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Re: Repair Nazis

To: RGS03%ALBNYDH2.bitnet@UACSC2.ALBANY.EDU
Subject: Re: Repair Nazis
From: Andy Mace <AMACE@unix2.nysed.gov>
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 1994 10:34:27 PST

On Wed, 9 Nov 1994 RGS03%ALBNYDH2.bitnet@UACSC2.ALBANY.EDU wrote:

> Which is why Andy Mace and I both looked for and bought property with
> lots of space *and* large barns (for storing large quantities of parts)
> not to mention little in the way of zoning.
> 
The following message provides approximately 10% of the RDA for LBC content:

One of the advantages of a large barn is that, even when you fill it up 
with valuable Triumphs and spares, it's big enough to hide almost 
anything you care to put BEHIND it (as I found out when someone 
complained to the Zoning people about all those cars out front, which in 
itself was strange as I live next to a sawmill, with lots of equipment 
lying about!). A similar complaint at my former residence (parents' 
house) was taken care of by (on the advice of that town's Zoning Officer) 
covering the offending vehicles with tarps and mentioning to anyone who 
asked that they were wood piles (this during the energy crises of the 1970s).

Re: pits -- I had one in my parents' house quite by accident. An addition 
to the house had covered over the drilled water well. Naturally, a short 
time later, the pipes failed in the well. The addition, which was a 
garage, gained a pit after the builder dug down to the well, replaced the 
pipes, and lined the resulting hole in concrete for "future access to the 
well." As it was a relatively small pit, much upper arm and shoulder 
strength was developed pulling Heralds, Spitfires and TR3s over the pit!
I later worked for this builder, who built a new house for himself, 
including -- yes -- a pit in his garage!

More LBC-related:

Does anyone know how one might go about dissolving the bond that holds a 
multi-piece taillamp lens together -- specifically a Herald lens? Also, 
is there a good adhesive for regluing such lenses? Superglue never seemed 
to work for me with plastic lenses.

Andy Mace
Hoag's Corners, NY


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