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The key stock should be harder than the axle?
I worked briefly at a place in Sydney here in Oz in our bi-centennial year when somewhat younger. A British friend told me I had a job on Monday, which was a bit of a shock. Anyway, they imported key stock, among other things like tarpaulins and breast implants.
The key stock was pretty tough stuff.
Hard to pick up a bunch of it, as it fits together so well.
 
Yeah, once I installed the keys correctly they locked in tighter than a bug in a rug. I also torqued the hubs to 100+/- a few lbs. depending on where a castle was to get the cotter pin in. I just have the brake rods and Mitchell linkage left to hook up, greased the snot out of everything just to make sure and I should be ready to go by the end of the week!!!!
 
updraught said:
The key stock should be harder than the axle?
I worked briefly at a place in Sydney here in Oz in our bi-centennial year when somewhat younger. A British friend told me I had a job on Monday, which was a bit of a shock. Anyway, they imported key stock, among other things like tarpaulins and breast implants.
The key stock was pretty tough stuff.
Hard to pick up a bunch of it, as it fits together so well.
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Key stock and tarpaulins I can sort of see as industrial products, but breast implants?

(As an aside, my son spent three years working as a manufacturing engineer at one of only three manufacturers of medical grade silicone, which was further manufactured into breast and buttock implants.)
 
JayJay said:
Key stock and tarpaulins I can sort of see as industrial products, but breast implants?
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It was a family run business from a huge old shed and the business was divided into three. One being hardware and one medical supplies for hospitals, and one other.
The floor was all end grain blocks of wood with a tram line track down the middle. (which could have gone thru to Bondi beach at one point). My mother had a saying "shot thru like a Bondi tram".
The floor was very historical as it was a remnant of the wood block roads that Sydney had in the early days. It was one of the few cities in the world to successfully use wood blocks. Many of the roads still have the wood blocks under the tar.
 
updraught said:
The floor was all end grain blocks of wood with a tram line track down the middle. The floor was very historical as it was a remnant of the wood block roads that Sydney had in the early days. It was one of the few cities in the world to successfully use wood blocks. Many of the roads still have the wood blocks under the tar.
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I saw a street like that once, minus the tram line track, when I was a kid in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
 
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