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Master and Commander
Posts: 1796
Location: Albany, GA. | Subject: 1958
Remember when Cowboys ruled the TV for us?
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COMSUBBBS
Posts: 3666
Location: Kansas City Missouri | Subject: RE: 1958
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vff68_q-beg
Edited by GaryKC 2019-02-22 9:27 PM
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1454
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You must be psychic. My golf buddy and friend for 65 years and I were discussing this yesterday over brew. We agreed 1958 was likely the heyday for westerns. But they disappeared in a short time except for a few. |
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1796
Location: Albany, GA. | Subject: RE: 1958
There was an expandable reamer in the M1LL toolbox by the lathe to precision bore inconel nuts to ring sizes. Used the four jaw chuck to center and drill the silver half dollars that had been beat over on the edge with a spoon, preserving the lettering on the inside was the difficult part. I even drilled a set of wedding rings made out of inconel. It seemed every time I had the lathe running to make something, another ring maker would show up. I guess we averaged about ten rings a patol. No one ever showed up with a meteorite tho. |
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1454
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Only made a couple using the nuts. Wrap tape around a lead pencil enough to secure the nut. Then many hours with jeweler files. Once the basic ring was formed, you put it into a plastic bag with a piece of rag loaded with lapping compound. Squish it for a hell of a long time and at the end a nice smooth and shiny ring. Still have them stored away. Both our fingers kind of grew a bit. |
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COMSUBBBS
Posts: 2671
Location: New Jersey | Subject: RE: 1958
I guess you SSBN types had to do something??? Hell, we just tried to stay awake. Those engines while loud, had a certain harmonic pitch that just slowly put you to sleep. |
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Plankowner
Posts: 9163
Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map. | Subject: RE: 1958
Don't remember where we were but for some reason we were running the diesel. It lived in the lower level of the bow compartment right under crews berthing. My bunk was a few feet from the access hatch. Don't remember when it was started but I came awake like a shot when it was shut down. The silence woke me up! having an outboard bunk I heard lots of noises. Use to wake when we flooded Aux 3. |
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1454
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Funny how we lived with noises and if it got quiet something is wrong. Still with me to this day. |
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1322
Location: Oxnard, CA | Subject: RE: 1958
For a while I lived under the landing pattern for runway 25 Left, Los Angeles International Airport. After a while got so used to it that when it was foggy, I couldn't sleep due to no landing jets passing overhead. I know that of which you speak. |
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COMSUBBBS
Posts: 3666
Location: Kansas City Missouri | Subject: RE: 1958
Yep, was married for 7 years |
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1576
Location: Wollongong, NSW | Subject: RE: 1958
Doesn't matter the year - passageway bunk and all the usual noises, good sleep. To ultra-quiet state, immediate wake-up, what's wrong? |
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Plankowner
Posts: 9163
Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map. | Subject: RE: 1958
The sound of rushing water would wake me. Fortunately it was only Aux 3 being flooded. Everything flooded through it or was pumped through it. |
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1602
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I thought I knew and followed all the westerns then, but I don't remember that series. It's funny because I was kind of a fan of Tom Tryon and remember when his film, "The Cardinal"flopped and he began his writing career.
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