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Metalworking (rec.crafts.metalworking) Discuss various aspects of working with metal, such as machining, welding, metal joining, screwing, casting, hardening/tempering, blacksmithing/forging, spinning and hammer work, sheet metal work. |
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Off to L.A.
On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:09:45 -0600, "Martin H. Eastburn"
wrote: Isn't the truck going through major physical changes ? I thought it was getting side boxes and stuff. Martin Sounds like it was running too badly to drive, so he called in a mechanic who hauled it off and diagnosed a bad valve. That's the kind of repair that I and most of my friends learned to do in our teens. I can understand that lots of people can't do their own repairs, or don't want to. But gummer is dead broke and was bragging only a couple of weeks ago that he had a "knack" for mechanical things. Now it turns out that uber-survivalist-gummy's idea of keeping his mad max buggy running after TEOTWAWKI is to dial AAA, just like everybody's granny. Wayne |
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Off to L.A.
yea yea - but if you lived where he lives and works where he works,
you would want engine in top shape or it might blow climbing a hill on the way home with the days gatherings. Stress is the time to break. Martin wrote: On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:09:45 -0600, "Martin H. Eastburn" wrote: Isn't the truck going through major physical changes ? I thought it was getting side boxes and stuff. Martin Sounds like it was running too badly to drive, so he called in a mechanic who hauled it off and diagnosed a bad valve. That's the kind of repair that I and most of my friends learned to do in our teens. I can understand that lots of people can't do their own repairs, or don't want to. But gummer is dead broke and was bragging only a couple of weeks ago that he had a "knack" for mechanical things. Now it turns out that uber-survivalist-gummy's idea of keeping his mad max buggy running after TEOTWAWKI is to dial AAA, just like everybody's granny. Wayne |
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