Brer Mark Hofmann wrote to Brer Roy Witt about Re: Transmission Flush:

 RW>> place by himself. He was much bigger and stronger than I was, but
 RW>> such a good friend.

 MH> My Mom always says, "Where there is a will, there is a way".

 MH> All the cussing and screaming must be edited out of the TV shows with
 MH> the rebuilds, because I have yet to tackle a repair and keep it in
 MH> the "G-Rating". :)

LOL! I do that with my CNC mill programming. The controller is so stupid,
that it CRS and I have to continually re-edit it to make it work properly.

 MH> Not a repair, but before Hurricane Sandy I ran to Home Depot and
 MH> managed to get a 5500 watt generator.  The truck battery was dead at
 MH> the time (before I replaced the battery), so I had to take my Monte
 MH> Carlo.

That was a mistake. You know that what you buy isn't going to fit in that
car. Kinda like my 3rd gen Camaro; the new roll-away I needed at a job
site didn't fit unless I left the lid open. When I quit that job, I had my
SIL pick it up and bring it home for me in his pickup.

 MH> Getting that beast into the trunk was no easy feat.  I took it out of
 MH> the box and was trying to lift it into the trunk, but soon realized
 MH> it needed to be done by more than just me.  Thankfully, a nice
 MH> passer-by helped me get it loaded up and I drove it home with the
 MH> trunk open - but at least it was in there.  It was too heavy to fall
 MH> out.

That reminds me of the Buick Engine I carried home in the trunk of my 52
Chevy. The damned car was so low under the weight of that engine that it
scrapped bottom going over a set of RR tracks. That punctured a hole in
the gas tank, which I plugged up with a wad of chewing gum.

 RW>> 8^) I was tackling wheel bearings in my bicycle when I was
 RW>> 12...Bendix brakes were giving me a problem on reassembly and I was
 RW>> getting very frustrated. About that time my dad came home from work
 RW>> and when I asked him what to do, he asked who had taken it apart.
 RW>> When I told him it was my doing, he said that I should know how it
 RW>> went back together again. I never forgot that and surprised him in
 RW>> his own garage by knowing what to do without reading the manual.
 RW>> Which was another of his suggestions when things weren't going
 RW>> right.

 MH> I took my childhood BMX bike apart many times (Mongoose).  I
 MH> re-greased the bearings and added alloy parts, etc.  Seems it has
 MH> always been in my blood.

The same here. My parents would marvel over the things I took apart and
re-assembled and that they still worked.

 RW>> When I met my wife to be, she was impressed that when I came over to
 RW>> her apartment, I fixed things that the landlord couldn't fix...I
 RW>> taught her to solder her own stereo wires to connectors, etc...I
 RW>> guess that won her over because she's still amazed at some of the
 RW>> things I do.

 MH> My wife likes the fact that I fix things and figure stuff out.  We
 MH> are both engineers - but in different areas.  She is in the
 MH> architecture and design field and I am in the technology field.  Have
 MH> been all my professional life. We share the creative and building
 MH> gene - but in different areas.

It's great that you wife has that ability. Most women don't. OTH, I ran
into a 40+yo woman here in Texas who had a traffic accident and repaired
the damage herself. She R&Rd the whole front end of her car, painted it
and with the exception of the still missing bow-tie, it looked as good as
before.

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