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Re: Repairing an 1975 MG Midget temperature gauge

To: Larry Cogan <woodrat@spacey.net>
Subject: Re: Repairing an 1975 MG Midget temperature gauge
Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 10:13:45 -0500
Cc: DLancer7676@cs.com, spridgets@autox.team.net
References: <003901bfc8a5$3ee02820$0d37a8cf@user>
<trained in the occult>  humm........... Liz, whatcha charge to fix a temp gauge
tube!!

Larry Cogan wrote:

> It is filled with 129 dollar bills, finely shredded, and stuffed into the
> capillary tube.  This procedure can only be accomplished by those trained in
> the occult, who restrict the practise their craft to very dark nights, when
> the planets align in an unpublished manner.  This particular alignment
> doesn't happen often....thats why when you send them your gauge for repair
> it takes a couple of months to get it back.  So "forget about it!"   Larry.
> (one of the untrained)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: DLancer7676@cs.com <DLancer7676@cs.com>
> To: spridgets@autox.team.net <spridgets@autox.team.net>
> Date: Saturday, May 27, 2000 10:12 PM
> Subject: Fwd: Repairing an 1975 MG Midget temperature gauge
>
> >
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> >
> >I was interested in this reply on the Sprite/Midget Club list about what is
> >inside the pipe on a temp/oil pressure guage.  This is the first time I
> ever
> >heard anyone say it was filled with helium.  I always understood it was
> >filled with alcohol.  Anybody??
> >
> >--David C.
> >
> >
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> >From: Mmbrock88@aol.com
> >Full-name: Mmbrock88
> >Message-ID: <6f.5862b6c.2661b00c@aol.com>
> >Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 19:11:08 EDT
> >Subject: Re: Repairing an 1975 MG Midget temperature gauge
> >To: DLancer7676@cs.com, siemensr@sdh.sk.ca, midgetspriteclub@listbot.com
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> >
> >The pipe on the gauge is filled with helium. If the pipe springs a leak it
> >gets out! You can usually get a recon. exchange gauge. I can't remember
> where
> >I got mine, it was so long ago.
> >
> >Margaret
> >
> >--part1_be.46efd35.2661d8e4_boundary--
> >


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