Thanks for the replys. I really do agree with you on the "emergency quick
fixes". And I know the "we-cheap" is usually tongue in cheek. I did start
in the MG hobby long before my budget could really afford it, and had alot
of fun in the process. I did mention I was having a bad day, didn't I?
David Riker
----- Original Message -----
From: <Lancer7676@aol.com>
To: <davidr@sunset.net>; <eybdoogy@earthlink.net>; <jboatri@emory.edu>
Cc: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 3:41 AM
Subject: Re: exhaust bandage
> In a message dated 8/24/99 1:04:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> davidr@sunset.net writes:
>
> << This "We Cheap" stuff is really starting to bug me. Why not just go to
the
> local little guy muffler shop >>
>
> David:
>
> I agree to an extent. I know the muffler shop guy is there and can go
spend
> the $20 or so to get something like that fixed. But I enjoy the cheap
> "fixes" because I never know when I am going to be out on the road and
have a
> problem one of these ingenious cheapies might fix for me. At least enough
to
> get me home and then to the muffler shop. Beer cans and clamps are a lot
> easier to find than a muffler shop in the Mountains of East Tennessee on a
> Saturday night. I carry, wrapped around the center windshield post, a
length
> of wire I stripped out of a bread wrapper. A couple of times my headlight
> switch went South at night--I found by wrapping the wire around the three
> contacts my headlights would work. I installed a new switch, but the "we
> cheap" fix got me safely home and through the period when the switch didnt
> work. In the big picture I agree--fix it right--but in the smaller
picture,
> I think drivers of these aggravation-prone cars need to know cheap and
simple
> "fixes" to get us home at times.
>
> Just my loose change!! 8^)
>
> --David C.
>
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