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Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Family member expresses interest!
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 15:49:16 -0800 Doc <doc@bionicdolphin.com> writes:
>
>> There's no support for gadget-men these days.
>
>Sure there is Mike,, they're called junkyards or surplus depots or
>recycling centers now.
It's not like it used to be. I could go to Busbee Electronics to
pick up the headset I needed, or the control head to the wingtip
lights on a P-51 or any of those bits of hardware essential to
a good project ... but it's gone now. The auto jubnkyards that
also sold tank, truck and boat parts aren't here any more. I don't
have the choices I had before. We all must admit that Vietnam-era
airplane parts are a lot less interesting than WW2-era airplane parts.
>Junkyard Wars and Monster garage are great shows and I've met quite a
>few young ladies that would rather watch that than sports.
*sigh* I don't know any girls like that.
> I fell in love with a girl because she loves to build Hotrods &
>Harleys from the ground up, she just swoons when I show up
>in my grubbies with a rose in one hand and a toolbox in the other.
I suppose her sister is married.
Mike H.
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