11-01-2017, 05:12 PM
Ivan listened to Nox's explanations and tried to study out what was done- for some of it anyway. A lot of it was over his because he simply didn't have the....framework, he guessed, was the best word. Like when he was working on cars with his Pop.
Back then, it was small jobs like 'hold the flashlight'. Pops wasn't tempermental at all, but he sure didn't like it when Ivan got bored and didn't hold the light right on the spot he was working. It was all just a bunch of metal to him, back then.
And then his dad showed him how to change the oil- drain out the old, replace the oil filter, and then put in the new oil. That made sense. And then his dad showed him why the oil helped, how it reduced heat from the moving parts and so on.
And then it was helping with a radiator. And once again, after it was explained (and it fit perfectly with the idea that the engine would get really hot and needed to be cooled) it made sense.
Which led to the biggest mystery of WHY the engine got so hot- all those perfectly timed explosions going off hundreds of times a minute. It was just soooo cool. From there, you go to fuel injection, starter flywheels, transmission and axels, suspension, tires and breaks. By the time he was a teenager, it made perfect sense. Troubleshooting something was a matter of determining what was failing or not working properly in the chain: fuel, air, spark, explosion, transmission.
A framework, built up little by little. Well this was gonna be the same. And Dorian and Nox were both on the same page. Which meant that Ivan was gonna learn some really cool things. Already, he was cataloging little things he noticed, questions he might ask.
"Alright. I think that's a great idea. I need to learn this stuff like you know it."[color] He smirked at Nox. "I'm your grunt. What do you want me to do first?"
Back then, it was small jobs like 'hold the flashlight'. Pops wasn't tempermental at all, but he sure didn't like it when Ivan got bored and didn't hold the light right on the spot he was working. It was all just a bunch of metal to him, back then.
And then his dad showed him how to change the oil- drain out the old, replace the oil filter, and then put in the new oil. That made sense. And then his dad showed him why the oil helped, how it reduced heat from the moving parts and so on.
And then it was helping with a radiator. And once again, after it was explained (and it fit perfectly with the idea that the engine would get really hot and needed to be cooled) it made sense.
Which led to the biggest mystery of WHY the engine got so hot- all those perfectly timed explosions going off hundreds of times a minute. It was just soooo cool. From there, you go to fuel injection, starter flywheels, transmission and axels, suspension, tires and breaks. By the time he was a teenager, it made perfect sense. Troubleshooting something was a matter of determining what was failing or not working properly in the chain: fuel, air, spark, explosion, transmission.
A framework, built up little by little. Well this was gonna be the same. And Dorian and Nox were both on the same page. Which meant that Ivan was gonna learn some really cool things. Already, he was cataloging little things he noticed, questions he might ask.
"Alright. I think that's a great idea. I need to learn this stuff like you know it."[color] He smirked at Nox. "I'm your grunt. What do you want me to do first?"