Earlier today, Ed Kaler said:
" By the time you spend 20 hours farting around with said instrument
you could
have sent it to MoMa and had it back, installed in car, drivrn a couple
hundred miles, and fixed something else!!!!!!! Why do we (sic) keep
trying to
reimvent the wheel???"
Now I usually see totally eye to eye with Ed over such things as
Pozidriv tools, wiring harnesses, and such. But this time I think he
might be forgetting that some people derive great pleasure in fiddling
with their cars. Enrique (the original poster) may want to try to fix
the gauge himself.
I had a roommate who had a 1967 or so Sprite that was held together with
spit and bailing wire. One time he showed up at the Palo Alto meet with
a generator bracket that he had produced in his own forge. It looked
like something out of the Middle Ages, but it WORKED! And he was very
proud of it.
"Sometimes we took pride in just GETTING there..." - Jimmy Stewart to
Richard Attenborough in "The Flight of the Phoenix"
Cheers, Paul Kile
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