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Mechanic lessons
- Thread starter chidog
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1466IH
Senior Member
Natural selection at its finest
I once bought a crane for uncut scrap price so dad went and hualed it home for me to torch so me being the 16 year old I was I was just torching lines off with out a care in the land next thing I hear is a loud pop and see the hydraulic tank lid on a flight it was a foot around cast iron bomb at that point seeming aimed for me head as I'm running triping and dodging it.
one of my coworkers damn near killed me with a tack truck a few years ago. He lit the burners and it wasn’t full enough and blew the lid off it landed three feet away from me.
westerner
Well-Known Member
My dumb ass got up early one winter day to find the furnace shut down. Overnight snow had covered the stack.
I thought I mighta smelled propane, but my sniffer has been no good for long time.
When I lifted the door and stuck my match in there, the cap on the stack lifted well enough to land in the neighbor's yard.
I knew better, but not on that day....
I thought I mighta smelled propane, but my sniffer has been no good for long time.
When I lifted the door and stuck my match in there, the cap on the stack lifted well enough to land in the neighbor's yard.
I knew better, but not on that day....
Muffler Bearing
Senior Member
I once pulled a line off with pressure behind it. The oil spray covered the wall except for a clean man-shaped silhouette behind me .
Glad these are stories that were here tellin' and not epitaphs
Glad these are stories that were here tellin' and not epitaphs
OzDozer
Senior Member
About 8-9 years ago, I helped a friend recondition the tilt cylinders on his antique (1956) Clark forklift. The old seals were mostly leather! - so we got some new ones turned up out of urethane.
We honed the cylinder bores beautifully, but one ended up just a whisker smaller diameter than the other. We fitted the shaft and piston with the new seals to one, no problem.
We tried the other one - but the piston and the new seals jammed a third of the way into the bore, and we couldn't move the shaft, in or out.
So what to do? O.K., we've got air in the shop, put a bit of air pressure in the cylinder, tap the shaft, and it'll just pop out. But we got to around 60psi, and the shaft still wouldn't budge! Try a little more whacking with the hammer! Yep, that worked!!
The shaft released alright! - and launched itself, with an almighty BANG! - out of the cylinder, and across the workshop floor! - leaving both of us just a little stunned. Just fetch two pairs of the brown corduroy trousers, will ya??
Should've been old enough, and wise enough, to know better!
We went back to doing another 30-40 minutes of honing, and this time around, the shaft and piston fitted well!
We honed the cylinder bores beautifully, but one ended up just a whisker smaller diameter than the other. We fitted the shaft and piston with the new seals to one, no problem.
We tried the other one - but the piston and the new seals jammed a third of the way into the bore, and we couldn't move the shaft, in or out.
So what to do? O.K., we've got air in the shop, put a bit of air pressure in the cylinder, tap the shaft, and it'll just pop out. But we got to around 60psi, and the shaft still wouldn't budge! Try a little more whacking with the hammer! Yep, that worked!!
The shaft released alright! - and launched itself, with an almighty BANG! - out of the cylinder, and across the workshop floor! - leaving both of us just a little stunned. Just fetch two pairs of the brown corduroy trousers, will ya??
Should've been old enough, and wise enough, to know better!We went back to doing another 30-40 minutes of honing, and this time around, the shaft and piston fitted well!