>On Thu, 22 Sep 1994, Greg Meboe wrote:
>> On Sun, 18 Sep 1994 TVRVixen@aol.com wrote:
>> > The worst boge I ever saw:
> >> I was working at an independent sports car shop in 1971 in a university
town.
> >> A customer (one of those over-educated but cheap university types) had
a
> >> Lotus Elan. He had fixed his own brakes. His car had had a leaking
steel
> > >brake line. To fix it he had wrapped it with layers of aluminum foil
and
>> > epoxy glue. Need I say more?
>> > Don ^^^^ ^ ^^^ ^^^^
>> Don, Yes I do think you need to say more. I don't see the bodge
> >and I reread it three times.
> > Greg Meboe meboe@wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu
> > Dept of Mechanical and Materials Engineering
> > Washington State UNIVERSITY Pullman, Wa.
>
>I wondered myself. I think it must be that he shouldn't have wasted money
>on the aluminum foil; the epoxy alone should have been sufficient.
> Ray Gibbons, B.S., Ph.D.
> Professor of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
> UNIVERSITY of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
> gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu (802) 656-8910
You guys crack me up. Wasted money on al. foil? Can't see the bodge? How
about explaining to your widow that you were too cheap to buy a $6 brake line
and fix it right instead of glueing it together. The point of this, as an
example of a nasty bodge, is that a proper repair is cheap and easy, the
parts cost and time involved is small. The consequences of a failure of the
epoxy is death.
You guys may be "(one of those over-educated but cheap university types)" who
I came to despise while working in a university town or maybe not, but I
would suggest you leave the brake work on your vehicles to a someone who
actually took shop class in high school and who knows how to use a brake line
flaring tool.
That would make a great obituary wouldn't it?
"The epoxy should have been sufficient?"
No offense intended, I just can't believe anyone would argue this one,
Don
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