On 2013-10-27, Larry Jaques wrote:
On 27 Oct 2013 04:02:41 GMT, "DoN. Nichols"
wrote:

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Low budget photog.

Low budget, and nobody present who knew what angle of view would
give the customer information which s/he needs. (But then again, isn't
that HF's basic principle of operation? :-)

I think you could apply that to the vast majority of bidnesses alive
today. They saved money by doing it in-house, using clueless morons
who get minimum wage. "Why are my customers bailing?" they whine.
C'est la guerre, oui?

¡Sí!

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Ours, too. One aunt, an alky who I dearly loved, accidentally shot
her husband who had broken into the bathroom where she was going to
commit suicide. She accomplished it a week later. Sad.

Ouch! Accidentally? She was going to use the gun to commit
suicide? And when he broke in, he startled her enough so the weapon
discharged?

He grabbed it and it went off in the struggle.

Ouch!

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Later, in the nursing home, she re-broke the hip, and when on the
operating table that time, her heart stopped and was restarted, but
there was no brain function left. The heart kept running for another
week and a half.

Wow. Now -that- is addiction...

Unfortunately, yes.

[ ... Back to Rivnuts .. ]

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Nah, not if you're GOOD. polishes fingernails on chest

Maybe -- but I know that I sometimes need to try a couple,
especially if it has been a while since I last used it, and don't
remember what thickness metal it was set for, and what grip range
Rivnut, too. :-)

That's what you get, using those januwine RivNuts instead of the more
superiorer Chiwanese import thingies.

:-)

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Knowing what I know now, I'd have helped him fit and weld in a new
floorboard.

Hmm ... that would *not* have worked for the MGA. The floorboards
Typo correction ------------^^^

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And -- on my first one (a '57) -- someone before had replaced
the official rear hanger for the muffler with a standard US one, which
broke, bowing the exhaust tube up into contact with the plywood, which
charred and sent an undesirable smell into the cockpit. Luckily, this
was winter, and I pulled off and dumped some handfuls of snow on it,
then I smashed a tin can flat and put it between the pipe and the
floorboard, so I could get home and fix it *right*. :-) (I went to the
local dealer and bought the proper support bracket -- and I think that
was the only Whitworth hardware on the car. I had to use a crescent
wrench on it. :-)

Isn't it fun, having to use 3 different style-sets of tools on one
vehicle?

Well ... back in those days, they didn't need metric at least.
My first metric socket set I got for the little 50 cc Honda which I used
on a field trip in Arizona.

Enjoy,
DoN.

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