Re: Request for a recommendation.

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:

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I am looking for a book which will interest a 12 year old kid who is
fascinated by things mechanical.

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A fiction book or nonfiction?
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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

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L. Sprague deCamp actually wrote a non-fiction book about engines.
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Huh, it's actually called _Engines_:
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    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