My latest build.

[Dan]

Dan,

Thank you. That was a trip back in time. When I was a lot younger, one of the worst and lowest insults you could hurl at someone was to call them Dudley Do-Right.
Depending on the alcohol content this was an eye gouging, ear biting, roll on the floor insult of the first order and I know of two lots of best friends who have never spoken to each other in over 50 years because of it.

Steve.

LOL Buddy! Just doing my part. (causing dismay and controversy)

Steve, honest to good and like I have said to you more than once. You have such a great and interesting history. Ya gotta write it so we can all enjoy it.

Seriously, you're good with word smithing, have great tails and are a joy to read. Let fly dear friend.

The worst that can happen is someone like me is gonna make fun of you. We both know, with out a doubt I will, so? Snork

 

[Dan]

Cad, please, please forgive the off topic. I am in school for precision manufacturing and pre-engineering.

The class has taken to calling me and my buddy "Statler and Waldorf" after the two old guys on the Muppets.

Unbeknownst (lol, I can't believe I used that word either) to me, Chad (my class mate) signs in after me. After my signature, He has been writing "III",ESQ and or his lordship. FOR MONTHS! LOL.

So, when we graduate at the end of this month, My certificate will read; "His lordship Daniel T. Keav. Esq, the third.

BECAUSE THE EXPLETIVE STAFF AT SCHOOL THINKS IT IS FUNNY!

(lol, really kinda is)


In my defence, all the best threads have cartoon or Muppet references.

 

[fasteddy]

Dan,

I talked to one of the guys who got into a fight with his best friend so long ago maybe 8 years ago. Hadn't talked to him for at least 35 years before that and during the conversation I asked how his old pal was. That lit the fuze on some old dynamite. He proceeded to tell me that mentioning his name had ended an otherwise pleasant conversation and since there was not chance that I was going to Heaven for doing it I could give the Devil his best wishes since we were sure to meet and become firm friends.

Today it seems so foolish to let something like that destroy a friendship but it was powerful stuff in the old days.

I was sitting here waiting to see if anyone caught on to Nell. That was the girls top insult for other girls. Here's Nell or Nell, where's your horse were the two favorites.

Seeing some jerk with his girlfriend, Here's Dudley and Nell, where's the horse, always got things moving in a decidedly warm direction.

My problem Dan, was that I am and always was a victim of an active mind. I was a stirrer of that well known substance. I preferred the term practical joker but as you can imagine there were those who were less generous or forgiving.
I've been the victim of even more fertile minds as well.
If we get around a campfire remind me about Larry and the rubber snake.

Now back to the poor guy who started this thread. Maybe I'll start one of my own. "Fasteddy Remembers".

Steve.

 

[caduceus]

Hey, feel free to expound and reminisce! I spent the last ten minutes laughing out loud after two and a half days of intense research and development on Peerless Leader's disk brake system. I now have something that works, but will work better when I can get a one-piece cable housing.

I used to religiously watch Rocky & Bullwinkle, The Three Stooges, and Bugs Bunny. I was overseas in the USAF when the Muppets started, but later in the 1980s, if I was home I'd always sit down and watch them with my Kids.

Anyway, here's the latest version of this disc brake. I'm almost ready to junk it and build something from scratch. The system does have excellent force multiplication, and with a better cable housing setup it might be usable. especially after things wear in a little bit.

 

[caduceus]

Cad, please, please forgive the off topic. I am in school for precision manufacturing and pre-engineering.

The class has taken to calling me and my buddy "Statler and Waldorf" after the two old guys on the Muppets.

Unbeknownst (lol, I can't believe I used that word either) to me, Chad (my class mate) signs in after me. After my signature, He has been writing "III",ESQ and or his lordship. FOR MONTHS! LOL.

So, when we graduate at the end of this month, My certificate will read; "His lordship Daniel T. Keav. Esq, the third.

BECAUSE THE EXPLETIVE STAFF AT SCHOOL THINKS IT IS FUNNY!

(lol, really kinda is)


In my defence, all the best threads have cartoon or Muppet references.

I studied engineering at CalPoly San Luis Obispo back in the late 1970s and found that I liked working with my hands way more than drafting and calculating. So I made my first career as an auto/truck mechanic. It wasn't until I moved to Minnesota in the early 1980s that I started using my engineering education when I worked for Marvin Windows in R&D in product testing, and again at Solvay Pharmaceuticals drawing as-built schematics and specifying building projects.

 

[fasteddy]

I always felt that to do a trike properly that a person should do as you did and use a differential rear end. Northern tool has them for $119 plus the shipping if you don't have one near you.
Somewhere in my travels through the web I saw a trike truck that someone had built. Very much like the ones you see photos of in China and India being pedaled or with small motors with a differential rear end..

This builder had used longer bolts to hold the two sprockets on to the differential and on the motor drive side they had put shot lengths of tubing two or three inches long by the look of it over the bolts and then a sprocket that was worn out and had the teeth removed then the nuts that were tightened down.
This acted as a brake disc and they had a brake caliper mounted on the frame. It seems they used the sprocket simple because they had it and the holes lined up. They said it worked perfectly well.

Steve

 

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I always felt that to do a trike properly that a person should do as you did and use a differential rear end. Northern tool has them for $119 plus the shipping if you don't have one near you.
Somewhere in my travels through the web I saw a trike truck that someone had built. Very much like the ones you see photos of in China and India being pedaled or with small motors with a differential rear end..

This builder had used longer bolts to hold the two sprockets on to the differential and on the motor drive side they had put shot lengths of tubing two or three inches long by the look of it over the bolts and then a sprocket that was worn out and had the teeth removed then the nuts that were tightened down.
This acted as a brake disc and they had a brake caliper mounted on the frame. It seems they used the sprocket simple because they had it and the holes lined up. They said it worked perfectly well.

Steve

Yup, that's where the disc came from for this build. It's the center of a weld pulley I bought at a farm auction in a box with a bunch of other junk for probably five bucks. I ground out the original hub and welded in a new one to fit this shaft. I ground out a keyway in the axle and locked things with the shaft collars.

I agree about using a differential on a trike and I've seen the differentials available at Northern Tool. But as this one was sitting in the barn next to a pile woodchuck turds, and I figured that if my wife hadn't used it in twenty five years the chances were real good that she wouldn't be using it in the near future.

I've also been snooping around the web and have found a lot more available and inexpensive disc brake calipers. Looks like a caliper/master cylinder setup can be had for around fifty bucks plus the cost of the line. But several years back I gave my daughter & son-in-law an old Yamaha Spree 49cc scooter which they've proceeded to destroy, and if it's still around and if the destruction isn't too complete I might be able to salvage some hydraulic brake parts.

 

[Dan]

" But as this one was sitting in the barn next to a pile woodchuck turds"

LOL! Carol and I regularly have conversations just like that. "Have you seen my differential, baby?"
Yes Honey, it is just past the mower next to the woodchuck turds."

Our woodchuck, who lives under a tool shed in the back yard is named "Chuck" I wanted to name him/her Fred or Bill 'cause when we go out back to work on the yard, he gives us the stink eye like a tuff street kid. "I'm working over here!?

As opposed to our dog, Shelly. The cat, stewie does not like her and keeps opening the screen doors to let her out. So I wanted to name her "roof" so when she wanders around the neighborhood and someone pets her and asks what her name is, have trained her to bark.

"What is your name?" ROOF

But just like "Chuck" I was out voted.


I don't know why folks complain about getting older. It kinda rocks. Ya just need a Carol, a woodchuck, a not brilliant dog and an ittybitty idiot kitty named Stewie. Then life is pretty dang cool. That and Carol just went shopping and brought home Capt. Crunch. WITH CRUNCH BERRIES!


wut?

 

[xseler]

" But as this one was sitting in the barn next to a pile woodchuck turds"

LOL! Carol and I regularly have conversations just like that. "Have you seen my differential, baby?"
Yes Honey, it is just past the mower next to the woodchuck turds."

Our woodchuck, who lives under a tool shed in the back yard is named "Chuck" I wanted to name him/her Fred or Bill 'cause when we go out back to work on the yard, he gives us the stink eye like a tuff street kid. "I'm working over here!?

As opposed to our dog, Shelly. The cat, stewie does not like her and keeps opening the screen doors to let her out. So I wanted to name her "roof" so when she wanders around the neighborhood and someone pets her and asks what her name is, have trained her to bark.

"What is your name?" ROOF

But just like "Chuck" I was out voted.


I don't know why folks complain about getting older. It kinda rocks. Ya just need a Carol, a woodchuck, a not brilliant dog and an ittybitty idiot kitty named Stewie. Then life is pretty dang cool. That and Carol just went shopping and brought home Capt. Crunch. WITH CRUNCH BERRIES!


wut?

Dan, if we lived closer, I believe that there's a good chance that we'd be good friends!!!

Where I live, back in the day, III meant "da turd" ---- not "the third"...... Well, there really weren't that many "thirds", cause all the Billy Bobs would get quite confusing.

 

[Dan]

Dan, if we lived closer, I believe that there's a good chance that we'd be good friends!!!

Where I live, back in the day, III meant "da turd" ---- not "the third"...... Well, there really weren't that many "thirds", cause all the Billy Bobs would get quite confusing.

X, we are good friends.
LOL, I can't wait to go to school tomorrow and add "De Turd" to Chad's sign in.

He will think it funny but promptly punch me in the head. He is that kind of friend and we have a rule; "if you're a dingus, ya get lumped up" LOL

"Racist Wednesdays" are the best. The whole class waits for us to brawl. I am Irish/Russian and Chad is of French Canadian descent.

When we scuffle, I keep telling him he is supposed to surrender. Which always ends up in some sort of facial bruising on me.

good times.

 

[fasteddy]

How far removed from French Canada is he?

Steve.

 

[Dan]

Not enough to not be easily insulted during a brawl or just near Hartford CT.

Really good and funny guy, Steve. You would like him.

If and when we do a rally, I am gonna drag him along.

 

[xseler]

Canadian, eh!!??

This T-shirt was sent to me from a good friend in Alberta......


"Why say eh!?"
"Because it's better than saying huh!!"

 

[fasteddy]

Dan, I had the pleasure of doing antique shows in Quebec for years and only twice did someone get on my case about being English. The French Canadian antique dealers around me pounced on them both times and physically escorted them from the show and then came to apologize for the customers behavior.

Great times in Montreal as I'm sure you are aware of. I did the St. Catherine's St. crawl many times with amazing results. They had a beer that you could only buy in Quebec at the time called Brador. This stuff was meaner than a mother in laws stare and I never met any self respecting Frenchman that would drink it.

I'm standing at one end of a show talking to a French Canadian dealer during set up and we are looking down the aisle and he turns to me and says, "I can tell you every dealer here who's English. Everyone of you has a Brador in your hand". It was true too. Everyone of us did including me.

Gearing everything to spending 3 months in the US next summer with a lot of time spent visiting. There won't be a build taking all my time and hopefully my Mom won't be at deaths door. At 101-1/2 she beat C Dificile better know as the super bug that people are catching in the hospitals.

Looking forward to meeting Chad and Carol and yourself next summer. We'll get something organized for certain.

Steve.

 

[fasteddy]

xseller,
That is funny.

Steve.

 

[caduceus]

Canadian, eh!!??

This T-shirt was sent to me from a good friend in Alberta......


"Why say eh!?"
"Because it's better than saying huh!!"

To name their new country, all the letters of the alphabet were thrown into a big hopper and it was agreed that the first three letters pulled would be emphasized in making up the name. So the Prime Minister pulled them out and read them off as he did to the clerk.

"C, eh"
"N, eh"
"D, eh"

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It so happened, that back in the early 1980s when my wife was preggers with our first, our town didn't have a doctor, so she went across the river to Rainy River, Ontario for all her prenatal doctoring. When some difficulties arose she was sent to Fort Frances, Ont. where both our kids ended up being born. Years later, this gave me a real in with regulatory officials in Ottawa when I was working at Marvin Windows and figuring out testing specifications for our product line that satisfied both Canadian and US building regulators.

Even the crustiest French Canadian bureaucrat would mellow considerably when I was able to work that fact into conversation.

 

[RicksRides]

spent a number of years in da U P of michigan, Escanaba ( college) and Iron Mtn. I got to see Rush and the McKinzie Brothers playing a show at the same bar. Good Memories.
The first time I took the wife up to visit with family, she thought we were Swede's.
Rick

 

[fasteddy]

We have a lot of family history in the area. My grandfather was a superintendent at the paper mill in Frostbite Falls in the early 1900's and we had a lot of family in Fort Frances. My Dad was born in Kenora in 1906 and his mothers, father was the general manager of the Rat Portage Lumber Co. there.

Many of the family moved to Minnesota and Illinois over the years.

Your kids have dual citizenship since after mid 1977 anyone born in Canada to foreign born parents are Canadian citizens or Canadian who takes citizenship in another country doesn't lose their Canadian citizenship. Nice to have if you go back and forth over the border a lot.

I can imagine sliding the fact in that your children were born in Canada helped in Ottawa. I would have loved to have been there when you did that because the French Bureaucrats are about as crusty as the come and even more so if your from the U.S.

It's been said and it may well be fact that the term Canuck or Kanuck was a derisive slang term used by the lumberjacks in Maine for the French Canadian lumberjacks from Quebec who came to work in the U.S. Most Canadians when they travel in the U.S. are asked if it's OK to use the term which of course it is.

Do you know how the Canuck hockey team got their name?

Steve.

 

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We have a lot of family history in the area. My grandfather was a superintendent at the paper mill in Frostbite Falls in the early 1900's and we had a lot of family in Fort Frances. My Dad was born in Kenora in 1906 and his mothers, father was the general manager of the Rat Portage Lumber Co. there.

Many of the family moved to Minnesota and Illinois over the years.

Your kids have dual citizenship since after mid 1977 anyone born in Canada to foreign born parents are Canadian citizens or Canadian who takes citizenship in another country doesn't lose their Canadian citizenship. Nice to have if you go back and forth over the border a lot.

I can imagine sliding the fact in that your children were born in Canada helped in Ottawa. I would have loved to have been there when you did that because the French Bureaucrats are about as crusty as the come and even more so if your from the U.S.

It's been said and it may well be fact that the term Canuck or Kanuck was a derisive slang term used by the lumberjacks in Maine for the French Canadian lumberjacks from Quebec who came to work in the U.S. Most Canadians when they travel in the U.S. are asked if it's OK to use the term which of course it is.

Do you know how the Canuck hockey team got their name?

Steve.

Nope, I need enlightenment on this one. How did the Canuck hockey team get their name?

As far as the dual citizenship, it isn't so important now, but when I graduated from high school in 1969 it was something that people would kill for. We went through the bureaucracy to get them their birth certificates from Ottawa and their "Statements of US citizenship" from Washington DC, but the biggest hassle of all was getting them US Social Security Cards. Talk about a Pain in the Arse.

I haven't heard the term "Rat Portage" in years! Brings back memories. Remember that Gimli Glider?

 

[fasteddy]

Yes I remember the Gimli Glider. A plane full of lucky people indeed. I can imagine since the kids weren't born in the U.S. that getting their Social Security card was more than difficult.

I remember the draft dodgers all to well. I was living in Vancouver in 1970 and the city had more than their share. There was something funny about a guy with a distinct American accent trying to act like he was born here.

To those that are reading this Kenora Ontario was originally called Rat Portage as in muskrats, a prime source of furs .

The Vancouver Canucks

The original owner with a later business partner of the Vancouver Canucks was Coleman "Coley" Hall who owned many hotels in Vancouver but his flagship was the St. Regis Hotel. He had a minor league hockey team named after the hotel but he wanted to move up to a main stream team.
Coley was well known as a two fisted drinker and fighter and one of his pals owned a very large Chevrolet dealership in Vancouver. His name was Bowell McLean and as well as being a car dealer he was president of the ice arena in the Pacific National Exhibition the only ice rink in Vancouver.

Right at the end of the Second World War there was a decision to start a Pacific Coast Hockey League so all the ice rinks along the coast could become money makers at the end of the war.
The franchise for Vancouver was sold to a fella that owned a cartage business. Over a few pints with Mr. McLean, Mr. Hall was informed that the franchise had been sold and this didn't sit well with Mr Hall. There was considerable skullduggery and back stabbing that day and Mr hall had the rights to the ice rink at the end of it and the franchise owner was forced to sell it to Mr. Hall.

Mr. Hall went over to his rather well know bootleggers after hours club to tell him that he now owned the hockey team and didn't know what to call it. The bootlegger suggested the Canucks after Johnny Canuck a well know comic book fighter pilot from WW2. He apparently defeated the Nazi's by himself with apologies to Captain America.

So he called them the Canucks.

Then the discussion turned to a logo. The bootlegger suggested that it should be centered around the seven French Canadian Lumberjacks that they had gotten into a fight with sometime before since they were tough as they came. That is the square jawed, bearded chap you see sometimes who is in full stride with a hockey stick in his hand.

The bootlegger was my great uncle Art. A brother of my fathers, father.

One of those often repeated family stories that was true.

Steve