Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-4.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2025 03:29:46 +0000 Subject: Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy References: <1126njll2vjtnlvjhrtme7k7oe3cds496q@4ax.com> <4rm7nj5bp7p6t1uojs6f6sc64netbf1qot@4ax.com> <94kbnjd3ogg051ghlbhj67ds8kf3eorm5a@4ax.com> From: "186282@ud0s4.net" <186283@ud0s4.net> Organization: wokiesux Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2025 22:29:13 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.13.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Lines: 32 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 99.101.150.97 X-Trace: sv3-ZgWjJM7FbViOI6nZeZupY3qYCBHG26/HtUgs00t3VlMRwhR5ZbasbKrklmvo4NatP4gnU/NfmvrWf5X!/F+vTXUxDHnHrOTq5K4M4VhRKbdvy57Zxk96Kvp0rsmEOgB7CgH90/MMO89GjCCz9cT7dIrUdCWc!BA1PcXh02L4ozBdnJsKW X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 3346 On 1/3/25 3:34 AM, rbowman wrote: > On Fri, 3 Jan 2025 00:49:59 -0500, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote: > >> Find an old International Harvester truck ... SOLID steel all >> through. Parts may be tricky though ... > > My '86 F-150 is reasonably solid. I was sitting in it reading in a parking > lot when a woman trying to park backed into it. I didn't even bother to > get out to see if she'd done any damage. That was the front bumper. If > she'd backed into the step,n,tow bumper on the rear her problems might > have been greater. I knew a guy who made bumpers out of two large wooden utility poles he'd cut to size and shape. Older Chevy 3500 series. Looked 'rugged', kinda 'back-country'. Damned things were a good 8" thick and about 12" tall. No little old lady was gonna so much as dent them in a parking-lot oopsie. There was one local outfit that had a mid 50s IH truck, converted kinda as a tow. The gearing was low, lower and REALLY low. SAW it split a large tractor in half once trying to pull it out of a canal. Real "American Iron". Hmmmm ... older vehicles and parts ... it comes to mind that NOW a lot of those parts might be re-created on demand using 3-D metal printing with just minimal finishing after. Could make a biz out of that .... how much would someone with a nice '33 Packard pay for a new piston or ring set or bearing ??? Just need the orig specs.