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2 hours ago, Mack Technician said:

I still think there's a big misunderstanding somewhere in this? Or not?

That's the great thing about this forum P.T., you can be typing and threading while your covered in the days filth, or even sitting on your porcelain throne, and still everyone perceives you as a congenial gentleman so long as you have a good paint job, truck building experience, decent truck pics or Mack savvy. Not only are folks on BMT not judgmental, we lack judgement. That's why it could all be a matter of confusion and misunderstanding on the part of the Bitty Committee.

 

For instance this pic of you. Looks like your homeless, Right? but actually  patiently waiting for the truck salvage yard up in Bangor to open.....Just a matter of perception really.. Now THAT'S dedication!!! However, the ladies wouldn't understand.

 

You after buying a shopping cart full of vintage truck parts at the 2019 Macungie swap meet. NICE SCORE!!! Ladies are all like...." Oh, Yuck".

 

Remember this one? You living in your travel van, down by the river, for a week in Michigan chasing the Grapevine B Mack....LOOKS COMFY!! (appear 2B searching for a Moxie?). Ladies are all gagging, looking down and praying you have your boxers on.

 

In our world your the “Man with the plan” willing to skip a shower to score the prize......but a “high class" prissy township girl really is never going to understand you.  

Sorry I do not wear hats, sneakers or shorts.

2 hours ago, Maddog13407 said:

few trucks there id like to have myself

 

Most all of them!

12 hours ago, 1958 F.W.D. said:

I am sorry that this had to happen to a good person, who has good intentions, to help good people. Really turns my stomach. 

Eh not a big deal. Today for Indigenous People Day I serenaded  the town with 5 hours of Mountain, Black Sabbath,  Cream, Country Joe and the Fish, Mitch Ryder and Commander Cody. 

12 hours ago, david wild said:

Spent most of my time in Aroostook County and Fryeburg ,  potatoe country, all we could haul back in 70s before deregulation. (produce)

My ancestors came from Cape Elizabeth when it was still the Mass Bay Colony,  due to a disagreement over privateering with the Crown in 1630, we had to go live with the Dutch in New Amsterdam.

5 hours ago, david wild said:

Well being from New England I am sure they will very happy you built in ME.

David, the Mainers went out of their way to help with anything required and offered all kind of help with paperwork. Got Hammond Lumbers pledge to supply the house kits at 10% over cost. Good people  all around til you get to Portland and Unity.

15 hours ago, other dog said:

I think that's the first one of those reaper machines, or binders i've seen since I was a kid. I remember seeing Lee Hatcher pulling one up rt.13 behind his Farmall M and thinking it was a broke down combine. Billy French was the only one around who even had a combine at that time, it was a pull type and he did everybody's combining for them, until my Dad got one.

Anyhow, my uncle Buck told me it wasn't a combine. It had the reel in front like a combine, so I thought "combine".  The wood has long since rotted off of this one. I guess these were used in the threshing machine days? The threshing machine was like a combine, but it was stationary, you parked it in the field and you had to cut the grain and bring it to the machine. All this is a little bit before my time. There's still a lot of old threshing machines sitting around in the midwest though.

A threshing machine and a picture of what the reaper might have once looked like, from the interweb.

We had one of the thrashers, a big 500 gallon wood barreled tanker thing, a sickle cutter and a three row planter.  All wood and strap iron. My grandma bought about 1918. Her and granpop used a model T to pull them I was told. I saved some of the metal parts from where they burned them up after WWII when the got modern ones.

J brackets won't work on a larger tank. they will crease and eventually puncture the tanks. Only way short of replacing them is to re radius them to match the larger diameter tanks.

Tapered Piloted reamers for doing kingpins are available from Brown and Sharpe and a few Aviation tool suppliers. Average is around 90 to 100 USD

My very old Snap on kingpin press kit came with  6 different piloted tapered kingpin reamers. I believe that are all a 7degree taper. 

The axle for my mixer was done at Riverhead Spring. The axle "eye" was bored out and a new pice was pulled out of the freezer and pressed in. When it warmed up it was in there permanant. Riverhead used 4130 to make the repair part from and tapered reamer to fit the kingpin. They said as long as you keep it greased it will last a long time.

7 hours ago, other dog said:

...and on top of all that, today I found out that Spongebob Squarepants is a racist.

So are Belgian waffles and grits.

They're not worth the effort to insult.  A few small bill boards, a mailer explaining what they cost the village and run my daughter in law and son against them in the next election will be sufficient. No reason to inflict harm on the village residents. Anyway  would not submit the disabled vets and their families to that better than you environment.  I'm putting the  entire development in Maine near Scarborough Veterans  Home instead of splitting it between 2 states.

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Bet the Amish would take those ancient machines in a second!

Donks!

Well that will help sales a lot. Sure that Sanders, Warren and Biden and Beto will go there with their UAW pins to add support to the poorly paid slaves like they say the GM workers are.

7 hours ago, Brocky said:

Somehow I think they just nailed the lid on their own coffin.. With 20 penny nails and a twelve pound sledge!!

Well they are getting a pair of big bill boards, can't punish everybody for a pair of idiots but you can let everyone know about it.

1/8 works the 55 originally ran it in the early 1960's . Three options I guess 1/8  and 1/4 for the regular racers and the rails and funnies run 3/16 . . .and brag about breaking all the old records  

5 hours ago, TS7 said:

I just hope all the dead people that voted for Clinton in 2016 vote for Trump in 2020.

Nah Chelsea  is talking of running for Senate and Pantsuit Prissy says she can beat Trump again so all the dead votes go to them. Trump doesn't win there will be bad dodo revenge by the Dems on us.

7 hours ago, Mack Technician said:

Just made up a fresh batch of my Purple Kool Aid buddy....

Best tranny on earth.  

Told my wife when I die she needs to have me cremated and ashes finely homogenized into gear lube and installed in the drivetrain of a Gold Dog Superliner. Then my son is to drive across the country with it delivering Moxie to all the dry counties of this great nation. 

Thats how good a Mack tranny is....

If your wife soaks you in Moxie you'll come back to life better n new no need for  the BBQ box.

9 hours ago, Freightrain said:

Couple of winning rounds last weekend....

 

Some days you're the dog.........sometimes you're the hydrant..........

Wow! On the 1/8th no less.Don't recall the last 1/8 mile track I ran at. 1970 at Islip maybe.

https://www.raneystruckparts.com/mack-headlights/

https://www.4statetrucks.com/lighting/mack-cv713-granite-headlights_15226.asp

Remember what ever type you install LED, Halogen or HID you definitely need to readjust your headlights. The brighter lights have a different lens pattern and you will blind oncoming vehicles and not get the optimum light spread.

Not sure if it is available but I'd use that UV cured adhesive on it

Hey Billy, we're here if you need us. most all of the crew here missed ya.  Paul