Prop Wash question

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Have sent many new hands to the tool room for the following:

- can on striped paint
- ID10T (idiot) wire or rod
- Keys to the basement
- left handed cresent wrench
- Can of arc start
- Bolt strechers


Then there was the time I had a new guy stand there and kink my ground leat to stop the flow of electricity.
 
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Working at an autoparts store, I had a woman come in and ask for a 710 cap for her car. My father and I were both temporarily stumped, and asked her to draw it for us. We of course realized what had happened, but I dont think she knows any better to this day.
 
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Home Cookin'

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I don't get it.
Oh wait now I do. Good one. Took writing down.

scoutboater said:
Working at an autoparts store, I had a woman come in and ask for a 710 cap for her car. My father and I were both temporarily stumped, and asked her to draw it for us. We of course realized what had happened, but I dont think she knows any better to this day.
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dooma_Flatchy

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Ask and you shall receive.

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Daley

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Just out of high school, I worked at an auto parts store. When we'd hire a newbie, we'd call the store from another phone and act like a customer looking for things like a clutch/pressure-plate/throwout bearing for cars such as a Chevy Impala or Lincoln Town Car (they never came with manual transmissions). Once he "graduated" past those antics, we'd move on to asking for such things like piston rings for a Mazda RX-7, rear seat-belts for a Corvette and upper control-arm bushings for strut-equipped cars.

Now that I'm in IT, the newbies get asked for cable-stretchers, bit-buckets etc. Sometimes when I'm reading off product-keys or passwords over the phone, I'll say stuff like "lower-case y, capital 7" (yeah, the number seven).

Always good times - see the last line in my sig ;)
 
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marcoalza said:
Sasto. My original question could have been answered so long ago. What's the matter with you man!
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Ohhhhh....marcoalza....If you knew me you wouldn't be asking this question. My shrink says I'm getting better though! :cool:
 
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Got four of 'em for ya.
1. When I was young, My dad always told me to find a good deal on an '83 Corvette and he'd buy it for me. I looked for months, before I finally realized they made no model year '83 Corvette.
2. Same jerk of a dad told me he found a nice 'Vette for me for my 16th b'day. All excited, we went to go look. It was a Chevette.
3. We used to tell new truck drivers to find the load locks for the tankers.
4. I actually used the "seasonal Air" thing on my wife. When we were first dating, our first date, actually, we were on our way to Lake Ocoee to jet ski. I was riding with her in her '88 Grand Am, someone else was meeting us there with the skis. The car was pulling slightly to the right as she was driving. She knew I worked at an auto parts store, and worked on cars, so she asked what was wrong with it. I asked her...with a completely straight face...if she had changed the air in the tires yet. She looked genuinely surprised and worried, and told she in fact had not, and asked if it would cause problems. I told her all about how winter air is different from summer air, and how it is dangerous to drive with the wrong air in the tires, etc, etc, etc. I told her she really needed to ask her dad about it when she got home. The next day she was NOT happy with me, but it broke the ice between her dad and myself, and after 17 years together we all still get a good laugh out of it!
 
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My father used to tell a story from WWII. He was in the Navy on New Guinea and they sent him out to get a split pea cutter. He drove all over the place from base to base trying to get one. Everyone said they were out, but sent him to the next base to try there. When he got back they had a big laugh on him.

UNTIL -

He told them he knew about it all along - he had experience in kitchens and supply. He told the cooks that while they were slaving over steaming pots of food all day long in the tropical heat he was out driving a jeep on a nice sunny day. Wind in his hair (he told me he had some back then), he stopped at a mess hall for a nice steak lunch, took time for some sun, etc. He was the one laughing.

I still get a kick out of that story.
 
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Years back when I joined the local fire dept, all of us new guys were told we should go to the local drug store and pick up a can of FDS(Firemans Deodorant Spray). Turns out that is not what FDS Fememine Deodorant Spray. I almost fell for it.
 
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dooma_Flatchy said:
Ask and you shall receive.

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This is a BOATING forum! That stuff is for WOODEN props.

I need the Stainless stuff, I know the aluminum prop wash would work in a pinch but it takes a LOT more elbow grease than the preferred stainless formula.
 
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We send apprentices to the shop for Tartan Paint, Replacement Bubbles for the Spirit Level, a new Short Circuit, Skirting Board Ladders........:D
 
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Home Cookin' said:
on another thread a guy suggested using a round tuit--always a convenient part to have on hand.

I heard about a green Navy guy, who wondered why the ship (carrier) was still at the dock 4 hours after its announced deployment time. A junior officer sent him up to the bridge to offer the captain help finding the keys.
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Have a stack of these for when people try goofing off at work.
Also have new unused smoke screens for sale to those who need the, good for when in trouble with first mate.
 
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Fishing Dude too said:
Have a stack of these for when people try goofing off at work.
Also have new unused smoke screens for sale to those who need the, good for when in trouble with first mate.
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I love this thread! I like to go back and read the old ones; it reminds me that hindsight is 50/50.
 
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