Re: Now for something completely different!

["Mike Hughes" <hughes.c.m@worldnet.att.net>]

New tool for the mechanic who has everything:

http://sheldonbrown.com/tork-grip.html

Now for a bit of background:

Over 30 years ago I found my first old M.G. - a 1951 TD that I still own. 
It was rusty, had rotten wood and had been sitting in the first owners 
backyard a block from my parent's house for enough years to have a small 
tree growing through the drivers side floorboard.  I chopped down the little 
tree, fired it up and drove it home.  I was young and had a complete set of 
both SAE and Metric wrenches, so I was ready to fix it up!  Curiously, none 
of my tools really fit all that well and it was getting cold outside in the 
driveway.  I resolved to bring as much of the car inside as possible so I 
could work on it in the warmth of my parent's basement.  So I took the car 
completely to bits armed with nothing more than a can of penetrating oil, 
one of those little propane torches and two pair of Vise-Grips!  If I'd had 
THIS tool I could have put it back together!  Word of this circulated around 
the local M.G.C.C. Centre and one of the older members took pity on me and 
gave me a complete set of Whitworth sockets in both 3/8 and 1/2 inch drive 
and a set of Whitworth wrenches that he wasn't using anymore for $26, which 
I still have today.

- Mike Hughes  -t?t- 
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