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Date:         Wed, 16 Apr 2003 14:35:26 -0500
Reply-To:     Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Essential Tools
Comments: To: vanagon@mail.spurgin.net
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Remember what I told you Dylan ................ If anybody ask what I look like tell them "John Wayne".

Stan

On Wed, 16 Apr 2003 12:31:51 -0500 Dylan Spurgin <vanagon@mail.spurgin.net> writes: > Sorry about that Stan. Thanks for all your help over the weekend. > My van > sounds like a new animal and has more power too! > > One thing I never leave home without is a print out from the AIRS > list on > http://www.type2.com/ of everyone in every state I'll be travelling > through. > > ds > > At 11:03 4/16/2003 -0500, Stan Wilder wrote: > > >You know what I hate? > >I hate it when I loan tools to a real clutz and he returns them > with > >blood from his knuckles still on the tools. > >That just chaps my but. > > > >Stan Wilder > > > >On Wed, 16 Apr 2003 11:14:59 -0400 Eric Zeno <vw4x4@FYI.NET> > writes: > > > Very good advice. Without shelter in a dirt parking > > > lot, there is a very good chance that you will be > > > loosing tools, and fumbling around in a rain > > > storm trying to install a head gasket. Under > > > poor conditions like this there is a good chance > > > you would be doing the job over in a very > > > shortly time. My thoughts are ether get it to > > > a good shop in the area, or rent a U-haul and > > > tow her home. > > > Eric > > > > > > > > > David Brodbeck wrote: > > > > > > > On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, Mike Collum wrote: > > > > > > > > > To some degree, it depends on what tools you're either > qualified > > > or > > > > > willing to use. > > > > > > > > I think it also depends on what you're willing to fix in the > > > parking lot > > > > of an interstate rest stop. > > > > > > > > Think hard about what types of work you're willing to do in a > > > poor > > > > location under bad conditions, and what work you'd rather have > a > > > shop do > > > > for you instead. Be honest with yourself, and remember, > you're > > > on > > > > vacation. Any tools that apply only to jobs you don't want > to > > > tackle > > > > under those conditions, leave at home. > > > > > > > > David Brodbeck, N8SRE > > > > '82 Diesel Westfalia > > > > '94 Honda Civic Si > > > > > > > > > >________________________________________________________________ > >The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! > >Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! > >Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! > > > >

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