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Helpful flowchart (kidding)

Mark Hepburn

Mark Hepburn

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Just another of my endless stream of helpful posts. For those of you not interested in lame jocularity, I try to warn in the thread title.

Anyway, here is a helpful chart I stumbled upon this morning. No, please, no need to say thank you.😎


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And coffee Mike.

Lots of coffee.
 
Point taken.

Says the guy typing this between swigs.

I read a comic sci-fi novel many, many years ago, and one of the passing jokes in it was that coffee is actually weed killer across the universe and earth was the only place where it would grow. Problem is the dumb inhabitants kept drinking it. 🙂
 
Maybe I am really old school, but the above flow chart is missing one key item, baling wire.... Maybe I keep it around from my days in concrete where I found and was taught many other uses for it besides tying up rebar.... Duct tape won't stick to muffler pipe very well....

robo hippy
 
Odie, do you realize how similar our photos are? Hair and all?

Got a mini herd going here, don't we mon amie? 😀
 
Mark Hepburn said:
Odie, do you realize how similar our photos are? Hair and all?

Got a mini herd going here, don't we mon amie? 😀
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Well Mark.....never quite thought of it from that perspective, but now that you mention it.......🙂
I often take off my glasses for photos.....the similarities could be even more ominous!😀
 
Mark Hepburn said:
Just another of my endless stream of helpful posts. For those of you not interested in lame jocularity, I try to warn in the thread title.

Anyway, here is a helpful chart I stumbled upon this morning. No, please, no need to say thank you.😎


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I believe that there should be a branch below WD-40 that reads SUCCESSFUL? Yes: NO Problem, No:Try Visegrips.
 
I thought Odie had taken on a new ID. Could there be 2 of you. Now that is scary. 🙂 Personally as a camera repairman I find people using WD-40 as a lubricant is terrible. It gums up more delicate stuff like typewriters and cameras if used in place of a lubricant. A good penetrating oil is much better at penetrating objects and loosening rust. A slightly thicker oil is better for lubrication hinges and such.
 
odie said:
Well Mark.....never quite thought of it from that perspective, but now that you mention it.......🙂
I often take off my glasses for photos.....the similarities could be even more ominous!😀
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Ominous, that may indeed be the word Odie 😀
 
john lucas said:
I thought Odie had taken on a new ID. Could there be 2 of you. Now that is scary. 🙂 Personally as a camera repairman I find people using WD-40 as a lubricant is terrible. It gums up more delicate stuff like typewriters and cameras if used in place of a lubricant. A good penetrating oil is much better at penetrating objects and loosening rust. A slightly thicker oil is better for lubrication hinges and such.
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Yes, but it tastes great and is less filling.

Seriously though, I don't use it much either. Graphite, T-9, Boeshield and other stuff seems to be what I keep on hand.
 
john lucas said:
I thought Odie had taken on a new ID. Could there be 2 of you. Now that is scary. 🙂 Personally as a camera repairman I find people using WD-40 as a lubricant is terrible. It gums up more delicate stuff like typewriters and cameras if used in place of a lubricant. A good penetrating oil is much better at penetrating objects and loosening rust. A slightly thicker oil is better for lubrication hinges and such.
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John,

You do know that the Illuminati owns WD-40, it was nice knowing you. 😛
 
Mark Hepburn said:
Just another of my endless stream of helpful posts. For those of you not interested in lame jocularity, I try to warn in the thread title.

Anyway, here is a helpful chart I stumbled upon this morning. No, please, no need to say thank you.😎


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So now everybody knows the secret to solving all engineering problems. The Apollo 13 crew used duct tape to save the mission from disaster. This means that there must have been an Aggie* engineer at NASA who saw the need to include duct tape as part of the emergency toolkit.

* A graduate of Texas A&M University famed for thie agrarian expertise in a he use of bailing wire and duct tape.
 
🙂

Unfortunately, Nick Saban rolled some of that Alabama duck tape all over our Tigers this past year. Again.
 
Mark Hepburn said:
🙂

Unfortunately, Nick Saban rolled some of that Alabama duck tape all over our Tigers this past year. Again.
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Well!
Last year your Tigers beat the Gators then fell apart
This year the Gators beat your Tigers and have not won a game since.
We were doing great against Alabama until they started playing the last 50 minutes.
 
Al, I share your pain.

My brother in law is a hard-core Gators fan (and alum). I bet he broke a knuckle or something during that game! I'm hopeful that our new coach has the ability to install a new offensive scheme with the new OC (Canada, from Pitt) to take advantage of some of the talent that we have been under-utilizing under Les Miles. I liked Les and hated to see him go but that was probably inevitable as the Alumni Association has been pushing him out the door as hard as they could.
 
Bigger hammer story, during my years of concrete construction, the guys on the crew never 'borrowed' my sledge. It was a 10 pounder.... How can you even swing that thing? Oh, like this!!! I have them in sizes from 2 to 16 pounds, you just never know.

One of my brothers is a Phd. Gator, which he says stands for 'piled higher and deeper'. Works for Audubon by Lake Ogerchobe (misspell on purpose). Must get down there some time to ride on his air boat...

robo hippy
 
robo hippy said:
Bigger hammer story, during my years of concrete construction, the guys on the crew never 'borrowed' my sledge. It was a 10 pounder.... How can you even swing that thing? Oh, like this!!! I have them in sizes from 2 to 16 pounds, you just never know.

One of my brothers is a Phd. Gator, which he says stands for 'piled higher and deeper'. Works for Audubon by Lake Ogerchobe (misspell on purpose). Must get down there some time to ride on his air boat...

robo hippy
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😀😀

Well it is piled pretty high and deep all over here in the Deep South, Robo

And yes, you should get some air boat time. Loads of fun. Take a swamp tour, seriously.
 
LOL. For a widely used as the stuff is It's worth noting that WD40 is pretty much nothing more than Deoderized Kero' and Propellant. They use the CAS for Jet Fuel which makes it a little confusing, but that's just dewaxed Kero. I keep telling myself that I'm going to buy deoderized kero instead of WD40 and then a couple cans of WD40 keep landing in my cart.
 
Mark Hepburn said:
Well it is piled pretty high and deep all over here in the Deep South, Robo
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......exactly what I was thinking as I was shoveling snow this morning! 🙄
 
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