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Gerald Miller Gerald Miller is offline
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Default HF shop crane - was Bridgeport dimension

On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:05:03 -0700, Gunner Asch
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On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:36:52 -0700, Bruce L. Bergman
wrote:


Im paying $11.24 a stick at Hanks Electric in Costa Mesa, California


Yeah, but is that the good stuff? Or coming out of the Glorious
Peoples Republic Steel Foundry and Rice Noodle Factory in Shanghai?
(And it suspiciously bends like a noodle under stress...)


US made. and Ive got at least 600 feet of it hanging and Ive indeed
done chinups in the middle of a 4' length...and Im not a little bitty
fella...as you may recall.

One of my Dad's favorite stories concerned the time when he worked as
plant electrician in a war production facility. If the 300 lb.
maintenance chief couldn't pull it off the wall, a conduit was
adequately fastened.
Gerry :-)}
London, Canada