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From: William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Request for a recommendation.
Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2024 14:07:11 -0400
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Lynn McGuire wrote:
> 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.

I had a similar experience but without the log (why it broke I do not know).

It's amazing how long it takes to  move a 10 foot boat a mile with only 
one paddle.  If there had been any kind of current the other way I'd 
still be out there.

I could have swum back faster.

I never went out again without checking the spares, even if I absolutely 
knew they were there.


William Hyde