Gifted Pilot

[Frank N. O.]

Quite a good one, some strips may not cause the same comotion but they've all still been funny and nice to read/see 
And might I wager that the name listed is actually a real person given Stef's real life connection with Japan, and btw, has your friend seen the character with his name yet, and what does he think?

Frank

[Stef]

Hehe, well, I'm happy you mention it!! It's a bit of an easter egg really. So far we have only one documented case of a person who found this joke (a guy who lives in Japan and wrote us an email), so I'm actually kinda glad to share this with the "non Japanese speaking masses".

"Hyaku en" means "hundred yen", which is about one dollar in worth. There are thousands of "Hyaku En Shops" all over Japan, and I also bought all of my tableware while I was living there. 

[Frank N. O.]

Hahaha, what the americans call Dollar-stores, and we got such a chain too, but it's named similar to 10'er in danish since it takes almost 6 DKK per USD. I got a awesome 63 split-window Corvette 350 Fuel Injection model there, fantastic value but that was also a rare struck of luck since it was very accurate.

Frank

[spacer]

Cool! I was a gifted mechanic!
When I moved off the line into the shop, one of the mechs for a base customer gave me his old Blue Point safety wire pliers.
They walked off not long ago and I had to suck it up and buy a new pair. They just aren't the same, though...

[Mike]

hmmmm..... (*thinking smiley*)


how about a Christmas Card or something maybe....

...something that says:  ...consider yourself "gifted"

Not bad, huh?!

[Frank N. O.]

hmmmm..... (*thinking smiley*)


how about a Christmas Card or something maybe....

...something that says:  ...consider yourself "gifted"

Not bad, huh?!

Yes that would be a great one! It could also work for a birthday card btw 

Frank

[Baradium]

Speaking of mechanic's tools...

An old mechanic (worked for Eastern among others to give you an idea) gave me a tool box and it had some aviation tools in them.   There are tools that I have now for airplanes that I havn't been able to get any A&Ps to identify (I suspect that some of them are specialty tools for radial engines and possibly old radial airliners).

To give you an idea of the tools' age,  there is at least one Snap-On piece labled "not guar" for not guaranteed... they stamped "not guar" on the tools they produced during WWII for the war effort.  There are other tools possibly older than that.  This guy was an A&P for a very long time...

Need to stop by and see him again next time I'm in Georgia.  He's a neat guy, from Holland originally.

Anyway,  some of these tools look like a socket extension, and at the end there is a C shaped piece.   Think of a small cylinder shape with an open side.  Anyone have any idea what it could be?

He didn't give me any safety wire pliers, or I'd offer them to you.  Most all of the tools are either generic enough that I can use them or obscure enough that no one can.   Now that I think about it, I wonder if Everts' mechanics might know (since they run DC-6s).   Too bad all the Tools are still in GA.     

[tundra_flier]

Anyway,  some of these tools look like a socket extension, and at the end there is a C shaped piece.   Think of a small cylinder shape with an open side.  Anyone have any idea what it could be?

Sounds like a hose fitting socket, or for you auto mechanics an O2 sensor socket.  Anyway, they're designed to remove something with a hose or wire coming out the center of the nut.  Generally for applications that require more torque than can be applied with an open end wrench without rounding it off.  Or where you need the length to reach it.

Phil

[fireflyr]

AAANND HEEERE IS  TUNDRA (Tim the tool man) FLIER with the right answer for the "name that obscure tool" game.

We should make you the official tool guy for the site.

[Baradium]

Anyway,  some of these tools look like a socket extension, and at the end there is a C shaped piece.   Think of a small cylinder shape with an open side.  Anyone have any idea what it could be?

Sounds like a hose fitting socket, or for you auto mechanics an O2 sensor socket.  Anyway, they're designed to remove something with a hose or wire coming out the center of the nut.  Generally for applications that require more torque than can be applied with an open end wrench without rounding it off.  Or where you need the length to reach it.

Phil

But those sockets will generally have a hex style to them.   These things are completely *round* on the inside!    Think of it like this.  I took a cap off of a bottle of coke  (meaning, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, or whatever else you want, because for a Georgian, anything that is carbonated is "coke").   Take the cap, cut a slot in the side of it, that's what the ends of these sockets look like (except with no threads inside.  These tools don't have any way to turn a hex head. 

I might ship some of these things up here if you'll agree to get together to look at them some time.   

[cj5_pilot]

AAANND HEEERE IS  TUNDRA (Tim the tool man) FLIER with the right answer for the "name that obscure tool" game.

We should make you the official tool guy for the site.

Yeah, but ask if he actually OWNs one    And ask him why he keeps buying DC vehicles when they cost twice as much to work on as FOMOCO (remember when we lost alternators the same week?)

[tundra_flier]

AAANND HEEERE IS  TUNDRA (Tim the tool man) FLIER with the right answer for the "name that obscure tool" game.

We should make you the official tool guy for the site.

Yeah, but ask if he actually OWNs one    And ask him why he keeps buying DC vehicles when they cost twice as much to work on as FOMOCO (remember when we lost alternators the same week?)

Helped prepare me for owning a Cessna. 

Phil

[Baradium]

Helped prepare me for owning a Cessna. 

Phil

Man, if that just prepared you for a cessna, don't ever buy a New Piper aircraft!