If you drive an old car, Hollander parts swap manuals are the most important tool in your garage.
The thermostats from any Datsun L-series engine can swap across with any 1956 and later American V8 thermostats until you get to the early 90s: mix and match for your preferred temperature range and cost savings. This cross-compatibility extends to many other engines designed prior to the mid-80s: enjoy giving the monkeys at the auto parts store a hard time this way.

Riding a mountain bike down the southern ridge of Haleakala to the Poli Poli trail will kick up enough dust to destroy the seeing at the observatories for a week. The astronomers who work there really don't like that.

You need to use a hex key and a fine blade screwdriver simultaneously to adjust the secondary air door on a Quadrajet carburetor. If you loosen the set screw before you fix the pivot shaft in place, it will spin and dump all spring tension. This will turn a few minutes of adjustment into an all day event as you attempt to find the proper starting tension and increment from there.

The Sachs-Huret Duopar derailleur does not use a tension spring to align the parallelogram mechanism and relies on a set screw in the rear of the hanger bolt to fix it in place. If you do not repeatedly inform under-40 bicycle mechanics of this fact, they will attempt to remove a locked derailleur and destroy the hanger bolt or the frame hanger and sometimes both.

You can substitute a 12AX7 valve in place of a 6N2 if the latter burns out and no longer works in the rectifier circuit. If EL84s run too hot, swap them out for 6BQ5s instead.

Oh Be A Fine Girl, Kiss Me Right Now Sweetie is the stellar spectral order mnemonic. I learned that from some astronomers who called my father after they saw me riding down the southern ridge of Haleakala.

Dealer McDope's phone number is me too I ate one sour too.

Single action revolvers are designed for left-handed shooters; you discover this the first time you reload one at the range.

The .45 Colt was not chambered in a lever action rifle until 1965. If you show up to a cowboy action shoot with a .45 Colt revolver and levergun for the combination event, organizers will forgive you and let you compete, but they will encourage you to obtain a period correct .44-40 or .32-20 caliber set.
( Felis Concolor, Tue 5 Jul 2011, 0:05, 4 replies)

i used to enjoy a spot of western history re enactments my self
and carried a pair of colt sherrifs also did some civil war re enactments as well using a rolling block its self a vry good gun and one that fitted my reach perfectly

ahh good times in deed
( fluffybunnykiller Is feasting on the clitoris of life, Tue 5 Jul 2011, 8:37, closed)

Have a Clang! Honk! Tweet! for the Freak Brothers reference

(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Tue 5 Jul 2011, 9:20, closed)

I remember this from FFFB issue 1
Which I think I read about 35 years ago.

Oo found it on Google :

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( His Popiness the Hole Invaded Poland on, Tue 5 Jul 2011, 15:54, closed)

Can someone translate this into English please?
I kinda got lost at thermostats.
(ParaSitius is an Optimistic Pessimist, Tue 5 Jul 2011, 9:59, closed)