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Re: New uses for old parts

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Subject: Re: New uses for old parts
From: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 08:12:32 +0000
In article <1012773550.3c5db2aecdac2@webmail.MUW.Edu>, tw1@muw.edu 
writes
>Quoting Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I seem to be building up quite a selection of worn-out or otherwise
>> unusable parts as I gradually replace them with functional ones.   The
>> latest addition to the scrap heap is a speedometer (accurate to within
>> +/-15 mph, odometer drive gears stripped).   Given that there are
>> thousands of second-hand speedos out there that do work, there seems
>> little point in getting it refurbished, yet the dial is quite
>> attractive, and it is highly evocative of the car.
>>
>I think you should pour in a little glitter and fill it up with mineral oil.
>Seal all the openings with hot glue and create a snow globe that will be the
>envy of all your friends! (sorry, that's the elementary school teacher in me
>talking)

Now that's the sort of thinking I like to see!   I think there will be a 
huge market for such things, and that very soon there will be no more 
usable second-hand speedos anywhere in the world. :-)

ATB

-- 
Mike
Michael Hargreave Mawson, author of "Eyewitness in the Crimea"
http://www.greenhillbooks.com/booksheets/eyewitness_in_the_crimea.html

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