Eddie the Mailman dropped me off a packåge today. It was an excellent box. The graph paper is a nice touch, but I’m partial to the parentheses. Thank you Pecos.
Stickers on the side. Mail = happiness. But what in the box is there?
Holy Tuxedo! It’s a powder blue piece of metal. But what are this?
From more the side, I still not know this thing. Then I asked Melia (my wife): you know this? She was like, “Wait! Pecos put some sort of metal on Instagram just the other day!” “He did?” I said, “I have not checked the app in a while.” “You should check it,” she said. I got out my phone. After checking my eBay cue, my thumb tapped Instagram and I made it to Pecos Bill’s account by going into a new photo from Sudsy. Pecos (who’s name on Instagram is Pay Cost Trill right now) had recently left a comment on Sudsy’s new photo (of a Spectral Cruiser). I tapped Pay Cost’s name: and there it was.
Pay Cost’s Instagram. It’s a PISTON and its CONNECTING ROD!!! I heard of that before. A Piston. It make car go. Connecting Rod is not in my catalogue but I can make the association. Now to do a complete Gary Sinise (a la CSI): I shall solve the mystery by going to the computer and making it be WIKIPEDIA.
Here is Piston:
Here is Connecting Rod!!!:
Many thanks to Pecos Bill for helping us with another exciting episode. Until next post, this is Frankie, signing off.
PS. If I ever recorded my dad, either with a mic through my hi-fi or on my old Video-8 camcorder, he’d always end with saying, “This is Frank Sisti, Sr. signing off.” He’d always sign off. I told him he didn’t have to do that, but he always did it.
This is a demonstration of how the piston and connecting rod move inside an engine.
The engine in the video is a small industrail engine, exactly like the ones found in vintage gokarts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB2cmkWbCMI
http://www.animatedengines.com/otto.html