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Started by Rick , Feb 20 2014 01:25 AM

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Posted 20 February 2014 - 05:44 PM

#3 is where I thought where you were coming from...


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Posted 21 February 2014 - 01:11 AM

The answer to: What does it all mean?... :)


Something similar to this was discussed in a book I read once. I belive the answer was... 42.
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Posted 21 February 2014 - 09:09 AM

The stray neighborhood dog had one after I fed him spinach laced with ghost peppers. It was like a green "Burning Bush"!
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Posted 21 February 2014 - 10:13 AM

John, if you did that to my dog, I'd shovel it into a brown paper bag, put it on your porch, light it on fire, and ring your doorbell. :D
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Posted 23 February 2014 - 11:50 AM

I feel an epiphany coming on...

 

Mine came last night!


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Posted 23 February 2014 - 12:25 PM

The stray neighborhood dog had one after I fed him spinach laced with ghost peppers. It was like a green "Burning Bush"!

 
Oh, the Commandments we would read. Can you just imagine?
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Posted 23 February 2014 - 12:37 PM

Epiphany... wasn't she that teenaged "pop" singer back in the '80s?


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Posted 23 February 2014 - 02:28 PM

Mine came last night!


Was it putting your Puppy Dog motor program up for sale... LOL.
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Posted 23 February 2014 - 04:09 PM

Ding, ding, ding! We have a winner!
 
You have won five PD motors that were not listed for sale, because half the seal fell off.
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Posted 23 February 2014 - 04:12 PM

It was a good guess...
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Posted 23 February 2014 - 06:47 PM

We all thought the same thing.

Since this thread has no topic, what do I do with the one Puppy Dog I have with no seal?
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Posted 23 February 2014 - 07:03 PM

David,

Send it to Fast Ones. As long as everything is kosher, it will get the "Seal of Approval". At least this is what I've been told.
 
I'm holding on to my PDs. Unless something comes to me in the middle of the night. :laugh2:
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Posted 23 February 2014 - 07:57 PM

Oh, the Commandments we would read. Can you just imagine.


Take me to your reader. :shok:
 

Epiphany... wasn't she that teen aged "pop" singer back in the '80s?


Gesundheit... :king:  :angel:
 

Ding, ding, ding! We have a winner!
 
You have won five PD motors that were not listed for sale, because half the seal fell off.


... sounds there is still enough to make two.  :dash2:
 

We all thought the same thing.

Since this thread has no topic, what do I do with the one Puppy Dog I have with no seal?


You just had to get into it. :diablo:
Depending on the age of your puppy it can be trained to play Frisbee with a Seal.
 

Send it to Fast Ones. As long as everything is kosher, it will get the "Seal of Approval". At least this is what I've been told.
 
I'm holding on to my PDs. Unless something comes to me in the middle of the night. :laugh2:


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Posted 24 February 2014 - 09:13 AM

According to the rules any motor without a seal CANNOT be used in Retro by virtue of the fact that no refurbishing facility should accept any motors without seals on them.

When the rules were admittedly being broken and racers were allowed to send their "racer reconstructed" (instead of blueprinted) motors to the refurbishing facility for inspection and seals, I'm sure some racers, myself included, thought there would be a grace period. There wasn't at least not one that was clearly announced.

So now many of us have several $50+ motors that can't be used in the classes they were bought for. Now that's an epiphany.
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Posted 24 February 2014 - 10:20 AM

Use 'em for practice and save your legal motors.


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Posted 24 February 2014 - 07:27 PM

And all this time, I thought you got one of those by sitting on a whoopie cushion without your shorts on.


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Posted 24 February 2014 - 07:43 PM

According to the rules any motor without a seal CANNOT be used in Retro by virtue of the fact that no refurbishing facility should accept any motors without seals on them.

When the rules were admittedly being broken and racers were allowed to send their "racer reconstructed" (instead of blueprinted) motors to the refurbishing facility for inspection and seals, I'm sure some racers, myself included, thought there would be a grace period. There wasn't at least not one that was clearly announced.

So now many of us have several $50+ motors that can't be used in the classes they were bought for. Now that's an epiphany.

 

Those owner refurbed and resealed motors are still out there and being used at almost every race. They will be their until the comms can't be cut any more or the seal falls off. The last the owners of the motors will not let happen. The people that did the resealing know who these people are and they should call them out on using those motors. 


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Posted 25 February 2014 - 10:00 AM

That will never happen, Greg, mainly because it would reveal some very big names whose credibility would be damaged and we can't have that in Retro.

 

After all according to Sam in post #37 we could just send our "racer reconstructed" motors to FastOnes and they will be sealed as long as "everything is kosher".

 

So maybe nothing has changed after all.


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Posted 25 February 2014 - 10:16 AM

Fred...

Now that is a slippery slope. The big dogs make it to the top.
 
Cliff...
Seals can fall off.


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Posted 26 February 2014 - 09:22 AM

I heard some info that Koford will introduce Retro crown gears.
 

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Posted 26 February 2014 - 09:32 AM

Yep, check The Parts Counter.


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Posted 26 February 2014 - 09:36 AM

Well, Rick, you never did tell us, did your epiphany happen or was it just gas?  :)


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Posted 26 February 2014 - 09:51 AM

FWIW, mine did!


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