Rounded off drain plug

[fried1765]

Nice. I love those old Fords and am still toying with the idea of bringing my father's old gas 4400 (industrial) home. My brother keeps saying that we should sell it; running, we'd be lucky to get $4000 out of it. In current condition, it hasn't even been started in 4 years we'd be lucky to get a grand for it.
Either way it's worth more than that to keep around for the occasional use when I need a bigger tractor; maybe I'll put the cab on and keep it for plowing.

Keep the 4000 !!!
My 3400 TLB is 49 years old ....and I will NEVER part with it!

 

[k0ua]

Digital gauges and digital calipers especially ones that see infrequent use are always dead when you need them.

Thats the problem I have with my digital calipers. I like the digital feature, but this set stays in the Ham Shack and see infrequent use. Every time I need them the battery is dead. I have gotten to the point of just taking the battery out. My dial calipers never let me down.

 

[Xfaxman]

Digital gauges and digital calipers especially ones that see infrequent use are always dead when you need them.

Thats the problem I have with my digital calipers. I like the digital feature, but this set stays in the Ham Shack and see infrequent use. Every time I need them the battery is dead. I have gotten to the point of just taking the battery out. My dial calipers never let me down.

Don't have digital, don't have dial, do have vernier calipers that are older than old, but never let me down if I can find them. So far they have always been in the last place that I looked.

 

[mred2]

And if you found them in the first place you looked, it would have been the last place. Unless you just like to look.

I can't believe that I am still reading this everyday!

 

[Fuddy1952]

Leave the rounded drain plug in then suck the old fluid out from the filler plug with a pump and hose.
This ought to be good for another 500 replies, especially if the filler gets stripped out also.

 

[4570Man]

At least you didn’t pull the drain plug out and then realize the fill plug was stuck.

 

[Kando]

Don't have digital, don't have dial, do have vernier calipers that are older than old, but never let me down if I can find them. So far they have always been in the last place that I looked.

I now have vernier calipers showing on the ads haha

 

[newbury]

Leave the rounded drain plug in then suck the old fluid out from the filler plug with a pump and hose.
This ought to be good for another 500 replies, especially if the filler gets stripped out also.

Good idea, just like it was almost 1,000 posts ago.

I know a lot of people use mityvacs for engine oil and transmission oil change. Could that work here to get the old fluid out?

I've used my little HF $5 hand pump to take a half quart out of my VW when they vastly overfilled it.

 

[k0ua]

Don't have digital, don't have dial, do have vernier calipers that are older than old, but never let me down if I can find them. So far they have always been in the last place that I looked.

get a dial caliper, and you will toss those verniers in the weeds. (no need to interpolate) The digital is even easier to use, but expect to buy some batteries. Or remember to pull the battery when you are done using it if you aren't going to use it again in months.

Another advantage to the digital is both metric and imperial measurements at the push of a button. Also you can 'zero" on a measurement and tell how much bigger one object is over another without resorting to calculating it out. The tool will do the calculating for you. AND they are cheap.

https://www.amazon.com/VINCA-DCLA-0...ormat=strip&impressionTimestamp=1544634009329

 

[bcp]

Digital calipers are always measuring. Only the display turn off.

Bruce

 

[k0ua]

I now have vernier calipers showing on the ads haha

Those ad algorithms are pretty smart huh?

 

[California]

Those ad algorithms are pretty smart huh?

Google knows all. Scary, huh?

 

[Xfaxman]

Don't have digital, don't have dial, do have vernier calipers that are older than old, but never let me down if I can find them. So far they have always been in the last place that I looked.

get a dial caliper, and you will toss those verniers in the weeds. (no need to interpolate) The digital is even easier to use, but expect to buy some batteries. Or remember to pull the battery when you are done using it if you aren't going to use it again in months.

Another advantage to the digital is both metric and imperial measurements at the push of a button. Also you can 'zero" on a measurement and tell how much bigger one object is over another without resorting to calculating it out. The tool will do the calculating for you. AND they are cheap.

https://www.amazon.com/VINCA-DCLA-0...ormat=strip&impressionTimestamp=1544634009329

Thanks. I haven't tried a dial caliper, may check them out.

Don't like the tenths of an inch, too used to sixteenths and the fraction readout of 45/128ths is not useful to me. I know how to read 128ths on my vernier, but 64ths is usually as precise as I need.

I can also see metric and inch at the same time and I do that a lot.

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[Big Barn]

Thanks. I haven't tried a dial caliper, may check them out.

Don't like the tenths of an inch, too used to sixteenths and the fraction readout of 45/128ths is not useful to me. I know how to read 128ths on my vernier, but 64ths is usually as precise as I need.

I can also see metric and inch at the same time and I do that a lot.

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I too like the digital for switching back and forth between inches and metric. Real handy switching it to metric for quick calculations such as dividing by half or????

 

[Jstpssng]

You guys really are going for 2000!!!

 

[k0ua]

Thanks. I haven't tried a dial caliper, may check them out.

Don't like the tenths of an inch, too used to sixteenths and the fraction readout of 45/128ths is not useful to me. I know how to read 128ths on my vernier, but 64ths is usually as precise as I need.

I can also see metric and inch at the same time and I do that a lot.

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As cheap as they are, you can afford to get a digital AND a dial caliper. I inherited a couple of verniers, and I don't think much of them. Too much work to figure out where you are.

OH, and 45/128 would just be 22.5 64ths right? or 11.25 32ths. If you want to think of it that way.. Fractions are pretty inprecise way of measuring things. In other words the instrument is capable of so much more accuracy than measuring things in 64ths.

 

[k0ua]

You guys really are going for 2000!!!

Oh, heck, we are already well on the way!

 

[k0ua]

Oh, hey, I know what you can use those verniers for: YOU CAN USE THEM TO UNSCREW THAT STUCK DRAIN PLUG!:shocked:

:laughing:

 

[mred2]

Anyone have a venier that a cheater bar will fit on?

 

[pmsmechanic]

Anyone have a venier that a cheater bar will fit on?

Sometimes I think why even bother with this thread. It doesn 't seem like there is any progress. And then there is a post like this that makes me laugh. Some of you guys have a really neat sense of humor.