Temp throttle cable fix

Sorry, dude...

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Joe Mannix  

I remember tying everyone's shoe laces together ( pull the lace) to get an air cooled car home one summer night.

On the way home from West Coast Cruise SLO 2014, throttle cable broke at the throttle linkage. Walked around  and found a shoestring on side of road. Voila, McGuyvered throttle cable repair that lasted for remaining 200 miles home. 

And we all know why he had to walk around to find a shoe lace; because Hawaiian sandals don’t have laces. 

MusbJim posted:

On the way home from West Coast Cruise SLO 2014, throttle cable broke at the throttle linkage. Walked around  and found a shoestring on side of road. Voila, McGuyvered throttle cable repair that lasted for remaining 200 miles home. 

@MusbJim that’s called the McGyver move 👍😎

MusbJim posted:

On the way home from West Coast Cruise SLO 2014, throttle cable broke at the throttle linkage. Walked around  and found a shoestring on side of road. Voila, McGuyvered throttle cable repair that lasted for remaining 200 miles home. 

Well I was thinking isn't that the father of drive by wire. 

Actually that is really the Musbjim method of keeping it simple... but on a shoestring budget  

Knowing Jimbo was a combat medic, he's able to patch just about anyone or any thing up.

We all have walked in our "Shoe-da-bakers" at one time or another ~

Nolan posted:

Knowing Jimbo was a combat medic, he's able to patch just about anyone or any thing up.

Yeah, today he would be probably found in the ER as a PA  

This temporary fix was definitely easier than a temporary clutch person. 

IaM-Ray posted:

Nolan posted:

Knowing Jimbo was a combat medic, he's able to patch just about anyone or any thing up.

Yeah, today he would be probably found in the ER as a PA  

@IaM-Ray back in the early '70s, the first Physician Assistant Program in the country was established at the University of Utah School of Medicine. The program is known as MEDEX. The basis of the program was to transition Vietnam experienced medics into civilian healthcare. Specifically, to assist physicians with the burden of patient care in remote (small town) locations around Utah, Colorado, Montana.

https://medicine.utah.edu/dfpm...am/history-archives/

I am proud to say that in 1971 I was among the first few (75) selected from thousands of applicants accepted into the program. Eventually, family responsibilities and financial duress required that I opt out of the program and return my attention back home in SoCal.

However, I was fortunate to parlay my experience into a 30-yr career as director of Cardiac Diagnostics (and Rehab), Respiratory Services & Pulmonary Laboratory (and Rehab), Neuro-Diagnostic Lab and a few other departments in a couple of acute care Trauma Center hospitals.

I have been blessed with a good life post-Vietnam. One of the highlights has been meeting great friends through the SOC and sharing that gearhead comradery with these knuckleheads! 

Jim:

I never knew your career background. You've done great things......particularly for one of us knuckleheads.

Jim, I knew you were a medic so I thought you might have had that career track when I was given ER by a PA who was a medic first.  

He gave me great service when I shattered my elbow. 

Health care is a great career choice when you like or want to help people glad it turned out well for you... 

For about the last 20 years my primary doctor has been ex-military.  I have had 2 that retired on me ( Navy ) and my current doc is retired Army.   ( Desert Storm ) My dentist retired and was trained by the Navy.  He sold his practice to a Russian born woman who was trained by the U.S. Army.

I prefer military doctors because there is zero B.S.

I hear ya Al, I had a retired Navy Dentist in Florida. He knew I was a Viet Nam Vet and he never charged me except for material such as x-rays, caps and Novocain. I hope you aren't including VA Doctors, I've run into a few good ones, one  great one and a lousy one that shouldn't treat animals; because of that one I'm permanently hampered by a torn tendon in my right arm. When I tore the tendon and had a bulging bicep she said is was strain and with time would heal. After a year and still with pain when twisting a wrench I saw a different Dr and she sent me to an Orthopedic Surgeon. After MRI and x-rays I was told it's to late to do anything, the tendon is detached from the bone and scar tissue would prevent re-attaching it. The Dr that said it was a strain was my civilian primary care physician, she left the office where I used to see her and is now a VA Dr. 

That is why they call it a practice... you never really get it right and when you don't somebody else pays for it.  In reality not any different than any other job just that the consequences can be greater. 

Robert, those Birkenstock sandals were once recommended to women as a birth control method. 

In my 32+years as an Army Aviator, the best flight surgeon we ever had was a former combat medic who became a PA.