*Siboney 2.0* repowering our 1972 58' yachtfisherman

[MarioG]

You're not wasting any time, are you.....I don't know why some photos are sideways, I'll try to fix them.

No Jim we don't waste any time. when it's go time, it's go time! thanks for trying to figure out the pictures problem

 

[madhatter1]

If you haven't already advertise all those parts while they are fresh and have no rust on the internals. Craigslist is a good place since your buyers will be those keeping their old Detroit's running.

 

[MarioG]

If you haven't already advertise all those parts while they are fresh and have no rust on the internals. Craigslist is a good place since your buyers will be those keeping their old Detroit's running.

I've listed them everywhere. but no real takers for the whole engines. so now I'm selling the accessories and sending the block and heads to the recycling scraper

 

[jim rosenthal]

Mario, I might have to give you your own section for all your used bits and pieces.... LOL JK

 

[SKYCHENEY]

Mario, I might have to give you your own section for all your used bits and pieces.... LOL JK

Don and I have all of the same parts as well. I have sold a few to members here but I've not actively advertised them. Someday, someone will want them.

 

[MarioG]

mario, i might have to give you your own section for all your used bits and pieces.... Lol jk

lmaoo!!

 

[motoryacht lover]

Great thread. I have contemplated a repower of my boat. I admire you and your son getting in there and getting your hands dirty. You guys will learn so much. I noticed in the picture your son is wearing gloves and you were not. Part or what I did was excavation and i have worked with quite a few young men. It is funny to me that it seems like all of the young men work with gloves on. Whereas the old guys (myself) don’t care for wearing them unless it is cold.

 

[Captain Ralph]

It is funny to me that it seems like all of the young men work with gloves on. Whereas the old guys (myself) don’t care for wearing them unless it is cold.

I have noticed this also.
I just assumed the young kids were trying to be different or fancy.
OR, really scared to get their hands dirty,,, Go figure..

I have tried to wear these mechanics gloves. Drove me crazy after a few minutes.
You know it is serious work when I put on gloves for epoxy work.

 

[jim rosenthal]

I spent forty years wearing gloves at work. I actually find it easier to work with gloves on.

 

[Pascal]

I have noticed this also.
I just assumed the young kids were trying to be different or fancy.
OR, really scared to get their hands dirty,,, Go figure..

I have tried to wear these mechanics gloves. Drove me crazy after a few minutes.
You know it is serious work when I put on gloves for epoxy work.

Knowing Mario’s boys, I doubt they re afraid to get their hands dirty

 

[motoryacht lover]

None of the young men I worked with were pretty boys. I don’t know what it is with the gloves. When it’s cold I would cut the finger tips out of a cheap pair and that would last me the winter. I don’t guess Dr Jim cuts the finger tips out of his gloves. Maybe he could try that out. I have never transferred a virus to a dozer or a piece of pipe yet.

 

[Avenger]

It took me a while to adapt to working with gloves. Once I adapted to it I preferred working with them to working without. I still get my hands dirty sometimes, but I don't take it as affirmation of my manhood anymore.

There's a lot of reasons to stop soaking your skin in contaminated hydrocarbons. I've started seeing them as a number of the old school manly "I ain't afraid of a little dirt" guys that I've known for decades are having health problems. Correlation does not equal causation, but I'm of the mindset that it isn't worth taking the chance. Plus, life's a lot nicer with clean hands.

 

[SKYCHENEY]

Great thread. I have contemplated a repower of my boat. I admire you and your son getting in there and getting your hands dirty. You guys will learn so much. I noticed in the picture your son is wearing gloves and you were not. Part or what I did was excavation and i have worked with quite a few young men. It is funny to me that it seems like all of the young men work with gloves on. Whereas the old guys (myself) don’t care for wearing them unless it is cold.

His hands look dirty here

 

[jim rosenthal]

Gloves: I used gloves at work for the obvious reasons. But what I found was that I got used to the different friction with gloves and did better with them. Also, I didn't want to cut my hands working on machines- it would have created a risk when doing my job. Over the years, I found that surgical gloves leak occasionally.

Another reason is that patients notice if the physician's hands don't look clean (even if you just scrubbed them) and they don't like it. I can hardly blame them. So I ended up wearing gloves all the time, still do.

 

[rsmith]

At that age it’s a dating problem. At that age my hands were already Detroit stained. I was dating a girl whose mom told me “you’re not touching my daughter with those hands” made me shrub my hands every time I came over. Finally tells me she’s going to get my hands clean for once and for all. Has me wash pots and pans at their church annual chicken bot boi dinner. After she looked at my hands shook her head and said “I give up.”

 

[Captain Ralph]

I do understand;
I was moved from buss-boy to pot scrubber because of my hands in school.

 

[jmooney]

At that age it’s a dating problem. At that age my hands were already Detroit stained. I was dating a girl whose mom told me “you’re not touching my daughter with those hands” made me shrub my hands every time I came over. Finally tells me she’s going to get my hands clean for once and for all. Has me wash pots and pans at their church annual chicken bot boi dinner. After she looked at my hands shook her head and said “I give up.”

I agree , in high school, I worked every day at gas station and garage, every night before I went home , I washed my hands with Brillo pads so the girls wouldn’t think that I was a gear head , It didn’t work . But I learned more there than during 4 years of engineering school.

 

[rsmith]

Plus back in the day there was no citrus hand cleaner. My dad carried 2 whisky bottles in the trunk of the car one with gas the other with turpentine. Always used gas for cleaning their hands back then. He lived to 95 so I’m not sure the health risk argument stands up.

 

[Bob Quinn]

After 30 or so years working in the machine shop getting greasy, and always covered in coolant from the cnc mills.... My hands are now riddled with psoriasis (well 80% of right hand and 5% of left hand). I can only assume it is from that exposure.
Now I wear the gloves. The psoriasis only gets better if I put the medicine on and wear the gloves. I do find it nice not to have to scrub when I'm done working. Don't care for the "feel" but you kind of get used to it. I think the younger kids are more aware of potential issues. Or they are just weak LOL hard to say.

 

[Captain Ralph]

During tech school, I discovered xylene in a print shop.
Amazing hand cleaner.
Left your skin white and felt like ice water.

Except for my charming personality, I don't have a issues bathing in chemicals.