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1. Re: Silly part name (score: 1): Author: TATERRY@aol.com; Date: Mon, 2 Oct 1995 00:39:22 -0400; A squab is of course a young pigeon per my Dictionary but Mr. Twist agrees with me that is is also the seat back....now do you think that pigeons live in the "wheelhouse" or is that another Silly Par; /html/mgs/1995-10/msg00007.html (7,625 bytes)
2. Re: Silly part name (score: 1): Author: Chip Old <fold@mail.bcpl.lib.md.us>; Date: Mon, 2 Oct 1995 03:33:15 -0400 (EDT); The "squab" is the seat bottom, not the seat back. If you dig around in contemporary articles on BritCars of the 1930's, you'll find references to "inflatable seat squabs", referring to a seat const; /html/mgs/1995-10/msg00008.html (8,350 bytes)
3. Re: Silly part name (score: 1): Author: TATERRY@aol.com; Date: Tue, 3 Oct 1995 00:13:11 -0400; Not to pick a bone with my learned friend Chip but I quote from my SA manual reprinted in 1944: page 93, Rear Arm Rest.--This folds back into the rear seat squab. It is pulled down into position by t; /html/mgs/1995-10/msg00029.html (8,601 bytes)
4. Re: Silly part name (score: 1): Author: Chip Old <fold@mail.bcpl.lib.md.us>; Date: Tue, 3 Oct 1995 00:30:27 -0400 (EDT); OK, I stand corrected. Maybe that's why I always found the driving position in my BritCars to be so awkward... -- Chip Old 1948 M.G. TC TC6710 NEMGTR #2271 Cub Hill, Maryland 1962 Triumph TR4 CT3154; /html/mgs/1995-10/msg00031.html (8,045 bytes)
5. Re: Silly part name (score: 1): Author: Dave Etherington <detherin@gold.interlog.com>; Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 00:45:54 -0400; I may be wrong, but isn't "draught excluder" the old side curtain days term for the vent window, or, as they were once referred to in North America, "no draft" windows? Dave Etherington detherin@int; /html/mgs/1995-10/msg00074.html (7,520 bytes)
6. Re: Silly part name (score: 1): Author: Alan Brooke <alban@psdb-tb.demon.co.uk>; Date: Tue, 3 Oct 1995 14:23:24 +0100; Easy, that's for when you want to sink your car, or is it for putting the coal in? I always thought Fenders were guitars! Al; /html/mgs/1995-10/msg00079.html (7,257 bytes)
7. Re: Silly part name (score: 1): Author: "W. Ray Gibbons" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>; Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 13:02:07 -0400 (EDT); Terry asked: And Dave Etherington responded: term I think a draught excluder is a door seal--the sort of thing that has a finished plastic or fuzzy surface that covers the raw metal around the door o; /html/mgs/1995-10/msg00095.html (8,451 bytes)
8. Re: Silly part name (score: 1): Author: "W. B. Olson" <WBOLSON@cherokee.astate.edu>; Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 13:40:49 CST; Nope. It's the rope around the door jam that doesn't exclude the draught. Nor does it exclude the peanut butter that enters the jam if you drive through a field of freshly plowed goobers.; /html/mgs/1995-10/msg00106.html (8,181 bytes)
9. Re: Silly part name (score: 1): Author: Dave Etherington <detherin@gold.interlog.com>; Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 23:36:24 -0400; I think you're probably correct, Ray. I know I have seen the reference somewhere, but I just can't recall where. And I promise I will never ask anyone about "nearside/offside" again. Dave Etheringto; /html/mgs/1995-10/msg00117.html (8,821 bytes)
10. Silly part name (score: 1): Author: thorpe@kegs.saic.com (Denise Thorpe); Date: Wed, 27 Sep 95 17:42:48 PDT; How about Zdus (not a typo) bolts? And "wrist pin" I can understand, but "gudgeon?" Denise Thorpe thorpe@kegs.saic.com; /html/mgs/1995-09/msg00673.html (7,579 bytes)
11. Re: Silly part name (score: 1): Author: wzehring@cmb.biosci.wayne.edu (Will Zehring); Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 07:37:07 +0500; Personally, I'ved always had a weakness for "distance piece." Will Zehring p.s. are you sure it isn't spelled d-z-u-s?; /html/mgs/1995-09/msg00679.html (7,909 bytes)
12. RE: Silly part name (score: 1): Author: "J. Michael Roach" <mroach@socketis.net>; Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 08:15:14 -0500; For the benefit of people (like me) who don't always know what these parts are for, perhaps we should mandate that any nomination include a physical description of the part, as well as a description; /html/mgs/1995-09/msg00681.html (8,360 bytes)
13. Re: Silly part name (score: 1): Author: "A. B. Bonds" <ab@vuse.vanderbilt.edu>; Date: 28 Sep 1995 08:46:23 -0500; I know from Dzus fasteners (like the ones in the lid over the battery compartment in the B), but not Zdus....... A. B. Bonds And don't forget the squab, goes well with gudgeon and plum sauce.; /html/mgs/1995-09/msg00685.html (8,141 bytes)
14. Re: Silly part name (score: 1): Author: Andrew Mace <amace@unix2.nysed.gov>; Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 11:01:39 -0900 (PDT); While not really a part, I've always wondered a bit about my engine achieving a steady "tickover" before doing whatever it is you're going to attempt to do.... * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *; /html/mgs/1995-09/msg00687.html (9,627 bytes)
15. RE: Silly part name (score: 1): Author: thorpe@kegs.saic.com (Denise Thorpe); Date: Thu, 28 Sep 95 09:14:14 PDT; Okay, it _was_ a typo (or lapse in memory), but what the heck is a "distance piece?" Denidze Thorpe thorpe@kegs.saic.com; /html/mgs/1995-09/msg00688.html (8,843 bytes)
16. Re: Silly part name (score: 1): Author: "W. Ray Gibbons" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>; Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 12:33:50 -0400 (EDT); I kind of like trunnions, myself. I have the very strong impression that the engineers got together and said, "Well look. Here's a dozen parts on the car that got no name. Oh, hell, call them all tr; /html/mgs/1995-09/msg00689.html (8,581 bytes)
17. Re: Silly part name (score: 1): Author: seanp@uvaix3e1.comp.UVic.CA (Sean Pendergast); Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 09:38:30 -0800; subscibe mgs; /html/mgs/1995-09/msg00690.html (8,118 bytes)
18. RE: Silly part name (score: 1): Author: wzehring@cmb.biosci.wayne.edu (Will Zehring); Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 12:39:50 +0500; Well, that's simple... a distance piece is a piece that fills in the distance between two other pieces. I thought everyone knew that! :-) It seems to me that you might also call a distance piece a gi; /html/mgs/1995-09/msg00691.html (8,073 bytes)
19. RE: Silly part name (score: 1): Author: seanp@uvaix3e1.comp.UVic.CA (Sean Pendergast); Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 09:42:18 -0800; I'm fromVitroia BC and I recently saw a latter MGB with what looked like a targa top. Well the top wasn't actually on but the rear window was up. I've been told that TR5's had them as well. Is there; /html/mgs/1995-09/msg00692.html (8,509 bytes)
20. RE: Silly part name (score: 1): Author: "John M. Trindle" <jtrindle@tsquare.com>; Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 13:01:55 -0400 (EDT); There's a couple in the brake and clutch pedal linkage. I'd call it a "spacer" rather than giant shim or washer. How about "gland nut" (ouch)? John M. Trindle | Williamsburg Town Square | jtrindle@ts; /html/mgs/1995-09/msg00694.html (8,989 bytes)

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