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Old 09-11-2015, 11:27 PM   #28004
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Originally Posted by Tcoat View Post
Ya my story is almost the same as far as helping my dad at 6 or 7. It usually ended with me having to perform first aid though as the guy had no concept of tool safety (or the proper tool for that matter). Only man I ever saw that could take most of an engine apart with nothing but a screwdriver and hammer and still not so much as ruin a bolt head.
That was a lot closer to the norm then. We would pour a bowl of carbon tet from a 5-gallon can to clean parts then toss it out onto the dead spot behind our work shed. That's also where all the used oil went. Just dug a little hole and poured it in. Sometimes we would pour it over the trash before we lit the burn barrel. Wooo, that was smoky!
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