I got some old snap on stuff I got somewhere. I have to take a pic of a early ratchet, a snap on guy saw it once and tried to buy it really hard. I even have some old wit worth stuff, not much that's a pia size have to have it.
Stop in for a cup of coffee
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Ddaddy
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I told him I would only go on Jeopardy if they served beer!
Dave!
Too Damned Cheap..........
Whitworth Ray... I still have some from my Triumph Cycle days....
Thank you see Dave is right I would need beer also to be on Jeopardy! I would watch that one for sure.
Good to know if I ever put that Terrier together.
Tim member from the navy flaming alphas? Just reminded me of it!
It does!
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We were just kids. Friend bought a basket case BSA 500 single for $25. All Whitworth, some metrics sorta fit, some standards sorta fit. The rest Crescent always fit. It was stripped for desert play, had the biggest knobby tire on it that either one of us had ever seen, all of 4" of travel in the suspension at either end. Neither one of us had enough lead in or *** to kick it through, until we discovered what that funny little "extra" lever was for on the bars (compression release). You didn't dare get behind it, I swear every time it fired it would chuck a 5" rock at you.
Ddaddy
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One of the boats my grandfather did the wiring on while being built...
When your 4 year old tells your wife that she can't wait to be a mommy one day.... 
A Uboat?
Ddaddy
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USS Pilotfish. He is in that pic, standing on deck in front of the conning tower.
Unconventional
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Not exactly a huge crowd there to watch the launch.
Still have to charge to put it back together. Likely another 2. Then hack all the rotten pipes and weld in a couple new sections. Really the value of this truck in my opinion is zero or less.
Only thing it has is a very good plow...
Ddaddy
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It was several hours before the launch when the Navy took that official documentation photo. The dry dock hadn’t been flooded yet for the launch.
Ddaddy
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You can see the official notation in the lower right corner.
Unconventional
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I could work on big iron like that. And have fun doing it. In my younger years anyway. Had to be good with big dirt iron, that was fun too 
I couldn't be a submariner. No way, no hell
It takes a special kind of guy for sure.
Unconventional
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Not that kinda work Duke .. Building them .. Let those crazy sailors operate them
Ddaddy
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Yeah, my grandfather was 43 years old when he was building that boat. He was a civilian employee of the USN. He did the wiring on 5 boats during WWII, and 2 after the war was over.Not that kinda work Duke .. Building them .. Let those crazy sailors operate them
Perhaps but stillNot that kinda work Duke .. Building them .. Let those crazy sailors operate them
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