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On 10/4/2024 10:11 PM, 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.
> 
> Lynn

Try this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Carlin#Transatlantic_crossing

In 1950, Ben Carlin and his wife drove a (heavily modified)
amphibious Jeep across the Atlantic. He had to change the
head gasket in mid-ocean.

pt