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I came across a video on Roku called "Havana Motor Club" some about illegal work, illegal car repairs and illegal street racing. Those guys have managed to acquire a few suprisingly "here and there" impressive pieces like BB Chev in a couple of cars. They are trying to get official sanctioning from the gobt to race and much of this resembles the US in about 1960

These are screenshots from the captioned announcer who was of course speaking Spanish, and describing that they are using electronic timers "I'm am saying this is very professional" LOLOL Just as the camera showed a red-neck connection to the power strip using wires shoved into the outlet slots

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Havana Motor Club
2015 documentary
Rynaldo Lopez
Directed by Bent-Jorgen Perimutt
"Underground drag racers try to organize Cuba's first offical car race since shortly after the revolution ended in 1959
 
Photos taken with my little-used Canon M-50 mirrorless, 15-45mm IS STM

These would be a cool little camera if Canon had done a better job on the controls and menu functions. I bought it because it has an (electronic) viewfinder, but you have to screw around for hours trying to research how to disable the touch screen so if you bump it it doesn't send yu to mars.

It uses special lenses called EF-M, but with an adapter I can use all my Canon DSLR lenses as well as some of the old manual lenses I've acquired.
 
67Dart273 said:
ust as the camera showed a red-neck connection to the power strip using wires shoved into the outlet slots
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Come on, I guarantee 85% of FABO members have done that.

I'll be the first to say I have!
 
Dana67Dart said:
Come on, I guarantee 85% of FABO members have done that.

I'll be the first to say I have!
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I'm sure we have, LOLOL but we didn't try to claim it was professional



AND NOW YET ANOTHER ANNOYING STORY from the old days

Back in the late 70's early 80's there was a short time that I rented a bedroom and part of the house of our parts store bookeeper, who was divorced. I had a bit of welding to do on an old truck, and her house had no real way to get 220 to the welder. The dryer was at the far rear of the house, but the panel was partway down the exterior accessible basement stairs closer to the front.

Now looking back on this I don't know WTF I didn't just pirate the dryer breakers for a short time, but I didn't..............

I had a long length of no 10 + ground "Romex" which I used sometimes as an extension cord for the welder. So I pulled the male plug off the thing, pulled off the panel main disconnect, and VISE GRIPPED the wires to the main buss bars in the panel, then turned the main back on and went and did my welding

This only took a few minutes with nobody else home, and yeh. I was careful. This was an old Lincoln 200A "tombstone" buzzbox
 
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I love it! Many of us had no money back in the day, and resorted to things like you did. I like hearing about history like this, I don't feel so stupid or reckless. Have you ever used two 12V batteries in series for off road welding? Maybe I should keep that to myself.
 
70dart340 said:
I love it! Many of us had no money back in the day, and resorted to things like you did. I like hearing about history like this, I don't feel so stupid or reckless. Have you ever used two 12V batteries in series for off road welding? Maybe I should keep that to myself.
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No but somebody did/ does actually sell a portable mig that's nothing but a battery or two
 
Yet another story from MY past

I worked in facility operations in an office building.
Had to replace a circuit breaker on a 120/ 208 panel. Middle of the day, no turning off the main.

Ok safe enough, turn off breaker, screwdriver, unscrew the busbar attaching screw, pivot breaker out of panel, remove wire, reattach wire to new breaker, make sure breaker is switched off, put flat blade screwdriver on screw on breaker, hook right side of breaker on its tab, swing breaker into position, start turning screwdriver.

Her is where it gets scary

Screwdriver, flips screw on its side, everything is still in place but the screw needs to be stood up to start into the hole, what to do....

Let go of the breaker with your right hand, grab the shaft of the screwdriver and streighten the screw up and start turning.

This is the moment you realize that you are touching the bare metal shaft of the screwdriver that is touching the metal screw that is touching the live busbar.


You slowly let go with your right hand and finish screwing the screw in and turn the breaker on. Then go clean yourself up!
 
That reminds me of something I found on the internet on how to add a circuit.

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Sublime one said:
And don’t forget thawing pipes in winter with welder!
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Yes sir, when I was 18, I owned a trailer in a park (Northampton County, Pa.) and even with heat tape the water lines froze. My dad had a welding business after he retired from the Air Force. On his truck were an oxy-acetylene set-up and a Hobart welder. Showed me how to thaw those pipes in no time.
 
I'm sorry, ANOTHER ANNOYING STORY from the old days

Somewhere around 75-76 we had a very odd year. Sometime around Thanksgiving, it had rained and RAINED and saturated the ground heavily, and then FROZE HARD down to 10, 20F at night. This kept up without warming for awhile, and "drove" the frost deep into the ground. There were pipes froze around the area "had never frozen" before. I remember on the "news" in Spokane, folks were jumpering garden hoses across houses for short periods so their neighbors could get some water

Anyhow at the time I was living in a trailer, with a well about ?80-100? ft from the trailer. It had had a "shallow well jet" pump UNDER the trailer and the well had a large dia. casing--it was hand dug. So I made some brackets and hung the pump down in the top of the casing with a thermostat controlled pair of lamps for insurance heat. Turned out the heat of the water below is all it needed, "sort of."

One night.........no water............and I had it from the spigot inside the well off the pump. I ran down a friend and his loggin jitney, a 1T Ford with welder in the back and got him up there. Hooked the welder to the pipe under the trailer and to the pipe in the well, and ..............

NADA.........NOT A SPARK!!!

So I ended up getting ahold of the owner and it turns out the well piping is indeed metal in the well...........and metal coming up under the trailer........BUT PVC IN BETWEEN!!

So I sent the welder buddy home

Then went down to my folks, retrieved an old R12 bottle that had a screw-in valve, filled it halfway with hot water, and pressurized it with my compressor. Then drove back up the hill and plumbed that to the well pump. Maybe 2-5 minutes later..........a couple drips out of the kitchen faucet. ...........and a couple minuts later...........an few more drips..........and a couple minutes later...........a small stream, until, finally, the pipe starts to flow

For unknown reasons, I had no more trouble with frozen pipes
 
A few years ago there was a short lived program on Motor Trend TV that followed car guys in Cuba. Those guys could make anything work.
 
Russian truck diesel motors in 50s American cars.....although I saw a couple of new ford trucks. This was 15 years or so ago. I wondered how those ford trucks made it in. I only saw 2 or 3 two doors, everything else was a moredoor. I went through Cancun with Canadian money right around the time Castro got sick. Two currencies, a convertible was equal to a dollar, which the gringos could purchase and a 'national' was the locals currency, much cheaper. Pretty impressive architecture built with sugar money. Marble bathrooms, 13' tall double exterior doors, and eating out was always an adventure going into peoples homes that hid their 'restaurants' from the outside. It was like going to a rave in the early 90s, when you found out the location of the abandoned warehouse two hours before event....kind of secretive. Very safe place though. They were quite handy for sure.
 
Back in Time said:
A few years ago there was a short lived program on Motor Trend TV that followed car guys in Cuba. Those guys could make anything work.
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I saw some of that. At one point someone was hand making body panels for an old Plymouth or similar
 
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