Date:         Sat, 17 Sep 2005 10:31:47 -0500
Reply-To:     Stan Wilder <wilden1-1@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
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From:         Stan Wilder <wilden1-1@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: Vanagon Starter - windings available?
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the truckers and construction guys would string the shop owner up by his
ying-yangs.
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I see you used some words at the end of your sentence I don't quite
understand so I thought I'd get you to explain this news headline in this
mornings paper.
The headline reads: WOMAN SHOT IN ROBBERY, BULLET IN HER YET!
So where might a woman's YET be located?
I've never seen one that I know of but I have an intense interest in finding
out what it is.

Stan Wilder
Engine Ceramics
214-352-4931
www.engineceramics.com


----- Original Message -----
From: "George Goff" <THX0001@AOL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2005 9:59 AM
Subject: Re: Vanagon Starter - windings available?


> In a message dated 9/17/05 5:34:37 AM, kenwilfy@COMCAST.NET writes:
>
> << On the other hand I have had customers go to the local electrical
rebuild
> shops and get their alternators and starters rebuilt.  They last about a
year
> or less. >>
>
> Maybe that is how things are done in Joisey, but in my part of the world
if
> that is all the better an auto electric shop could do, the truckers and
> construction guys would string the shop owner up by his ying-yangs.
>
> The mystery of rebuilding electrical apparati disappeared even before
Tesla
> flip the switch at Niagara Falls.  I rebuilt a Vanagon starter myself
years ago
> and used it for five more years.  As far as I know, the thing might still
be
> merrily spinning away.  Admittedly, I have a few more machine tools under
> power than the average happy homemaker, but not that many more than the
> run-of-the-mill auto electric shop.
>
> Some persistent starter problems might be caused by failing to replace the
> outboard bushing bearing or distorting it when it is installed without a
proper
> tool.
>
> George