Boat Pics

[petermarcus]

I wish I had a pic of the boat when I first dragged it from under the tree. One of the tires on the trailer had sunk into the sand up to its rim, and when I pulled it out, the rubber had disintegrated and I had to get a new tire.

Here's the engine after being dunked mostly underwater a couple years before.

Comments

[billijean]

omg. that stresses me out. I'd never get that all back together.

The frog/toad skeleton is way cool :)

[petermarcus]

I took 134 pictures of me taking the engine apart. I had shop manuals and such with a lot of diagrams, but those pictures helped more than anything else.

[billijean]

Ah. Well. I wouldn't do that. I'd jump in and make a mess and then go, Oh shit. Or, I'd be organised and document and then M would "Clean up" and yeah.

But you are very clever (not that we didn't already know that). :)

[petermarcus]

Thomas Edison used to take things apart to see what made them tick (including, ironically, watches), and he always put all the parts on his table in the order in which he took them apart, so he could always reverse it. I tried to do the same. Then, over the course of the year, with garages always being in a state of flux, everything got shuffled. But! I took pics!

[kristylicious]

I'm with you Blue ... I'd be sitting on the floor confused going OMG ... RONNNNNNNNNN (he's way more patient than I am).

[petermarcus]

Hee, patience is necessary. But, look at all the high school dropouts who can take a corvette apart and put it back together again blindfolded. It really isn't rocket science at all, there are big pieces that only go a certain way....but a knack for machines helps a lot.