Prop Wash question

[treemaker]

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I get my prop wash and flight line at the local airport.
Have to go to the auto parts store for a muffler belt tho.

 

[marcoalza]

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Marcoalza...you got me!

My first post was poking fun of you....then....I noticed where you were from... and thought I would help out. I went searching! I was curious!

Just goes to show...I'm never to old to be fooled.

I'll be watching your posts. I just may have some advice.

Fantastic, You also got me at first with the helpful response. I thought my joke had backfired!!

Love it.

(I was very tempted to post it in a serious forum but thought I may get struck off)!

 

[marcoalza]

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My days as a Motor Tech were the best fun.

Sending the apprentice to the tool store fo a glass hammer to fit a windscreen with.

Left handed screwdriver and a sky hook?

 

[lncoop]

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Any of you former Boy Scouts ever been sent after a left-handed smoke bender? The search was usually initiated when the campfire was being built.

 

[WOJO 1]

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You welders need to send the newbie to the welding shop to get some #10 spots for the spot welder. We actually had one shop said they were out of stock. This is a great thread.

 

[79Merc80]

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When I worked at Delta Airlines at SFO, we send a kid ALL over the airport looking for the batteries for the carpet sweeper (Hokie).

When we were waiting for the bus to the employee parking lot, I had him paged to meet his parents at the international terminal. He went looking for them.

 

[Home Cookin']

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Brickies sent the new boy for a brick stretcher.

There's the left-handed crescent wrench, right next to the metric ones.

And do you like up dog?

 

[MrBigStuff]

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Back in the day we had this new tech working on a defective preamp board. One of the guys told him he spotted the problem, all the resistors were in backwards. There were hundreds of through-hole resistors on that board! He spent hours swapping them around and wouldn't you know it, the board worked afterwards. No one could convince him it was a gag! It backfired on us because he kept trying that as a solution whenever he ran into a problem board. IIRC he didn't last long...

 

[CobiaXL]

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Framing houses,the board stretcher always came in handy to get rid of the nuisance.If they realized that there was no such thing,I would send them back off for the left-handed screwdriver.

 

[gypsysoul]

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As the shop foreman at truck shop for 250 ton Terex haul trucks. I like to send the newbie's to the warehouse to get my some headlight gaskets. And then tell them it is because the lights are leaking light all over the road! Muffler bearing is a old one from the light truck days also.

 

[Nandy]

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Back in the day we had this new tech working on a defective preamp board. One of the guys told him he spotted the problem, all the resistors were in backwards. There were hundreds of through-hole resistors on that board! He spent hours swapping them around and wouldn't you know it, the board worked afterwards. No one could convince him it was a gag! It backfired on us because he kept trying that as a solution whenever he ran into a problem board. IIRC he didn't last long...

I did something similar in my college years. In one of the classes you were supposed to put a project kit together. This guy chooses to put a dmm together and as we all did he checked if he was doing it right but he asked the wrong person, ME!!! I told him all of his resistors had been installed with the polarity wrong and he had to fix that. I of course thought he caught up in the joke until he went and got the Pace soldering machine to start removing them. Lucky I saw that an kept him from doing all that work, he was not happy with me.

 

[NHGuy]

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I'm in the auto repair business. We like to check the blinker fluid, muffler bearings and especially the franex valve.

 

[Home Cookin']

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and every device has a gonkulator to blame

 

[veritas honus]

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and every device has a gonkulator to blame

Unless, of course, it's the sydoflasm, which is difficult to seat. When not properly seated, it will usually interfere with the efficiency of the adjustment valve; which in turn, could easily lead one to believe that the gonkulator's to blame. Gotta take your time, and think things through before jumping to conclusions

Safe and happy boating always!!!

 

[Mel Taylor]

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I once heard the foreman on a construction job tell a young, and very green, laborer to get rid of a pile of dirt. The kid asked what to do with it and the foreman told him to "just dig a hole and bury it". The kid said OK and started to walk off before he realized it was a joke.

The same foreman claimed he was looking for investors to help him buy up abandoned mine shafts to cut them up and sell them for post holes.

 

[BrianCathcart]

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Back in the days when I was in the Army, we would send out a new private in our company, to go to headquarters and get the ID 10 T form. As some of you know, all military forms have numbers and letters like that. There is NOT a form that is ID10T-- Right it out, and you get IDIOT form.

When I started dispatching for a trucking company, we would send the newbies out to count the parking spaces, to make sure they were all still there.


Cheers
Brian

 

[Jeep Man]

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My father once told me of an incident after he went into construction after leaving the police force. The foreman sent him out to get a skyhook. He returned late in the day with a massive crane. Clearly emblazed across the boom was the name SKYHOOK. He handed the boss the bill and walked away. That was the last time he tried that prank.

 

[bassman284]

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Unless, of course, it's the sydoflasm, which is difficult to seat. When not properly seated, it will usually interfere with the efficiency of the adjustment valve; which in turn, could easily lead one to believe that the gonkulator's to blame. Gotta take your time, and think things through before jumping to conclusions

Safe and happy boating always!!!

Wow, tell me about it. I wish I had a dollar for every time I've seen a perfecty good gonkulator replaced when the sydoflasm was the problem.

 

[windshield_time]

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When they hired a new warehouse manager and he went to visit a customer with the regional vice president, I called the customer, (a county Jail) and had him strip searched. The rvp and I thought it was hilarious. They didn't actually do it, but got him in the room and everything ready, gloves, etc. We laughed our butts off.

Also "this seems like an ID 10 T error"

Have had fun with that.

 

[j_martin]

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Chrysler Turbo Encabulator