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Re: Thanks!

To: Sumner Weisman <sweisman@gis.net>
Subject: Re: Thanks!
From: George Richardson <gprtech@frontiernet.net>
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 20:45:24 -0500
Cc: triumphs@Autox.Team.Net
Organization: Merlin Group Inc.
References: <199803141934.OAA14650@home.gis.net>
I've got some still attached to some rusty hubcaps. I'm not sure what
kind of shape they're in, but if you don't mind that, you're welcome to
them.

Sumner Weisman wrote:
> 
> I've only known of this fine site for about a week,  and have already
> learned a lot!  There are some smart people on here.  Although new on the
> page, I have been an LBC lover for a long, long time.  Have owned an
> English Ford 1958 Anglia, 1970 MGB-GT and, for the past 11 years, a 62
> TR3-B.
> 
> Regarding my first query ever on this page the other day (on bleed valves,)
>  thanks to Dave Hill, Angelo Graham, Fred Thomas, Malcolm Walker, and
> others.  You know who you are.
> 
> Here's another question:  Last summer I lost one of the TR-3 hubcaps while
> on a trip.  I bought a new hubcap and new center medallion from Moss.
> Where my old medallion was rugged metal, the new one was plastic.  The
> center stud was just glued in, and immediately popped off with very light
> torque of a nut driver.  I swapped it for another, and the same thing
> happened.  So, I cleaned it well and applied "crazy glue" and it lasted for
> 6 months.  Yesterday I found it on the garage floor!  Does anyone know if I
> can still buy the metal ones somewhere?   How about TRF or elsewhere?  Or,
> does anyone in the US have one in a junkbox they'll sell?
> 
> Thanks,
> Sumner Weisman, Framingham, Mass.

-- 
George Richardson
'57 TR3, TS15559L
(getting ready to paint - and now on the web!)
http://www.merlingroupinc.com/tr3.htm

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