[MD] Trust in Philosophy

[John Carl]

Thanks for the challenge, Adrie.

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 2:03 PM, ADRIE KINTZIGER <parser666 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yeah, what does a car factory worker know eh?
> Been reading your postings the last few days,som ething took my
> "attention",
> John, the line in wich you were talking to mark, telling
> him about this-; These guys have no idea about motorcycle
> repair,they do not have the right toolkit,------
> clearly casted towards me and DMB, in reflection on DMB'S
> long abstraction on zam, the som analogy.
>

Casted more along the lines of the thread, I think it was Andre, who was
talking about drills and such... but ok, you want the shoe, I'll let you
wear it.


> I told you som e time ago , that i have my doubts on your
> knowledge of LILA and ZAM, i challenged you then, btw, to test you out.
>

You told me you would honour the possible questions with an answer.
> I decided later on , not to ask any.
>
>
All correct in my memory as well.



> Coming back to this point today, as you like to mention
> me being a car factory worker, i like to ask you a question that
> combines 3 things.
>
> 1 , solving one of Pirsig's mystery's in zam, the sparkplug problem he
> talks
> about, it was real and genuine, he really had big trouble with it.
>
> 2, try to outsmart a car factory worker , and Pirsig, by solving the
> mystery.
> Show me how good you are, the hints and leads are in zam.
> The solution , however , is not.
>
> 3, show me how smart you are, how good your toolbox is filled with hightech
> tools and knowledge about motorcycle repair.
> Show us all , how to loosen up a tight screw with your brain.
>
>
>

Well, first off, thanks for the challenge.  A stuck spark plug is not an
easy thing to fix, not at all.  I've been thinking about this all day.
Well, when I wasn't thinking about other stuff, but while driving and
helping Lu get the stage ready for this week's play... I was thinking about
spark plugs.

First off, I'd remove the head.  I mean if the normal lubricants and heating
didn't work, and I can see how this might happen, especially if perhaps
there is corrosion as well as build up from carbon for some mis-fit reason?
So I'll just assume, as you say, that you're really, really stuck.  In that
case, the head is going to have to come off.

Now, there might be fancy ways to get this done, but I'm a fairly simplistic
guy.  I'm a carpenter, and we have a saying "get a bigger hammer".  I think
I'd try and break the spark plug off, using this fabled hammer.  Unless the
head easily allowed access to the spark plug from the ignition side, then I
guess I wouldn't need to break off the plug, and I wouldn't.

Now I'd take a carborendum bit, around 1/8th or 3/16ths and carefully drill
around in a circle, getting a purchase where I could, to drill out the spark
plug in a very brutal and boring fashion, retap the threads and reinstall
according to factory specs.

Might not work for the emperor, but it works for me.

My regards to the emperor,

John