For the guy who been acquiring the right tool for the right job for over forty years, the flexible contour gauge works just fine.
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How long is it and where did you get it?
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That’s what she said.
Larger rubber one with lead core - at least three feet. No idea where I got it anymore.
Smaller metal ones - 12 inches, Craftsman brand from Sears before they went out of business near me several years ago.
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So it is this type:
and not this type:
I call the blue snake thing a flexible curve ruler,
the orange coloured thing is what I call a contour gauge
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There is an account from, IIRC, the book The Red Executive, where it recounts a story about a manufacturer of mining equipment who had received an order for a number of mining machines in red oil-resistant paint, who wouldn’t deliver the order for more than a year. The reason? He had green oil-resistant paint and red non-oil-resistant paint, but no red oil-resistant paint, but the order specified red oil-resistant paint, and he was afraid of being punished for failing to deliver the order exactly as it was submitted. The mining manager who placed the order didn’t actually care what color the equipment was painted, but he had to pick a color when he made the order, and picked the color they were out of.
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Fear does eff-up a lot of things.
It’s really a miracle that such a flawed system (soviet communism) managed to survive for as long as it did.
It did produce some great dark humour though.
Just one example.
Russian language often uses a negative construction to ask questions, similar to the English:
You don’t have any do you?
A Russian man walks into a store with empty shelves and asks:
You don’t have any meat?
The shop attendant answers:
In this shop we don’t have any fish, the shop where
they don’t have any meat is on the other side of the street.
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Not related and completely OT, but that joke made me think of:—
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Picture 1: “Good afternoon, could I have half a loaf of wholemeal bread, please?”
Picture 2: “For the umpteenth time, sir, this is a butcher’s! The baker is next door!”
Picture 3: “Butchery Baker” and “Bakery Butcher”.
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As the old Cold War joke went, “What’s three miles long and eats cabbage?” “The meat queue in Moscow…”
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I’ve told this story before . . . My company had Navy contracts, Army contracts, Air Force contracts, and NASA contracts. Each had their own way of doing things. We had a design for a new USAF missile and one component was nearly impossible to make in the USAF way. A Navy component, on the other hand, would be a simple solution, but we were told by management that the Air Force wants things done their way. We spent over a year and something around $5 million trying to make an Air Force-type component, but couldn’t make it happen. Our management finally went hat in hand to the Air Force at a review meeting, noted our difficulties, and said “We know this isn’t normal for you, but we can use the well-proven Navy design.” Their response reported to me was, in as many words, “Why would we care? We just want it to work.” The entire sub-project for the new component was shut down, literally, before the meeting ended.
KL
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All must bow before the Doom Turtle.
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I guess I am up to four cents now.
These photos were published on the Patton Volunteers website back when this move to Benning/Moore was a current event. I suspect they were taken by Garry Redmon but I cannot be sure.
The break-down was done in the Patton Motor Pool.
Sliding tool drawers in the external sponsons. Not opened for many, many years. A number of specialized tools still present.
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My own photos taken in the 70’s outside the Patton Museum at Ft. Knox.
Overcast days always produce the best detail photos.
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Dealing with those tracks isn’t going to be fun at all. 400 links made of 5 parts each. Hopefully someone comes out with 3D link and length tracks.
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I believe a company has already come out with a set.
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For the Takom kit? I’m not sure tracks made from the Dragon kit will work. Wasn’t the track and suspension wrong in the Dragon kit? I thought they just reused regular Sherman tracks, but the T28 used a different sized track.
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