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Y'all Think I'm Slumming . . .

Post by Amskeptic » Sat Dec 23, 2017 10:42 am

. . . and I am, but still I manage to get myself all tangled up in mechanical/electrical/emotional conundrums.

For example:

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OK, I hear you say, big deal. But then:

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An excruciatingly delicate disassembly of a fluorescent dashboard display on a bush-whacking search for a speedometer needle that kept sinking to due vertical south:

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This required a delicate application of Gorilla Glue on the end of a small screwdriver to the spindle and needle "hub" between two exceedingly fine clock springs/limit stops/cathode tube brushes . . . (!)

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... and a what-the-heck-I'm-here dab of Gorilla Glue to the end of the fluorescent tube/speedometer needle. I said to myself, I said, "pretend you are performing brain surgery on your beloved little child" to help keep me focused and deliberate. You CANNOT let your fat fingers get glued to the needle!

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After gluing my fat finger to the kid's brain (good-bye piano lessons!), I had to find a razor blade and carefully cut my finger free of the needle with a range of allowable movement somewhere around .003475-.003477mm.

So, the speedometer needle is allegedly reattached to the spindle, and the oil change is complete and I am driving to Atlanta for Christmas and we might even get a holiday header up there if zabo can tell me what happened to the file folder that keeps such things . . .

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BobD - 78 Bus . . . 112,730 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles

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