On Mon, 26 Dec 2011 05:59:46 -0600, Ignoramus18557
wrote:

McMaster has a 10,000 lbs rated forklift adaptor. Item 3380T33. I will
not buy one, yet, but I will keep looking for one cheaply, and if I
need one sooner, I will just buy it. McMaster is two miles away from
my place of business. I will relegate my current hook to lifting
welders and other light items.

Crikey, Ig. Does the depth of your suck never end? You're always
finding such super-great deals, and now you say that McMaster is your
freakin' next door neighbor?

How wide is the vortex near Chicagoland?

--
Truth loves to go naked.
--Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

On Mon, 26 Dec 2011 06:22:41 -0800, Larry Jaques
wrote:

On Mon, 26 Dec 2011 05:59:46 -0600, Ignoramus18557
wrote:

McMaster has a 10,000 lbs rated forklift adaptor. Item 3380T33. I will
not buy one, yet, but I will keep looking for one cheaply, and if I
need one sooner, I will just buy it. McMaster is two miles away from
my place of business. I will relegate my current hook to lifting
welders and other light items.

Crikey, Ig. Does the depth of your suck never end? You're always
finding such super-great deals, and now you say that McMaster is your
freakin' next door neighbor?

How wide is the vortex near Chicagoland?

Hey, he isn't the only one... We have a West Coast McM vortex on the
other side of Lost Angels, and it only takes ~40 minutes or so to get
there first thing on a Saturday morning. (Rather pleasant trip, if it
wasn't for the giant sucking sound coming from my gas gauge.)

Don't even want to think about driving it during a typical weekday
rush hour, though. Could be anything from 1 to 3 hours - each way -
depending on who's bumping into whom, and which overpass the burning
gasoline tank truck decided to stop under... Grin and bear it.

But if you really need it Right NOW because you have a customer
sitting in the dark, and they are the only ones with the part on the
shelf in the region, you sit down with Google Maps or Sigalert.com and
plan a route to dodge today's Traffic Disasters Du Jour, and go.

Last time it was 1-1/2 "long way around" to McM, then 1 more on the
slack traffic side back to the Downtown Grainger near the Produce
Mart, and they had to stay till 5:15 for me. McMaster had the crimps
and heat shrink but wanted a small fortune for the crimp tool,
Grainger had a decent price on the crimpers but none of the crimps
anywhere close. And our little local houses "Barrel crimps?"

And to the asshole contractor who put Dry Only type Polaris splices in
an underground handhole and didn't even try to squirt silicone
inside... There's a special circle of Hell reserved for you.

-- Bruce --

On Mon, 26 Dec 2011 09:20:56 -0800, "Bruce L. Bergman (munged human
readable)" wrote:

On Mon, 26 Dec 2011 06:22:41 -0800, Larry Jaques
wrote:

On Mon, 26 Dec 2011 05:59:46 -0600, Ignoramus18557
wrote:

McMaster has a 10,000 lbs rated forklift adaptor. Item 3380T33. I will
not buy one, yet, but I will keep looking for one cheaply, and if I
need one sooner, I will just buy it. McMaster is two miles away from
my place of business. I will relegate my current hook to lifting
welders and other light items.

Crikey, Ig. Does the depth of your suck never end? You're always
finding such super-great deals, and now you say that McMaster is your
freakin' next door neighbor?

How wide is the vortex near Chicagoland?

Hey, he isn't the only one... We have a West Coast McM vortex on the
other side of Lost Angels, and it only takes ~40 minutes or so to get

You may have missed my reference. The vortex is how largely Ig SUCKS
due to all his good fortune. Besides, HelL.A. isn't a vortex, it's
Hell on Earth. McM is just a little bit of heaven there.


And to the asshole contractor who put Dry Only type Polaris splices in
an underground handhole and didn't even try to squirt silicone
inside... There's a special circle of Hell reserved for you.

Um, I thought he already lived there.

--
[Television is] the triumph of machine over people.
-- Fred Allen

On 2011-12-26, Larry Jaques wrote:
On Mon, 26 Dec 2011 05:59:46 -0600, Ignoramus18557
wrote:

McMaster has a 10,000 lbs rated forklift adaptor. Item 3380T33. I will
not buy one, yet, but I will keep looking for one cheaply, and if I
need one sooner, I will just buy it. McMaster is two miles away from
my place of business. I will relegate my current hook to lifting
welders and other light items.

Crikey, Ig. Does the depth of your suck never end? You're always
finding such super-great deals, and now you say that McMaster is your
freakin' next door neighbor?

How wide is the vortex near Chicagoland?


McMaster is less than a mile from me on a direct line, but a two mile
drive.

i