Back in the 1980's I purchased a red 1967 Ford pickup with the five hundred dollars loaned to me by my parents. I had an after-school job while I attended the 10th grade at Ashdown High School in Arkansas. The vehicle was generally in good shape and I was very pleased with my first vehicle.
One day the engine wouldn't start and my step-father explained to me that the sound it was making when I turned the key to try to start the engine indicated that the Bendix spring mechanical component of the engine's starter motor had failed. He told me how to get another one and so I bought the replacement part and I disassembled the start motor from beneath the engine and I replaced the Bendix spring and it worked fine from then on. I also remember that I thought the work was fun, too. I can remember telling people about it and I probably talked about it a lot of times.
1985 film "Back to the Future" DVD video: [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
00:48:34
Dr. Emmett Brown: I've had enough jokes for one evening. Good night, future boy!
Marty McFly: No, wait, Doc. The bruise on your head. I know how that happened. You told me. You were standing on your toilet hanging a clock and you fell and hit your head on the sink. That's when you got the idea for the flux capacitor which is what makes time travel possible. There's something wrong with the starter, so I hid it here.
Dr. Emmett Brown: After I fell off my toilet, I drew this.
Marty McFly: The flux capacitor.
Dr. Emmett Brown: It works! It works! I finally invent something that works!
Marty McFly: You bet your ass it works.
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Back To The Future [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
1:24.
I still got time. I'm coming, Doc!
No! No, not again!
Come on! Come on!
Libyans.
No!
Bastards!
Go!
Doc! Doc!
No!
You're alive.
Bulletproof vest?
How did you know?
I never got a chance to tell you.
What about all that talk about screwing up future events?
The space-time continuum?
Well, I figured, what the hell.
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Database of Movie Dialogs
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
Cops are going nuts looking for you.
I just came for my stuff. I need clothes, food and a truck.
How about the fillings in my teeth?
Now, Enrique.
You two, you're on weapons detail.
Let's go.
One thing about my mom-
she always plans ahead.
Excellent.
This is my best truck, but the starter motor's gone.
You got time to change it out?
Yeah. I'm gonna wait 'til dark to cross the border.
See, I grew up in places like this...
so I just thought that's how people lived-
riding around in helicopters...
learning how to blow shit up.
That's definitely you.
Most of the guys my mom hung around with were geeks...
but there was this one guy, he was kinda cool.
He taught me engines.
Hold here.
Mom screwed it up, of course.
She'd always tell 'em about Judgment Day...
and me being this world leader.
That'd be all she wrote.
Torque wrench, please.
Here.
I wish I could've met my real dad.
You will.
Yeah, I guess.
When I'm, like, 45, I think.
They sent him back through time to 1984.
He hasn't even been born yet.
It messes with your head.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bendix_drive
Wikipedia
Bendix drive
A Bendix drive is a type of engagement mechanism used in starter motors of internal combustion engines. The device allows the pinion gear of the starter motor to engage or disengage the flywheel of the engine automatically when the starter is powered or when the engine fires, respectively. It is named after its inventor, Vincent Hugo Bendix.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starter_(engine)
Wikipedia
Starter (engine)
A starter is an electric motor, pneumatic motor, hydraulic motor, or other device for rotating an internal-combustion engine so as to initiate the engine's operation under its own power.
History
Before the advent of the starter motor, engines were started by various methods including wind-up springs, gun powder cylinders, and human-powered techniques such as a removable crank handle which engaged the front of the crankshaft, pulling on an airplane propeller, or pulling a cord that was wound around an open-face pulley.
Originally, a hand-crank was used to start engines, but it was inconvenient, difficult, and dangerous to crank-start an engine. The behavior of an engine during starting is not always predictable. The engine can kick back, causing sudden reverse rotation. Many manual starters included a one-directional slip or release provision so that once engine rotation began, the starter would disengage from the engine. In the event of a kickback, the reverse rotation of the engine could suddenly engage the starter, causing the crank to unexpectedly and violently jerk, possibly injuring the operator. For cord-wound starters, a kickback could pull the operator towards the engine or machine, or swing the starter cord and handle at high speed around the starter pulley. Even though cranks had an overrun mechanism, when the engine started, the crank could begin to spin along with the crankshaft and potentially strike the person cranking the engine. Additionally, care had to be taken to retard the spark in order to prevent backfiring; with an advanced spark setting, the engine could kick back (run in reverse), pulling the crank with it, because the overrun safety mechanism works in one direction only.
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Database of Movie Dialogs
War of the Worlds (2005) [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
Try to change the solenoid, maybe...
- Sole him/it...
- What did the one tell you? The solenoid.
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IMDb
The Internet Movie Database
Memorable quotes for
War of the Worlds (2005)
News Producer: [at the site of a plane crash] Were you on that plane?
Ray Ferrier: No.
News Producer: Too bad. It would have made a hell of a story.
