[AJD] need pictures of safety wire installations

[Bill Brueck]

Don't worry about it, Dean.  It's all a little boondoggle, anyway.  Over 
time I'll collect a few of these pics myself now!

B²
Bill Brueck (brick)
Chatfield, MN, USA

Confusion is a higher state of knowledge than ignorance.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dean VP" <deanvp at att.net>
To: "'Antique John Deere mailing list'" 
<antique-johndeere at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 3:40 PM
Subject: RE: [AJD] need pictures of safety wire installations


> Bill:
>
> No luck so far.  I must have deleted them. I just can't find them. But...
> I'll keep looking. Sorry! I have a photographic memory but the all the 
> film
> has been overexposed.
>
> Dean A. Van Peursem
> Snohomish, WA 98290
>
> I'm a walking storeroom of facts..... I've just lost the key to the
> storeroom door
>
>
> www.deerelegacy.com
>
> http://members.cox.net/classicweb/email.htm
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: antique-johndeere-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
> [mailto:antique-johndeere-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of
> Bill Brueck
> Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 9:36 AM
> To: Antique John Deere mailing list
> Subject: Re: [AJD] need pictures of safety wire installations
>
> Well, Dean, you've got me drooling over those pics you can't find, LOL.
> I'll probably hold off for pictures that actually look like they could be
> part of an old machine, although looking at the websites that have been
> suggested indicates that I have a few things to learn about technique and
> I'll be taking a closer look at them forthwith.
>
> Thanks for looking, let me know if you find anything.  Otherwise I'll 
> start
> taking more pics when I have things apart.  I hand over the gavel to the
> next president of my Rotary club at the end of June, I won't get this
> quality floor time after that.
>
> It's amazing how much material that I take to Rotary and church and other
> public speaking events comes from the ATIS lists.  Like that September 11,
> 2001 Shockwave Flash video...always brings a few tears, we've used that 
> each
>
> year since.  And the Honda ad with the parts all strung out.  The first 
> car
> to break 100 mph.  You never know where this ATIS stuff will end up!
>
> B²
> Bill Brueck (brick)
> Chatfield, MN, USA
>
> Confusion is a higher state of knowledge than ignorance.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dean VP" <deanvp at att.net>
> To: "'Antique John Deere mailing list'"
> <antique-johndeere at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 12:41 AM
> Subject: RE: [AJD] need pictures of safety wire installations
>
>
>> Bill:
>>
>> I think I've got just exactly the pictures you need if I can only find
>> them.
>> I took some digital pictures of how the safety wires where set up on the
>> transmission bolts behind the reduction gear cover on my 1953 JD 50 
>> before
>
>> I
>> took the transmission all apart. I'll be doggoned if I can find them 
>> right
>> now. I think they are buried somewhere amongst what seems like 10,000
>> other
>> pictures on my system. I haven't looked at them in ages. I sure hope I
>> didn't delete them.
>>
>> I have a pretty good multiple level folder and file system set up but now
>> I
>> just can't find them. Normally these kinds of pictures get put into a sub
>> folder under a major folder I call "Reference Material" But ... not 
>> there.
>> Not under my 1953 JD 50 pictures either.
>>
>> I distinctly recall admiring the quality of work on the twists. @#$%^&* I
>> suppose it's possible I deleted them. I'll keep looking but I just don't
>> know what I have done with them.
>>
>> I would love to sit in on your slide show. I suspect the Mayo Clinic
>> doctors
>> will get a real kick out of them. After watching a PA sew up my hand
>> earlier
>> this spring, I suspect just about anything is possible when it comes to
>> wires. The gal PA just didn't have the skills to do a neat job. I think
>> butterfly bandages would have been more effective. Really ugly job. But
>> they
>> haven't had to amputate!
>>
>> Dean A. Van Peursem
>> Snohomish, WA 98290
>>
>> I'm a walking storeroom of facts..... I've just lost the key to the
>> storeroom door
>>
>>
>> www.deerelegacy.com
>>
>> http://members.cox.net/classicweb/email.htm
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: antique-johndeere-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
>> [mailto:antique-johndeere-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of
>> Bill Brueck
>> Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 8:51 PM
>> To: John Deere List
>> Subject: [AJD] need pictures of safety wire installations
>>
>> Got a boondoggle maybe someone can give me a quick nudge with.  I need a
>> few
>> pictures of safety wire installations that are nice and neat, showing 
>> good
>> workmanship.
>>
>> I want to give some slides of what I admire when tearing down one of my
>> John
>> Deeres, the workmanship of some mechanic maybe 50 years ago whose work is
>> still in place and looking real nice.  After a few shots of that I'll put
>> up
>> a slide of my chest xray, I was wired back together a few years back and
>> you
>> never saw such a haphazard set of wires, no pattern whatsoever, no
>> consistency of number of twists, just one really ugly job.  Can't 
>> complain
>> about the results, the past 10 years since these wires were installed are
>> real high quality of life and I'm looking forward to many more.
>>
>> The audience will contain a fair number of Mayo Clinic doctors, I'll be
>> able
>> to have some fun with them.
>>
>> So anybody got their fingertips on a few images I could use?  I don't 
>> want
>> this bad enough to take my tractors apart just to photograph them, LOL.
>>
>> B²
>> Bill Brueck (brick)
>> Chatfield, MN, USA
>>
>> Confusion is a higher state of knowledge than ignorance.
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