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Re: Fiddly Jobs (was RE: steering knuckle joint)

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Subject: Re: Fiddly Jobs (was RE: steering knuckle joint)
From: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 16:43:01 +0100
In article <11EEFA4B6844D511A0E70008C71E9F018F3933@ABDEXH01>, Richard 
Gosling <richard.gosling@exprogroup.com> writes
>John said:
>
>...the most fiddly job I have done on the spitfire, previous number 1
>position was held by 'trying to insert the cotter pin back into the window
>winder handle'...
>
>I have to say that my No.1 is probably the one I did before setting off to
>work this morning:  When fixing the foot of the soft-top frame to the top of
>the B-pillar, trying to get the plate with the 3 threaded holes in it to
>align with the holes in the panel AND the holes in the foot of the frame at
>the same time, and then get the bolts in.

Obviously neither of you have ever replaced the door/window seals, or 
removed and refitted the speedometer...

ATB

-- 
Mike
Michael Hargreave Mawson, author of "Eyewitness in the Crimea"
http://www.greenhillbooks.com/booksheets/eyewitness_in_the_crimea.html

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