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On Sun, 26 Feb 2017 17:27:42 -0800 (PST), Uncle Monster
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On Sunday, February 26, 2017 at 9:21:17 AM UTC-6, Ralph Mowery wrote:
In article , says...

You're never gonna need one...until about a week after you
dispose of it.
Better to have and not need than to need and not have.

That is the way it is for everything. I worked at a plant that was
built about 1965. At that time there was a spare part that looked like
a big auger. It was about 10 feet long and a foot in diameter. It laid
around in the way up to about 2005. We got a new plant manager that had
us get rid of all things we had not had to replace in the last 5 years.
Out went the auger. Wouldn't you know it , a month later it was needed
to replace a bad one. Same as with another piece of equipment . I
forgot what it was, something like a 20 HP motor and gear box. It was
sold as scrap. Before it left the plant site it was needed and we had
to buy it back for a lot more than it was sold for.

I have not seen it, but heard that some new cars do not even have a
spare tire now,but come with a can of Fix a Flat. Might be fine for a
nail hole, but if there is a large cut in the tire,itwill be useless.

Do you remember the stowaway spare tires that had a CO2 cylinder with the jack and lug wrench. You would screw the CO2 cylinder on to the valve stem and the spare inflated like a balloon from a compact size. I imagine the paint ball enthusiasts have snapped them up. My 95 Jeep has a skinny high pressure spare.

The trick was getting them refilled and by now they are all out of
test anyway. It was a lot to go through for about a half pound of CO2

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