Stupidity

[Moneybox]

I was present when a tradesman sent the apprentice to the store to ask for a long weight. He was gone for quite a while

 

[Moneybox]

Mrs M dropped into Bunnings yesterday morning to get me some electrical cable amongst other things. I'd sent her a photo off the website and asked for 10m.

She got a young lady to assist. The girl said "you can't get 10m, it comes in that big roll". Mrs M said "see that ruler, you just measure it out and cut it off". The girl said "but then you'll just have 10 little pieces".

With that Mrs M went ahead and pulled it from the roll measuring metre after metre until she had 10. The girl said "Oh, is that how you do it".

 

[rustyhooks]

I know someone who decided to change down to low gear when travelling fast. The results were exactly as described above. We all learned a lesson from it.

I also know someone many moons ago a apprentice who was sent to the tool store for a long waite, he got a kick up the kazoo by the forman after 3/4s of an hr of waiting at the store counter.

 

[David-Karratha]

Many moons ago, I know a gent who was driving a Valiant with a “push-button” transmission (an AP6 I believe). Can’t remember whether it was the ”R” or “P” button he pushed at 70mph, but either way, the results I understand were apparently spectacular. Significant work was required to get it back on the road.

 

[geof_junk]

Reminds me when the Dragon and i were a lot younger (her 17, me 18) i owned a Morris 1100 was my first newer car after the 1947 prefect hehehehhe brings back memories, Dragon got her learners permit and i offered to teach her to drive, we drove around the Belmont shopping centre car park and her being very blond changed from 3rd at about 25 mph into 1 st and stood the morrie on its nose not to say i was not happy, as if to destroy me and the car she laughed, then a week later after she got the hang of gear changes and pedals etc we were driving up grand Promenade and came to the intersection of grand Prom and Beaufort street and she asked which way do i go now, i said straight through so she dropped the Morrie down to 3rd and sped straight through the intersection between a bus and Falcon and almost sent morrie air borne, consequently that was the end of me teaching her to drive from then on i left it to her father poor bugger he also nearly had a corony as well.

I got a good deal on my Morris 1100 it was less than a year old. It did not last long. The mad teenager (ME) drove it too fast one of the rear wheels broke off and I hit a tree upside down 6 ft of the ground.



So you were lucky the your partner was driving and not me.

 

[OzzieAu]

A nice tidy looking “S” series Valiant in the background there...must have belonged to the scrap yard owner.
They had the old push button TorqueFlite transmissions too.
Did my apprenticeship around those old girls and was told in no uncertain terms “don’t press the wrong button when ur moving”

 

[user 22230]

The old land crab. No wonder it hit a tree as the Hydrolastic suspension made them handle like a boat and what a pain in the ass they were to work on.

 

[user 22230]

A nice tidy looking “S” series Valiant in the background there...must have belonged to the scrap yard owner.
They had the old push button TorqueFlite transmissions too.
Did my apprenticeship around those old girls and was told in no uncertain terms “don’t press the wrong button when ur moving”
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Ozzie mate had one handed down from parents who had purchased new and we over bored the slant 6 and ran Holden 179 pistons in it with a charger manual box behind it. Hammered used to blow of 302 fords. We used to cruise in the good old days of the skips and wogs as in the day Valiant was the equivalent to spaghetti to Italians. Great fun times. Guy hit him outside Russell St headquarters in Melb and spun him smashed every corner of it. Hardest parts to get were the corner panels. RIP one S Series We pulled all the running gear and put it in an AP5 wagon

 

[OzzieAu]

Ozzie mate had one handed down from parents who had purchased new and we over bored the slant 6 and ran Holden 179 pistons in it with a charger manual box behind it. Hammered used to blow of 302 fords. We used to cruise in the good old days of the skips and wogs as in the day Valiant was the equivalent to spaghetti to Italians. Great fun times. Guy hit him outside Russell St headquarters in Melb and spun him smashed every corner of it. Hardest parts to get were the corner panels. RIP one S Series We pulled all the running gear and put it in an AP5 wagon

Yeah mate, those were the days... when cars were Cars.
I could only dream about owning my own S back then.

 

[user 22230]

Yeah mate, those were the days... when cars were Cars.
I could only dream about owning my own S back then.

100% Ozzie was pretty envious that mates folks had given him one. Was certainly bleeding when it got written off. As you say cars were cars days, don't think i knew anyone that drove a stocky ? Even my old FB with 138 grey had twin strommies with an Impala straightline floor shifter. Could beat the synchros every time Oh and don't forget the best part being was that petrol back then was 36 cents a GALLON. So you could afford to be a petrol head

 

[OzzieAu]

Yeah, you certainly had to know how to drive back then, not like these millennials who own these modern technological, think for you, decide for, drive for you, park for you tin cans.

 

[Nightjar]

NJ that goes with the tin of compression but must be for number 6 cylinder mind you, a tin of striped paint and the old left handed hammer.

Hey steady up Diginit, I'm left handed and have a hammer or three.
And to add to the Fitting & Turning apprenticeship.
Anyone familiar with working a lathe knows for a RH to use file on spinning object you are standing with left arm over chuck while holding file in both hands.
One of the tradesmen in my apprentice days was always telling me to use my right hand. He was stuck for words when I mentioned using the file I was standing away from chuck and working safer.

Boys will be boys:
While it was not the normal practice we machined hundreds of Holden & Ford heads successfully using a Macson 25 lathe.
The chuck speed was set very low during this machining process.
I had a head set up in the lathe and stepped outside for a pee and one of the boys set the the lathe into reverse and top speed.
I returned and pulled the lever to set the chuck in motion and needless to say it began spinning at an alarming rate. During my panic the spinning head caught my shirt and ripped it off my back, the head flew out of the chuck and ended up skidding across the workshop floor, luckily away from where I was standing.
A very near miss, serious injury or death.
No one ever owned up to this stupidity but we moved on.

 

[Grey Panner]

And a box of bright sparks.

Also go to the Q Store and ask for a long weight (wait).

 

[Digger96]

I was working in the cane fields up just North of Mackay in the early 70’s, and used to drop into the Leap or the Kuttabull Hotel for a couple of quiet ones after a days work. Some of the older locals always ordered a Bex and a beer, every round! they weren’t addicted either, but there was hell to pay if the Bex ran out!

 

[user 22230]

Hey steady up Diginit, I'm left handed and have a hammer or three.
And to add to the Fitting & Turning apprenticeship.
Anyone familiar with working a lathe knows for a RH to use file on spinning object you are standing with left arm over chuck while holding file in both hands.
One of the tradesmen in my apprentice days was always telling me to use my right hand. He was stuck for words when I mentioned using the file I was standing away from chuck and working safer.

Boys will be boys:
While it was not the normal practice we machined hundreds of Holden & Ford heads successfully using a Macson 25 lathe.
The chuck speed was set very low during this machining process.
I had a head set up in the lathe and stepped outside for a pee and one of the boys set the the lathe into reverse and top speed.
I returned and pulled the lever to set the chuck in motion and needless to say it began spinning at an alarming rate. During my panic the spinning head caught my shirt and ripped it off my back, the head flew out of the chuck and ended up skidding across the workshop floor, luckily away from where I was standing.
A very near miss, serious injury or death.
No one ever owned up to this stupidity but we moved on.

Basically same with lathe NJ, stepped away and they directed cutting fluid onto chuck so it sprayed me as soon as I fired it back up, as I reached over to grab it chuck caught my jumper sleeve tearing it till it roped up and had my arm jammed between lathe bed and material in chuck. Just managed to reach across with free arm and hit clutch lever on head stock to pull it up. No one took onus but think it showed how quick a prank can go wrong.

 

[user 4386]

Also go to the Q Store and ask for a long weight (wait).

So you can hang it from a sky hook?

 

[nucopia]

When the uncle died, I went and lived in Manly with the Aunt whose hope chest i recently restore. I was about 13 at the time..
Every few days she would send me to the corner shop for a pack of bex, she passed away a few years later peacefully in her sleep one Saturday/Sunday when i was visiting my parents.. They only knew she had passed because she hadn’t attended mass that Sunday morning as she had done religiously for years.. I recon bex must have taken out a lot of people over the years before they took it off the market.
She was only 74 when she passed..

 

[Jaros]

I'm nearly 73 and the amount of entertainers dying at 72 is a bit of a worry??!!!

 

[Hawkear]

I'm nearly 73 and the amount of entertainers dying at 72 is a bit of a worry??!!!

Don't worry, the more you hear about the better for you.

 

[nucopia]

It was only years later I realised hiw stupid i was at 15 .. i had been living with my Auntie Em for a couple of years and towards the end she would sometimes times say your the eldest boy and your 2 sisters are both married now “ what would you do if this was your house and things along a similar tack .. being young and dumb and not having the faintest idea of the future, i rember answering something like Oh it would be great, I can surf every day..
I gather that was not the answer she wanted to hear because after she passed my eldest sister got the house the other sister was left the money from shares to be sold and was able to put s large deposut on a new house.. and i got the hope chest and some other bits and pieces that I had said I liked ..
My silly sister sold that house for $28,000 and her husband sold his apartment in Lidcome tobuy a new house in Emu plains with a mortgage
They could have easily borrowed to buy the Emu Plains house and the rent from the manly house and their Lidcome apartment would have paid it off
Hind sight is 20-20