And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Working around impact wrenches my whole life, that guy's gotta be deaf.
ReplyDeleteI worked in a shipyard. Nice old man, worked as a chipper - he grind off excess material. No hearing protection.
DeleteHey, John, howya doing?
( Looks at watch ) "quarter ta 3"
It is louder on the other side of the rivet
ReplyDeleteThat photo is riveting.
ReplyDeleteya want the ship to sink???
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Couple more should do it.
ReplyDeleteWhatizzit, a boiler?
ReplyDeleteRiveted construction is actually more resistant to failure that welded construction.
ReplyDeleteIf a rivet fails, the structure deforms slightly and the load is taken up by adjacent rivets.
In a welded structure, if a weld fails, the stresses are concentrated at the end of the crack and the crack continues to propagate.