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Thursday, June 30, 2016

imagine taking a moment in the car parts store to look at the cheap tools, and seeing that your uncles tool design has been ripped off, and now is made in China.

Found on the Garage Journal:

"So I’m in my local O’Reilly Auto Parts store and while waiting on the incompetent parts guy to look up the irrelevant year, make, and model of a part that I was looking for, I peeped something on the “impulse buy” rack that shocked me. A company selling tools under the name of “PowerTorque” had apparently ripped off my great uncle’s wrench design and are now hocking them at O’Reilly."

Once those patents expire, it's open season.

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=329396

hand made parking brake for a dual axle trailer

How they were built at http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=51567&page=408

It's the end of an era at Fort Bragg. The last C-130 Hercules cargo plane based at Pope Field has flown away.

The plane left Wednesday for Arizona and the so-called "Boneyard" where the Air Force stores unused aircraft. It's another step in the deactivation of the 440th Airlift Wing at Pope.

http://www.wral.com/end-of-an-era-last-c-130-leaves-north-carolina-s-pope-field/15818562/

While on the topic of the cargo plane, the first Loadmaster to ever strap a load down in a C-130 did it for the Brass at Langley when Lockheed was showing off the new cargo plane.

And he broke their new airplane, he asked the Lockheed engineer for a load spreader.

The guy went into a tirade about how the new C-130 was designed to not need load spreaders.

He changed his mind when the wheels of the Howitzer went through the floor.

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=329396

That loadmaster was a remarkable guy by the way, after high school graduation in 1948, James Smith enlisted in the newly created United States Air Force as a Loadmaster Cargo Specialist, rising to the rank of Chief Master Sergeant (E-9) by 1963, thereby becoming the USAF’s youngest E-9 ever.

And, he invented the ratchet strap.