Monday, April 27, 2009
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Phone?
For what? I have an employee that gets a new phone at least once a year and sometimes more often. A phone is to talk on.
I guess it is like people who buy a new car every year, for what, I don't know. Maybe they have too much money? I sure don't understand it. I may get a new phone this year with a PDA in it, but that would be the only reason and I don't have to change PDAs every year either. My PDA is 4-5 years old (I'm not close to it right now to see the date on it when I bought it).
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Twitter?
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Not religious but goes to church? For what?
| Location | Milwaukie, Oregon | Within 100 miles of Milwaukie, Oregon |
| Marital Status | No Answer | Any |
| Living Situation | Alone | Alone, With kids, With roommate(s), Family and friends visit often |
| Has Kids | Yes - but not at home | Any |
| Wants (more) Kids | No | No |
| Religion | Spiritual but not religious | Any |
| Attends Services | Rarely | Any |
| Languages Spoken | English | English |
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Pirates
Really glad Obama gave them the go ahead to take care of it. They need to make that a scorched earth over there for those pirates. Make them open season. After a few hundred are killed they may get the idea the world doesn't think much of pirates.
But... I think the world has too many bleeding hearts that it will never happen. :( We need to start doing that, all over the world. If people start acting like animals, then there should be no problem with killing them. Same with that sunday school teacher, if they find she did in fact rape and kill that little 8 year old girl, put her in the ground within the month.
Why do we warehouse all these bad people? Just kill them.
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Gore and his bs about global warming...
More Scientists Rip Global Warming Hysteria
Amid reports that President Barack Obama's climate plan could cost industry close to $2 trillion, 59 additional scientists skeptical of the threat of manmade global warming have been added to the U.S. Senate Minority Report on climate change.
They bring the total to more than 700 scientists from around the world who have spoken out against the hysteria created by Al Gore and other global warming alarmists, according to a statement issued by the office of Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma, ranking Republican on the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.
The latest Minority Report includes 300 scientists and climate researchers who have been added to the list since the initial report’s release in December 2007.
Many of the 59 additional scientists are affiliated with prestigious institutions including NASA, the U.S. Navy and Air Force, the Defense Department, Energy Department, Princeton University, Tulane University, the U.S. Naval Academy and the EPA.
“Unfortunately, climate science has become political science,” said award-winning Princeton physicist Dr. Robert Austin, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
He told the minority staff on the Committee on March 2: “It is tragic that some perhaps well-meaning but politically motivated scientists who should know better have whipped up a global frenzy about a phenomenon which is statistically questionable at best.”
Dr. Anastasios Tsonis of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee said the global temperature “has flattened and is actually going down. We are seeing a new shift toward cooler temperatures that will last for probably about three decades.”
As Newsmax.com reported, Obama's climate plan could cost industry nearly three times the $646 billion over eight years that the White House initially estimated for the so-called "cap-and-trade" legislation.
The plan seeks to reduce pollution by setting a limit on carbon emissions and allowing businesses and groups to buy allowances, although exact details have not been released.
But Dr. Diane Douglas, a climatologist who has worked for the Department of Energy, declared: “The recent ‘panic’ to control GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions and billions of dollars being dedicated for the task has me deeply concerned that the U.S. and other countries are spending precious global funds to stop global warming, when it is primarily being driven by natural forcing mechanisms.”
Among other comments from scientists included in the report:
“I am appalled at the state of discord in the field of climate science . . . There is no observational evidence that the addition of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions have caused any temperature perturbations in the atmosphere.”
— Award-winning atmospheric scientist Dr. George T. Wolff, a former member of the EPA’s Science Advisory Board who served on a committee of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
“The sky is not burning, and to claim that it is amounts to journalistic malpractice . . . The press only promotes the global warming alarmists and ignores or minimizes those of us who are skeptical.”
— Dr. Mark L. Campbell, a professor of chemistry at the U.S. Naval Academy.
“The cause of these global changes is fundamentally due to the sun and its effect on the Earth as it moves about in its orbit, not from man-made activities.”
— Retired NASA atmospheric scientist Dr. William W. Vaughan, recipient of the NASA Exceptional Service Medal.
Friday, March 20, 2009
And yet another SCAM...
http://wafflesatnoon.com/2009/01/24/scam-alert-part-4-teeth-whitening/
Good reading, lots of people getting sucked in by this scam. Same type of deal as the money from Google scam.
Easy to read blog, from their ABOUT page:
This blog focuses on helping people with a variety of issues, from how to turn on a Zune, to overcoming video game addiction. And in between is the gamut of topics, such as conspiracy theories, the Bible, believers, non-believers, politics, UFO’s, random thoughts, gambling (pro and con!), alcohol (pro and con), addiction, self-help, weight loss, making money… you name it, and it’s here.
And recently the focus has been on exposing internet scams or questionable advertising practices. I’ve been in(sic) the advertising business for 20 years, so I’ve seen it all. I’ve been called as a witness to testify against false advertisers. And most important - I’ve known people who were hurt by online scammers. These cons are greedy and lazy. They try to take a shortcut to profits by simply lying, instead of working hard to make an honest buck.
So get out of bed, get a clue, and have breakfast with the rest of us who are already awake. It’s not too late.
We’re serving waffles today.
And it’s only noon.
Friday, February 13, 2009
More intelligent people contributing to the gene pool...
Some guy bought a new fridge for his house. To get rid of his old fridge, he put it in his front yard and hung a sign on it saying: 'Free to good home. You want it, you take it.' For three days the fridge sat there without even one person looking twice at it. He eventually decided that people were too un-trusting of this deal.
It looked too good to be true, so he changed the sign to read: 'Fridge for sale $50.'
The next day someone stole it!
***They walk amongst us!***
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While looking at a house, my brother asked the estate agent which direction was north because, he explained, he didn't want the sun waking him up every morning. She asked, 'Does the sun rise in the north?' When my brother explained that the sun rises in the east, and has for sometime, she shook her head and said, 'Oh, I don't keep up with that stuff'
***They Walk Among Us!!***
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My colleague and I were eating our lunch in our cafeteria, when we overheard one of the administrative assistants talking about the sunburn she got on her weekend drive to the beach. She drove down in a convertible, but 'didn't think she'd get sunburned because the car was moving'.
***They Walk Among Us!!!!***
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My sister has a lifesaving tool in her car it's designed to cut through a seat belt if she gets trapped in a wreck. She keeps it in the trunk.
***They Walk Among Us!!!!!***
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I was hanging out with a friend when we saw a woman with a nose ring attached to an earring by a chain. My friend said, 'Wouldn't the chain rip out every time she turned her head?' I had to explain that a person's nose and ear remain the same distance apart no matter which way the head is turned...
***They Walk Among Us!!!!!!! ***
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I couldn't find my luggage at the airport baggage area. So I went to the lost luggage office and told the woman there that my bags never showed up. She smiled and told me not to worry because she was a trained professional and I was in good hands. 'Now,' she asked me, 'Has your plane arrived yet?'...
(I work with professionals like this.)
***They Walk Among Us!!!!!!!!***
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While working at a pizza parlour I observed a man ordering a small pizza to go. He appeared to be alone and the cook asked him if he would like it cut into 4 pieces or 6. He thought about it for some time before responding. 'Just cut it into 4 pieces; I don't think I'm hungry enough to eat 6 pieces.
***Yep, They Walk Among Us, too.!!!!!!!!
Sadly, not only do they walk among us, they also reproduce !!!!
Thursday, February 12, 2009
They walk among us...
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Isn't that the truth!
Friday, January 30, 2009
Logic Games are addictive!
My thoughts on his new game that is in Beta right now:
I'm going to forget I know you, Everett! Making such addictive fun.
I said the heck with it and read a "little" bit of the help file. That slowed me down, but makes it easier to play the game, dragging the different colors around and making them fit when you see how they go.
FOUR HOURS AND TWENTY MINUTES to play 8A twice. I am going to hide the CD and hide the programs on the computers and try to forget how you make such addictive FUN and turning it lose on the idiots like me who get hooked by the pretty colors and the thrill of making the logic sells (oops, that's for you, for me it is cells) work.
Flipitile wasn't for me...this one, ah, I think I will probably have to purchase KH, excellent time taker, excellent... EXCELLENT.
And put the following link to his website on my www.KenChevy.com website:
"Looks like a good link, thanks, Ken!"
Well, Everett, I've been playing your games since 1997 (Sherlock was the "hook" that got me started at a friends house there in Albany), and must say, I don't even want to know how many thousands of hours I have enjoyed them. Lifes pleasures don't need to be kept track of, they just need to be enjoyed.
You're doing good, young boy, you're doing good. It is good clean fun, and anything like your games that tax the mind is GOOD for a person. My kids (the poor little babies, still wet behind the ears) haven't ever seemed to enjoy logic type puzzles. I enjoyed figuring things out when I was a kid (still am, a kid that is!) growing up in the 50s and 60s. The boy who comes around the most, the oldest one who will be 40 in a couple months, is the one I talk to about lots of things. He seems to really be lacking in the common sense department sometimes. What else would be the reason he would watch TV instead of playing one of Everett's Logic Games?
I think, from what I see, IQ isn't as important as common sense in getting by in the world and figuring out logic type puzzles such as yours and Kris'. Common sense doesn't seem to be very common anymore. :( Kris Pixton, a fellow follower of Everett's games, also writes Logic Puzzles. You can find her games on her website at http://www.kpixgames.com/ Kris has free trials of her games too.
Both write wonderful time taking logic games. Click the links, enjoy life!
I am looking for another employee and I think one of my requirements should probably be the fact they enjoy playing logic type games. My oldest employee freaks when a customer brings something in all tore apart that they want fixed and put back together. All it takes is a mind that enjoys logic. Go/no go, such a simple rule.
KH is a simple game (that's why I hear the error sound so much!) that draws me into going faster and faster, thus the errors.(yeah, yeah, yeah, excuses, excuses! LOGIC tells me going too fast makes me have errors, somehow, I just don't listen) And playing hour after hour...as the bookwork doesn't get done. I have to find someone to do some filing for me, a few hundred hours worth, ALL because of YOUR games, Everett!!! that is hasn't been done yet. Bought another file cabinet at Costco and it was delivered today, so I have to put your games aside for a little while and find someone who can use some money more than I want to save the money by doing the filing myself.
See how dangerous your games are, Everett? Need a different bumper sticker than the EAT/FISH/SLEEP. Need a new one that says: EAT/PLAY E-K GAMES/TRY TO GET A FEW MINUTES SLEEP ONCE IN A WHILE.
Good, writing this has kept me away from KH for 10 minutes and now I have to FORCE myself to go to the other end of the house, stopping at the kitchen to get something to eat for dinner and then on into the office to work on the books some more... before I ever think about playing KH again tonight.
I can't be remembering I have it on the computers that are in the office too... no, no, no, Ken. Work, work, work for a while, play later. :)
Thanks for a great game, Everett!
Ken
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Lost over $200,000.00 in wages in 19 years of work.
One million dollars in 19 years is $52,631.58 every year.
So her wages were only (on an average) $42,105.26 for every one of those 19 years.
Why don't they write articles about MOST of the working people who only make $20-$25,000.00 a year?
Now what is going to happen is fewer women will get management positions since the companies are going to be paying what they could hire a man for, they will hire a man for the job.
Hummm, I wonder how even the pay is in women owned companies right now? That would be an interesting datum! Wonder how many multimillion dollar companies owned by women have equal pay for equal work right now?
Anybody comment?
Obama signs bill making equal-pay lawsuits easier
By PHILIP ELLIOTT, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama signed an equal-pay bill into law Thursday before cheering labor and women leaders who fought hard for it and the woman whose history-making lawsuit gave impetus to the cause.
Obama, choosing the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act as the first bill to sign as president, called it a "wonderful day" and declared that ending pay disparities between men and woman an issue not just for women, but for all workers.
With Ledbetter standing by his side, Obama said she lost more than $200,000 in salary, and even more in pension and Social Security benefits that she "still feels today." He then signed the measure that effectively nullifies a 2007 Supreme Court decision and makes it easier for workers to sue for discrimination by allowing them more time to do so.
"Making our economy work means making sure it works for everyone," Obama said. "That there are no second-class citizens in our workplaces, and that it's not just unfair and illegal — but bad for business — to pay someone less because of their gender, age, race, ethnicity, religion or disability."
Ledbetter said she didn't become aware of the large discrepancy in her pay until she neared the end of her 19-year career at a Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. plant in Gadsden, Ala, and she filed a lawsuit. But the high court held in a 5-4 decision that she missed her chance to bring the action.
First lady Michelle Obama, in a separate reception with Ledbetter in the State Dining Room, praised her courage and principles. "She knew unfairness when she saw it, and was willing to do something about it because it was the right thing to do — plain and simple," Mrs. Obama said.
Ledbetter said the richest reward is that because of the new law, the nation's daughters and granddaughters will have a better deal.
"That's what makes this fight worth fighting," Ledbetter said. "That's what made this fight one we had to win."
Earlier, the president appeared in a jammed East Room, and his entrance and many lines of his brief remarks were met with happy applause and yells.
He paid special tribute to Ledbetter, who fought for the bill even though it won't allow her to recover any money for herself.
And in the room were the living symbols of this fight: Nancy Pelosi, first woman speaker of the House, and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who took her pursuit of the presidency further than any other woman, even though she ultimately lost to Obama in the Democratic primary.
Of Ledbetter, Obama exclaimed: "This grandmother from Alabama kept on fighting, because she was thinking about the next generation."
Ledbetter became a regular feature in Obama's campaign for the White House, addressing the Democratic National Convention in Denver last year and traveling to Washington aboard Obama's train for the inauguration ceremonies. Obama spoke strongly in support of legislation to change the Supreme Court decision during his campaign and the Democratic-controlled Congress moved it to the top of the agenda for the new session that opened this month.
The high court said a person must file a claim of discrimination within 180 days of a company's initial decision to pay a worker less than it pays another worker doing the same job. Under the new bill, given final passage in Congress this week, every new discriminatory paycheck would extend the statute of limitations for another 180 days.
Congress attempted to update the law to extend the time, but the Bush White House and Senate Republicans blocked the legislation in the last session of Congress
Obama cited Census Bureau figures that women still receive only about 78 cents for every dollar that men get for doing equivalent jobs — "women of color even less," he said.
The measure, which amends the 1964 Civil Rights Act, also applies to discrimination based on factors such as race, religion, national origin, disability or age.
Sunday, January 11, 2009
I just love those car insurance ads!
WOW, $539.30 for 6 months of coverage. I think I will stick with State Farm. For the SAME amount of coverage State Farm charges me $405.90... for the WHOLE year. That's right: $202.95 for SIX months.
$100,000/300,000
$100 deductible Comprehensive
$500 deductible Collision
2002 S-10 4x4 Extended cab - loaded.
One time I called Costco since they are always saying how much I can save. I talked to a woman there and we discussed it and she said with all of the discounts and the very best driving record and everything, that the best she could do was within a dollar of so of what I am paying now.
So, the question is: Why are people paying so much for car insurance that they can save HUNDREDS of dollars by switching to one of these other companies?
Don't you feel bad, paying 2 or 3 times what you should be able to get insurance for? Ah, maybe you are just rich and don't care. That must be it.
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Thursday, January 08, 2009
A worker brings carts back into a Walmart store in Westminster, Colorado in this August 14, 2008 file photograph. (Rick Wilking/Reuters)
We can see the employee is NOT in the store, that he is TAKING the carts back to the store. Are people really so stupid they don't know the difference between "bring" and "take"?
"Bring" things TO ME.
"Take" things TO SOMEWHERE ELSE.
Go and take go together.
Come and bring go together.
If we are at home, talking about you going to the store, a correct conversation would be:
Honey, TAKE the car to Wal-Mart and remember to TAKE enough money. BRING me back some Fugi apples if they are on sale. TAKE some to Sally too, if you drive by her house on the way home. Suzi said she wanted us to BRING her some cat food the next time we went to the store, so don't forget to TAKE some cat food to her.
The bank wanted us to BRING in our copy of the contract for the car, so don't forget to TAKE that with you too.
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Looking at photos I see one of the inhaler I had just bought at my local Bi-Mart pharmacy in Salem here. But I paid $19.00 using my insurance. And I see:
Environmentally-friendly HFA asthma rescue inhalers hit shelves this week to replace CFC-based inhalers, which will not be available after Dec. 31 per an FDA mandate. Walmart's HFA rescue inhalers start at $9.
(PRNewsFoto/Wal-Mart Stores, Inc)I will have to check that out. Always someway us poor people are paying too much, it seems. I don't know if the box he is holding is the $9 one or not. It IS showing a box like the one I bought for $19. I'll have to TAKE that up with them the next time I go to the pharmacy, can't forget to BRING it to their attention.
Wednesday, January 07, 2009
Recession time...
Tuesday, January 06, 2009
Where I stand on issues...
Go register and give YOUR opinions on how messed up the world is and what should be done.
Sunday, January 04, 2009
What a stoopid quiz to take.
Your Score Summary
Overall, you scored as follows:
99% scored higher (more stupid),
1% scored the same, and
0% scored lower (less stupid).
You are 0% stupid. This means...
You use your mind a lot, you find the world interesting. You must meet a lot of stupid people. Doesn't that get boring? Wow! Maybe you should take a stupid pill so you could fit in with most of the other test takers!
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At least 99% scored higher than I did. Yahoo!
Has lots of easy questions like:
What is the total of 1-19? Well, that is really simple, just add a zero and get the answer of 190. Or 1-199 would be add 2 zero's and get 19,900 as the answer. Smaller than 1-30=?? questions are easy to do in your head. Don't know how to do them in your head? Ask me how I do them in my head.
Or how many states of the 48 US states border the Pacific Ocean? Three of course.
They don't ask you to name the fourteen states that border the Atlantic Ocean.
Or things like:is the top color of a rainbow red? Yes.
Click the Icon, take the test. It is a fun little test. Only takes a couple minutes to take it. The questions will make you smile, they are so simple.
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Something called Google Alerts
I use Google Alerts to show if anything new is happening on the www with different people things and one of them is for Ani, to see if she has updated her website and put some more photos on it. She told me she was, but no luck so far. I think Tracy is keeping her too busy, she has been complaining about that. She has to work for a change, not play all the time like she did when we were married for 6 and a half years.
<- a photo of Ani. Anyway, one popped up in the mail box that said:
Google Blogs Alert for: Ani Chevy
| Greatest Story Ever Told: Corvette Skittles By Erica Pionke Now, the old Chevy dealership appears to be a Lexus dealership. The lot holds uniform row after uniform row of the rear end of the same exact SUVs, some in varying shades of gray. There is not a red car, or a yellow car, or even a white ... Greatest Story Ever Told - http://ericapionke.blogspot.com/ |
This as-it-happens Google Alert is brought to you by Google.
It being 0400 in the morning and me not being able to sleep from the pain, I clicked on the Greatest Story Ever Told - http://ericapionke.blogspot.com/ link and read Erica's story about growing up and falling in love with the concept of owning one of Americas only sports cars - a Corvette! Cruising through those two s-curves, checking out all the different colors of cars at the Chevy dealership, thinking of what wonderful feelings would be possible if her car were a Corvette.
She says she now is driving a Chevy Cavalier, a teal green one and that she calls it "The Crapalier". That is sad because no matter what car we drive, it is one of the most important things in our life for most of us. It is the way we get to work, to the store, the grocery store most of the time, but once in a while we have enough money to go to a "toy" store and buy a new "toy", whatever that may be for us. Everything from a new movie to watch to a camera to a gun or woodworking tool or welder or printer or computer or book to read or a dog or cat or even a Corvette.
When I was Erica's age I owned a 1963 Split Window Corvette Stingray. The '63 was the 1st Corvette Stingray. It was the Fuel Injected model. White with blue interior. That was sure a fun car to drive and the girls seemed to like it a lot. I too, noticed how a Corvette was different than other cars. You pick up a girl for a date in a 1961 Chevy 4 door with rust spots on it and she would sit clear over against the door until you got to the movie and it was the same on taking her home. And if you were lucky, you would get to kiss her cheek. But a few months later, picking her up in the Vette... it was a whole different story. A lot of complaining about the stupid console being in the way so she couldn't sit close enough to me and was it okay if she rested her hand on my leg and was I sure I wanted to go to the movie? Why not just go to my place and we could figure out something to do there. Yes, Corvettes are pretty cool the way some girls relate to them. Guess I should ask Erica if it works that way for girls with guys when she is driving a Corvette.
Yikes, it is after 0600 and time to think about work today. I have to make up some signs to put on the door that the shop will be closed thursday - sunday for New Years so my employees can have a nice weekend. I did that for them for Christmas too, besides giving them each a 28 inch monitor for their computers for Christmas. Just part of my thanking them for being great employees.
Did any of you get a 28 inch monitor for your computer system? I have an extra one here for my girlfriend still sealed in the box... but, alas, no girlfriend. I'm going to have to work on that!
Have a great New Year everyone!
...and thanks Erica, for stirring my memories up of when I was your age, driving around in my white Corvette.
Sunday, December 28, 2008
The joys of holidays
Read an article and watched a video the other day, some scientists talking about how we are dumbing down the USA. (producing more lower IQ people than normal, a greater amount of them each year) I guess we seen a good example of that in the last election. Just where DO they get the people who run for an office like POTUS? There have to be better choices than we voted on!
I guess we will see what happens the first few months of 2009, see if we start coming out of this terrible recession we are in.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Forums and what is an automotive machine shop?
I'm not good at programming websites, so our shop website basically gives the types of work we do and as I study how to do a better website, I will be doing that...I like a nice looking website, but I don't know how to make one yet. Always something new to learn how to do!
My machine shop: The Machine Shop showing some of the types of work we can do for you or your mechanic.
Most have heard of mechanics, some of you reading this may even be mechanics. Mechanics are the people you take your car or pickup (or truck too) to, to have it worked on if it isn't running/operating the way it should be. Maybe it is something simple like needing new tires or brakes (although brakes aren't "simple", they are one of the most important parts of our vehicle), so we head down to the tire store to get new tires put on by the mechanics there or to our favorite repair shop to have them install new brake parts so our car/pickup stops like it used to stop when it was new.
While they have it taken apart, they (if they don't own the equipment, which costs thousands of dollars for each different machine) take the parts that need machining down to their favorite local machine shop. In this case, if they (or you) were doing (rebuilding) the brakes, the drums and rotors probably need re-machined so they are true and parallel so when you apply the brakes the brake pedal doesn't pulse (go up and down rapidly) and cause the who car/pickup/vehicle to shake when stopping. That means the drums or rotors are warped. If they are warped too much, then they need to be replaced. There are specifications telling how much can be machined from them to bring them back into factory specifications. The machine shop will have books listing those numbers. So, when you take them into the machine shop and lay them on the counter, probably the first thing the machinist will do is measure the part to see if it is thick enough to be machined to bring it back into specs. If the part isn't, then you will have to get others from the wrecking yard (which will then have to be machined) or news from the machine shop or an auto parts store.
Many times, our customers have the new ones they buy machined by us before installing them on their vehicle. They have found out from previous experience that there is a certain percentage of the parts will become warped from having been stored incorrectly. It is a lot of work to install parts (new or otherwise) and go for a test drive and find out the vehicle shakes worse than when the customer brought it in.
Maybe there was a rumbling noise you were hearing which was being caused by a wheel bearing going bad. In that case, you would remove the axle and take it to the machine shop where they would install a new bearing on it, if it were still serviceable. Sometimes the bearing inner race will spin on the axle, ruining it. Then time for the wrecking yard or dealer again to get another, good and or new one. The new one from the dealer probably will not have anything on it, no bearings, no studs or anything and the machine shop will have to put all the new pieces together that you buy for it. Bearings, 99% of the time, are not reusable and have to be replaced.
What if you overheat your engine and blow a head gasket? What is involved in making sure the head is reusable and machinable? Our machine shop can use pressure checking, used for checking aluminum heads, blocks and other pieces, the parts are submerged under a water mixture and air applied to the part, then we look for bubbles which shows we have a crack or pinhole that needs repaired, magnetic particle inspection (manafluxing ferrous metals like cast iron and steel) and dye penetrant as another way of checking for cracks.
The first thing done is to measure the head and make sure it is usable (thick enough) and making sure it isn't warped too much. This is really critical for overhead cam heads. If it is good so far, then into the washer (like a big dish washer) with it to get it cleaned up so we can pressure check it or magnaflux it, looking for cracks or other problems.
Ken
To be continued...
