- 21. Re: Where to start with a seized engine (score: 1)
- Author: Phil Ethier <ethier@freenet.msp.mn.us>
- Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 15:24:09 -0500 (CDT)
- Is this a new list? New address for old list? Here is what I have in my records:
- /html/shop-talk/1996-10/msg00027.html (7,624 bytes)
- 22. Re: Daimler SP 250 WIRE WHEEL CONVERSION (score: 1)
- Author: Phil Ethier <ethier@freenet.msp.mn.us>
- Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 16:47:50 -0500 (CDT)
- Wouldn't it make a lot more sense from budget, aesthetic and performance perspectives to go to a period bolt-on cast wheel? Minilite/Panasport style maybe. The car will look period, be safer and stro
- /html/shop-talk/1996-09/msg00056.html (7,104 bytes)
- 23. Re: Radiant Heat in shop floor (score: 1)
- Author: Phil Ethier <ethier@freenet.msp.mn.us>
- Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 10:35:19 -0500 (CDT)
- Then why did Mark Twain say, "The coldest winter I ever spent was summer in San Francisco"? :-) Here in Minnesota (where we have longer summer days than California...) the earthquakes are considerabl
- /html/shop-talk/1996-09/msg00061.html (9,157 bytes)
- 24. Re: Micrometers and Dial indicators (score: 1)
- Author: Phil Ethier <ethier@freenet.msp.mn.us>
- Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 16:25:36 -0500 (CDT)
- Get a good set of telescoping gauges. Easier to use and therefore often more accurate than an inside micrometer. Cheaper, too, as you only have to pay for the number-reading parts on your outside mic
- /html/shop-talk/1996-07/msg00024.html (7,973 bytes)
- 25. re: Odd screws & bolts (score: 1)
- Author: Phil Ethier <ethier@freenet.msp.mn.us>
- Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 13:35:58 -0500 (CDT)
- That still available? I guess I HAVE created a monster. Is anybody updating it? Sorry for ditching out on it, but I just couldn't spend the time any more. Phil "just call me Doctor Frankenstein" Ethi
- /html/shop-talk/1996-07/msg00037.html (6,834 bytes)
- 26. Re: Spitfire Body Question (score: 1)
- Author: Phil Ethier <ethier@freenet.msp.mn.us>
- Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 22:42:41 -0500 (CDT)
- Send an Email to majordomo@autox.team.net Then you will be among folks who can help you.
- /html/shop-talk/1996-06/msg00002.html (6,708 bytes)
- 27. Re: Kitty Litter (score: 1)
- Author: Phil Ethier <ethier@freenet.msp.mn.us>
- Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 08:33:01 -0500 (CDT)
- You don't need to throw away the light. Just use a proper bulb. Rough-service bulb with the tough rubbery skin over the glass. I have a FLUORESCENT trouble light as well as a couple of standard types
- /html/shop-talk/1996-06/msg00026.html (7,783 bytes)
- 28. Re: Grand Tool: Bead blaster (score: 1)
- Author: Phil Ethier <ethier@freenet.msp.mn.us>
- Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1996 00:58:06 -0500 (CDT)
- Yeah. I've heard of the company. Local Twin Cities outfit called The 3M Company. :-) 3M invented this stuff about 30 years ago. Like many 3M inventions however (like the "Kroy" lettering machine), it
- /html/shop-talk/1996-06/msg00035.html (7,293 bytes)
- 29. Re: Paint (score: 1)
- Author: Phil Ethier <ethier@freenet.msp.mn.us>
- Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 22:33:22 -0500 (CDT)
- Got that right. Paint right over the rust, if you like. On my streeter, I sand out the rust spots, rough up the bare clean steel with sandpaper a bit (on the parts that are pitted, don't worry, it LI
- /html/shop-talk/1996-06/msg00069.html (8,342 bytes)
- 30. A Must Have new tool (score: 1)
- Author: Phil Ethier <ethier@freenet.msp.mn.us>
- Date: Mon, 6 May 1996 23:23:30 -0500 (CDT)
- Dialed up with my text account. No info. It's all in graphics. GRRRRR! At lunch at work, fired up the Netscape. Tool pix loads 30% and locks up my computer. GRRRRR! Still don't know if this is a joke
- /html/shop-talk/1996-05/msg00003.html (6,851 bytes)
- 31. Re: Tools & trailer (score: 1)
- Author: Phil Ethier <ethier@freenet.msp.mn.us>
- Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 10:47:13 -0500 (CDT)
- Nice brutal little British sports car, made in Japan. I'd love to have one for autocrossing. Vernier. Named for Pierre Vernier, who came up with the concept of the vernier scale in around 1766, I thi
- /html/shop-talk/1996-05/msg00010.html (8,571 bytes)
- 32. Re: Lifting a car (score: 1)
- Author: Phil Ethier <ethier@freenet.msp.mn.us>
- Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 23:49:41 -0500 (CDT)
- Pits don't help you change wheels and such, and are illegal in my state anyway. Floor jack and a good set of welded-angle jackstands. Good selection of wood pieces for pads. Phil
- /html/shop-talk/1996-05/msg00026.html (7,374 bytes)
- 33. Re: Tappet adjustment tool (score: 1)
- Author: Phil Ethier <ethier@freenet.msp.mn.us>
- Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 09:53:20 -0600 (CST)
- (fine instructions deleted) You're joking. Actually, they are timeless. These have been made for over a century, I bet, and they are still made today all over the world. True, the new ones generally
- /html/shop-talk/1996-02/msg00002.html (7,952 bytes)
- 34. Re: Tappet adjustment tool (score: 1)
- Author: Phil Ethier <ethier@freenet.msp.mn.us>
- Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 14:12:43 -0600 (CST)
- Oh. That's all I have ever used. When I had access to one. No it's feeler guages, but I always liked the dial indicator better. Sounds cool. I've never seen one. I actually reinvented the process. Su
- /html/shop-talk/1996-02/msg00005.html (7,580 bytes)
- 35. Re: light - was benches (score: 1)
- Author: Phil Ethier <ethier@freenet.msp.mn.us>
- Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 10:08:57 -0600 (CST)
- I worked for years in machine shops with all-fluorescent lighting and never had the slightest safety or working problem with the strobe effect. Sure, sometimes you would notice a strobe effect on a l
- /html/shop-talk/1996-01/msg00086.html (7,995 bytes)
- 36. RE:RE:tracking gauge (score: 1)
- Author: Phil Ethier <ethier@freenet.msp.mn.us>
- Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 10:20:48 -0600 (CST)
- I think Dr. Miles can use an extensive education on alignment theory and practice. I didn't think it was proper for me to post such stuff on this list, so I took the liberty of sending him a private
- /html/shop-talk/1996-01/msg00103.html (7,248 bytes)
- 37. Re: Toe-in (score: 1)
- Author: Phil Ethier <ethier@freenet.msp.mn.us>
- Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 22:31:43 -0600 (CST)
- The method of setting camber has nothing to do with whether the spindle uses kingpins or ball joints. Or, for that matter, trunnions. Yes. Also, many shim changes will also affect caster. Nonsense.
- /html/shop-talk/1996-01/msg00109.html (7,071 bytes)
- 38. Re: Toe-in (score: 1)
- Author: Phil Ethier <ethier@freenet.msp.mn.us>
- Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 11:45:56 -0600 (CST)
- I apologize in advance for sending this to a list in which it is not=20 appropriate. However, when I am dissed in public, I like to defend=20 myself in the same forum. The whole thing started when so
- /html/shop-talk/1996-01/msg00114.html (11,791 bytes)
- 39. Re: Tools, was lighting ;-) (score: 1)
- Author: Phil Ethier <ethier@freenet.msp.mn.us>
- Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 11:55:11 -0600 (CST)
- Montgomery Ward PowrKraft tools were life-time warranted too. After they discontinued the line, I broke one and brought it back to Wards. They gave me a Thorson, which they were selling at that time.
- /html/shop-talk/1996-01/msg00115.html (7,524 bytes)
- 40. Re: Electrical ducting (score: 1)
- Author: Phil Ethier <ethier@freenet.msp.mn.us>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 23:57:47 -0600 (CST)
- A circuit breaker is not a switch and ought not be used as one. Frequent use can compromise its ability to do its primary job: Protecting against circuit overload if something goes wrong. Phil
- /html/shop-talk/1996-01/msg00140.html (8,265 bytes)
This search system is powered by
Namazu