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Re: [TR] Trials and Tribulations

To: terryrs@comcast.net
Subject: Re: [TR] Trials and Tribulations
From: Bill <anabil007@comcast.net>
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:53:30 -0700
Ah ... these cars ... they do test you from time to time, but Casper 
took AnnaBelle and I to breakfast this morning in the lovely Sierra 
foothills town of San Andreas ... 75F nice roads, what more could you 
ask ... Casper now sports a small decal from Hagerty on his 
windshield ...
        "Life is too short to drive Boring Cars"   .... Pretty much says it all

>  >the bleeder screw had been sheered off.  I took it to a really 
>good machine shop
>>and they could not get it out ... so the guy who put it in must be 
>>at least as strong as the Terminator.  
>
>I cannot let this go unchallenged, Bill. 
>
>You see, when I was restoring '59 TR3A TS 58667, I tried to take off 
>the bleeder screw in both front calipers.  They were rusted solid so 
>broke off flush with the hole.
>
>Doggedly, I tapped an an easy-out into the hole and gently twisted. 
>It broke off inside the hole.  Thankfully I had learned my lesson so 
>even more gently tapped an easy-out into the second caliper and was 
>gratified when I succeeded...Uhm...to break it, but more slowly.
>
>So, with frozen bleeder screws in each caliper AND with carefully 
>snapped easy-outs buggering each one, I sent these craftily designed 
>challenge calipers to Quantum Mechanics. 
>
>They returned the calipers completely rebuilt and with no additional 
>charge for my having been so thoughtful for them.  They also 
>included no LOL or smiley face on their much deserved invoice to 
>insinuate their misunderestanding that I had other than purposefully 
>provided this opportunity to alleviate professional boredom.
>
>NFI, just a very satisfied customer.
>
>Terry Smith, '59 TR3A
>New Hampshire


-- 
"Thinking is the hardest work there is. That's why so few people 
undertake it." - Henry Ford
Bill Pugh
1957 TR3
"Casper"
TS16765L
Wallace, CA


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