Ryan submitted a new blog post: Revenge Served At Full Advance Continue reading the Original Blog Post
Before anyone comments... I'm aware that my Harman & Collins tag is upside down. It shipped back to me that way and... well... given all that has happened, I kind of like it that way.
They just don’t make things functional and beautiful now the way they used to. That’s gonna look so good nestled down in place.
I vividly remember you looking for and locating the Harman & Collins mag and it being stolen, takes a real s*** bag to take something like that, especially when they don't have a clue as to what it is and probably tossed it or sold it for s****. And all the gentleman that stepped up to the plate and replaced & repaired the part are true heros in my book. It just proves that the hot rod & custom car guys are the salt of the earth. HRP
Naturally, the damn thing was stolen straight out of my mailbox by a first cl*** slab of human landfill, a walking crime against oxygen, the kind of bottom feeding ****hole who proves every day that evolution still misses some obvious opportunities. You're being too kind
Picture #1 as a composition, is so cool, it resembles some of the cool machines as seen in the original film "Metropolis" by Fritz Lang.
I cheated on that one. I took it with a 50mm Noctilux reissue of a 1966 lens... Goes for about $10k. I borrowed it. The only images you would have seen a lens like this used in the 1960's would be some high end fashion shoot or something out of Nat Geo. As such, it reads far too sharp for my liking. It looks modern. I prefer this one taken with my 90mm Elmarit that costs about 10% as much: Dude. No one told me that if I manually spun the thing I could shock the **** out of myself. I learned that the hard way.
Beautiful hardware, great friends, artful photography, & memorable quote: "Because if you’re going to do something stupid, you might as well do it correctly."
In the realm of aviation, and rookies that are not paying attention to the older joker A&P mechanics, there is this unwritten rule, that quickly makes itself known and never forgotten. Never let anyone hand you a magneto, especially if you didn't notice what their hands were doing before they offered it to you, because they have spun it to the point where the impulse spring will let it snap, and its powerful enough to jolt the rookie, into noticing that he is now standing in a puddle of his own piss! The rule is, just smile at them, and tell them to put it on the bench first, and even then, just be wary from then on! That at least lets the older guy know that the rookie has been jolted before!
When I was a kid I got an unwanted nickname with my minibike pals (I was the youngest). My minibike had a Mac10 kart engine, the only two stroke and fastest in the bunch. One of the older guys said "want to see something really cool", of course I said yes, he uņplugged the wire off the spark plug and said hold onto the plug, you guessed it, before I could blink he pulled the starter rope, they started calling me "sparky" after that. To this day, every time I hear the word sparky I'm reminded of that dirty trick.
I'm sorry to say that I laughed pretty hard about your experience spinning the magneto. It reminded me of my buddy from when we were younger teenagers. We were out on a farm field snow sledding, and he decided to pee on an electric fence wire. A few years later, on my 1st day at the gas station, one of the mechanics tried to hand me a magneto. I'd been around some dirt track racers, I knew better. Some things you just don't have to experience yourself to know better. I suspect you won't ever forget your magneto experience.
Hell, I've had parts that sat on the table in my living room for a month just so I could admire them. That definitely would be one.
The Jalopy Journal
