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.   
      
            R\%/itt   
      
      
      
   --- Ya have ta ask yourself: What Would Roy Witt Do?   
    * Origin: Texas Lone-Star - Texan, American, USAian  (1:387/22)