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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Request for a recommendation.
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2024 21:11:35 -0500
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On 10/2/2024 1:46 PM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
> In article <vdk2tj$t76$1@panix2.panix.com>,
> Scott Dorsey <kludge@panix.com> wrote:
>> William Hyde  <wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I am looking for a book which will interest a 12 year old kid who is
>>> fascinated by things mechanical.
>>
>> A fiction book or nonfiction?
>>
>> When I was... younger than 12, might have been about seven... I got my
>> father to buy me the Chilton's engine rebuilding annual.  I still have
>> it.  I spent months poring over it.
>> --scott
> 
> L. Sprague deCamp actually wrote a non-fiction book about engines.
> 
> Huh, it's actually called _Engines_:
> 
> 	https://www.amazon.com/Engines-L-Sprague-Camp/dp/B0006BZMX8

That is a wild picture.  I can tell you from experience, working on a 
outboard engine in the middle of a lake or river is not fun when you 
drop whatever you were working on in the drink.  In my case, it was the 
propeller after we ran over a log and broke the prop key.  One should 
always have a spare prop and several keys on board.

Lynn