A complaint that has been building for a while about certain members of this forum

[Murf'n'surf]

So what you're saying is a picture like this can be considered offensive, hurtful and even traumatizing?...


View attachment 66367


Or this?...

View attachment 66368


Or these?...


View attachment 66370 View attachment 66371 View attachment 66373 View attachment 66372


If those bother you and you like animals, you're REALLY gonna get upset at my animal head trophies. The black bear and the moose I bagged in Alaska...



Holy crap........ you really got the Saturn turning some HP!!!

View attachment 66374


Lol. Pretty funny thread btw. And I'm sorry, I know I can be a useful but frustrating guy to be around!

 

[bronze_10]

So what you're saying is a picture like this can be considered offensive, hurtful and even traumatizing?...


View attachment 66367


Or this?...

View attachment 66368


Or these?...


View attachment 66370 View attachment 66371 View attachment 66373 View attachment 66372


If those bother you and you like animals, you're REALLY gonna get upset at my animal head trophies. The black bear and the moose I bagged in Alaska...























View attachment 66374


Lol. Pretty funny thread btw. And I'm sorry, I know I can be a useful but frustrating guy to be around!

Damn!

 

[Ilmmct]

@gmtech16450yz is that really your tool arsenal? Dam that is impressive. The only fixit item that I have more than one of is Duct Tape. It's wonderful stuff ... and I recently found Gorilla Tape and added this to my tool box.

 

[ScarabMike]

I got a notification to this thread, and at first sight, I was worried. One of the funniest posts I have seen. I know the feeling @Ilmmct When I first came to this site I felt overwhelmed, and my pocket book was screaming!

 

[jcyamaharider]

More mod topics to come with a new boat, I am still learning stuff every day!! BTW I feel honored to be included in the list.

 

[zipper]

@Ilmmct Its all good. My farm tool box includes everything from eyeglass screwdrivers to 3/4" drive sockets. But alot of emergency quick fixes include these. No bailing twine on the boat though.

 

[0627Devildog]

Just wait I have 9 huge boxes sitting in my office full of off season boat mods still waiting on three more I ordered over Black Friday and still have not ordered trim tabs or a shower kit yet ugh.

I was just thinking. . . . . wait til my stereo installation and automated ballast project. = )

 

[zipper]

@gmtech16450yz Something caught my eye in your shop. Your extension cord holder, does that S.S. hub cap have a V8 on it?

 

[gmtech16450yz]

@gmtech16450yz Something caught my eye in your shop. Your extension cord holder, does that S.S. hub cap have a V8 on it?

Haha, good eye! Yes it does. Like most everything in my shop, it has a story. Ever since I can remember I worked with my dad in his garage/shop. One of the "fun" (not) jobs he would give me is doing things like hand sanding the spokes on Model A wheels like that. F that! Anyway, when he died I found that wheel in his shop. I'm not positive if it's one I actually sanded because he/we had a whole bunch of cars over the years, but it reminded me of those days.

If you know what that wheel was from, then you might like the dash in the other pic. When I was still in high school I bought a '37 Chevy pickup that was in pieces. I stripped it down to the frame and rebuilt every part of it myself. It took me almost a year but I finished it and drove it all the time and put about 15k miles on it before I sold it years later. Anyway, years after I sold it we were on a family ranch in Wyoming and I ran across a pickup truck cab laying on its side with a tree growing through it! It was the same exact year truck as the one I restored! So I took the dash out of it, took it home and restored it exactly like I had my own truck. That was probably 25 years ago.

I might have a couple other Yamaha's too. These are my boat's cousins...

 

[Julian]

@gmtech16450yz I am envious of your tools.....your wire stock....your anal retentive organization.... WOW! Impressive!

 

[gmtech16450yz]

Love this site! I just stumbled on this thread right after reading about @gmtech16450yz 's throttle mod. ,Impressive. I was bumming about going into the weather outside, and glad I stayed inside to read this. Now I am also trying to type this while ROFLMAO like @swatski . Thank you, love your humor @Ilmmct .

Edit: I did have an erector set and take apart kitchen appliances and put them back together as a kid.

Haha. I took apart one of those things where you move a big wheel to a certain animal and pull the string and it says "The sheep say's Baaaa". lol. I did that when I was probably 7 or 8. I was amazed at how it worked, it had a little record and needle in it that played the animal sounds. The problem was it was like a box of springs! I failed to get it back together in working order!

Found it!- I remember I wanted to make it so the horse said "meow" and the sheep said "bark bark"! Too bad my plan failed.

 

[gmtech16450yz]

@gmtech16450yz I am envious of your tools.....your wire stock....your anal retentive organization.... WOW! Impressive!

Yeah I need to organize and label things, otherwise I forget where everything is! And stuff like the wire racks were craigslist finds. I scour craigslist for tools all the time and have bought a ton of stuff for pennies on the dollar. I've got probably at least $30k in lathe and milling machine tooling, but probably paid a quarter of that for it all. I am truly a tidwad at heart, I just like "toys" though too so it's a constant battle. lol.

You guys have to realize this is what I do though. I was a lead tech/shop foreman/go-to troubleshooter in a GM dealer for 33 years. I quit about a year ago and am "working" out of my shop primarily. I say "working" because I've mostly been turning down pay work to do play work instead. lol. I have made a bunch of money and built a lot of stuff out of that shop though. I lot of what I've done on the side is working for car race teams doing tuning and custom fabrication. One of you guys (Julian?) asked about the fire system I put in my boat. I actually had a new system laying around for a car I built. I've installed a few in vintage Trans Am cars. I figured since it was just sitting in my shop, I might as well throw it in the boat. No fume detector, just a simple pull handle system with a 10lb Halon bottle and 3 nozzles.

 

[zipper]

Ya, I thought it might be from a 32 Ford. My father has two model A's, both he has torn down/frame off rotisseried in his shop. The first one he did is a 29 Roadster and the other is a 30 Sedan with mods to the drivetrain for cruising. I learned a lot from him as a teenager restoring/modifying a 66 Porsche 912. And a Karmann Gia floor pan shortened 13" with fiberglass body and a screaming Porsche 356 engine heavily modified. Competed successfully in local SCCA events in the 70's. He used to make his own torsion bars and rear axle camber limiting plates, wet sumps etc.

One redundant pic. I cant find to delete.

 

[gmtech16450yz]

Ya, I thought it might be from a 32 Ford. My father has two model A's, both he has torn down/frame off rotisseried in his shop. The first one he did is a 29 Roadster and the other is a 30 Sedan with mods to the drivetrain for cruising. I learned a lot from him as a teenager restoring/modifying a 66 Porsche 912. And a Karmann Gia shortened 13" with fiberglass body and a screaming Porsche 356 engine heavily modified. Competed successfully in local SCCA events in the 70's. He used to make his own torsion bars and rear axle camber limiting plates, wet sumps etc.
View attachment 66392 View attachment 66393 View attachment 66395 View attachment 66398
One redundant pic. I cant find to delete.

Nice! Our Model A was a '30 rumble seat coupe but my dad and I had a bunch of others too. I think that wheel was from a '34 we had. This is me with the '37 I restored a few years after it was finished...

 

[Wr3ckdiver]

I'm with Ilmmct even though I was a mechanic in the military, I haven't done any boat mods yet, just enjoying taking it on the water.... but I do have a stereo and speakers I am gonna put in to get rid of that stock piece o crap....

 

[sysinu]

 

[FloJet]

Well I sure hope I am not one of those. I will apologize if I have done such thing. Being a follower of faith, I do agree we must walk life with humbleness and humility. But at the same time others must be proud of what they worked so hard for. One MAIN reason I do not have any social media pages expect for this forum. What others post might seem positive could very well be very negative impact on the ones reading it. I got so sick of seeing such things. We are all not blessed and sometimes we have to realize that before we make any social media posts. I have family in another country that is not getting to enjoy some of the things God has blessed me with. I would be a piece if I was boasting about it all the time on social media for them to see. Hope everyone takes time to realize how blessed we all are in life. Waking up every day is one of the greatest blessings by far.

 

[FloJet]

So what you're saying is a picture like this can be considered offensive, hurtful and even traumatizing?...


View attachment 66367


Or this?...

View attachment 66368


Or these?...


View attachment 66370 View attachment 66371 View attachment 66373 View attachment 66372


If those bother you and you like animals, you're REALLY gonna get upset at my animal head trophies. The black bear and the moose I bagged in Alaska...























View attachment 66374


Lol. Pretty funny thread btw. And I'm sorry, I know I can be a useful but frustrating guy to be around!

Ya what do you do with all that? Looks like a home made manufacturing plant for vehicles and planes.

 

[Matt Phillips]

I like what Jeff said above...whenever feeling mod-envy, just go splash that thing and put a few hours on it.

But seriously, is it Spring yet?

 

[Speedling]

And I forgot to mention that there is a support group for this condition. They meet a couple of times a year, Bimini and Shelbyville I think. Sadly I have yet to go.

It's not a support group, it's part of the addiction!