At 04:40 PM 10/27/95 -0400, MALIK HAMMED MAHMOUD wrote:
>I keep a couple of long shoelaces to replace broken throttle cables.
>They've come in handy twice.
The shoelaces from my Converse All-Star hi-tops, which are about twenty feet
long, made a dynamite manually-operated backup for when the linkage on a
Nissan 280ZX windshield wiper failed. Tied one lace to each wiper blade and
run them inside the cockpit through the windows. Driver tugged on one to
sweep one way, I tugged the other to return. Saved my friend and me from
having to abort a holiday trip in a particularly nasty rainstorm.
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Jay Tilton / jtilton@vt.edu (vt = Virginia Tech vt <> Vermont)
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