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#152965 - 10/23/08 10:18 PM Re: I was ready [Re: ironraven]
Jeff_M Offline
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Registered: 07/18/07
Posts: 665
Loc: Northwest Florida
My one souvenir from 9/11 is a long sliver of metal I found stuck in my boot sole. One of my co-workers found a key labeled "WTC Do Not Duplicate."

Jeff

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#152986 - 10/24/08 12:12 AM Re: I was ready [Re: Jeff_M]
Paul810 Offline
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Registered: 03/02/03
Posts: 1428
Loc: NJ, USA
Working in construction I learned to keep a plug kit in my vehicles. I used to get nails in my tires so often it wasn't even worth it to switch to a spare. I would just plug them and keep on truckin'.


(Disclaimer: A plug is technically only a temporary fix, as tires are supposed to be both plugged and patched for a proper permanent fix. However, I never had a problem with tires that were just plugged, especially since I don't usually get more than 30,000 miles out of a set of tires.)

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#152987 - 10/24/08 12:20 AM Re: I was ready [Re: Paul810]
sodak Offline
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Registered: 03/20/05
Posts: 410
I do the plug kit also, although the last couple didn't hold, and kept developing slow leaks. I forgot to use glue...

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#152992 - 10/24/08 01:39 AM Re: I was ready [Re: sodak]
ironraven Offline
Cranky Geek
Carpal Tunnel

Registered: 09/08/05
Posts: 4642
Loc: Vermont
Yeah, these were new last winter and weren't run this summer. So they are still worth quite a bit. I'm getting them patched properly. :P
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#153034 - 10/24/08 01:02 PM Re: I was ready [Re: ironraven]
benjammin Offline
Rapscallion
Carpal Tunnel

Registered: 02/06/04
Posts: 4020
Loc: Anchorage AK
Hmm, even in this day and age, I gotta think a woman in a dress ought not have such a hard go of it getting her flat tire replaced. There's at least one person in this world I know of that would still stop to lend a lady a hand. I am guessing I would find a whole bunch more here on this forum just by asking.

That said, I expect my girls to all know how to take care of such things themselves. One shouldn't have to rely on the goodwill of others too much.

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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
-- Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)

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#153116 - 10/24/08 09:49 PM Re: I was ready [Re: benjammin]
ironraven Offline
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Carpal Tunnel

Registered: 09/08/05
Posts: 4642
Loc: Vermont
I've stopped. I admit it, I was raised to be chivalrous. And I curse a society where a man carrying pistol and sword is seen as a menace rather than just a well dressed man.

On the original thread, ahhhh... It feels good to have that donut off there. Four nice, full sized, grippy tires. It only looked like an antique nail- it was a sliver of cast metal, it was too light to be iron but it was black. Random debris. FOD sucks, especially when it isn't even something cool.
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When a man dare not speak without malice for fear of giving insult, that is when truth starts to die. Truth is the truest freedom.

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