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Cvans
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 Posted - 09/07/2010 : 16:13:45
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You might think this is bull, but I run 4oz. of STP in all of my air cooled gas engines. This saved me an engine one time when the oil pump broke on a Tecumseh. The rod turned blue but did not break. All bearing surfaces were in excellent condition upon inspection. I purchased a rod, plastic oil pump, and gaskets and was on the way again. This was on an old Swisher Big Mow with an 8 hp engine. They were noted for throwing rods at the blink of an eye. That made me a believer.
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The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
Thomas Jefferson
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oldron
USA
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Posted - 09/07/2010 : 17:47:03
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Originally posted by skunkhome
the watch looks like a Railroad special.
I'l bite, what is a rail road special?
I wear this for the art work.
Ron |
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olcowhand
USA
5115 Posts |
Posted - 09/07/2010 : 20:16:42
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| I've always liked the look of turquoise jewelry. |
Daniel in Ky -- So much to do, so little time!
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skunkhome
USA
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Posted - 09/07/2010 : 21:15:05
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Originally posted by oldron
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Originally posted by skunkhome
the watch looks like a Railroad special.
I'l bite, what is a rail road special?
I wear this for the art work.
Ron
My father in law worked for the IC railroad. They were as were all railroads fanatical about time. Well after every soul on earth had started using wrist watches their employees had to carry a Ball, RR standard pocket watch which by the way were quite expensive. When they finally started allowing wristwatches it had to be a Railroad approved watch. This is the watch my FIL wore until he retired a little over 20 years ago. It is a no frills wind up watch.
They have changed a bit and other brands are allowed . Now the watches can be quarts movement but still have to be approved for RR use. I believe that is still the rule. Who knows that might be a DOT requirement.
BTW: the old balance wheel movement still works but the newer quartz movement doesn't.
Footnote: The rail road standard watch was born in 1893 after a horrendous rr accident in 1891 which occurred as a result of two watches being out of sync. the standard was set that a watch had to maintain time within 30 seconds per week and they were all synchronized daily. Of course the new inexpensive quartz movements easily beat those standards. |
  Phil
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty."
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oldron
USA
2732 Posts |
Posted - 09/07/2010 : 22:02:38
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Originally posted by skunkhome
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Originally posted by oldron
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Originally posted by skunkhome
the watch looks like a Railroad special.
I'l bite, what is a rail road special?
I wear this for the art work.
Ron
My father in law worked for the IC railroad. They were as were all railroads fanatical about time. Well after every soul on earth had started using wrist watches their employees had to carry a Ball, RR standard pocket watch which by the way were quite expensive. When they finally started allowing wristwatches it had to be a Railroad approved watch. This is the watch my FIL wore until he retired a little over 20 years ago. It is a no frills wind up watch.
They have changed a bit and other brands are allowed . Now the watches can be quarts movement but still have to be approved for RR use. I believe that is still the rule. Who knows that might be a DOT requirement.
BTW: the old balance wheel movement still works but the newer quartz movement doesn't.
Footnote: The rail road standard watch was born in 1893 after a horrendous rr accident in 1891 which occurred as a result of two watches being out of sync. the standard was set that a watch had to maintain time within 30 seconds per week and they were all synchronized daily. Of course the new inexpensive quartz movements easily beat those standards.
My watch is nothing special,just bold numbers and day date,so it is like a $100.00 saddle on a $10.00 horse.
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oldron
USA
2732 Posts |
Posted - 09/07/2010 : 22:05:58
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Originally posted by olcowhand
I've always liked the look of turquoise jewelry.
I have a couple of other pieces with a story.(Dang,every thing I have has a story!)If you would like to see them?
Ron |
'Life isn't about how to survive the storm, but how to dance in the rain!' |
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olcowhand
USA
5115 Posts |
Posted - 09/08/2010 : 09:10:31
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Ron, I just edited my reply & your quote of me where I made a typo. And heck yes we like stories! So start posting them....seriously, we enjoy them all. |
Daniel in Ky -- So much to do, so little time!
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oldron
USA
2732 Posts |
Posted - 09/08/2010 : 22:46:39
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This is a ring that I got on the Hualapai Res down near Lake Mead on the Colorado about 4yrs ago for my birthday.The wife let me pick what I wanted.I think it goes well with the watch wings I bought last year by cell phone,I was in WYO near Flaming Gorge driving,when I got a call from my SIL in southwest CO at a town called Cortez.She was in a pawn shop and said had the perfect ones for me.Had to take her word for it as I was running out of cell service.She sent them a week later.I think she did alright.
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oldron
USA
2732 Posts |
Posted - 09/10/2010 : 10:29:41
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And next my favorite ring,it was given to me by a Navaho silversmith.Two years later I could not ware it because of my work so put it in a box.
I put it in a box and forgot about it until a year after I retired then the memories came back.
Lets go back to the start.I am 16/17yrs old I have a friend Kee Yazzie a Navaho bronc rider and wild as I.He asked me to come and meet his folks in AZ so heading west from Farmington NM to Shiprock NM the town and rock and that is one big rock.In the evening sun it looks like a three masted ship sailing away.
The Navaho call it Tse'Bit'Ai rock with wings.
Shiprock is the core of a volcano,erosion has taken away all but the core.The wings are the dikes where the lava flowed to the core.
Shiprock is 1800ft high standing at 5,500ft ele.
We go on northwest to AZ and Teec Nos Pos,always liked the name of this place.There was little there but a trading post and some hogans.Kee's folks lived in a hogan,had a few sheep and his dad did silver work.They were real nice people.Kee's dad gave me the ring and we had lunch with them before we left.Do I remember what we ate?Yes and I tell my kids that I have eaten in the best resturants in the west and have broke bread with the poorest people on earth this was them.We had some over the hill mutton soup with a few chili's in it some grey biscuit's and boiled coffee,but they gave out of there little and was a great meal.
So the ring is 53 yrs old and I ware it every day.The ring was in a box for 50+ years but now it will shine as long as I do.
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'Life isn't about how to survive the storm, but how to dance in the rain!' |
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olcowhand
USA
5115 Posts |
Posted - 09/10/2010 : 11:24:22
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Thanks for the ring & ship rock story....gotta love it! Keep em coming! Glad you came across the ring again.
BTW...just how wild were ya? There's more stories there I'll bet! |
Daniel in Ky -- So much to do, so little time!
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oldsarge
USA
688 Posts |
Posted - 09/10/2010 : 12:14:55
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| Ron;Do you have a chance to read Tony Hillerman? |
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oldron
USA
2732 Posts |
Posted - 09/10/2010 : 21:54:16
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Originally posted by olcowhand
Thanks for the ring & ship rock story....gotta love it! Keep em coming! Glad you came across the ring again.
BTW...just how wild were ya? There's more stories there I'll bet!
How wild was I?Well I lost my dad at 4 yrs old,left home at 13,ran with some real rough stock,breeds,Mexicans,Indians and some whites.We cut quite a path,then I met 95lbs of fluff that turned my world around.I found her barefoot and skinny on the rez.Now you can think she is blood but no,not even a breed.The daughter in law get's ticked when I call the wife squaw but oh well.
There could be stories of those times but some are still alive and some could have guns. |
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oldron
USA
2732 Posts |
Posted - 09/10/2010 : 21:56:08
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Ron;Do you have a chance to read Tony Hillerman?
No but I shall have to do that,thanks for cluing me in.
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oldron
USA
2732 Posts |
Posted - 09/10/2010 : 22:54:49
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Last winter the wife and I did the snowbird thing for the first time and ended up in Casa Grande between Phoenix and Tucson at a street fair.Seems funny but the best meal there was a piece of meat from Montana,we talked to the owner and found she had people just 30mi from where we live.Found a Navaho vender that had a buckle I could not wive without. He was from Cameron,near the Grand Canyon.
Hard to take silver photos,lots of reflections.
Ron |
'Life isn't about how to survive the storm, but how to dance in the rain!' |
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olcowhand
USA
5115 Posts |
Posted - 09/11/2010 : 08:39:00
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| That is one awesome buckle Ron! Glad you met the 95lbs of fluff. You may not have lived to tell any stories if you hadn't! |
Daniel in Ky -- So much to do, so little time!
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