Whoa, first week on the new schedule and I almost forgot to upload this strip today. Talk about being a creature of habit!
I recently felt like Julio in this Strip when I changed the tires on my car. It took me pulling upwards with all my strength on one side of the wheel spanner and my wife standing on the other end to loosen that nasty nut.
By the way: We’ve still got our t-shirt contest going on! Thanks to everybody who participated already! A lot of ideas that made me chuckle, some that made me think and a few even made me laugh out loud! Keep ‘em coming!!
Julio is turning the bolt the wrong way. He’s tightening intead of loosening. He should know better.
Ba-na-na-na!
He also may have forgotten the pin that prevents the bolt to go away….
But one can have surprises in that operation, as I did recently.
The normal procedure is to remove the pin, then the bolt (and also the brake caliper), and the wheel comes without effort.
Except last time it didn’t. We shaked, hammered, and I even build an ad-hoc extractor, but no way to get the wheel out of the axis.
After 3 hours of unsuccesful tries, we decided to try to apply grease to the bearings from the outside, and when I tried to pull out the kind of washer that protects it, it turned out it was not the right one, it was a bit too narrow, and went into the thread of the wheel axis, thus incredibly resisting to the removal of the wheel.
As soon as I broke that small part out, the wheel came out easily.
Conclusion of the story : The usual workshop either didn’t perform properly the last 200 hour visit, and did not grease wheel bearings (my guess, grease was very dirty inside), or just mounted an incorrect part. And at least, the previous workshop did.
Talk me about maintenance……(just a bunch of certified bastards)
Perhaps that is the point, lost on Chuck?
Wow he IS tightening it, totally missed that one! Strangely I was just reminiscing Hammer Time only yesterday, specifically the wonderful “in Living Color” spoof of it. This is great and I am fixin’ tuh share it!
I was wondering how long it would take you guys to pick up on Julio going the opposite of “lefty-loosey”. But you are quick! Damn!
In my mind the joke about this was that Julio is turning the nut the wrong way (yes, even Julio has flaws) and that Chuck, instead of catching it (if he would have, he would have certainly pointed it out to Julio with gusto for the rest of the day) is about to help him get it even tighter….
well… and then there is the MC Hammer reference, of course….
Sure that’s not a left-hand thread he’s working with? I know that some cars have “handed” lug nuts (LH thread on one side, RH thread on the other,) so I wouldn’t consider it outside the realm of possibility that something similar might be done on G/A airframes…
22 year old lyrics and that line is still a classic
What made me laugh about this was that it took me back to high school, where that song was huge.
We used to use it as a cheer during sports games.
And I love that half the comments above are worried about a bolt and not the awesomeness of working the song into a comic!
Google ” rockwell retro encabulator ” for more not real tech terms