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Joseph Cummings

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  1. Joseph Cummings
    Sitting here listening to Saga eating popcorn. She sings like a Beautiful Arian Angel. I spent damn near 50 years living and working in the Phila area. It's horrible there now. Look at Kensington for Gods sake. I remember when Kensington was a White working class neighborhood full of Irish and Poles.
  2. Joseph Cummings
    Seems like those dual ignition fire truck heads were significantly different on the 707. Even different sides for intake and water manifolds Third picture is regular truck engine with updraft carb and single ignition
  3. Joseph Cummings
    I had a mag failure on a Cherokee 180 flying home from Cape May NJ one time. The thing felt gutless. I might have been around 4000 max, and it felt like I was at 10,000 feet. Got on the ground and did a mag check and one was dead. I can't remember if it was left or right, but it was the one without the impulse mechanism, because I got it restarted and taxied over to the hanger
  4. Joseph Cummings
    C train the dolly hooks up with 2 pintile hooks, so it can only articulate up and down, not side to side
  5. Joseph Cummings
    I've never seen a C train of any type except in pictures, Here in Pa I only ever see A Trains
  6. Joseph Cummings
    I was thinking at some speed, the wind buffeting, the speed of the tires rotating, and the frequency because of the short length of the converter dolly, and a few other things would be timed just right and,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Poor Joe is dead, if only we had loaded the gaylord full of rubber dicks in front of the pallet of Kotex pads. I'm sure it wouldn't have gotten all crazy unstable like it did
  7. Joseph Cummings
    I wonder what doubles would be like at triple digit speeds lol
  8. Joseph Cummings
    I was getting vertigo
  9. Joseph Cummings
    I remember seeing it somewhere for sale back around 2000. It might have been TNT. I was thinking it was Pittsburgh Power, but I could be wrong
  10. Joseph Cummings
    Gypsy asphalt paver special. Knocks on some old ladies door and says he ordered too much blacktop and bla bla bla "great deal" bla bla bla
  11. Joseph Cummings
    Like one of those guys who puts a dump body on a freight tractor with air suspension and doubles the frame kinda half azzed up until doing that gets difficult so he stops somewhere around the back of the cab. Then tries to tell me it's done right
  12. Joseph Cummings
    Steering gear and springs are saying about 12,500 to me
  13. Joseph Cummings
    I'm thinking some engineering compromises were made that leaned towards "show truck" that make it somewhat unusable for work. I'll bet that front axle is overweight before it's even hooked to a trailer.
  14. Joseph Cummings
    Ohio Dealer
  15. Joseph Cummings
    What steering axle do you think that is?
  16. Joseph Cummings
    I didn't know they made that much more power than a regular single ignition EN707
  17. Joseph Cummings
    When you buy a vehicle with a Manufacturer's Certificate of Origin, you have to pay the FET in order too title it. If it was built as a trailer queen, that would explain why it was never titled
  18. Joseph Cummings
    Yeah they all got like that from hauling coils mostly. We used to flip them over and heat the lower flange of the beam with a rosebud. Put the arch right back in them. I always used a #20. The faster you get it hot, the better it works. When you heat a spot quickly it tries to expand, but the cold metal around it won't let it. So it distorts into a slightly thicker section. When it cools it contracts the only way it can by creating tension in the lower flange of the beam. Do it in enough spots and it pulls a positive camber right back in
  19. Joseph Cummings
    That has to be going back a few years. The only thing I can think of using a radial in recent years is agricultural aircraft. I knew a guy that did banner towing with a Stearman 75 but that had to be from the 40's
  20. Joseph Cummings
    Here is my Ford and my TrailKing in front of their Bensalem terminal after they moved out. I rented there for like 5 or 6 years. Place looked a lot better when they were in operation. New owner fixed it up a lot now
  21. Joseph Cummings
    Yeah his grandfather started the business in the 30's. They had a terminal across the street from my uncle's garage. They always ran nice equipment, by the mid 70's they were all R Model Mack
  22. Joseph Cummings
    Original owner went to school with me, and he is looking for it to see if he can buy it back. Their terminal was in Bensalem Pa, but they had some in Jersey too
  23. Joseph Cummings
    I never understand why people do stuff like this. It's like they put extra effort into making their rigging weaker. This is how people get killed
  24. Joseph Cummings
    Picture from facebook. V8 with a 29,000 lbs single axle. How it was done back in the day in a steel town
  25. Joseph Cummings
    Damn, are those 55,000 rears?? To put a set of CRD 92-93s in those you had to change the side gears so the axle would fit. Normally those would have CRD 112-113 in them

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