[Coco] serial ports and thingsRe: moving files on bootup... andmore nonsense and OT stuff

[George Ramsower]

Hah! I forgot! I WAS running 90W gear oil in that thing.
Darn that smelled bad.
 ....... foggy memory but, it does come back.
That Merc was a 260 with a 2 speed automatic. I got stuck on the beach a 
couple of times because it couldn't untrack itself from a rut. I bet it 
didn't have fifty horses at the time.
 The oldest car I ever owned was a '59 Renault Dauphine. ...850 CCs (52 CID) 
and it burned more oil than gasoline. I used to say to the gas station 
attendant.... fill it up with oil and check the gas.. I paid $80 for that 
car. For that price, it should have worked better!!! Ya think?

George

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Hrubik"

> Heh.  Yeah.  I had a '60 Chevy with a 235ci six that burned oil so  badly 
> that toward the end I was running SAE90 green gear lube in it.   When I 
> was starting kindergarten, every school in town was still  burning coal --  
> you would go to school in the morning with a pristine  white snow cover 
> and come home at lunchtime with a black surface from  the soot.  And all 
> people have to complain about nowadays is ozone  and carbon dioxide!  And 
> cigarette smoke?
>
> On Feb 6, 2008, at Wednesday, February 6, 2008 - 2:30 PM, George  Ramsower 
> wrote:
>
>>
>>>> From: "Gene Heskett"
>>>>
>>> We had generators in the shacks at the KOTA owned links from  Denver to 
>>> Rapid
>>> City & back south to KDUH, but the only way we knew they were  being 
>>> used was
>>> when they ran out of propane (or oil & locked up), the power had  been 
>>> out for
>>> a week then.  Little 2 cylinder Onan's, stick a crowbar in the  flywheel 
>>> after
>>> filling them up with oil and break them loose and they were as  good as 
>>> new
>>> usually.
>>
>> My 4KW Onan RV gen-set was full of water when I got it(free). Had  to use 
>> a chisel to loosen the rust in the cylinders and keep  bumping the 
>> flywheel until the rings managed to break through the  rust. Then some 
>> sandpaper on the valve seats and a hammer on the  valve heads to knock 
>> them back down when they would stick... until  finally it would start. 
>> Ran it a few hours and now it's okay for a  backup. It uses a little oil 
>> now, but who cares? It only gets used  in emergencies.
>> I suppose if I had to use it for days at a time, I could use a  siphon to 
>> the crankcase to keep it in oil. HEHE!
>> I'm reminded of a guy many years ago that had a Studebaker that  used oil 
>> so bad, he ran a tube into the passenger compartment so he  could pour 
>> oil into the engine while he was driving. Now THAT'S  extreme. Along 
>> about then, I had a Mercury Meteor that the blowby  was so bad, it got 
>> into the passenger area and I had to run a flex- tube from the crankcase 
>> ventilator into the air filter housing.  Some of the oil would blow back 
>> into the engine and the rest went  up in smoke onto drivers behind me.
>> Ah... those were the days.
>>>
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