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Discussion starter · #22 ·
No... I think it's more of the "Let's go downtown on a Wednesday night and stay out until 2 in the morning!" that does me in. I'm a hurtin' unit today. Went and saw the German Industrial / Metal band "KMFDM" last night. 20 hours later and I think my ears are actually ringing worse than when I left. Why am I such an idiot? That's all I ask. It's becomming painfully obvious that my 20's are almost over.

Ray, I'm hoping to have carnage pictures come Monday morning.
 
Canada Jeff said:
I've never met a couple of red neck engineers!
My brother-in-law claims to be a bonifide "red-neck", from Virginia....

Though, he has his Phd. in Engineering from Hopkins in MD.

In my estimations, he is a *******....with a good memory and creative thinking..... and LOVES beer! No chew, no possum hunting, but has an interest in Fire arms!

Even after being away from the text books for many many years, he was able to tutor me in college Calculus from memory...

That .. kinda scared me!!!!
 
Bayley, In answer to your question, "why am I such an idiot?", answer: "you take after your mother's side of the family."

PS: I'm Bayley's dad. The X-in-laws taught me all I know about brain cell destruction and deer huntin (at the Holiday Inn Dome).......
 
Bayley, I think I sense some bitterness by the Dadinator towards the X!!!!! And I think he agrees you are an idiot........

Memorizing Calculus, hell I took loads calc and all I can remember now is what a derivative is and that other thing. Gee, I guess that was money well spent.
 
Dadinator said:
The X-in-laws taught me all I know about brain cell destruction and deer huntin (at the Holiday Inn Dome).......
:laugher: :laugher: :laugher:

That reminds me of the Cliff Clavin joke about the Buffalo how drinking makes you smarter by killing off the weak brain cells.

Bayley, so now you know what you must do. :drnk
 
Discussion starter · #27 ·
It's probably a good thing I didn't inherit my fathers mechanical aptitude either. Although, I did learn a good majoirty of my "vocabulary" from working in the garage as a child with him. Now a days, I think I can teach him a new word or two.

Getting ready to leave for the weekend. I have a good feeling that plenty of Buffalo will be killed tonight!
 
bayley,

just out of curiousity, why do you have a power steering pump on your motor? i ve seen your boat and thought you had hydralic steering. i was just wondering, i have hyd steering also but during the motor change done in the summer i was to lazy( because it was the 4th of july weekend) to pull the pump. but i will be putting a tension pully in there this winter.
anyways i was just curious

and by the way-you have a kickin boat.

not sure whos i like best yours or toms but they are both bad a$$ boats.

i dont have any kids so im going to stick to my 25 four awhile, cause i dont need the extra sleeping space!
 
Discussion starter · #31 ·
Sunsation98, I think you may have my system confused for a Hynautic system, which is a fully self contained non-power assisted steering system. Hynautic systems are a little dated these days, but they are still available.

The steering system of choice these days is pretty much the power assisted hydraulic method. The power assist for the steering comes from your standard automotive type power steering pump. Personally, I bought the two pump manifold kit that combines each pump from the two motors into one common plenum. This way, if one motor dies I would still have power steering. This feature has saved my butt about three times now.

Two summers ago, I had the +12V line fall off the ignition switch when I took a hard landing out in Lake Erie. Since one of the engines had stopped, the boat quickly veered to one side when I re-entered the water. I was easily able to recover, but I'm not sure things would have been so easy if I didn't have steering assist.

Thanks for the kind words. Hopefully see you on the lake this next summer.

-Bayley
Two summers ago, I had the +12V line
 
Aggressor Tom said:
Bayley, I think I sense some bitterness by the Dadinator towards the X!!!!! And I think he agrees you are an idiot........

Memorizing Calculus, hell I took loads calc and all I can remember now is what a derivative is and that other thing. Gee, I guess that was money well spent.

A crash dummy dosent need to know much in the way of calculus anyway Tom. Now we could get into String Theory. :winker:
 
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