In a message dated 12/4/03 7:44:56 PM, dbeierl@attglobal.net writes: << Until it stress-cracks at the inside corners >> Well, after all, they were designed for the rarity of a flat tire a happy motorist might suffer and not for a vehicle maintenance regimen. I had one split, too, but I assigned that to the 3 foot long cheater I had slipped over it's handle. I was once at a business concern which had a fleet of trucks and the garage to maintain them. When one of the employee's went to leave, he found a flat tire on his American whatever car. He tired to change the tire with the lug wrench from the car only to give up in frustration. He then got a 4-way from one of the service bays only to find it was too big to fit into the lug nut counterbores of his mag wheels. Since I was parked near him and wanting to spare him the hassle of dragging out an air hose and an impact wrench, I gave him the van's lug wrench to try. All the kibitzer's watching this show laughed derisively when I handed it to him. They shut up real fast as they watched him spin off those lug nuts with no problem. Before I could put away the lug wrench, everyone in the peanut gallery wanted to take a closer look at "that thing". George |
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