[AT] stuck plugs

Paul Waugh pwaugh at embarqmail.com
Fri Mar 20 15:37:11 PDT 2009


This thread has really made me chuckle. Every thing said has hit way too 
close to home.  I am still laughing :))

Paul - IN
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "charliehill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 4:27 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] stuck plugs


> Here's the way it usually works for me.  Say I'm looking for a wire brush
> that I know I put up somewhere.  I'll go to look for it and it won't be
> there but I'll see my big pair of channel lock pliers and make a mental
> note. Then a month later I'll need the channel lock pliers.  I'll open my
> mental note pad and go back to the same spot where I know I saw it.  Sure
> enough it's not there but the wire brush is.  Unfortunately I've already
> bought a new wire brush.
>
> I had that happen a while back.  I needed some teflon pipe dope (you know
> the kind that comes in a small tooth paste type tube).  I knew I had about 
> 3
> different types, fuel oil, water,  gas pipe, etc. and couldn't find any of
> it.  So I went to town and bought a tube.  By the end of the week there 
> were
> tubes of pipe dope everywhere.   Most of it was right where I left my roll
> of electrical tape.
>
> Charlie
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bob McNitt" <nysports at frontiernet.net>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 4:03 PM
> Subject: Re: [AT] stuck plugs
>
>
>> Ralph -
>> You nailed it ...the surest way NOT TO find something you want right then
>> is
>> to look for it. The surest way TO FIND it (usually a long time later) is
>> to
>> look for something else. Done it dozens of times, and it always seems to
>> work.
>> Bob in CNY
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> AT mailing list
>> http://www.antique-tractor.com/mailman/listinfo/at
>
> _______________________________________________
> AT mailing list
> http://www.antique-tractor.com/mailman/listinfo/at
> 





More information about the AT mailing list