Date:         Thu, 26 Oct 2000 17:19:06 -0600
Reply-To:     Drew Bedford <drew@BOMB-PROOF.COM>
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From:         Drew Bedford <drew@BOMB-PROOF.COM>
Organization: Bomb-Proof Productions
Subject:      Re: What tools do you carry in your Bus on a daily basis?
Comments: cc: Matthew Pollard <poll7356@UIDAHO.EDU>
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Mathew,

It may not have relevance to your carb situation, but I have found a
magnetically charged Phillips screwdriver really helpful in retrieving
the odd nut or bolt dropped in a bad place. Rides in my van along with
the 7,8,10,13, 19 mm hexes, old piton hammer, needle noses, vicegrips,
duct tape, baling wire, extra 50/50 coolant, analog cell phone and auto
club card.

Here's to boring road trips,
Drew
83.5 Westy
Park City, Utah


> So what tools do we carry in our busses on a daily basis- not a road-trip
> basis?
>
> I'll start: in my bus i have a full set of cheap-o metric sockets
> and wrenches, pliers, needle nose, cutters, large cresent wrench and large
> channel locks, Bentley, Hoses, wire and VOM. And the most useful tool-
> AAA Card!
>
> The reason i ask is that this morning i had some auto problems. You see, i
> was taking some stuff to the dump for my advisor (slave labor??) and
> stopped at a hardware store for some new Carharts (pants). When i came
> back out my truck wouldn't start. Hmmmm. So i pulled off the air filter
> and proceeded to drop the air-filter bolt down the carb! Woops. I didn't
> have any hand tools in my truck so i had to borrow a cresent wrench to
> remove the carb to get the bolt out.  Oh yeah, i used to carry tools but
> they got stolen sometime ago...
>
> Cheers
> Matthew
>
>
> Matthew Pollard             http://www.uidaho.edu/~poll7356
> Dept. of Chemistry               http://www.chem.uidaho.edu
> University of Idaho                   http://www.uidaho.edu