On Jan 7, 10:39*am, Tim wrote:
wrote:
On Jan 7, 9:22?am, Tim wrote:
John H. wrote:
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 03:47:17 -0800 (PST), Tim wrote:

http://www.minimodelengines.com/index2.htm

Wow. Talk about works of art.
--
John H

"All decisions are the result of binary thinking."

John, It's one thing to make a mere model of an engine the size of a
half dollar, but to make one run, especially a 4 cycle with valves ,
carb, and some type of spark apparatus. ?I'd like to know why they
make a spark plug about the size of a ball point pin tip!

The five cylinder radial engine is simply amazing.

No kidding!

I've been around some people that are highly skilled and love doing
unimaginary machinging for a hobby, (but non like this!), and I've
found them to either be really laid back and talkative, or very quiet
and straightforward. But either way it seems they are a bit eccentric.
And thats not really bad either. *Maybe they're truely infected with
"binary thinking?"- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Same here. My uncle was an aviation machinist, and very bright on top
of that. He always had something going on! He once built a fold-out
tent camper that was just cool as hell! He even sewed all of the
canvas on an industrial sewing machine that he got for a few bucks
because he had to fix IT! This camper worked like a charm, he used
conduit for the arms, and it would set up in just a few minutes. Had
windows in it that zipped down, and he got the zippers from somewhere
that made them, they were seconds and he had a big box of them. Looked
a little funky because they were all different colors, but he was
frugile, too!

My did did something of the same thing! He built a camper top for our
'66 pontiac stationwagon, and it folded out to one side, set up like a
tent and we kinds could set it up in about 9 minutes. we all had a job
to do. it would sleep 6. mom and dad on the car and us four kids (we
were obviously little at the time) on the fold out. people at
campsites (when tehre were such things) thought ti was great and had
lots of quesitons about it.

Dad in just the past eyars was really intrigued with magnetic power
and thought he could make an extremely efficient magneting motor.
Spent lots of time experimenting. I really didn't think he could pull
it off, but hey, he had about as good of a chance as anyone, I
suppose. He did made lots of cool stuff.

wrote:
On Jan 7, 10:39?am, Tim wrote:
wrote:
On Jan 7, 9:22?am, Tim wrote:
John H. wrote:
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 03:47:17 -0800 (PST), Tim wrote:

http://www.minimodelengines.com/index2.htm

Wow. Talk about works of art.
--
John H

"All decisions are the result of binary thinking."

John, It's one thing to make a mere model of an engine the size of a
half dollar, but to make one run, especially a 4 cycle with valves ,
carb, and some type of spark apparatus. ?I'd like to know why they
make a spark plug about the size of a ball point pin tip!

The five cylinder radial engine is simply amazing.

No kidding!

I've been around some people that are highly skilled and love doing
unimaginary machinging for a hobby, (but non like this!), and I've
found them to either be really laid back and talkative, or very quiet
and straightforward. But either way it seems they are a bit eccentric.
And thats not really bad either. ?Maybe they're truely infected with
"binary thinking?"- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Same here. My uncle was an aviation machinist, and very bright on top
of that. He always had something going on! He once built a fold-out
tent camper that was just cool as hell! He even sewed all of the
canvas on an industrial sewing machine that he got for a few bucks
because he had to fix IT! This camper worked like a charm, he used
conduit for the arms, and it would set up in just a few minutes. Had
windows in it that zipped down, and he got the zippers from somewhere
that made them, they were seconds and he had a big box of them. Looked
a little funky because they were all different colors, but he was
frugile, too!

On Jan 7, 11:10*am, Tim wrote:
My did did something of the same thing! He built a camper top for our
'66 pontiac stationwagon, and it folded out to one side, set up like a
tent and we kinds could set it up in about 9 minutes. we all had a job
to do. it would sleep 6. mom and dad on the car and us four kids (we
were obviously little at the time) *on the fold out. people at
campsites (when tehre were such things) thought ti was great and had
lots of quesitons about it.

Dad in just the past eyars was really intrigued with magnetic power
and thought he could make an extremely efficient *magneting motor.
Spent lots of time experimenting. I really didn't think he could pull
it off, but hey, he had about as good of a chance as anyone, I
suppose. *He did made lots of cool stuff.



wrote:
On Jan 7, 10:39?am, Tim wrote:
wrote:
On Jan 7, 9:22?am, Tim wrote:
John H. wrote:
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 03:47:17 -0800 (PST), Tim wrote:

http://www.minimodelengines.com/index2.htm

Wow. Talk about works of art.
--
John H

"All decisions are the result of binary thinking."

John, It's one thing to make a mere model of an engine the size of a
half dollar, but to make one run, especially a 4 cycle with valves ,
carb, and some type of spark apparatus. ?I'd like to know why they
make a spark plug about the size of a ball point pin tip!

The five cylinder radial engine is simply amazing.

No kidding!

I've been around some people that are highly skilled and love doing
unimaginary machinging for a hobby, (but non like this!), and I've
found them to either be really laid back and talkative, or very quiet
and straightforward. But either way it seems they are a bit eccentric.
And thats not really bad either. ?Maybe they're truely infected with
"binary thinking?"- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Same here. My uncle was an aviation machinist, and very bright on top
of that. He always had something going on! He once built a fold-out
tent camper that was just cool as hell! He even sewed all of the
canvas on an industrial sewing machine that he got for a few bucks
because he had to fix IT! This camper worked like a charm, he used
conduit for the arms, and it would set up in just a few minutes. Had
windows in it that zipped down, and he got the zippers from somewhere
that made them, they were seconds and he had a big box of them. Looked
a little funky because they were all different colors, but he was
frugile, too!- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

That's good stuff! A lot of people around me, my wife included was
just brought up different. She is still amazed when I fix things
instead of calling someone else to do it. I thank my lucky stars that
I learned that when something is broke, you fix it.

True. I've stopped to help someone on the road before, and find it was
something minor, (that's in the days when you could) , wire around a
connection or something to get it going, but I'd also tell people it
was a TEMPORARY fix, and get it repaired right as abosolutely as soon
as they could. Some would ask me, "how'd you know that?" My standard
reply was "Well, my dad taught me how to make it home at night." That
was always good for a chuckle...

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On Jan 7, 11:10?am, Tim wrote:
My did did something of the same thing! He built a camper top for our
'66 pontiac stationwagon, and it folded out to one side, set up like a
tent and we kinds could set it up in about 9 minutes. we all had a job
to do. it would sleep 6. mom and dad on the car and us four kids (we
were obviously little at the time) ?on the fold out. people at
campsites (when tehre were such things) thought ti was great and had
lots of quesitons about it.

Dad in just the past eyars was really intrigued with magnetic power
and thought he could make an extremely efficient ?magneting motor.
Spent lots of time experimenting. I really didn't think he could pull
it off, but hey, he had about as good of a chance as anyone, I
suppose. ?He did made lots of cool stuff.



wrote:
On Jan 7, 10:39?am, Tim wrote:
wrote:
On Jan 7, 9:22?am, Tim wrote:
John H. wrote:
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 03:47:17 -0800 (PST), Tim wrote:

http://www.minimodelengines.com/index2.htm

Wow. Talk about works of art.
--
John H

"All decisions are the result of binary thinking."

John, It's one thing to make a mere model of an engine the size of a
half dollar, but to make one run, especially a 4 cycle with valves ,
carb, and some type of spark apparatus. ?I'd like to know why they
make a spark plug about the size of a ball point pin tip!

The five cylinder radial engine is simply amazing.

No kidding!

I've been around some people that are highly skilled and love doing
unimaginary machinging for a hobby, (but non like this!), and I've
found them to either be really laid back and talkative, or very quiet
and straightforward. But either way it seems they are a bit eccentric.
And thats not really bad either. ?Maybe they're truely infected with
"binary thinking?"- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Same here. My uncle was an aviation machinist, and very bright on top
of that. He always had something going on! He once built a fold-out
tent camper that was just cool as hell! He even sewed all of the
canvas on an industrial sewing machine that he got for a few bucks
because he had to fix IT! This camper worked like a charm, he used
conduit for the arms, and it would set up in just a few minutes. Had
windows in it that zipped down, and he got the zippers from somewhere
that made them, they were seconds and he had a big box of them. Looked
a little funky because they were all different colors, but he was
frugile, too!- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

That's good stuff! A lot of people around me, my wife included was
just brought up different. She is still amazed when I fix things
instead of calling someone else to do it. I thank my lucky stars that
I learned that when something is broke, you fix it.