[AT] Shop thoughts (was)Air Lines

[R Mull]

Farmer, excellent posts.

In My honest opinon, Tim Taylor has a very good looking TV wife.

Thanks,
Robert Mull
Woodstock, Georgia
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Indiana Robinson" <robinson at svs.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 8:00 PM
Subject: RE: [AT] Shop thoughts (was)Air Lines


> On 1 Aug 2005 at 13:17, Dean VP wrote:
>
>> Farmer:
>>
>> I am a bit concerned that you are over reacting here a bit. I don't want 
>> to
>> try to characterize any list members shop as I haven't seen very many. 
>> What
>> works for them is fine with me. But I think a wrong impression can be 
>> gained
>> by the characterization that those of us who use more than rubber hose in
>> our air lines have extravagant shops and have thrown money foolishly into
>> our shops is a bit off the edge, IMHO.
>>
>> I've seen a very good operating air compressor system made from a 
>> portable
>> compressor, a coil of copper tubing and one water filter. That didn't 
>> cost
>> very much and was a bit cumbersome. But it worked quite well.
>>
>
>
>
> Hi Dean:
>
> Actually I was not really responding to your post, I know you to be 
> generally frugal
> from years of reading your stuff.   :-)   I certainly have nothing against 
> iron pipe
> except it takes more "sweating" in general than copper (pun intended). I 
> guess I have
> been on this list long enough to be dangerous...   :-)   I have seen the 
> same pattern
> here so often that I can feel it coming like a cold fog on a dark night. 
> First a few guys
> start discussing what works and what can be better. Next someone 
> invariably starts
> talking about "industrial standards" then several guys kick into full Tim 
> Taylor mode and
> someone starts saying that even iron pipe is no good and only gold plated 
> stainless steel
> will work because a piece of iron pipe exploded in 1903 and killed a cat 
> in Alabama and
> besides that is what they use in the nuclear plant that they work in... 
> ;-)    Maybe
> this time I swung the bat before the pitcher actually let go of the ball. 
> But I know it
> is coming... It always does... I can feel that cold damp fog...   ;-) 
> Tim Taylor lives.
>
>
>
> -- 
> "farmer", Esquire
> At Hewick Midwest
>      Wealth beyond belief, just no money...
>
> Paternal Robinson's here by way of Norway (Clan Gunn), Scottish Highlands,
> Cleasby Yorkshire England, Virginia, Kentucky then Indiana. In America 100
> years
> before the revolution.
>
>
> Francis Robinson
> Central Indiana USA
> robinson at svs.net
>
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