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fpgt72 · Mar 20, 2023

SONIC SAAMI said:
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In another lifetime I did sports car racing. Drag racers shut the fuck right up, you are in that oven for what 10 minutes tops. Try an hour.

I remember when I bought my first "cool shirt". It was a t-shirt that had tubes in it that water would run through. It had a little cooler and you filled that with ice and water. First time I hit the switch I thought it was dumping ice water all over me, it was so cold. Then no it was just the water running through the suit. My cooler would last about 1 race. By then end of the session the water would be warm to the touch. One thing for sure it did make your mind "more fresh". You loose something when you get that hot and sweaty.

Basically long johns, a head sock, and gloves head to toe.

SONIC SAAMI · Mar 20, 2023

SONIC SAAMI · Mar 20, 2023

MadDuner · Mar 20, 2023

fpgt72 said:
In another lifetime I did sports car racing. Drag racers shut the fuck right up, you are in that oven for what 10 minutes tops. Try an hour.

I remember when I bought my first "cool shirt". It was a t-shirt that had tubes in it that water would run through. It had a little cooler and you filled that with ice and water. First time I hit the switch I thought it was dumping ice water all over me, it was so cold. Then no it was just the water running through the suit. My cooler would last about 1 race. By then end of the session the water would be warm to the touch. One thing for sure it did make your mind "more fresh". You loose something when you get that hot and sweaty.

Basically long johns, a head sock, and gloves head to toe.

LOL.
We'll end up sitting in our drag cars for hours at a time also when the track has issues. It's not worth getting unstrapped or out of the fire suit if you don't know how long before you need to be ready to race again. It comes down to which is a bigger distraction? Sitting in a 150* car for that hour, or getting out, stripping down - then having to get everything back together in a hurry. If you aren't the next group up in the staging lanes it's a no-brainer. Cool off. The closer you are to the front of the lanes - the greater the decision weight.

fpgt72 · Mar 20, 2023

Modoc said:
A terrific production of the theme song

Mor betta. I got to see these guys once.

fpgt72 · Mar 20, 2023

MadDuner said:
LOL.
We'll end up sitting in our drag cars for hours at a time also when the track has issues. It's not worth getting unstrapped or out of the fire suit if you don't know how long before you need to be ready to race again. It comes down to which is a bigger distraction? Sitting in a 150* car for that hour, or getting out, stripping down - then having to get everything back together in a hurry. If you aren't the next group up in the staging lanes it's a no-brainer. Cool off. The closer you are to the front of the lanes - the greater the decision weight.

Hours just sitting in the car, hell with that. When we had a red flag we would all roll onto the false grid and the first thing everyone did was off with the helmet, the unzip the suit to the waist, and off tie the arms around the waist. Why would you keep all that crap on, it would take like 3min to get you back going again. I think in the time it would take to make the car ready again you would have your gear on.

I only did drag racing at a very hobby level, low level. The turn left and right was also "hobby" racers, but a bit more fun. Drag racing just did not last long enough for me.

My local track at the time was Heartland Park in Topeka, a drag strip and road course. In the rain that drag strip was slippery as snot.

SONIC SAAMI · Mar 20, 2023

EddieNFL · Mar 20, 2023

MadDuner · Mar 20, 2023

fpgt72 said:
Hours just sitting in the car, hell with that. When we had a red flag we would all roll onto the false grid and the first thing everyone did was off with the helmet, the unzip the suit to the waist, and off tie the arms around the waist. Why would you keep all that crap on, it would take like 3min to get you back going again. I think in the time it would take to make the car ready again you would have your gear on.

I only did drag racing at a very hobby level, low level. The turn left and right was also "hobby" racers, but a bit more fun. Drag racing just did not last long enough for me.

My local track at the time was Heartland Park in Topeka, a drag strip and road course. In the rain that drag strip was slippery as snot.

I've raced at HPT before.
I really like that place!

I've hobby road-raced cars and motorcycles.
There is no doubt that it's more fun to pick lines and turn corners.

cooper barrett · Mar 20, 2023

fpgt72 said:
Hours just sitting in the car, hell with that. When we had a red flag we would all roll onto the false grid and the first thing everyone did was off with the helmet, the unzip the suit to the waist, and off tie the arms around the waist. Why would you keep all that crap on, it would take like 3min to get you back going again. I think in the time it would take to make the car ready again you would have your gear on.

I only did drag racing at a very hobby level, low level. The turn left and right was also "hobby" racers, but a bit more fun. Drag racing just did not last long enough for me.

My local track at the time was Heartland Park in Topeka, a drag strip and road course. In the rain that drag strip was slippery as snot.

I've spend many of the best days of my life at Heartland Park on the road course. Most of my old courses are office parks now.

cooper barrett · Mar 20, 2023

fpgt72 · Mar 20, 2023

cooper barrett said:
I've spend many of the best days of my life at Heartland Park on the road course. Most of my old courses are office parks now.View attachment 8101040

I kept my car, need to find a pic of it. It was an Opel GT in Gulf colors, good looking car. I ran IT at first then FP. That is where the name comes from FPGT72, my number was 72.

I hold on to the car with the silly idea of doing an open road race like big bend or sand hills, think that would be fun, and I have a good rear end for it as well.

Found some, after I got hit at Hallett.

This was my IT car.

Dead Eye Dick · Mar 20, 2023

Great for heating up the C-rations and LRP’s when on the hill as well. Burns with a hot and long lasting, though smoky fire) Though some say this was all disproven, it was recommended by our infantry drill instructors that you don’t “stomp” the burning C-4 out. (Both pressure and heat are required to get C-4 to detonate.).

hankpac · Mar 20, 2023

Wiillk said:
A lot of folks dismiss or dislike self checkout. I find that with Self Checkout, my losses both in products given up on and 45 minute round trip drives back to town, to get PRODUCTS THE CASHIER DID NOT PUT IN MY BASKET has been reduced to "0" when I use Self Checkout.

Seems cashiers often confuse the Round Bag holder with the Round File.

All too often, I would get home and find multiple products, I choose, put on the counter to be paid for, actually paid for, the checker either intentionally or accidentally left the bag holding these products on the round bag holder. Time, effort, fuel (at 3 bucks per gallon) and wear and tear on the vehicle to drive back to town to get shit paid for can really piss a fellow off. Wear and tear on the vehicle, our little road isn't the best pavement job in the world. Bordering on the worst actually.

Everything is half price, BOGO, or Free Today! I've never been trained, nor have I filled out an application for employment, so if they want it done "right", the store will have to provide a checker.

hankpac · Mar 20, 2023

Wiillk said:
Great for heating up the C-rations and LRP’s when on the hill as well. Burns with a hot and long lasting, though smoky fire) Though some say this was all disproven, it was recommended by our infantry drill instructors that you don’t “stomp” the burning C-4 out. (Both pressure and heat are required to get C-4 to detonate.).

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C-4 burned fast and hot, like a little jet. It didn't smoke. Period. I heated water but never C Rats, due to either burning, on the bottom or heat expansion pushing out stuff like spaghetti, like a huge toothpaste. I used a certain size to boil water for cocoa or LRRPS, and heat tabs for everything else. I had quite a battery of recipes to alter things like pork slices or beef slices (with juices) or a pecan cake roll. And of course Peaches and Pound cake. Our C-4 was in a longer strip-like rather than a block like the photo. It had a strip of green sticky covered withtape along one side. C4 was GREAT stuff.

hankpac · Mar 20, 2023

DuneBoer said:
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What about the traps?

Dead Eye Dick · Mar 20, 2023

hankpac said:
C-4 burned fast and hot, like a little jet. It didn't smoke. Period. I heated water but never C Rats, due to either burning, on the bottom or heat expansion pushing out stuff like spaghetti, like a huge toothpaste. I used a certain size to boil water for cocoa or LRRPS, and heat tabs for everything else. I had quite a battery of recipes to alter things like pork slices or beef slices (with juices) or a pecan cake roll. And of course Peaches and Pound cake. Our C-4 was in a longer strip-like rather than a block like the photo. It had a strip of green sticky covered withtape along one side. C4 was GREAT stuff.

That’s curious, I remember it putting off a thick black smoke. That would be 52 years ago. Me wonders about me sometimes. Anyway, heated water great. We would get the water boiling then throw in the freeze dried LRP’s. Made a great but way to fattening meal. In the boonies it would have been great but who wants to be cooking in the boonies. On the hill, too much sitting, not enough walking. (LZ Chippewa was a very small hill)