Just bugs me to death

kp said:
We have a Bluegrass song Called" Tired " and we call it the Casson song .years ago people here called tires Cason's .
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Are you sure people weren't saying "casings" instead of "Cason's"? A "casing" is/was a term referring to tires, or the main part of a tire.
Here's the dictionary definition: "The supporting framework of a pneumatic rubber tire, without an inner tube or tread" or, the "carcass".
 
whats all this then? "tyre" doesn't bother much. . . .what bugs me is whenever the topic is car related, you're going to hear the word "fitment" or "weldment" pish-posh.
 
ford nut said:
whats all this then? "tyre" doesn't bother much. . . .what bugs me is whenever the topic is car related, you're going to hear the word "fitment" or "weldment" pish-posh.
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Certainly not "garage" terms in most shops. But when writing contract language (which I did during much of my career) - those terms are often used. Dam' legalese!

BTW, didn't tire become tyre when pint became liter, or when yard became meter? :o:D
 
It Just done bug me to death

Bugged to death -

...Hmmm...I'm trying to form a mental picture...

Bugged to death -

...starting to picture it now

Bugged to death -

...Bitten by a triatominae also known as a kissing bug or ants being ingested during sleep or inhaling a deadly lung infection insect or simply bed bugs eating away at the spine or maybe the dreaded King Beatle Death bug strikes again or

...call the coroner...this is starting to bug me...argh

 
The Brit's made a real nice engine for airplanes called the Rolls Royce "Merlin". Powdered the Spitfire, Hawker Hurricane and others. They still power Airbus and Boeing planes. I still cherish my British Standard and Whitworth wrenches (Snap On too). Now if I could only relocate my old BSA's. From what I remember Whitworth threads (BSW) were only 1 thousands of an inch different than millimeter threads.
 
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Now I'm really confused? Here when I was tiring of mounting tires I'd take a break. If I told the boss in England that I'm tyring and then he found me sitting in the break room I'd be out of a job.
 

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Flathead Fever said:
Now I'm really confused? Here when I was tiring of mounting tires I'd take a break. If I told the boss in England that I'm tyring and then he found me sitting in the break room I'd be out of a job.
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good one, and who's to blame for all this silliness? (the ministry of silly walks?) no,
 

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That merlin engine also powered my mates speed boat,what a blast to drive, it was a Packard merlin.
Lawrie
 
raceron1120 said:
Certainly not "garage" terms in most shops. But when writing contract language (which I did during much of my career) - those terms are often used. Dam' legalese!

BTW, didn't tire become tyre when pint became liter, or when yard became meter? :o:D
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Meter?....don't you mean metre. Liter? don't you mean litre?

GB
 
petehoovie said:
stangblue said:
The Brit's made a real nice engine for airplanes called the Rolls Royce "Merlin". Powdered the Spitfire, Hawker Hurricane and others.

Packard made it a better engine....for the P51 and others....
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I can agree on that one RR built the Merlin. Packard built it under license not just for P51s but also for later Marks of Spitfire ( not to be confused with the griffon engined marks) and I think some Lancaster bombers too, Canadian hurricanes and even some versions of the usual Allison engined P40s. Packard version was with newer tooling and also with much better tolerances.

GB
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I bough a mag the other month and it had the history of the merlin engine,turns out ford Dagenhem in the UK made heaps of them in ww2 not so in the usa.
i think it was about 50%
Lawrie
 
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