If I could ever just get this group to not lose their mind every time something comes loose…

Something that came loose might have gotten lost, but it had to lose its torque setting before it got loose.

Rudi wrote:

When did “impordant” become a word?
Recently I’ve noticed that commentators and news personalities can’t pronounce  the word “important” properly”
Must be Ebonics infiltrating our pronunciation of every day communication, or maybe it’s just my bad hearing.

 
Me tinks day bean listerin to Sal too much.

Greg B wrote:

TKOPerformance wrote:

We are a funny bunch, but spelling is not our forte.  I've seen a car advertised as having "duel" exhaust.  That must have been an interesting setup!

I also saw a truck advertised as being a "disil".  Not only spelled incorrectly, but no respect for the genius its named for: Rudolph Diesel. 
 

Duel exhaust is very challenging.
 

I guess two vehicles pace off like 20 tire rotations from each other, then turn and rev.  The winner is determined by volume?  Or is it sound quality?  It should be sound quality. 
 

BobE wrote:

RTM - I'm not sure how one could shear a roll pin on this D-shaft arrangement.  I doubt that would occur due to a twisting motion.  
BTW - my 12-year-old R&C MII D-Shaft joints use setscrews.  Have they changed to using roll-pins? 

 
Talking about two different things.  I'll post a picture of what I'm referring to.

When did “impordant” become a word?
Recently I’ve noticed that commentators and news personalities can’t pronounce  the word “important” properly”
Must be Ebonics infiltrating our pronunciation of every day communication, or maybe it’s just my bad hearing.

The all time bit on this issue is Gallager's - he uses a 4 letter flip chart to show the ridiculousness of the English language 

Bomb
Tomb
Comb
Poem
Hoem? No...
Home
Some
Nome? No...
Numb Really? Some rhymes with Numb? 
Dumb. All of this is really dumb. 

Then there's the old "I" before "e" except when sounding like "a" as in sleigh and in weigh. 
RPM's favorite coffee mug. 


 

Spelling is interesting.  I learned how to spell "their" (I could never remember the correct order of the "e" and the "i") when one of my gradeschool teachers told me that it has "the" in it.  I learned how to consistently spell "vacuum" correctly when I heard someone say to think pronouncomg it using both "u's" ("vac-you-um").
Also, have you ever noticed that "homeowner" has "meow" in it?  Good luck pronouncing that correctly ever again
 

Spelling:  Not long after we moved to CO, I found an ad in the paper for a:  "5000 lb worn wench".  Decided I really didn't need one of THOSE.

Wish you all the best

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RTM - I'm not sure how one could shear a roll pin on this D-shaft arrangement.  I doubt that would occur due to a twisting motion.  
BTW - my 12-year-old R&C MII D-Shaft joints use setscrews.  Have they changed to using roll-pins? 

Nos681 wrote:

If you shear a roll pin on a D shaft connection, you might be in the hospital.

 
I'm sure of it, again just may be over thinking things like I always do.

I am glad your procedure went well.   Keep healing up!

My heart story is a bit different than yours. 

In 2020, I went in the hospital to have kidney stones removed as an outpatient.  To shorten the story a bit, I wound up having a minor heart attack on the operating table.  Afterwards, my heart was racing at times up to 300 beats a minute.   I was moved to what was called icu stepdown, where I was monitored for arrhythmia.   Several different doctors came in over the next couple of days, and they all mentioned the word "pacemaker".   What I come to find out is they were waiting for a certain doctor to come see me, I guess he was out of town or whatnot.  He finally came in on a Saturday morning, looked at my charts, yelled at another doctor in front of me, then told me he had to do an ablation asap.  Wound up being the following morning.   To further shorten this story, the procedure was done, but the problem didn't go away.   It turned out after everything was said and done and all of the pacemaker talk, that I was having a reaction to the medicine I was being given for the kidney stones.   Flomax.    But I went through an ablation procedure and darn near got a pacemaker over medication!