[ARC5] Hacks and TVI: The "Cars" Analog

[Ronnie Hull]

Gee Dave! Tell us how ya really feel !!

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On Oct 16, 2012, at 6:38 PM, "David Stinson" <arc5 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:

> OK- my last word on this (for this day at least)...
> 
> I'm not a "car person," car persons.
> But think of that wonderful 1930-mumble  
> Packar-For-Chev-mobile and that 
> Flat-V-Hemi-6-8-Double-Barrel-Boom engine 
> that everyone wants.  Got that picture?  OK...
> 
> To play off the old/surplus automotive analogy:
> 
> A whole bunch of those cars with a whole bunch
> of those engines get released to the general motoring public.
> 
> A few grease-covered guys who have taken the time 
> to understand cars and engines get them, tinker them,
> tweek them and get them running more-or-less 
> as intended.  The engines run within specs and they 
> run clean, with no nasty oil smoke or "rich fuel" stink (TVI).
> These guys have cool fun with a cool car for a long time
> (most of us in this group are these guys).
> 
> A whole lot more "wannabes" get the cars and engines.
> Most of them said they were going to make jumped-up 
> "hot rod Lincolns" out of them.
> A very few of them actually accomplish it.
> Some put the cars away until they could "get around to it"
> ( and thank Goodness they did ).
> But the most by far knew nothing of how cars operate 
> or how to work on them, nor would they take any time to learn.
> They yanked parts here and welded stuff there.
> They whacked and hacked, lopped and chopped.
> They couldn't name half the stuff they discarded 
> nor tell you the "why" of half what they added.
> 
> These "wannabes" wrote articles and told their buddies about
> their "expert modifications."  They poured 90-weight oil
> into the crank case of that poor, doomed engine and
> forget to fill the radiator (if they hadn't removed it).
> They took the flywheel off, then put the wrong one on, backwards.  
> Then they tried to drive that Franken-Car down the road.
> It spits, spews, chokes and smokes 
> until it throws a rod and the wheels fall off.
> 
> The wannabes all gathered together and agreed:  
> The car was smoke-bellowing JUNK to start with!  
> They tore them all to pieces "as a source of parts," 
> piled the parts out in a field for the rats to live in 
> and told the next three generations
> about that sorry, smoke-spewwing (TVI) junk-mobile.
> 
> There is nothing laudable, innovative or instructive in blind, 
> willfully-ignorant flinging-about that results 
> in pointless destruction and waste.
> That is exactly how it went with surplus radio gear.
> I'm very grateful for the first group, and  
> bless the procrastination that kept some gear in one piece 
> long enough for me to find it.
> I'll even acknowledge that the demand created by the 
> second group resulted- accidently- in some preservations.
> But the second group should not be congratulated 
> as "innovators" or any such thing.  
> They were just vandals.  
> 
> 73 Dave AB5S
> 
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