Word: gasket
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...George drivers all have a lot of what one fan calls "walkin'- around sense." They don't much care what the book says or how Detroit would do it. But homemade fixes abound. A visitor to the pits may notice a mechanic sprinkling baby powder on a manifold gasket to keep it from sticking next time the engine is taken apart. The makeshift caps some crews use to keep debris out of the headers may also look familiar: they're soda cans sawed in half. Finally, a newcomer will be appalled to see Garlits flip a lighted match into...
...Automation is trying out its first new Pragma A-3000. The $110,000 robot, which has just been licensed by General Electric, is assembling a compressor valve unit from twelve separate parts. Its two arms can do totally different jobs at once. When it picks up a slightly defective gasket in its gray steel claw, it immediately senses something wrong, flicks the gasket to one side and picks up another. The Pragma produces 320 units an hour, without mistakes, and it can labor tirelessly for 24 hours a day. That makes it roughly the equivalent of ten human workers. Furthermore...
...name because he felt compelled to pick up the tab. Once, though, before a 1977 Hawaii tour, Nichopoulos wrote ten prescriptions (550 tablets) for himself, then gave the drugs to Presley. Said Dr. Nick: "I felt if I charged him for the medication, his father would blow a gasket." - Nichopoulos, who said he acted like a brother, father and counselor to his patient, occasionally tried to placate Presley with placebos. But the singer, who kept his own medical reference books, was apparently too shrewd for these ploys. After he confided what he had done, Dr. Nick said, Presley replied that...