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  • bcwsrt
    bcwsrt Posts: 1,913
    pitdogg2 wrote: »
    msg wrote: »
    I've actually never jumped a starter with a screwdriver, but have spent enough days, eves and late, late nights under cars and trucks in weather I'd cower from these days for the sake of maintenance, engine builds and such, out of hobby and/or necessity in my earlier days to at least know what this is.

    What was that trick supposed to fix, anyway?
    Was it for a bad solenoid or something?

    Screw drivers and a hammer were mandatory in some of my old rides.
    The screw driver jumped the two wires that connects the starter solenoid, the hammer was to pound on the starter to loosen the brushes just enough to get you a few more starts.

    Yes, a BFH was involved more often than not back in the day.

    Brian

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,851
    edited April 2023
    ... and at the other end of the felid spectrum (or the dark side of the felid street, I suppose)...

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    We had a store kind of like that at our house while Harpo lived there. ;)

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  • sucks2beme
    sucks2beme Posts: 5,601
    daddyjt wrote: »
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    It might not be a great idea on modern cars.
    Add just about every shade tree meechanic
    trick to that list. Even jumper cables can screw
    up a modern car. I gave up and bought a jump
    box.
    "The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." --Thomas Jefferson
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  • msg
    msg Posts: 10,089
    edited April 2023
    Mental Bird Attacks Hedgehog Minding Own Business
    (Edited for graphic content)
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    Post edited by msg on
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,851
    ^^^ outstanding!
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,511
    edited April 2023
    Hedgehog.... LMAO it's a porcupine....
    Dude you need some wild Kingdom and Marlin Perkins...
    🤣😂🤣😂
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,634
    This is a hedgehog.
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    Political Correctness'.........defined

    "A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."

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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,511
    F1nut wrote: »
    This is a hedgehog.
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    Take like a hunerd of those little things to equal that porcupine.
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  • aprazer402
    aprazer402 Posts: 3,149
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    Hedge Apple :)

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  • OleBoot
    OleBoot Posts: 2,759
    F1nut wrote: »
    This is a hedgehog.
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    I've always thought that hedgehogs were very cute except that they go the-thump the-thump on your car tire when you run them over.
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  • OleBoot
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  • msg
    msg Posts: 10,089
    pitdogg2 wrote: »
    Hedgehog.... LMAO it's a porcupine....
    Dude you need some wild Kingdom and Marlin Perkins...
    F1nut wrote: »
    This is a hedgehog.
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    aht!!! dehr. brain phart!
    I disabled signatures.
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,511
    Not to be confused with an echidna.

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  • SCompRacer
    SCompRacer Posts: 8,504
    edited April 2023
    msg wrote: »

    What was that trick supposed to fix, anyway?
    Was it for a bad solenoid or something?

    Ivan's got it! The hammer could help a worn and pitted solenoid make contact or help them worn out brushes contact the armature. The big screwdriver is used when the hammer didn't work. :D It helped to be fast, committed and forceful to avoid lots of sparks and get a good connection. A good, insulated handle was a plus.

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  • txcoastal1
    txcoastal1 Posts: 13,296
    I like my echidnas with rice and beans, make it a combo platter with crispy beef taco on the side
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,434
    SCompRacer wrote: »
    msg wrote: »

    What was that trick supposed to fix, anyway?
    Was it for a bad solenoid or something?

    Ivan's got it! The hammer could help a worn and pitted solenoid make contact or help them worn out brushes contact the armature. The big screwdriver is used when the hammer didn't work. :D It helped to be fast, committed and forceful to avoid lots of sparks and get a good connection. A good, insulated handle was a plus.

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    And remove all metal jewelry like wedding bands bracelets and watches.
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,511
    txcoastal1 wrote: »
    I like my echidnas with rice and beans, make it a combo platter with crispy beef taco on the side

    Chewy little buggers, good thing they come with built in toothpicks....stewing is a must.
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,434
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,851
    Porcupines? Echidnas? It's a darned good thing all y'all've got a biologist in the hood!
    This is a hedgehog.

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    Jeez, do I have to write a book or something?

    B):#:D:p
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,851
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    (ASR)

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  • engie490
    engie490 Posts: 432
    Once upon a time 5 years ago, I went back east to visit family and stayed in the Adirondacks for a couple of days. I would wake up in the morning before my kids got up and walk up the road we were staying on. Each morning, I went a little farther along the desolate and peaceful country lane.

    On the last morning, I made it to the top of the hill. As I crested the hill, I saw a young(ish) bear run across road about 100 yards away. Naturally, I turned on a dime and walked quickly back down the hill.

    About a quarter a mile later, I saw this in the distance.

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    Apparently, this critter was caught up in his own thoughts that morning, because as I closed the gap he just kept waddling along on the road. Eventually I caught up to him and he finally figured out that I was there. Right after I took this picture, he decided to abandon the road to the tall stranger.

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  • msg
    msg Posts: 10,089
    I like hedgehogs.
    I disabled signatures.
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,511
    msg wrote: »
    I like hedgehogs.

    With green eggs and ham?
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,434
    pitdogg2 wrote: »
    msg wrote: »
    I like hedgehogs.

    With green eggs and ham?

    Fava beans and a nice Chianti.
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  • daddyjt
    daddyjt Posts: 2,540
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    "Conservative Libertarians love the country, progressive leftists love the government." - Andrew Wilkow


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  • daddyjt
    daddyjt Posts: 2,540
    edited April 2023
    As seen in the parking lot of the Bondo headquarters…

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    "Conservative Libertarians love the country, progressive leftists love the government." - Andrew Wilkow


    “Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
    ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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