On Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:47:33 -0500, the infamous Ignoramus540
scrawled the following:

On 2009-10-09, Steve Turner wrote:
This is awesome. Good or bad, it is so much better to have a manual.
The manual also seems to be written by real people, not by Chinese,
and is a delight to read.

That's a cool looking old beast. If it were me though, I wouldn't be
able to resist the temptation to do a complete disassembly, cleanup,
bead-blast, and repainting job. It looks kinda rough... but in a good
sorta way. :-)


It does not actually look rough, it is simply dirty.

To us, in the pics, it looks rougher than ****, but it may simply be
dirty. YMMV.

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On 2009-10-09, Larry Jaques novalidaddress@di wrote:
On Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:47:33 -0500, the infamous Ignoramus540
scrawled the following:

On 2009-10-09, Steve Turner wrote:
This is awesome. Good or bad, it is so much better to have a manual.
The manual also seems to be written by real people, not by Chinese,
and is a delight to read.

That's a cool looking old beast. If it were me though, I wouldn't be
able to resist the temptation to do a complete disassembly, cleanup,
bead-blast, and repainting job. It looks kinda rough... but in a good
sorta way. :-)


It does not actually look rough, it is simply dirty.

To us, in the pics, it looks rougher than ****, but it may simply be
dirty. YMMV.


To me, rough means beaten up, bent in places, something stuck due to
rust etc. And dirty means "it will look good after cleaning".

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