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Outlawmws

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Private Lugnutz said:
I picked up another wartime Navy blueprints manual at the flea yesterday.
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Interesting that its not just reading the Blueprints, but also the layout work. important to machinists, but even more so to builders of Aircraft of the day. (these days all the sheet stock "layout" is a direct cut by CNC...) I like these old books the military made for servicemen of the day. Highly educating even today. I have some from my dad from his Korean war service (Some dated WWII IIR) , and have added to them.

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Check out the size of the vise in the last pic!
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Did you miss a pic? not seeing a vise in any of them? :dunno:
 
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Outlawmws said:
...not seeing a vise in any of them?
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Really? There are two illustrations of sailors sitting behind benches with vises attached to them, one small, one quite large.

I said "last pic" because I loaded it last, and it appeared last yesterday, but of course GJ reversed the order on me, and now it's the first pic! Maybe that's what's tripping you up. The way it sometimes does that ruins any coherence in referring to thumbnails by number in the text of a post. I have posted the issue in the Suggestions Box thread, and one of the mods, @The Cobbler, verified the issue. Apparently it has not been fixed or is not something that can be fixed. It occurs randomly. Drives me nuts.
 
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I have some of my dad's WWII booklets on acting properly in the countries that he was in during the war--China, Burma, India, and also a phrase guide and language guide for Chinese. He did tell us some interesting stories about India, flying over the hump into China, and stories about interacting with people there, but never anything about what he was actually doing in China. He had been involved with Air Corps radar, but apparently his records were lost in the fire at the records center.
 
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DAustin said:
I had its little brother a bug-eyed Sprite. Unlike the 100 and 3000 cars the only thing I could act like I was racing were other Sprites and kids on bicycles.
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You were probably very competitive with MG Midgets. 😉 Here is a slightly newer Sprite owned by my neighbor back in the day. He would scare the hell out of me in that car.IMG_2995.jpeg
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Farmer J. said:
The first picture looks more like camouflage.. :LOL:
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My Sprite was Silver and Primer, mostly Primer. I was going to repaint it but was made an offer to buy it I couldn't pass up. Moved up to a TR-3 in BRG. The Sprite was named "Winston", and the TR-4 was "Kermit".
 
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Private Lugnutz said:
Well, I can't speak for @gearhead1960 , @DAustin, or Don, but my interpretation of your original post was you saying that trying to keep an Austin-Healey on the road was as brutal as Viet Cong guerilla warfare and torture methods. :)
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I wouldn't go so far as to say that, or draw comparisons of peoples experiences in Vietnam, but pleased my attempt at humour has been taken in good heart. :)
It's always a metaphorical minefield trying to make a witty comment in message format..
I think I'm going to leave it there, before I dig in a deeper hole load of trouble.
 
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d42jeep said:
I don’t want to post all the things that broke on mine but I frequently had to whack my SU fuel pump with my brass hammer as I drove down the road. Fortunately it was within reach of the driver’s seat inside the battery hatch.
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I always wondered why they didn't spell out the whole name- *****.
 
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Outlawmws said:
Interesting that its not just reading the Blueprints, but also the layout work. important to machinists, but even more so to builders of Aircraft of the day. (these days all the sheet stock "layout" is a direct cut by CNC...) I like these old books the military made for servicemen of the day. Highly educating even today. I have some from my dad from his Korean war service (Some dated WWII IIR) , and have added to them.
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Me & a buddy were buying some old aircraft hardware from a place in Burbank many years ago, we came across original Lockheed P38 blueprints. I have a copy of the 3 view blueprint. Guy at a local business ran off a few copies for free after I said he could run off extras for himself.
 
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Just yesterday I was looking up something and a book nearby was this--Audel1.jpgI mention this because of Chapter 50, almost 80 pages about aeroplanes, 1923 vintage. Lot of great info.Audel2.jpg
 
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ZRX61 said:
I think there are 7 volumes in a full set, or at least I've never seen Vol-8
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Yes, the ad in the back of my volume lists all 8 of them. Volume 8 was the electrical book, bigger and more expensive than the others. I haven't found a full set at a price I want to pay, but I'm still looking. I'm at a point where I seriously considering getting rid of a book or two whenever I buy another one. We have bookshelves throughout the garage and house. Some years ago when we got our first laptop computer, the justification was that a laptop made it easier to put all of our books on a spreadsheet, which took us some time. Entering what is now almost 8,000 books took awhile, but did help us discover some duplicates (the wife doesn't think that we need upstairs, downstairs, and garage copies of so many books). It is nice to have the book spreadsheet on my phone so I am less likely to pick up duplicates at the used book store or garage sale.
 
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Getting rid of books, what?

Seriously, I just did a purge, which is a semi annual occurrence. Got me a ton of credit at the local used bookstore, and I still have a few items I scouted out to take up to my friends store, as he deals in higher value collectables: firsts of Cannery Row, A Farwell to Arms, and Butchers Crossing. Those three should pay for my vacation next month.
 
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I have a full set (vols. 1-8) of the 1920s edition of the Audels Engineers and Mechanics Guide. The set has an owner's signature inside the front cover plus an inscription in the same hand: "U.S.S. Whipple #217".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Whipple_(DD-217)

Commissioned in April 1920 and decommissioned November 1945, in its quarter-century of service that ship went just about everywhere: the Med, the Black Sea, China coast (based in Tsingtao for a while), Caribbean, the Pacific, the Atlantic, before and during WW 2. I recommend reading the two sections on its service up to WW 2 (includes the Russian Revolution & aftermath) and its WW 2 service.

The set's owner came from Rockford, Illinois, trained as a machinist in school there, and presumably took the set on board when he enlisted.
 
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