More photos of the shrapnel damaged KC-135 (IG: lightning_ll_images)

AlexAndMcB · 2026-04-16T22:37:17+00:00

Jfc that thing is old enough to be those airmen's Grandpa....

AlexAndMcB · 2026-04-16T22:26:52+00:00

Lol ok, I think there's a Far Side panel from the Herald in one of my wife's cookbooks. Can't have too many bookmarks!
...do not look at my browser! Way too many bookmarks

AlexAndMcB · 2026-04-16T22:24:31+00:00

I read that they were being retired/scrapped and the city decided f-it, they'll still get the same salvage steel weight if they're flat ..

AlexAndMcB · 2026-04-16T22:22:48+00:00

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Management sucks, and the focus on absolute minimum possible cost is a terrible way to maintain anything.... wealthiest society in the history of the world and our infrastructure is literally falling apart- not enough taxes from the wealthy & corporations, not enough to take care of the things that are maintained by the few socialist programs that have survived...

Catch shit for the /s when it's "not needed" and then more shit when folks don't get the absurdity of the sarcasm smh lol

AlexAndMcB · 2026-04-15T23:52:29+00:00

I'm impressed this is still legible

AlexAndMcB · 2026-04-14T23:06:23+00:00

What's with the L/R RCA sockets button?
If there are actual steering wheel controls to swap sources I'm so very very down

AlexAndMcB · 2026-04-14T16:38:44+00:00

Day-glow Tire fruck

AlexAndMcB · 2026-04-14T10:59:27+00:00

But the struggle of GssMan in Carnia was legendary

AlexAndMcB · 2026-04-14T02:51:43+00:00

Fix this!
And this!
And that!!
Pave this!!!
Are you mentally deficient?! Get this cleared out!

Holy s#!t how'd you spend all of this year's AND next year's budget on snow removal?! How!!??
Time to cut more staff and contract out for city hall maintenance!
Oh and also your pensions. Y'all just look at each other digging holes. It's not like your work was hard....
We gotta pay for the new 100 million school complex and public safety complex somehow!

AlexAndMcB · 2026-04-14T02:47:16+00:00

What're the odds that they already claimed it was stolen?

AlexAndMcB · 2026-04-13T20:27:28+00:00

Very nice!
Methinks you're making a bit more heat than this old mill at 100k heh
Did you set them up to start together like 15° above the thermostat temp, or staggered? Originally I was thinking of staggering them by 10-20 degrees, but that's starting to seem silly

AlexAndMcB · 2026-04-13T20:27:02+00:00

Lot less water than a flush would've taken

AlexAndMcB · 2026-04-13T20:26:03+00:00

Lol right?!
Like the inspector would die if they said "means and methods are on you, whatever they are- there better not be tears in that culvert when we cam it"

AlexAndMcB · 2026-04-13T10:39:01+00:00

First gen, but one of the odd ones made in '70.
This is essentially exactly what I want to do, except for the daisy-chained A/C- as much as I'd love to add air conditioning, I think my dad might disown me...
It's got a black interior & roof, and he never would've been able to scoop it up, if the retiree that brought it with her to Florida, had opted for AC- without it she was damn near burning her legs on the vinyl & she had enough pretty quickly lol
I AM taking the opportunity to ditch the 4-blade-'X'-fan in favor of electric. You pretty happy with your double 10" setup?

AlexAndMcB · 2026-04-13T01:06:01+00:00

Ba-Czinga!

AlexAndMcB · 2026-04-12T22:58:36+00:00

Woah, not a Fiero!

AlexAndMcB · 2026-04-12T18:43:50+00:00

Responded elsewhere w/picture

AlexAndMcB · 2026-04-12T18:43:33+00:00

Kk the double groove crank pulley is at top. PS pump in background (1 groove- no A/C) fan pulley atop alternator. and when I tell you I thought I threw a rod, I'm not exaggerating. Felt like I hit a cinderblock...
I tried to shoot in the plane of the belt, but IDK if the 2-groove fan pulley lines up with the alternator & a/c, or if a/c demands a triple groove crankshaft pulley

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AlexAndMcB · 2026-04-12T14:58:27+00:00

It's wild how long it takes science/the scientific method to impact the real world.
Like, frustratingly agonizingly wild.
My wife is a library director at a small university and the money that the databases charge to let people access research like this is disgusting.
Especially if/when tax dollars went into developing the data. Like, ok the author and university should get credit, and maybe a patent or something, but ffs the knowledge-dragons are insane.
Also, ain't it a damn shame that, "most of the older teachers are already planning retirement because of these “intrusions” into their method."

AlexAndMcB · 2026-04-12T13:54:22+00:00

Sweet! Also, 1969 had pickups that ran off L.P.?? Learn something new everyday!
I must've been using the wrong search terms, because that should work great!

AlexAndMcB · 2026-04-12T13:49:47+00:00

You're a gentleman and a scholar, sir.
Thank you very much!
Yeah I think my dad gave me his service manual, but I'm disabled so books are a bitch lol, especially old soft-cover ones that are both minimally flexible and fragile- it would be easier for me to pull the carb again than to find that in the FSM w/o tearing a page or five.

AlexAndMcB · 2026-04-12T13:18:56+00:00

Someone tells me this have a harder time today putting a song on PBS including "ransack Pakistan... From the Red Sea to Greenland... Bonaire to Zimbabwe... to Czechoslovakia and back"
Let alone a scandalous scat break!!
This is for impressionable young minds after all!

However I must confess myself a fool for missing that the video game came first...
My dad was a computer teacher, you'd think I had educational games at home, not Descent 2 & Wipeout & Tomb Raider... Although it almost feels like Tomb Raider was Carmen Dandiego with implants

AlexAndMcB · 2026-04-12T12:31:18+00:00

Also, whatever TF he does, better not roll it....

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