Taken 54 years ago today!
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Commiserations, please!
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Taken 54 years ago today!
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Commiserations, please!
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She was wasn't she?Quote:
Originally Posted by p38arover
Happy 54th anniversary Ron & "Barbie".
PS.I know you won't say ,but I'd love to know what you had said to her to get that laugh going you dirty sod..
:bat: 54 years????? Some marriages don't last 54 minutes these days so well done.
Please convey my commiserations to the ever patient Elisabeth.Quote:
Originally Posted by p38arover
Congratulations, both of you.
I wish I knew what I said. Actually, I think she was hysterical having just realised what she’d done. (Never been out of Sydney and I took her to Ceduna to live!)Quote:
Originally Posted by 4bee
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Originally Posted by p38arover
You sure do know how to give a Girl & Good Time. That must have been a bit of a shock to the system.
Little did she know though that it would all end up on a Pacific Island with swaying Palms & the sounds of Hawaiian Guitars in the air & breaking wavelets on the sea shore? Real From Here to Eternity stuff. ie.Deborah Carr & Burt Lancaster.[biggrin]
I realise it was Norfolk Island but that doesn't fit in with my imagination.[bigrolf] Soz.
Here is the rest of it, or there abouts! Worked on these many years ago. Twin turbos, rotary exhaust valves, crosshead con rods with piston cooling. They ran like a Swiss watch!Quote:
Originally Posted by V8Ian
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Originally Posted by V8Ian
Bloke on left to Bloke on the right..... "Listen SVEN, If I wanted an engine with 20 Journals I would have the lads build me one so tell me what the **** are we going to do with this bit of ****, scrap it? I thought you had a good handle on understanding engineering .drawings. No dramas Sven they will extract it from your pay & Bonuses for a few years".
Crankshaft? Huh. I want to see the lathe.
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Originally Posted by Tins
The only problem with those big chucks is if you drop the bloody key on your foot!
Actually, big crankshafts are fabricated out of smaller parts. Several different methods, shrink joining, welding and sometimes a combination of methods.
