November 30, 201510 yr has anyone else had their brain go blank with putting a tool back together? i told my self to take a picture and did not because it is just 6 bolts and i will remember. NOT!! i took a small shear apart yesterday to clean it up and do minner repairs. Now for the life of me i can't remember how it goes back together. taking my big post drill apart was no problem, and there was a week before it went back together. this shear must be to simple. hopefully it comes back to me this coming weekend.
November 30, 201510 yr They say the mind is the second thing to go. Too bad I can't remember what the first thing to go was. Welcome to senility...
November 30, 201510 yr Much the same at work, 2 D-8 cats in various degrees of disassembly to make one that runs, tranny and final drive work. 3 yard cleanups 4" of snow and 2 extra mechanics in working on stuff. trying to remember where which linkages go after 2 weeks... and the extra parts here and there oh what a puzzle.
November 30, 201510 yr When I was younger, a long time ago someone told me "a good mechanic can strip an engine and reassemble it, get it to run good and still have enough parts left over to build a washing machine!" Just now, Charles R. Stevens said: Too true.... 6 bolts, only 36 posibilities... I think you may find there are many, many more possibilities! I think it's well over 400 we've got to have a math Boffin on the team or someone with good google fu!
November 30, 201510 yr Always take photos, even cell phone photos. More photos are better, digital is cheap. Masking tape with information written on it is always good to include in the photo. If your hands are dirty, then put the phone in a plastic baggy with a hole cut for the lens to look through. No matter now many photos you have there will always be a need for a couple more at some point when you start putting things back together.
November 30, 201510 yr If I recall permutations and combinations at school ( a long time ago) the possibilities would be 6x5x4x3x2x1 = 720 Good luck, matto.
November 30, 201510 yr I beg to differ, my engineering background provides the following appropriate formula..... Z x Y = 2. You'll find this works for any degree of complexity, be it a safety razor or a saturn v rocket..........it either works/fits or it don't!
December 1, 201510 yr Author when i get back in the shop i will take a pic of my parts maybe someone has one and can show me a pic. if i see it complete again i can put it back together. frosty i am half way there. when i get back in the shop i will take a pic of my parts maybe someone has one and can show me a pic. if i see it complete again i can put it back together. frosty i am half way there.
December 1, 201510 yr You fools must be doing that new math... Good Morning, Knew Mathe = One + another Won + a nuther Won = a Phew Mat, Good Luck on assembling your Shear. What could possibly go Wrong......... Neil
December 1, 201510 yr Author Neil nothing but put together take apart put together enough times till it is put together and use the crap out of it because it made me put together and take apart to many times,
December 1, 201510 yr 2 hours ago, Charles R. Stevens said: You fools must be doing that new math... I take it you went to a school that concentrated on the three R's..... reedin, ritin and rithmitic!
December 1, 201510 yr 53 minutes ago, ianinsa said: I take it you went to a school that concentrated on the three R's..... reedin, ritin and rithmitic! Responding to FRosty's Retorts Neil
December 1, 201510 yr Something like that, I was the geeky looking kid with glasses, braces, shorter than the girls and skinny as a rail... school was not fun
December 1, 201510 yr 16 hours ago, Frosty said: THE answer is 42. Everything else is just being picky. Frosty The Lucky. Listen to the little birds. Not the little mice.
December 1, 201510 yr New Math or Political Math were 2 + 2 = What ever it needs to get the answer they want.
December 1, 201510 yr My Father told me about accountants when he was Upper Management: Ask them what the numbers were and they would answer "what do you want them to be?" and no it wasn't Enron...
December 1, 201510 yr I believe the newest math is. 2+2= you tried you get an A! The mice don't explain things, no point listening and the little birdies are really pecky about things. Frosty The Lucky.
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