ShootingArts said:

I think we can rule out Quaker State non detergent, that stuff left carbon behind by the ton and the engine was comparatively clean. Of course most of that carbon was in the top end. Wasn't Quaker State Supreme, that stuff would have probably caught on fire. It wasn't a synthetic oil, that didn't exist for sale to the general public. If they did I never heard of it. Castrol still sold bean oil, no mistaking that smell, wasn't bean oil.

The engine didn't seem particularly hot.





I expected this engine to be locked up when he came back. Started fine and looked like some sort of mechanical display to show how and engine works. One thing I just remembered, this engine had dip cup rods. No pressurized crankshaft oiling system but each rod scoops up it's oil directly from the sump. I guess this explains why an oiling system didn't clog and freeze the engine. Memory fails on those engines. Did the dipped oil have a path up the rod to oil the mains?

Here is a story for you. An older man working for me told this story and swore it was true. He did mechanic work, maybe had a shop. He also had an epileptic daughter.

He had just bolted an entire fresh 327 engine from the parts house in his '55 Chevy. Just finished putting water in it when his wife came outside screaming. Got his daughter into the car and twenty miles to the hospital pretty much wide open! When he got to the hospital they knew his daughter and his wife had called so it didn't take but five or ten minutes to check her into this small town hospital. When he got back to his car it was sitting there with the engine turning backwards like a hot engine will do sometimes. He didn't have anything to lose so he kicked in the starter and managed to get the engine running forwards and drove it back home!

He slept a few hours and after a cup of coffee he went out to the car. Now the engine was locked solid! Fortunately there was a guarantee so he got another one free.

Yeats later Tom and the parts house owner were in the bar together. The parts house owner knew there wasn't something quite jake about that engine return so he asked Tom about it. Tom said "You know my daughter is epileptic. She had a fit and I had to rush her to the hospital. I had just put water in the engine but I didn't have time to put oil in it. Twenty miles to the hospital, twenty miles back, no oil!"

The parts house owner cursed him out but was only half sincere. He knew he might have tried the same thing in that kind of emergency.

Hu

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Kris_b1104 said:

I would love for this to happen. I entered a tournament a few weeks ago and was speaking to the TD a little before the tournament began.

I said "hey I see you have a big tournament coming up in a few weeks, and I would love to play, but it says they require a robustness of 200 and higher. I've been playing in this weekly tournament for weeks now so can you vouch for me? You know I am not trying to hide my skill level or anything, I am just trying to get my robustness up and I'm an honest player".

They said "no I can't put my neck on the line like that"

They then proceeded to let their friend enter the weekly tournament and he has NO fargorate whatsoever, 0. They started him at 400. He ended up beating me twice.

Pure hypocrisy. A few weeks later, he is rated way higher than a 400.

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Hail Mary Shot said:

that was I was thinking. I think it would be more forgiving using a soft tip for a dime size tip. I used to play with a nickel tip and transitioned to a dime when I went from a 13 to a 12.5 to an 11.5 tip. now, the only time that I miscued on most occasion using a dime shape tip is when I didn't shape it properly. as of the moment, I'm using both soft and medium tip and I draw just the same with both tips. only difference is I get more punch on the medium and offset with the soft. haven't tried using the more recent hard ones we have now so I don't know. maybe I'll install that Bulletproof on my spare shaft.

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Kris_b1104 said:

@iusedtoberich can attest to this.

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Ģüśţāṿ said:

When known local high level players continue to lose fargo enabled tournaments to low players, you tend to hear it often. This is what happens when you want to play in 6XX and under big money events.

I'm just a random stranger on the internet, so please don't take my word for it

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jasonlaus said:

Since when? Cause you say so?

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SSP said:

I'm using a Bulletproof Recoil hard (green) tip, best tip I have ever used, I wasn't a hard tip guy, after trying the TAOM FUSION tip I grew to like a hard tip, all hard tips are unforgiving, hit it right and your good, hit it wrong and it'll let you know

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