[elky] Re: A day when things went right (for a change)
- From: John Christensen <johncgg@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: elky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 11:06:42 -0500
That's a nice one!! I am partial to Nova's.
I forgot to add Car Club to my list. That is 2:30-5:00
JC
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 10:46 AM, CTSVMONGO <ctsvmongo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hopefully ya had fun doing it??? J Don’t know how id find the time for
> half of that many days… I guess I probably spend too much time drooling over
> the ones I cant afford-****
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> http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/67-Nova-/260878374230?pt=US_Cars_Trucks&hash=item3cbd901556
> ****
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> Holy crap I want one like this … and with push button noisiness J you have
> to look at the pictures real good to see what I mean.****
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> *From:* elky-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:elky-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On
> Behalf Of *Dann Keller
> *Sent:* Tuesday, October 25, 2011 10:43 AM
> *To:* Ray Buck et al
>
> *Subject:* [elky] Re: A day when things went right (for a change)****
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> Damn, you both make me tired just reading your lists; I better lie down and
> recuperate. All's I got done yesterday is changed the oil on the Elky and
> changed out the "heater water flow control valve." The silly thing started
> leaking after 28 years and 128K. I'll be lucky to get one-half that from
> the new one 'cause it's plastic.
>
> Dan
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> Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 05:12:15 -0600
> From: rbuck@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: elky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [elky] Re: A day when things went right (for a change)
>
> Holy smokes! That's one hell of a list. Good luck with it. If I started
> to make a comprehensive Things To Do list, I'd still be here tomorrow
> morning working on it without having completed anything. :)
>
> I woke up around 3 ayem and I've been answering email ever since. There's
> a big project on the horizon for Target 550 ( www.target550.com ) and a
> lot of it has to do with that.
>
> Back to work on the photo editing...I got sidetracked by phone calls last
> nite and didn't make much progress.
>
> r
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> On 10/25/2011 3:57 AM, John Christensen wrote: ****
>
> Hell of a good day. I can only hope this one goes as well for me.
>
> On my list:
> CAD for work before 7:30 AM
> Lions Club Board meeting at 8 AM (El Camino .... It's dry for now)
> Come home to a contractor in my house installing can lights and finishing
> drywall on the new island.
> Do the minutes for the board meeting (I'm the Secretary)
> Try to rustle up enough help to lift the heater in to position while I
> attach it to the ceiling of the garage
> Shut the gas off in the laundry room to start re-routing the pipe in the
> garage to the new heater
> Hardware run for pipe and a thermostat (El Camino hopefully... looks like
> rain today)
> Price out the Bamboo for the floor while I'm at the store
> Gotta eat in there somewhere
> Gotta walk about 3 miles before it rains too.
>
> I'll only get half of it done. If I get more, I'm happy.
> JC****
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> On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 8:44 PM, Ray Buck <rbuck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:****
>
> Boy, am I tired. It's been a long day (14 hours so far) and it ain't over,
> but in what seems to be a change from the norm, things went right today.
> Here's the list:
>
> I finally got Expedia to arrange for a refund of the 2 night's lodging in
> Wendover that I left early when World Finals was rained out:
> http://www.chevyasylum.com/lsr/bsf2011/05-wf/Welcome.html (there's a
> caption on every page to explain what went on as far as the racing and the
> Burb's distributor's untimely demise.) I had to be tenacious about it
> before I got it...at first they didn't want to refund anything, then the
> hotel manager said it was their policy to refund only 1 out of 2 nights, but
> when I explained that my German friend checked out at exactly the same time
> I did and got a full cash refund, the motel owner finally ran out of excuses
> and authorized the full refund. Btw...if you come to the salt flats, avoid
> the Motel 6 like the plague. The Knight's Inn is much better. Jim can
> explain about the cockroach he found in his room earlier in the
> year....ohh...and that was the place where the owner doesn't turn the heat
> on for the rooms until November. Hell, I dunno if he's noticed, but
> Wendover is in the high desert and has the same climate as Salt Lake
> City...except for our Wasatch mountains directly to the east of the SL
> valley. I started turning on my heater before I left for WF. But then I'm
> kinda cold-blooded.
>
> Moving right along, I got Moon Equipment's refund of the deposit for the
> Moon Disc mounting hardware welding jig.
>
> I took the junkyard driveshaft in and had the people at GRS Drivelines
> replace the slip joint and rear u-joint. That was done in about 6 hours.
> It cost about half of what had been refunded to me, so that wasn't too bad.
> It was pretty good, as a matter of fact.
>
> While I was waiting for that to be done, I was able to fix the Beater
> Camaro's horn button with the spring from a ball-point pen. Seems that
> whoever installed the aftermarket wheel (looks sorta like a 60s-era Cal
> Custom job) neglected to put the spring in the electrical contact do-dad
> that has the wire that connects to the grounding plate the center cap snaps
> onto. Confused? Me, too...but it was a no-cost repair of something that
> was a case of (as Jim H likes to say) "the dreadin was worse than the
> doin." Now I just need to get Safety and Emissions Inspection and I can get
> a real live license plate for it. That one may not be so easy.
>
> Finally (and this is rather ponderous) I took the "flexible flyer" trailer
> ramps back to the place I got 'em and although it also took some rather
> tenacious discussion with the parts counter people (the first guy was
> Mexican and we definitely had a "failure to communicate") I got a result
> that I'm very satisfied with. Here's what happened. When the folks at
> Henderson Wheel (a very well-established place for just about anything to do
> with wheels, spindles, bearings, trailers and a whole buncha other stuff)
> told me that they had a pair of 4400 pound-rated ramps, but they'd have to
> be brought in from one of their other stores (in Orem, Ut...the joke about
> that goes, "what's the difference between Orem and yogurt?" Answer: "Yogurt
> has culture." <G>) they did just exactly that. They had a pair of ramps
> brought north by their courier and I picked 'em up the next day. But what
> they gave me isn't what I paid for, nor was it what they'd told me I was
> buying. Seems the counter guy (experienced, knowledgeable and ok in my
> book) was off by a single digit in the part number and the ones he gave
> me...well, all the labeling was in French and when I unlimbered my high
> school (and Moroccan) French skills, I saw that it said, "Do not exceed
> 500kg on ramps." That's 1100 pounds, exactly 1/4 of the 4400 pound-rated
> ramps I supposedly bought. They were intended for use with garden tractors
> or maybe ATVs or snowmobiles. Fail. Big time fail.
>
> In an almost spooky way, the ramps that I'd paid for and they'd had brought
> in by courier were right by the door behind the counter. They apologized
> for handing me the wrong ramps and handed me the right ones. Here's a shot
> of 'em still in their packing along with the installation-ready driveshaft:
>
>
>
> Seeing what I should have had in the first place, there's no way that the
> first set could have done the job of what I picked up today. These are
> about twice as wide and twice as thick. Now I know why the others bent.
>
> Finally, I got in touch with a guy who wants a CD of photos (a new
> customer) and he tells me he'll be making a contribution to my website as
> payment for 'em.
>
> I can't remember a day in the recent past (hell, I can't remember
> breakfast) where so many things have gone right. Yanno, I think I prolly
> otta go to bed before I screw something up. :) No...I have another 120
> files to edit from the car show I shot last Saturday. But I can handle
> that.
>
> r
>
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