Happy to see I'm in the company of people who appreciate humor :)
I like y'all
Caitlin
--- In diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com, briankk <briankk@...> wrote:
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> Har! Back in the day, I got a job supervising a room full of CNC equipment. The boss took me and my tool box into the room. All the machine operators were manish women with short hair and practical shoes. Boss pulled my dykes out a drawer, held 'em and said: "This is a pair of side cutting wire pliers, never a pair of dykes..." The 'women" damn near fell down laughing..
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> --- On Tue, 11/8/11, Nate <vwnate1@...> wrote:
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> Subject: [diesel_mercedes] Re : ' Expendables '
> To: diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Tuesday, November 8, 2011, 12:58 PM
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> You'll be pleased to learn that those multitude of junked BMW's (Bavarian Money Wasters) in every junkyard across America , all use largely the same clamps , plugs , screws , nuts & bolts , fuses and so on .
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> In The Auto Trade these are called ' expendibles / consumables ' because they wear out or get dropped and vanish , or you find some bubba used the wrong thing when the car was serviced in tweakerville by the DPO.....
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> The good thing is : these items are scattered all over the ground in every junkyard so it's simple to grab a couple and toss in your toolbox (ash tray if you don't smoke) and have handy when you need them .
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> The other good news is : a year or three ago , someone mentioned that old Mercedes Diesels were effeminate (or other similarly foolish remark) so the Q. was posted : are you gay ? .
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> Guess what ? there's a whole buncha Gay folks here (relax folks , I don't ' out ' anyone) who know and love their old 'Benz's just like the Macho idiots love their Chevy pickup trucks =8-) .
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> You're in good company here ! WELCOME HOME .
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> Oh wait ~ _I_ love old Chevy Pick 'em up trucks , does that mean I'm an idiot Bubba too ? . =8-) (prolly so)
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> > Thanks Nate...it's worth a lot :)
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> > I'm still learning about what tools are good to have on hand, which ones can be cheap, which ones are worth extra $, etc.
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> > Of course, I had no idea what you were talking about, and at first I was thinking "But me and my beautiful assistant ARE a pair of dykes...and we tried!" and then I realized you must be talking about a tool so I looked it up ;) Ha!
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> > And when I encountered that pesky stripped screw, I *knew* there had to be a good general way of dealing with those, and now I know!
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> > As for clamps, that's good to know that the mercedes ones are worth keeping. I also bought an assortment of the german style, they have ridges but not the same kind, so they don't cut into the hoses. Good to know that was a worthy purchase :) I've already swapped out a few while putting in some new flexible fuel line sections.
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