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Hehe, had that argument with my ex-wife! As soon as you sell or get rid of something, you'll have to re-buy it again the next day! I've never sold any tools either, other than junk consumer stuff people gave me. Of course when we got divorced my tools suddenly became worth $1,000,000. :D...

I got to germany on the last day of june, 1973. Since then, I have spent 1 year in Ft. Lewis, Washington, 1 year in Ft. Bliss, Texas and 6 months in APG and Ft. Lost in the Woods, Mo. in schools. That's it. I retired from the army in 1993. Went to trade school here and became an electrician...

Getting old, just ain't what its cracked up to be. I can't go to work without pain killers, and I can't work safely with pain killers. Oh well, retirement is just around the corner. Sadly, I don't have a camera. It looks like an entire Aviation Company just flew over the house, in the...

If you need tools for your job, you need tools that last a lifetime. Cheap tools are a liability. Why buy a tool more then one time? Pay a bit more for a good tool, it's your friend for life. People who buy cheap tools have no respect for them. Screwdrivers become pry bars, scrapers, chisels and...

The same thing happened to me with a pully on an old,old 45 KW Stewart and Stevens. When the whole mess flew off, my hand was kinda in the way. The crack of the pulley leaving the shaft was heard around the world. My hand hurt for several days. Since then, I try and "tap" whatever I am removing...

Rusty, I just looked up the work package related to removal, test, and replacement of the main gens. Yes, a step in the reassembly portion of the manual calls for applying an "adhesive" to the shaft before replacing the adapter/flange. I should have looked the first time. But, like that old...

I have never removed the drive coupler myself, but one of my brits did. He said it was "glued on" and used a hair dryer to warm it up, carefully using a rubber hammer to tap on it and then pulled it off with a slide hammer. I used many words that we can not print here, to describe the operation...