Joseph Cummings

Here is a banjo alignment. But people freak out if you do it

But they totally are. I see trucks down for months for an in chassis, nobody will do their own head work, they replace whole alternators over a diode trio or a broken brush holder, they all swear up and down that it's "Illegal" to straighten a dump that went over and twisted the frame or to weld up and fishplate a frame crack, When you talk to them they seem to specialize in making some kind of high tech excuse. They say you need a "clean room" to do fuel injector work. They think every fastener needs a torque wrench, but can't tell you the last time their torque wrench was calibrated. I hear stuff like all frame welds must be done by a "certified" welder. I can only assume they teach them this horse crap in tech school. It's like they just don't get that downtime is money, and lots of money. The hell with it anyway, they are all going to starve to death worshipping The Snap-On Jerk Off and jacking their carrot to Big rig with chrome and chicken lights pictures

Yeah some of those older plants and a lot of large boilers ran on #5 and #6. That stuff was almost like tar. 4,5,and 6 has to be injected into the boiler with either compressed air or steam to get it to atomize. You can't high pressure atomize it like how a home oil burner does. Waste oil heaters do the same thing, they preheat, and then air atomize. BTW you can get an air atomizing nozzle and adaptor from Delvan for a regular home heating oil gun. but it takes a few more modifications and equipment to get it all to work well burning waste oil

Someone else has the ball. I got to look into paying the FET before I go much farther. I got kinda banged up on a really nice truck before, Older and no miles, but only had a manufacturer's certificate of origin. If I remember right I had to pay full FET based on the price when new

This Life Magazine about Hoffa's ties to Local 107 has a picture of my "mentor" in it. Bootleg coal hauler from back during the Great Depression, walked with a bad limp from burning his brakes out coming down 309 to Philly and crashing over the side of a hill. They were a tough breed

They do still make offset elephant pads don't they?

Yeah I remember that, but what does it have to do with aligning anything, unless it's a bent housing? Are we going back to having a wishbone. a 3/4 race cam in my Merc, or putting Ardun heads on my Flattie?

I don't know, but it all seems to be falling apart. Young guys can't start early because God forbit someone under 18 touches a power tool. No young guys are coming in, old guys like me are ageing out of the workforce. Guys in the middle are quitting in droves. DEI has companies putting women with college degrees in charge of maintenance of trucks and machinery. HR ladies chasing away anybody good and hiring the guy that make her panties the moistest or whoever checks off the most DEI boxes. Screw it, let it all fail

What the hell is that?

I can't imagine it'd come out pretty. You might as well do something like this

I've had guys with modern well equipped shops send me parts that were machined wrong too. And you should have seen the idiots that worked at RMP that rebuilt stuff for Ford at their plant in Jersey. Their stuff was notoriously bad in the 80s and 90's

Yeah something crazy like that. There was a low RPM version at one time that turned like 94 RPM or something lol. There was a guy in Longmont Co that made fuel injection parts and he also did custom orders, like if you wanted to change the cam profile, or the barrel and plunger diameter, nozzle spray pattern, etc.. I got to talking to him one day probably 30 years ago and he told me he made parts for a Sulzer RTA. Three injectors per cylinder, and when he machined the tips, he got almost 20 pounds of chips from each one. Back then they were all optimized for 4 bunker fuel, \now within so many miles of shoreline they have to burn #2 so I'm sure things have changed a bit, Although the 4 was preheated to reduce the viscosity for a better atomization so maybe not

In Tullytown? Did you know Kasperitis? He was always in there, he had equipment parked in their yard. Kasperitis used to have a junkyard in Croydon Pa. They were using a crane mounted on an AC Mack I think well into the 80's

Or something like this Wärtsilä- Sulzer RTA

Yeah that was pretty long ago. They all left Mountaintop in the 1950's except for Kenny Rouchey. I know he was still in Mountaintop in the 1990's They were all sort of half azzed friends with Sonny

I had to move a big compressor one time. One of those ones on 4 wheels with an axe that steered on the front. I only had my tractor because I dropped the storage trailer I hauled out on the jobsite. I was only going like 5 miles with it. You want to talk about getting squirrelly, I got it up to about 20 MPH and it was trying to send me off the side of the road. I had to ride up the shoulder at like 5mph the whole way. I'll never try that again. So you put 18,000 on a single axle tractor? And permanently mounted? I wouldn't have thought you'd need that much. But I guess that put the tare weight of the tractor with the weight box affixed at around 30,000, axles could be at 12 and 20k being there was no real tongue weight when hooked to the trailer

All while still in their pajamas and slippers Girl without a Hijab painted on the back must be the Pak version of the chrome naked chick you see on mudflaps

OMG those college "educated" lazy office bums are the worst. They have such swelled heads. Can't change a tire, jump start a car, if you hand them a tape measure they can't even calculate the SQ footage of a room. I tried to explain the 3,4,5 rule and the trig behind it to one not long ago and he thought I made it up and went and got this short little square to "check my work". Most of those bums are lucky if they read at an 8th grade level, but think they are the elite. Large corporations are way too into "Credentialism". Half of these foreign ones have a degree from someplace like Axact* and the HR C%NTs take it at face value. BTW Heinz, I didn't say "All". I know some smart kids it's just that they are so few and far between now *(Axact (Urdu: ایگزیکٹ) is a Pakistan software company that runs numerous websites selling fraudulent academic degrees for fictional universities.[1] The company used to own the media company BOL Network.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axact

Here is an example that would make thhe new breed of mechanics loose their sh8t. When I was a kid my uncle had a "Winona intheblok crankshaft grinder" that worked much like this Sunnen in the video. You don't know how many times I get called a BSer for even talking about it. Those little snots will tell me "you can't do that" . Well I can think of more than a few times that he fixed a rod knock without tearing the engine out of the machine. A few times without even pulling the head. And those engines lived for years

The 1241 Spicer is about my favorite part of the truck lol. Just curious, do you know any Evans, Yeagers or Rouchys from Mountaintop? Evans moved to Philly and opened a truck salvage. Yeager went to Morrisville and Hauled steel out of the Fairless Works, and Kenny Rouchey (SP) dealt in truck junk around Haz W-B area for years. They were all related. There was another one Poor George (George Smith) he was another relative that moved to Morrisville to haul Steel

Lots of times with industrial stuff there are no parts, None at all. Not in a salvage yard, not one to rob off of something in your yard, none anywhere. I had a sewage plant clarifier drive up in Maine that was a worm drive from like 1927. They ran it until teeth broke off and it jammed. I tried places that made gears for me before and they were giving me lead times of months, We were running a hot bypass on the clarifier, but that involves a lot of portable pumps, manual scum skimming, and lots of other work. What are you going to do, tell people to stop sh8tting so much? I just did what I had to do, I brought the gears back to our shop in Trenton, we had a really good Jamaican welder, and a really good Romanian machinist, and we got our heads together and welded it al back up and the Romanian "machined" the gear teeth with a grinder by hand with templates he made. Not saying it was as good as new parts, but the town could sh8t again. It lasted until we could get a retrofit drive manufactured and install it and that took at least a year. That is just one of many times I've had stuff like that dropped in my lap. Running away isn't an option. Blaming it on your supplier doesn't get the equipment up and running

This truck used to belong to my friend Jimmy, (J&J transport) he used it to haul large transformers. He had an O/O working for him that had one in a 77 W900 KW. They were both pretty impressive trucks. Big twin countershaft Spicer 4 speed aux trans in them too. And they were all mechanical injection, so easy to turn up a bit.

LMAO Bet it wouldn't stay pretty long. You should have seen Franklin Smelting / MDC Industries in Philly. Copper refining and sold the slag for abrasives. Dust everywhere that was not only abrasive, but electrically conductive. They had a big A Car dump in there with SUDD rears and I put 2 cabs on it in 3 months. Electrical fire burned the first one off of it, and like 2 months later I pull up to my shop and it's sitting on the street with the cab burned off it again. "Hey can you get another Cab? We parked it too close to the smelter" I put at least 2 motors in that truck too. The conductive dust would build up on top of the batteries, and drain them overnight. So they used lots of ether. And they always punched holes in the air cleaner duct to spray ether in. The did that to all their equipment. Made Shaft look like NASA

And when your equipment is down because you can't get the part? It's on back order, and maybe in 6 weeks. That's 42 days of not mining coal, or not harvesting wheat, or not delivering widgets. Not only does that downtime get expensive, but sometimes while you are jerking your bird to the shrine of "doing it right" your customers call somebody else. That is the problem with the new breed. They think working in industry is like working on Mrs. Smith's Toyota. Like it's perfectly acceptable to push it out the door and let it sit on the lot for 2 months waiting on parts. She can just ride with a friend or take an Uber

Well I'm high but still under reserve