Date:         Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:09:48 -0700
Reply-To:     Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: re. Gary Lee curtain rod?
Comments: To: Ellen in Oregon <elleninoregon@HOTMAIL.COM>
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Hey hey - my semi-industrial strength sewing machine arrived a few days
ago. I'll shortly be stitching up a storm. Thing can't zig-zag or make
buttonholes, but it will stitch through 1/4'' of leather.

The downside is that the women in the house are making fun of me now
like I'm some kind of nancy boy: making bread, sewing. I point out that
none of them know how to do that -- hoping to insult their very
womanhooditude, but they are unfazed.

So I'm gonna hook a leafblower engine to the sewing machine. That'll
shut 'em up. I hope.

--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
KG6RCR



Ellen in Oregon typed:
> Mike
>
> "Can't weld, can't sew; what are we going to do with you?"
>
> Ellen
> Lola, '85 Vanagon ASI
>
>
>
> Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow
> into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own
> freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away
> from you like the leaves of autumn.
> --John Muir
>
>
>
>
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: "Mike \"Rocket J Squirrel\" Elliott" <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
> Reply-To: "Mike \"Rocket J Squirrel\" Elliott" <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: re. Gary Lee curtain rod?
> Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:03:34 -0700
>
> DANG! Another "I just welded them on" answer. I can't weld, I don't own
> welding gear. I know that any man that can't weld isn't really a man,
> but I work with what I got.
>
> --
>
> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
> 71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
> 74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
> KG6RCR
>
> On 7/23/2007 11:12 AM Gary Lee www.vwrack.com wrote:
>
>>> Anyone know how the curtain rod (bottommost mod) on Gary Lee's page was
>>> made?
>>
>> http://www.telusplanet.net/public/gary2a/rack/westy/westymods.htm
>>
>> I just took a piece of 1/4" round rod, bent it to shape then welded
>> tabs on
>> the ends.
>> The tabs are bolted to the van.
>>
>> Gary Lee
>>
>
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