[MD] Trust in Philosophy

[ADRIE KINTZIGER]

If you want to skin a cat, 1 min in boiling water, the fur peels of whilst
still alive

2010/12/5 John Carl <ridgecoyote at gmail.com>

> Adrie, actually no.  Unless you are else than the factory worker, you did
> not make me read ZAMM.
>
> Nice that you solved it, I hope and now i made you read zam eh?
> > So yes , it was in the ride up and down.
> > Stunning that you are actually are reading the books nowadays, i like
> that.
> >  I'v got a shitload of mystery's to solve
> >
> >
> That little scene where Pirsig suddenly realizes his altitude adjustment
> issues has played back to me many times when I've been riding my own
> motorcycle or driving my own car in the mountains.  Some passages stick
> closer to the front of the lobes, I guess.  I remembered it fine without a
> re-read.
>
> It's always interesting to think what comes back to us.  I also like to
> weld, and the  welder whose flickering flame dances over the chain-guard
> repair "who does work like that anymore?"  goes through my mind often, as
> it
> did last summer when I was doing a bit of repair to the farm equipment when
> I was working there.
>
>
>
> > As for the first problem you tried to solve, a sparkplug getting stuck in
> > the head,
> > Hm, this is how we do it.
> >
> > We pore liquid nitrogen in the sparkplughole, wearing glove's, very
> > carefully
> > The plug shrinks immidiately, you can really hear it physikally, it comes
> > out in a second after that, it almost pops out, so to speak without
> damage
> > to the head.
> >
> > see thread
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_nitrogen
> >
> > follow this  , ;to shrink weld machinery parts together.( we reverse the
> > proces for the
> > sparkplugs)
> >
> > Hey, i'm also very good skilled in skimming down distorted cylheadbanks.
> >
> >
> >
> Well how I would solve a stuck spark plug in real life is, I'd take it to a
> machine shop and say "get this dang spark plug out for me, will ya?"
>
> It reminds me of an anecdote or a joke about an engineering test I heard a
> long time ago, where the challenge was to describe how to find the height
> of
> a tall building using only a barometer.  The guy gives a whole bunch of
> solutions including "take the barometer to the top of the building and drop
> it off and time how long it takes to hit the ground" and "find the building
> superintendent and say to him, if you'll tell me the height of your
> building, I'll give you this swell barometer."
>
> Exercises in alternative Cat-skinning can be great fun.  I wonder if liquid
> nitrogen would work on fur?
>
> Yours,
>
> John
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