"Leo Lichtman" wrote in message
...

"oldjag" wrote: (clip) To my total amazement, it welded the rod to the
end of the roller. Even more amazing, it yanked the roller out of the axle
with the help of a slide hammer without breaking off! (clip)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Gunner, are you paying attention? If you would let up on some of your
right-wing politics, maybe your karma would improve also. ;-)
reminds me of the time I used a nylon stocking for a fan belt, on this mans
sport car....he called me back where I worked, said it got him home...some
50 miles, only problem, he had to buy some more nylon stockings for his
woman...

xman

You folks might get a kick out of this. I had just towed my race car
trailer to the track with some friends following behind us with their
tow vehicle. When we got to the paddock and started unpacking, JB the
guy following us, said he had a problem with noise from the left front
wheel of his tow vehicle. He soon had the wheel off and found the
problem - the front inner axle bearing was toast, and the inner race
had spun on the axle. The bearing fell apart but the race was stuck on
the axle. I got him a puller from my tool box and he set to work
pulling the race off the axle. He got worrried the puller would bugger
the end of the axle....so he grabbed one of the tapered rollers from
the broken bearing and stuck it in the hole on the end of the axle,
then uses the puller and extracts the bearing race from the
axle....great so far. A little crocus cloth and the axle looked good,
so he gets new parts from the last still open store for about 100 miles
and starts assembling the bearing and hub. Gets everything back on and
goes to put in the cotter pin for the axle nut and...oh **** the
tapered roller is now stuck flush with the end of the axle and is
blocking the cross drilled hole for the cotter pin! No hope of
drilling a hardened bearing roller with any drill we had. What to do?
I had a brain storm for an idea that I thought might have 5% chance of
working. I grabbed a carbon steel crank handle from my ring gap filer,
(basicly just a piece of 3/16" diam. CS rod stock) and a set of heavy
duty jumper cables. Connected the cables to the axle and the rod
stock, and had JB hold the rod against the end of roller. I grabbed
the jumper battery and hooked it up for about 5 seconds. By this time a
small crowd of onlookers had assembled to watch and bet on the outcome.
To my total amazement, it welded the rod to the end of the roller.
Even more amazing, it yanked the roller out of the axle with the help
of a slide hammer without breaking off! Of course I didn't let on that
I was as amazed as they were that this actually worked.....

"oldjag" wrote: (clip) To my total amazement, it welded the rod to the end
of the roller. Even more amazing, it yanked the roller out of the axle with
the help of a slide hammer without breaking off! (clip)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Gunner, are you paying attention? If you would let up on some of your
right-wing politics, maybe your karma would improve also. ;-)

So, how much of your "Luck" did you use up? When I get that lucky, even
with something that should work, I sleep with one eye open in anticipation
of the eventual "Evening out" factor. But, one of my techs has this
phenominal luck and pulls things out of his ass daily...and thinks nothing
of it.


"oldjag" wrote in message
ps.com...
You folks might get a kick out of this. I had just towed my race car
trailer to the track with some friends following behind us with their
tow vehicle. When we got to the paddock and started unpacking, JB the
guy following us, said he had a problem with noise from the left front
wheel of his tow vehicle. He soon had the wheel off and found the
problem - the front inner axle bearing was toast, and the inner race
had spun on the axle. The bearing fell apart but the race was stuck on
the axle. I got him a puller from my tool box and he set to work
pulling the race off the axle. He got worrried the puller would bugger
the end of the axle....so he grabbed one of the tapered rollers from
the broken bearing and stuck it in the hole on the end of the axle,
then uses the puller and extracts the bearing race from the
axle....great so far. A little crocus cloth and the axle looked good,
so he gets new parts from the last still open store for about 100 miles
and starts assembling the bearing and hub. Gets everything back on and
goes to put in the cotter pin for the axle nut and...oh **** the
tapered roller is now stuck flush with the end of the axle and is
blocking the cross drilled hole for the cotter pin! No hope of
drilling a hardened bearing roller with any drill we had. What to do?
I had a brain storm for an idea that I thought might have 5% chance of
working. I grabbed a carbon steel crank handle from my ring gap filer,
(basicly just a piece of 3/16" diam. CS rod stock) and a set of heavy
duty jumper cables. Connected the cables to the axle and the rod
stock, and had JB hold the rod against the end of roller. I grabbed
the jumper battery and hooked it up for about 5 seconds. By this time a
small crowd of onlookers had assembled to watch and bet on the outcome.
To my total amazement, it welded the rod to the end of the roller.
Even more amazing, it yanked the roller out of the axle with the help
of a slide hammer without breaking off! Of course I didn't let on that
I was as amazed as they were that this actually worked.....

One time I was working in Santa Clara at an engineering software company. At the
end of a day, I was leaving the parking lot and there was an old goat type
staring into the open hood of his Italian sedan. I figured it was yet another
software type who are useless around things mechanical, so I stopped to have a
look. His car wouldn't start, not even. I looked, and sure enough the
distributor body, a light metal casting, was broken all the way around and
spinning freely. The guy commutes about 2 hours each way (the Bay Area is
horrible for housing) and so I decided to try a last ditch cobble - I took a
roll of duct tape out of my trunk, put the distributor where it was supposed to
be - you could tell because the casting fitted together perfectly at that point
- and taped it securely with duct tape. It started OK, so I told the guy to stop
on his way home and order the part and I'd help him put it in. A few days after
that I got sent out of the country for a couple of weeks and I forgot all about
it. A few years later, I was at another company back home in Washington State,
and I posted to a newsgroup relating to that Santa Clara company's products, and
the old guy noticed it and replied to my posting (this was before the huge spam
wave which forced me to disguise my reply-to address) and so we exchanged
emails. It turns out that about ten years later he was STILL driving that car
with his distributor duct taped. OH MY GAWD.

True story!

Grant

oldjag wrote:

You folks might get a kick out of this. I had just towed my race car
trailer to the track with some friends following behind us with their
tow vehicle. When we got to the paddock and started unpacking, JB the
guy following us, said he had a problem with noise from the left front
wheel of his tow vehicle. He soon had the wheel off and found the
problem - the front inner axle bearing was toast, and the inner race
had spun on the axle. The bearing fell apart but the race was stuck on
the axle. I got him a puller from my tool box and he set to work
pulling the race off the axle. He got worrried the puller would bugger
the end of the axle....so he grabbed one of the tapered rollers from
the broken bearing and stuck it in the hole on the end of the axle,
then uses the puller and extracts the bearing race from the
axle....great so far. A little crocus cloth and the axle looked good,
so he gets new parts from the last still open store for about 100 miles
and starts assembling the bearing and hub. Gets everything back on and
goes to put in the cotter pin for the axle nut and...oh **** the
tapered roller is now stuck flush with the end of the axle and is
blocking the cross drilled hole for the cotter pin! No hope of
drilling a hardened bearing roller with any drill we had. What to do?
I had a brain storm for an idea that I thought might have 5% chance of
working. I grabbed a carbon steel crank handle from my ring gap filer,
(basicly just a piece of 3/16" diam. CS rod stock) and a set of heavy
duty jumper cables. Connected the cables to the axle and the rod
stock, and had JB hold the rod against the end of roller. I grabbed
the jumper battery and hooked it up for about 5 seconds. By this time a
small crowd of onlookers had assembled to watch and bet on the outcome.
To my total amazement, it welded the rod to the end of the roller.
Even more amazing, it yanked the roller out of the axle with the help
of a slide hammer without breaking off! Of course I didn't let on that
I was as amazed as they were that this actually worked.....

"oldjag" wrote in message
ps.com...
You folks might get a kick out of this. I had just towed my race car
trailer to the track with some friends following behind us with their
tow vehicle. When we got to the paddock and started unpacking, JB the
guy following us, said he had a problem with noise from the left front
wheel of his tow vehicle. He soon had the wheel off and found the
problem - the front inner axle bearing was toast, and the inner race
had spun on the axle. The bearing fell apart but the race was stuck on
the axle. I got him a puller from my tool box and he set to work
pulling the race off the axle. He got worrried the puller would bugger
the end of the axle....so he grabbed one of the tapered rollers from
the broken bearing and stuck it in the hole on the end of the axle,
then uses the puller and extracts the bearing race from the
axle....great so far. A little crocus cloth and the axle looked good,
so he gets new parts from the last still open store for about 100 miles
and starts assembling the bearing and hub. Gets everything back on and
goes to put in the cotter pin for the axle nut and...oh **** the
tapered roller is now stuck flush with the end of the axle and is
blocking the cross drilled hole for the cotter pin! No hope of
drilling a hardened bearing roller with any drill we had. What to do?
I had a brain storm for an idea that I thought might have 5% chance of
working. I grabbed a carbon steel crank handle from my ring gap filer,
(basicly just a piece of 3/16" diam. CS rod stock) and a set of heavy
duty jumper cables. Connected the cables to the axle and the rod
stock, and had JB hold the rod against the end of roller. I grabbed
the jumper battery and hooked it up for about 5 seconds. By this time a
small crowd of onlookers had assembled to watch and bet on the outcome.
To my total amazement, it welded the rod to the end of the roller.
Even more amazing, it yanked the roller out of the axle with the help
of a slide hammer without breaking off! Of course I didn't let on that
I was as amazed as they were that this actually worked.....


You get the McGyver of the week award for that one,
Emil

On 31 Dec 2005 09:56:17 -0800, "oldjag"
wrote:

You folks might get a kick out of this. I had just towed my race car
trailer to the track with some friends following behind us with their
tow vehicle. When we got to the paddock and started unpacking, JB the
guy following us, said he had a problem with noise from the left front
wheel of his tow vehicle. He soon had the wheel off and found the
problem - the front inner axle bearing was toast, and the inner race
had spun on the axle. The bearing fell apart but the race was stuck on
the axle. I got him a puller from my tool box and he set to work
pulling the race off the axle. He got worrried the puller would bugger
the end of the axle....so he grabbed one of the tapered rollers from
the broken bearing and stuck it in the hole on the end of the axle,
then uses the puller and extracts the bearing race from the
axle....great so far. A little crocus cloth and the axle looked good,
so he gets new parts from the last still open store for about 100 miles
and starts assembling the bearing and hub. Gets everything back on and
goes to put in the cotter pin for the axle nut and...oh **** the
tapered roller is now stuck flush with the end of the axle and is
blocking the cross drilled hole for the cotter pin! No hope of
drilling a hardened bearing roller with any drill we had. What to do?
I had a brain storm for an idea that I thought might have 5% chance of
working. I grabbed a carbon steel crank handle from my ring gap filer,
(basicly just a piece of 3/16" diam. CS rod stock) and a set of heavy
duty jumper cables. Connected the cables to the axle and the rod
stock, and had JB hold the rod against the end of roller. I grabbed
the jumper battery and hooked it up for about 5 seconds. By this time a
small crowd of onlookers had assembled to watch and bet on the outcome.
To my total amazement, it welded the rod to the end of the roller.
Even more amazing, it yanked the roller out of the axle with the help
of a slide hammer without breaking off! Of course I didn't let on that
I was as amazed as they were that this actually worked.....

Okie Engineering..its an art.

Well done Sir!

Gunner

"Pax Americana is a philosophy. Hardly an empire.
Making sure other people play nice and dont kill each other (and us)
off in job lots is hardly empire building, particularly when you give
them self determination under "play nice" rules.

Think of it as having your older brother knock the **** out of you
for torturing the cat." Gunner

On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 18:22:36 GMT, "Leo Lichtman"
wrote:


"oldjag" wrote: (clip) To my total amazement, it welded the rod to the end
of the roller. Even more amazing, it yanked the roller out of the axle with
the help of a slide hammer without breaking off! (clip)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Gunner, are you paying attention? If you would let up on some of your
right-wing politics, maybe your karma would improve also. ;-)


Huh? Of course Im paying attention. I read EVERY post (least those who
are not kill filed)

Did I mention the time I fixed a throttle linkage on a Ford Courier
with a 3030 cartridge case? Id still be stick on the side of the road
if the Lefties had had their way......

Chuckle

Gunner

"Pax Americana is a philosophy. Hardly an empire.
Making sure other people play nice and dont kill each other (and us)
off in job lots is hardly empire building, particularly when you give
them self determination under "play nice" rules.

Think of it as having your older brother knock the **** out of you
for torturing the cat." Gunner

Gunner Asch wrote:

Did I mention the time I fixed a throttle linkage on a Ford Courier
with a 3030 cartridge case? Id still be stick on the side of the road
if the Lefties had had their way......

Well, I use brass cartridges too, I flatten 'em and run them along the teeth in
my files, they very quickly cut teeth and then they're perfect file cleaners.
But ever since a good friend of mine got killed 2 feet in front of me (I had to
clean his brains off my tennis shoes) I'm not much on guns.

GWE

On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 19:02:31 GMT, "Tom Gardner"
wrote:

So, how much of your "Luck" did you use up? When I get that lucky, even
with something that should work, I sleep with one eye open in anticipation
of the eventual "Evening out" factor. But, one of my techs has this
phenominal luck and pulls things out of his ass daily...and thinks nothing
of it.


I must say that sure get tired of pulling those rabbits out of my
ass for everybody all the time and oh boy when look out when it comes
back around. :-)

Wayne Cook
Shamrock, TX
http://members.dslextreme.com/users/waynecook/index.htm

Wayne Cook wrote:

"Tom Gardner" wrote:
So, how much of your "Luck" did you use up? ...

I must say that sure get tired of pulling those rabbits out of my
ass for everybody all the time and oh boy when look out when it comes
back around.

This kind of "luck" reminds of a Lee Trevino (pro golfer) story.
Someone mentioned to him how lucky he (Lee) had been on a particular
shot. His reply was: "Yeah, I've noticed that the more I practice, the
luckier I get".

After a while, it isn't luck, it's skill/experience.

Bob

Yeah; the "evening out" fator has come around a few times....

Years ago, when I weighed 60 lb less and was still racing bicycles, two club
mates and I came across a couple of Dutch touring cyclists up in the Welsh
mountains who had been run off a country lane by a car. One of them had a
front wheel bent like a pretzel, and were trying to figure out how to get
out of the mountains to a youth hostel. It was Sunday and no one was
around. While the two Dutchmen looked on in amazement, a buddy and I
assessed the situation, took the wheel off, and kicked it as straight as we
could make it. After ten minutes, we ended up with less than 1/2" runout,
put it back into the fork, opened up the brake caliper, and then helped them
out of the mountains. The guy on the bike was told to only use his back
brake in case the front one jammed when applied, and we escorted him down,
prepared to grab his shirt and help him slow down if his back brake couldn't
handle the load. Two hours later after a stop at a hospital to patch the
guy's road rash, we dropped them at the hostel and peddled off for home.

We couldn't believe that they couldn't figure out that they might fix their
bike enough to move on. I think they were considering spending the night up
there.

--
Bob (Chief Pilot, White Knuckle Airways)


"Bob Engelhardt" wrote in message
...
Wayne Cook wrote:

"Tom Gardner" wrote:
So, how much of your "Luck" did you use up? ...

I must say that sure get tired of pulling those rabbits out of my
ass for everybody all the time and oh boy when look out when it comes
back around.

This kind of "luck" reminds of a Lee Trevino (pro golfer) story. Someone
mentioned to him how lucky he (Lee) had been on a particular shot. His
reply was: "Yeah, I've noticed that the more I practice, the luckier I
get".

After a while, it isn't luck, it's skill/experience.

Bob

What a F__king idiot this 'JB' is. That bearing didn't just blow; it was
howling for quite some time before it spun. Guys like him keep repair
shop doors open everywhere.
JR
Dweller in the cellar

oldjag wrote:

You folks might get a kick out of this. I had just towed my race car
trailer to the track with some friends following behind us with their
tow vehicle. When we got to the paddock and started unpacking, JB the
guy following us, said he had a problem with noise from the left front
wheel of his tow vehicle. He soon had the wheel off and found the
problem - the front inner axle bearing was toast, and the inner race
had spun on the axle. The bearing fell apart but the race was stuck on
the axle. I got him a puller from my tool box and he set to work
pulling the race off the axle. He got worrried the puller would bugger
the end of the axle....so he grabbed one of the tapered rollers from
the broken bearing and stuck it in the hole on the end of the axle,
then uses the puller and extracts the bearing race from the
axle....great so far. A little crocus cloth and the axle looked good,
so he gets new parts from the last still open store for about 100 miles
and starts assembling the bearing and hub. Gets everything back on and
goes to put in the cotter pin for the axle nut and...oh **** the
tapered roller is now stuck flush with the end of the axle and is
blocking the cross drilled hole for the cotter pin! No hope of
drilling a hardened bearing roller with any drill we had. What to do?
I had a brain storm for an idea that I thought might have 5% chance of
working. I grabbed a carbon steel crank handle from my ring gap filer,
(basicly just a piece of 3/16" diam. CS rod stock) and a set of heavy
duty jumper cables. Connected the cables to the axle and the rod
stock, and had JB hold the rod against the end of roller. I grabbed
the jumper battery and hooked it up for about 5 seconds. By this time a
small crowd of onlookers had assembled to watch and bet on the outcome.
To my total amazement, it welded the rod to the end of the roller.
Even more amazing, it yanked the roller out of the axle with the help
of a slide hammer without breaking off! Of course I didn't let on that
I was as amazed as they were that this actually worked.....



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On Sun, 1 Jan 2006 14:11:48 -0500, "Bob Chilcoat"
wrote:

Years ago, when I weighed 60 lb less and was still racing bicycles, two club
mates and I came across a couple of Dutch touring cyclists up in the Welsh
mountains who had been run off a country lane by a car. One of them had a
front wheel bent like a pretzel, and were trying to figure out how to get
out of the mountains to a youth hostel. It was Sunday and no one was
around. While the two Dutchmen looked on in amazement, a buddy and I
assessed the situation, took the wheel off, and kicked it as straight as we
could make it. After ten minutes, we ended up with less than 1/2" runout,
put it back into the fork, opened up the brake caliper, and then helped them
out of the mountains. The guy on the bike was told to only use his back
brake in case the front one jammed when applied, and we escorted him down,
prepared to grab his shirt and help him slow down if his back brake couldn't
handle the load. Two hours later after a stop at a hospital to patch the
guy's road rash, we dropped them at the hostel and peddled off for home.

We couldn't believe that they couldn't figure out that they might fix their
bike enough to move on. I think they were considering spending the night up
there.


Okie Engineering..its an Art.

Gunner

"Pax Americana is a philosophy. Hardly an empire.
Making sure other people play nice and dont kill each other (and us)
off in job lots is hardly empire building, particularly when you give
them self determination under "play nice" rules.

Think of it as having your older brother knock the **** out of you
for torturing the cat." Gunner

How'd you know I used to live in Tulsa? :-)

--
Bob (Chief Pilot, White Knuckle Airways)


"Gunner Asch" wrote in message
...

Okie Engineering..its an Art.

Gunner

On Sun, 1 Jan 2006 17:55:45 -0500, "Bob Chilcoat"
wrote:

How'd you know I used to live in Tulsa? :-)


I didnt..but in my neck of the woods..we got Okies running out our
ears. This is the spot where lots of the Dust Bowlers wound up..plus
all the erl field trash. G

Gunner

"Pax Americana is a philosophy. Hardly an empire.
Making sure other people play nice and dont kill each other (and us)
off in job lots is hardly empire building, particularly when you give
them self determination under "play nice" rules.

Think of it as having your older brother knock the **** out of you
for torturing the cat." Gunner

Ah, my friend probably heard the bearing for a while before he reached
the track, but I also know he was very determined to reach the track as
this was one of his first races with his new racecar. He's lucky he
didn't lose axle. I think the main thing keeping wheel on was the
brake caliper.