good rap on the puller with a hammer. Each transmits the shock to the flywheel to break the bond. I know sometimes to remove a prop on a Navy ship after...
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    Killing time

    Raccoon ballistics test. Dog barking to alert me something is after her chickens. In my bare feet, flashlight in one hand, Beretta 96 40 cal in the other. Dog barking, chickens squawking and going all directions, raccoon running all over executing evasive maneuvers as I shoot for center of...
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    Anyone want to live at sea full time?

    Been there. More rules than a HOA too.
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    As a retired Navy Chief Hull Technician who both worked with and supervised female ship fitters the only thing I noticed was grinding fiberglass without a respirator. Everything else seemed normal in my world.
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    Your tax dollars at work. A wheelchair access to a stairway.
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    Motor support racks

    Now you have advanced from statics to dynamics and the math has got harder by a function of 3. I remember years ago in the Navy being able to figure moments of inertia for flooded compartments out from the center line with y K&E slide rule. No way today, I have 3 pairs of reading glasses in...
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    Motor support racks

    Don't even have to figure metacentric heights, righting moments, etc.
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    Is this considered as an outboard or !/O powered?

    https://www.facebook.com/reel/1348914633728645
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    Guess I will have to use this one then.
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    Since I have reached the age where “died unexpectedly” will probably not be in my obituary I have been thinking what it should look like. I used to live on the edge of a college town and most of the men’s pictures with their obituaries were done by photo studios or they were in a suit and tie...
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    I must be getting old. It has been 52 years since that tollgate opened. Remember it like it was yesterday.
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    The local newspaper I subscribe to is the Lock Haven Express known just as "THE EXPRESS." Drove down the lane this afternoon to the mail box and got my mail. Gave my wife the first section and took the back section to do the crossword puzzles. We switched sections and I scanned the first...
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    Engine Suddenly revved and speed dropped, then recovered

    Putting the cable in compression rather than tension might cause it to look like that. If something banged against the end. A real mystery to me as to why it happened.
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    I had a Pontiac Tempest wagon back in the '60s with a transaxle, never any handling problems. The extra weight on the rears helped in the winter too.
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    Ralph Nadar wrote a book about them with a lot of false claims as after the first two years or so of production some tweaking was done to the suspension and testing showed they handled as well or better than any other production car of that period. Had a buddy who was a mechanic and local dirt...
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