Milwaukee Midget

[Milwaukee Midget]

Just got off the phone with Podunk - seems I have a deckplate winging it's way to Beerhaven from Indiana.  I suppose it will be here by the end of the week.

Terry, a HUGE thanks for that!

I need to have a sit-down with Fordboy about the liners, and I'll probably need to chat with the folks at T&T about the block machining, but hey, things are moving forward.

Normally, I'd have Mel and the guys at C&S do this, but I understand Tommy down at T&T has a newish C&C machine that we can get all of the machining operations done without having to take it out of the fixture, which will help keep it square. 

[Jack Gifford]

"C&C machine"... ?

[Dr Goggles]

"C&C machine"... ?

" Canadian and Coke "

[Milwaukee Midget]

Brain fart . . . Too man "&"s in my life.

Canadian should only be served neat.

[Seldom Seen Slim]

Are you impugning the manners of our neighbors to the great white North?

[fordboy628]

It is a Rottler boring mill with CNC control . . . . . .

http://www.rottlermfg.com/boring-machinery.php

Can't take you guys anywhere . . . . . .

BTW, Canada is a separate country with a poorer economy than ours, it is their punishment for being "Tories" . . . . . . . . . .


Fordboy

[tauruck]

And good hockey players. There's always a price.
My Canadian friends said beer was Beaver P!$$. Go figure.

[Seldom Seen Slim]

Don't fear, Mike -- it's an acquired taste that those Canooks seem to have picked up back when they were mountain men.

[tauruck]

He he he. Good one Boss.

[Jack Gifford]

... those Canooks...

That would be 'Canuck''... courtesy of the Spelling police...

Totally off-topic: I did learn a little something about Canada today. In a 1954 Hot Rod Magazine editorial Wally Parks referred to "The Dominion of Canada". That sounded strange to me, so I had to consult Wikepedia. It turns out that it was truly a "dominion" until the "Canada Act of 1982" finally broke all ties with the British government.

[Peter Jack]

And if you want some really obscure trivia regarding Canada and more specifically Calgary, where I live, it's the city where Stu Hilborn, father of hot rod mechanical injection, was born. 

Pete

[gearheadeh]

And if you want some really obscure trivia regarding Canada and more specifically Calgary, where I live, it's the city where Stu Hilborn, father of hot rod mechanical injection, was born. 

Pete

I did not know that, how old was he when he went to California?

[wisdonm]

I was amazed to learn that Canada wants to annex the Turks and Caicos Islands.

[Seldom Seen Slim]

In Hoton, Michigan, those from the northern climes were known graphically (so to speak) as "Canooks" FAR more often than as "Canucks".

While until this moment I never thought to research the difference, it might well, for instance, have to do with the common spelling of the local's generic moniker to the students of Michigan Tech (k/t/a Michigan College of Mines or later as Michigan College of Mining and Technology) - - which was to refer to the lads as "toots".

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[Peter Jack]

And if you want some really obscure trivia regarding Canada and more specifically Calgary, where I live, it's the city where Stu Hilborn, father of hot rod mechanical injection, was born. 

Pete

I did not know that, how old was he when he went to California?

He was just a young kid when they moved to California, not like Dale Armstrong who started his racing around here before he went south.

Pete