OTish - Classics and Horology

So how many people here have an interest in both SOBs and SOCs?

The reason being my wife has a Ducati and a rapidly expanding collection of
Ansonias that I am expected to maintain. Bikes I can cope with but the
ticky things I know feck all about.

 

Well, I did have a couple of ticky things as well but sold them when I
bought the house...

They're full of pingfuckits. Avoid. Ann's dad used to restore clocks
(mostly antique grandfather clocks) and most tools in his toolkit
appear to require a magnifying glass just to find them.

 

Brilliant! A new word has entered my vocabulary. I had not heard of a
"pingfuckit" before now. Rarely does a word so perfectly capture the nature
of the thing it describes.

 

NAHAY?

 

"............standing back and documenting their behaviors was not the best
way to go about understand their rituals and ways of life. He found that he
must learn their language and enter into their community before he would
truly understand their worldview..............."

 

You forgot the "© Dan Nitschke".

I sense a fairly comfortable infitting with this one...

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KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

 

You too, huh? 's brilliant.

 

not specially relevant to the shedde, but the new (to me) word is nice.

 

said...

What, pingfuckits? Innit just.

 

To me TAAW - spot-on, and made I chortle merrily innit.

 

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The natural complement to Shoulderbolts. Those bolts left over at the
end of reassembly which are surreptitiously chucked over the shoulder
into the darkest corner of the workshop while the owner's attention is
distracted.

 

I had to re-molish a Japanese switch for my motorised bicycle recently,
and yes, "ping!" went the tiny spring inside and "Fukkit!" quoth I.
Honest.

And then I stopped and had to grin.

 

It always amazes me just how many unnecessary bolts and screws manufacturers
put into things. A lot of my previous vehicles were pounds lighter after I
finished maintaining them.

--
Malc

"It is inconceivable that anything should be existing. It is not
inconceivable that a lot of people should also be existing who
are not interested in the fact that they exist. But it is
certainly very odd."

 

In message

Yep; I have had a few amateur radio rigs like that. Take the front off
to change a dial bulb, or to unsolder a link wire to change the
frequency step, and a fog of piece parts whine and ricochet in all
directions like something out of Laurel and Hardy.

Likewise; and by some miracle I actually managed to find all the buttons
and springs that same day...

 

My first encounter with the serious pingfuckit was some 30 years ago
when I first attempted to dismantle and repair a motorised washing
machine controller. Pingfuckit squared, I think it was.

I didn't grin much that day. Got the thing back together, but it was
never the same.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a
I demand nothing of you except that you amuse me.

Folding@Home Team UKRM
http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=47957

 

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Ansonias made by a distant rellie of mine in the Bush.

But that's about as far as my knowledge of tick-tock things goes.

 

And mine. I shall wrap it in fine tissue and wave it about when occasion
allows.

(And the pingfuckit)

 

The message <>
from Austin Shackles <> contains these words:

/pingfuckits/

In the proper meaning of the worm 'nice', of course.

 

Wot the inexpert mechanic calls 'supernumerous'.

 

The message <1hbskot.1rhybdz1rgnm6N%>
from (The Older Gentleman) contains
these words:

Well, you've sprung an arj worm on the whirled innit.