A Call For Humor!

[Ken Tajalli]

 

[Platypus20]

They are a gorgeous work of industrial art when one sees a 4 footer in hand.

I’ve reached the age, where an 18” Aluminum pipe wrench, is my limit

 

[Doodski]

 

[mhardy6647]

I've got a big ol' boltcutter in the basement that was my father's.
Now I must say -- I'm really not sure why my father felt the need to have a big ol' boltcutter.
Some depths are better left unplumbed.

 

[Blumlein 88]

I’ve reached the age, where an 18” Aluminum pipe wrench, is my limit

I'm still good with a 48 inch pipe wrench. I can manage to carry it to someone else so they can use it.

BTW, I once saw a really strong guy break a 36 inch Rigid aluminum pipe wrench. He was a weight lifter and semi-pro arm wrestler. No defect in the wrench he didn't bounce on it either. Started pulling on a large pipe fitting. Stopped and said he could feel it was about to break. His boss said, "well big boy if you can break that one go ahead. They have a lifetime warranty anyway." He grabbed it and pulled and the rusting pipe fitting held while the wrench snapped.

 

[Doodski]

I'm still good with a 48 inch pipe wrench. I can manage to carry it to someone else so they can use it.

BTW, I once saw a really strong guy break a 36 inch Rigid aluminum pipe wrench. He was a weight lifter and semi-pro arm wrestler. No defect in the wrench he didn't bounce on it either. Started pulling on a large pipe fitting. Stopped and said he could feel it was about to break. His boss said, "well big boy if you can break that one go ahead. They have a lifetime warranty anyway." He grabbed it and pulled and the rusting pipe fitting held while the wrench snapped.

CooL! I saw a heavy duty mechanic with a 6 foot+ pipe on the end of a 48" pipe wrench. He gave it all he had and ripped open the back of his coveralls from his lats and back muscles flexing. LoL... Do not mess with that guy.

 

[thegeton]

 

[thegeton]

 

[thegeton]

 

[cochlea]

CooL! I saw a heavy duty mechanic with a 6 foot+ pipe on the end of a 48" pipe wrench. He gave it all he had and ripped open the back of his coveralls from his lats and back muscles flexing. LoL... Do not mess with that guy.

We used to carry the 4ft Ridged pipe wrench at the hardware store I worked at back in the day. We finally had take it off the sales floor and put it in the rental department because of all the people who bought it and returned it the next day saying it didn’t work (Yeah, right!) But the best part about carrying Ridged tools was the calendar the sales rep dropped off every year. If you’ve seen one, you know what I mean. And this was back when you could hang a calendar up, full of scantily clad women, in the break room. But I digress.

 

[Doodski]

We used to carry the 4ft Ridged pipe wrench at the hardware store I worked at back in the day. We finally had take it off the sales floor and put it in the rental department because of all the people who bought it and returned it the next day saying it didn’t work (Yeah, right!) But the best part about carrying Ridged tools was the calendar the sales rep dropped off every year. If you’ve seen one, you know what I mean. And this was back when you could hang a calendar up, full of scantily clad women, in the break room. But I digress.

Hahaha... Funny. Yeah we had Snap-ON calendars and when I went to Vegas for the CES I brought back posters from the porn section with "Statement for the shipping staff." very sexy statements.... LoL.

 

[JaapD]

Who said Germans don’t have a sense of humor?

Translated: Thank you very much for the car, the house, the money and everything. Where would I be without you….

Cheers!

 

[mhardy6647]

STEM Magazine Cover 078 - Science - 1948.04.02 by Johnny El-Rady, on Flickr

Til I read the caption, I thought this was either a new loudspeaker crossover from Wilson (etc.) or perhaps energy storage for an audiophile power amp from Boulder (etc.).

 

[Neddy]

STEM Magazine Cover 078 - Science - 1948.04.02 by Johnny El-Rady, on Flickr

Til I read the caption, I thought this was either a new loudspeaker crossover from Wilson (etc.) or perhaps energy storage for an audiophile power amp from Boulder (etc.).

Hah.
From a trip I made to Fermilab in the 70s to deliver some equipment:
Condenser bank:


Old cars and neat 'hut' name:

The view as I approached:

 

[Soandso]

 

[Solveit]

 

[Ken Tajalli]

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That explains why he dies young!
Also the cheap plaque on a rotten bench . . .

 

[KellenVancouver]

 

[mhardy6647]

Well -- the fact(oid?) contained in this ad struck me in a humorous way. YMMV, though, of course.
My uncle (specifically, my father's youngest brother) had one in the early (possibly mid-) 1960s. It seemed to me that it was always in need of some maintenance. It was also painted in a remarkably nondescript color (sort of a greyish-bluish-greenish Gemisch, reminiscent of interior paint in1960s institutions) which, at least from memory, I would call phlegm.

Renault Dauphine in North America by JOHN LLOYD, on Flickr

 

[Salt]

Cars with undistinguished designs are deminguishing...