Posted by Goose on March 13, 2018 at 19:07:28 from (166.182.82.214):
In Reply to: Grandpa's Advice posted by FC Andy on March 13, 2018 at 17:57:03:
I guess most of what I learned from my father was how not to do stuff. His repeated motto was, "Let good enough alone". Preventative maintenance was a concept totally alien to him. As long as something was working, he ran it until it quit working.
I don't think he ever replaced a full set of spark plugs in his life. If an engine was misfiring because of a bad spark plug, he figured out which one it was and replaced that one. A few months later, he'd go through the same thing with another plug.
I walked past their car once, and saw an inch long 3/16" stove bolt sticking out of the top. One of the sheet metal screws that held a sun visor had stripped out, and instead of just replacing it with the next size larger, he drilled a hole clear through and put a stove bolt in with the nut on the top outside. And then never even cut the excess off.
And so it went. In retrospect, I think my maternal grandfather influenced my life more than my father ever did, and I saw too little of him. I've thanked the Lord many times that I drew most of my genes from my mother's side of the family.
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