War Trophies

[RB211]

Anyone save their trophies from war? Here's my latest one, it WAS an oil seal that didn't want to come out.

[Doozer]

War is heII.
I would not associate working on mechanical things as such.
A lot of men died.
I never make lightly of the word war.
Just like the word rape. I never use that word casually in a sentence.

-Doozer

[Mcgyver]

Are dying, and women and children. Horrifically. Agree with Doozer on this one, but see that RB didn't mean anything by it.

As for keeping stuff....naw, mostly, life's to full of too much confusion already...get rid of whatever you can. I did this keep this Stuart Turner built up crank I mangled. Clumsy Bastard.

[Doozer]

I used to think saving the extracted, broken off threaded screws was cool and worth saving
as a victory trophy, but then I got so good at removing broken off screws, saving them
meant less and less to me. Now extracted screws just get pitched, and work continues.

-Doozer

[rwilliams]

I don't associate war with anything but war.

[boslab]

I understand, not war per se, battle maybe, the bin gets mine,
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addendum, the word rape means taking by force, ( not exact verbatim dictionary definition btw) when I had to do English literature one of the books was “ the rape of the fair country “ by Alexander cordel. ( also the fire people) both about the early industrial revolution in wales, actually quite good, I read the term about an industrial injury in the ironworks as the man was “ touched by the iron” meant nothing till I ended up getting a splash of iron, I understood perfectly what he meant.
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[RB211]

My grandfather stormed the beaches at Normandy, I'm well aware of valor and not stealing valor. I meant nothing by it.
Perhaps I should be more "woke" to not offend

[Tim Clarke]

Here’s one I saved, it’s a 3-56. I’ve removed lots of broken bolts and studs in my time, but this is the smallest.

[I make chips]

I have saved the most coveted mechanics trophy of all. An actual 1/4-20 screw that was removed by an ez out and is still on said tool.
It's like receiving your Masters or winning the lottery.

[epicfail48]

I remember the good old days when being "woke" was just referred to as "not being an asshole", and was celebrated instead of being derided... We need to go back to those days

[darryl]

I'm a bit of an aviation buff, which means a lot of the time I'm admiring some kind of war plane. I'm not celebrating war-time actions, just the talent that went into creating the planes, the bravery of the men who flew in them, and the esthetic appeal. For instance, the B-36 is one of my favorite looking planes. The cockpit of the B-29 is cool looking, and I got to admire the SR-71 from the drivers seat (it was probably the A-12). No fat guys in that plane-

For all those who like to be involved in restoring old planes, I'd like to think that none of them are celebrating the fact that they were killing machines. I find no glory in the fact that some certain warplane shot down X number of enemy aircraft- but I do have to give thanks that I still live in a free country-

[JRouche]

Anyone save their trophies from war? Here's my latest one, it WAS an oil seal that didn't want to come out.

I think that messed with some? Dunno. It struck a chord with me... JR

[plunger]

Here’s one I saved, it’s a 3-56. I’ve removed lots of broken bolts and studs in my time, but this is the smallest.

How do you do it .?

[Doc Nickel]

Anyone save their trophies from war? Here's my latest one, it WAS an oil seal that didn't want to come out.

-Over the years I've saved quite a bit of battle debris/war trophies. I have a planetary gear unit out of a Ford Explorer automatic transmission hanging on my wall. It appears to have eaten something, or was itself the thing that cracked and put debris into the system. I bought the truck that way, and drove it a year before it stopped moving entirely.

Wasn't necessarily a battle, but it was one of those cases where I couldn't afford to replace the truck, certainly couldn't afford to have the trans rebuilt, and had no other transportation, so I had to pull it, and dive head-first into automatic trans rebuilding.

There's a prototype paintball gun body I was making for a client, and very slightly boogered after about six hours of milling.

I used to have the two halves of a piston that came out of an engine I'd rebuilt... but neglected to tighten the rod bolts on that one cylinder.

One I wish I'd been able to save, back in High school, was the Holley spreadbore carb that a fellow studen had obtained to replace the old Thermo-Quad on his Dodge... and since he didn't have a gasket kit, resealed it with 3M "Yellow Death" Weatherstrip adhesive. To the point it had oozed out of the seams.

I was the carb guru back then, and it was my sad duty to tell him there was no way anyone could save it. I told him he couldn't have ruined it more if he'd cast it into a bucket of concrete.

At one time I was collecting broken off threaded studs or bolts that I'd welded nuts to and managed to extract. Had about a dozen of those, but eventually tossed 'em- I have too much packrat crap as it is. These days I'll snap a pic and chuck it. (The part, not the pic. )

Doc.

[boslab]

I understood and was not in the slightest offended, you have to take offence, it’s a personal choice to be offended, I have been called the most derogatory things you could imagine, and that’s by friends, I don’t take offence at words, ( my gran born in 1880s used to say “ your very gay today” if you were happy, did not mean you wanted the milkman’s pants down, truthfully that wouldn’t have been hard, he had a reputation that preceded him, the estate had far too many ginger babies it was like father ted, ( if you haven’t seen that I recommend it for a not politically or religiously correct humour) we don’t need to put words on a pedestal at the expense of meaning.
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