I have been reading the posts for a while and decided to join in. I am currently restoring a 1968 Parisienne. She is in pretty good shape but I will do a frame up restoration. I will continue to read the posts and make comments if I have anything relevant to add.
Regards,
Mark.
eeluddy said
Feb 26, 2014
Welcome from -20 C London Ontario! How's your weather there mate?
cdnpont said
Feb 26, 2014
Welcome form Burlington Ontario. -17c
Please post some pictures of green grass.
jim_ss409 said
Feb 26, 2014
Welcome to the site!
Pontiacanada said
Feb 26, 2014
Welcome Mark (Pontiac Head : ) ) from Canada's east coast!
long stroke said
Feb 26, 2014
A hardy welcome aboard from Milton, Ontario, Canada. Like everyone else here, i would love to see pictures of your Pontiac. You are going to love the ride here on this great site. Cheers mate. George.
I have been reading the posts for a while and decided to join in. I am currently restoring a 1968 Parisienne. She is in pretty good shape but I will do a frame up restoration. I will continue to read the posts and make comments if I have anything relevant to add.
Regards,
Mark.
norontcan said
Feb 26, 2014
Welcome. Yes, pics please.
Budgie said
Feb 28, 2014
Hi from a bit closer Cheers Budgie
Delta Tango said
Feb 28, 2014
Welcome from Calgary, where our brass monkey's are just a little bit lighter than brass monkey's down under.
Every sailing ship had to have cannon for protection. Cannon of the times required round iron cannonballs. The master wanted to store the cannonballs such that they could be of instant use when needed, yet not roll around the gun deck. The solution was to stack them up in a square-based pyramid next to the cannon. The top level of the stack had one ball, the next level down had four, the next had nine, the next had sixteen, and so on. Four levels would provide a stack of 30 cannonballs. The only real problem was how to keep the bottom level from sliding out from under the weight of the higher levels. To do this, they devised a small brass plate ("brass monkey") with one rounded indentation for each cannonball in the bottom layer. Brass was used because the cannonballs wouldn't rust to the "brass monkey", but would rust to an iron one.
When temperature falls, brass contracts in size faster than iron. As it got cold on the gun decks, the indentations in the brass monkey would get smaller than the iron cannonballs they were holding. If the temperature got cold enough, the bottom layer would pop out of the indentations spilling the entire pyramid over the deck. Thus it was, quite literally, cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey.
Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey.
norontcan said
Feb 28, 2014
This site is becoming educational???
427carl said
Mar 1, 2014
norontcan wrote:
This site is becoming educational???
Wouldn't hurt
LeeRoy said
Mar 1, 2014
Pontiacheadmark wrote:
G'day to you all.
I have been reading the posts for a while and decided to join in. I am currently restoring a 1968 Parisienne. She is in pretty good shape but I will do a frame up restoration. I will continue to read the posts and make comments if I have anything relevant to add.
Regards,
Mark.
Welcome Mark, from the mild but damp west coast of Canada. We may be cousins! My great grandmother was born in Bendigo Australia in the 1860's! It's a small world eh?
bigholden said
Mar 2, 2014
G'day from Sydney. You'll not only learn a lot about Pontiacs, but also about life in Canada. Fascinating!
Pontiacheadmark said
Mar 4, 2014
Gidday and thanks for the welcome.
Today was 32 degrees Celsius. Beautiful day. I am currently taking the Parisienne apart But will attempt to post pictures as I go.
G'day to you all.
I have been reading the posts for a while and decided to join in. I am currently restoring a 1968 Parisienne. She is in pretty good shape but I will do a frame up restoration. I will continue to read the posts and make comments if I have anything relevant to add.
Regards,
Mark.
Welcome form Burlington Ontario. -17c
Please post some pictures of green grass.
Welcome Mark (Pontiac Head : ) ) from Canada's east coast!
A hardy welcome aboard from Milton, Ontario, Canada. Like everyone else here, i would love to see pictures of your Pontiac. You are going to love the ride here on this great site. Cheers mate. George.
A big YAHOOOO! from Calgary Alberta.
WELCOME.
Welcome !! we will need photos
G'day to you all.
I have been reading the posts for a while and decided to join in. I am currently restoring a 1968 Parisienne. She is in pretty good shape but I will do a frame up restoration. I will continue to read the posts and make comments if I have anything relevant to add.
Regards,
Mark.
Welcome from Calgary, where our brass monkey's are just a little bit lighter than brass monkey's down under.
When temperature falls, brass contracts in size faster than iron. As it got cold on the gun decks, the indentations in the brass monkey would get smaller than the iron cannonballs they were holding. If the temperature got cold enough, the bottom layer would pop out of the indentations spilling the entire pyramid over the deck. Thus it was, quite literally, cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey.
Wouldn't hurt
Welcome Mark, from the mild but damp west coast of Canada. We may be cousins! My great grandmother was born in Bendigo Australia in the 1860's! It's a small world eh?
Today was 32 degrees Celsius. Beautiful day. I am currently taking the Parisienne apart But will attempt to post pictures as I go.
Regards,
Mark.