Re: The time I blew off tech

[Derek Harling <derek.lola@sympatico.ca>]

Tom M wrote:
>  
> Then there was the guy who sternly warned me of the urgent necessity (to
> prevent electrical shorts) of installing a grommet around the battery
> wire where it goes through the firewall... in a fiberglass car.

My own, true, version of this was an SCCA techie at a vintage race who
insisted I had to cover the grounded battery terminal. So, with tongue
in cheek, I used some aluminum tape and he was happy. Maybe we were both
inwardly smiling at each other.