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Re: a moment of mg zen

To: gmccann@pcug.org.au, mgs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: a moment of mg zen
From: Paul Hunt <on76@dial.pipex.com>
Date: Wed, 01 Jan 97 16:16:04 GMT
Marc Steinberg wrote:
>
>I found myself last night with my head shoved between the fender and
>wheel of my MGB, trouble light in hand, pawing through the pea 
>gravel for the tiny screw and lock washer that secure the capacitor 
>inside the distributor...I dropped -- and found -- the thing three 
>times before I mamaged to get the threads to catch without fumbling.
>
Graham McCann replied:-
>
>It is amazing how many times you can actually find the rotten screws 
>when they fall into crevices etc but a clue if you could not find 
>the screw would be to fit a capacitor to the negative or CB terminal 
>on the coil.

Anybody remember Tom Sawyer, or possibly Huck Finn?  Apparently a 
sure fire method of finding a dropped anything is to drop another one 
from the same place and watch carefully where it goes.


PaulH
73 Roadster (HD&H)
75 V8 (DD)


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