Sharps40
Old Mossy Horns
Dad,
You've had me working on and under Ol Bessy for as long as I can remember. The earliest jobs were checking and changing the ammeter fuse before each night trip and making sure we had enough fuses in the glove box to have headlights all the way there and back. I remember when I was 8 or 9, Joppa Town Maryland, Ol Bessy failed inspection for an exhaust leak. You showed me how to fix it, hangers cut and straightened into wire, coffee cans cut into strips, wrap the pipe at the leak with coffee can smeared with muffler cement and twist the coat hanger wire tight around the coffee can patch. Go for a ride to heat it up and seal it for re inspection.
And all those years and all those cars I put weather stripping and rubber seals on using 3M adhesive. Just like you taught me, smear a coat on the steel and the rubber, let it dry, pull off all the stringy stuff that got on everything and every place you didn't want it, smear on another light coat of 3M goo on the rubber, press and hold.
Where the hell was 3M weather strip tape when I wore a younger mans clothing? Peel, stick to rubber, peel, stick to car. Done. No strings and no black or yellow goop on my hands for days.
In the time it took for you and I to wrap an exhaust pipe in tin and wire, all four doors are sealed.
Thank the Good Lord its the 21st Century.
You've had me working on and under Ol Bessy for as long as I can remember. The earliest jobs were checking and changing the ammeter fuse before each night trip and making sure we had enough fuses in the glove box to have headlights all the way there and back. I remember when I was 8 or 9, Joppa Town Maryland, Ol Bessy failed inspection for an exhaust leak. You showed me how to fix it, hangers cut and straightened into wire, coffee cans cut into strips, wrap the pipe at the leak with coffee can smeared with muffler cement and twist the coat hanger wire tight around the coffee can patch. Go for a ride to heat it up and seal it for re inspection.
And all those years and all those cars I put weather stripping and rubber seals on using 3M adhesive. Just like you taught me, smear a coat on the steel and the rubber, let it dry, pull off all the stringy stuff that got on everything and every place you didn't want it, smear on another light coat of 3M goo on the rubber, press and hold.
Where the hell was 3M weather strip tape when I wore a younger mans clothing? Peel, stick to rubber, peel, stick to car. Done. No strings and no black or yellow goop on my hands for days.
In the time it took for you and I to wrap an exhaust pipe in tin and wire, all four doors are sealed.
Thank the Good Lord its the 21st Century.