had one ... but the doors fell off

"Dan Larsen" > wrote in message
...
> >I'm still trying to figure out what the phrase "100% better" means. Can
> >someone give an example with numbers ilustrating something being 100%
> >better than something else.
>
>
> Certainly. It is 100% better to have sex with Brittany Spears,
than
> it is to have sex with Earnest Borgnine.

Who is Earnest Borgnine? Perhaps before my time?


Ted

Bill Putney wrote:
> Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> > "peter denyer" > wrote in message
> > ...
>
> > ...By contrast I
> > have an 84 olds that broke a drivers door hinge once. It happens.
>
> I can't help but wonder if that Olds was of the X-body type.

Bill,

No, A-body. Olds Ciera. The hinge part that was welded to the door
post fractured in half, thus only one weld was holding the hinge on,
that weld broke right off the sheet metal soon afterwards.

I don't think it was ever welded properly, the weld looked like the
sheet metal of the door post never melted into the weld itself.

The '80
> Chevy Citation that I bought new had one of the driver's door hinges
> come apart (hinge plate separated from the body) - combination of
weak
> design and a weld at the low end of the bell curve that ate up what
> little design safety factor there was. An awful experience getting
any
> help from GM on getting htat fixed.
>

well, mine was too old for GM help, I took it to a body shop who had
seen this before. The replacement hinges were bolted onto the door
post. They didn't even try rewelding it which kind of surprised me.
If I had known they wern't going to reweld it, I would have fixed it
myself.

I've welded on sheet metal before and watched a master welder do it, so
I knew I couldn't have rewelded the hinge myself, that is why I took it
out. Apparently the body shop guy knew he couldn't do it either.


> > running at $8 a bottle, I know darn well that there's people going
to those
> > yards for "free' antifreeze.
>
> Heh heh! That's probably to avoid having to pay a third-party a
> "hazardous wast disposal fee" to haul it off.
>

Of course. My observations from hanging around watching transactions
at the counters of these yards is that the primary consumers of this
are most likely the migrant Mexican workers who are too poor to replace
leaking water pumps and such in their roach coaches, they just keep
pouring the free stuff in. So the antifreeze ends up spilled on the
road anyway. Those people seem to treat wrecking yards as full service
auto parts stores.

Ted

Bill Putney wrote:
> Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> > "peter denyer" > wrote in message
> > ...
>
> > ...By contrast I
> > have an 84 olds that broke a drivers door hinge once. It happens.
>
> I can't help but wonder if that Olds was of the X-body type.

Bill,

No, A-body. Olds Ciera. The hinge part that was welded to the door
post fractured in half, thus only one weld was holding the hinge on,
that weld broke right off the sheet metal soon afterwards.

I don't think it was ever welded properly, the weld looked like the
sheet metal of the door post never melted into the weld itself.

The '80
> Chevy Citation that I bought new had one of the driver's door hinges
> come apart (hinge plate separated from the body) - combination of
weak
> design and a weld at the low end of the bell curve that ate up what
> little design safety factor there was. An awful experience getting
any
> help from GM on getting htat fixed.
>

well, mine was too old for GM help, I took it to a body shop who had
seen this before. The replacement hinges were bolted onto the door
post. They didn't even try rewelding it which kind of surprised me.
If I had known they wern't going to reweld it, I would have fixed it
myself.

I've welded on sheet metal before and watched a master welder do it, so
I knew I couldn't have rewelded the hinge myself, that is why I took it
out. Apparently the body shop guy knew he couldn't do it either.


> > running at $8 a bottle, I know darn well that there's people going
to those
> > yards for "free' antifreeze.
>
> Heh heh! That's probably to avoid having to pay a third-party a
> "hazardous wast disposal fee" to haul it off.
>

Of course. My observations from hanging around watching transactions
at the counters of these yards is that the primary consumers of this
are most likely the migrant Mexican workers who are too poor to replace
leaking water pumps and such in their roach coaches, they just keep
pouring the free stuff in. So the antifreeze ends up spilled on the
road anyway. Those people seem to treat wrecking yards as full service
auto parts stores.

Ted

"maxpower" > wrote in message
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>
> "Denny" <wddodge@woh Sounds like a sour-grapes attitude from someone with
> a
> big, BIG chip on
>> his
>> shoulder as well as a BIG ax to grind..
>
> Sorry pal you took that wrong

Hey maxpower, I didn't say that. That came from the phillips poster..

Denny

"maxpower" > wrote in message
...
>
> "Denny" <wddodge@woh Sounds like a sour-grapes attitude from someone with
> a
> big, BIG chip on
>> his
>> shoulder as well as a BIG ax to grind..
>
> Sorry pal you took that wrong

Hey maxpower, I didn't say that. That came from the phillips poster..

Denny

I no, i was just reading it and posted to what he said, it isnt no big deal,
"Denny" > wrote in message
...
>
> "maxpower" > wrote in message
> ...
> >
> > "Denny" <wddodge@woh Sounds like a sour-grapes attitude from someone
with
> > a
> > big, BIG chip on
> >> his
> >> shoulder as well as a BIG ax to grind..
> >
> > Sorry pal you took that wrong
>
> Hey maxpower, I didn't say that. That came from the phillips poster..
>
> Denny
>
>
>

I no, i was just reading it and posted to what he said, it isnt no big deal,
"Denny" > wrote in message
...
>
> "maxpower" > wrote in message
> ...
> >
> > "Denny" <wddodge@woh Sounds like a sour-grapes attitude from someone
with
> > a
> > big, BIG chip on
> >> his
> >> shoulder as well as a BIG ax to grind..
> >
> > Sorry pal you took that wrong
>
> Hey maxpower, I didn't say that. That came from the phillips poster..
>
> Denny
>
>
>

"maxpower" responded:

>I no, i was just reading it and posted to what he said, it isnt no big deal,
>"Denny" > wrote in message
. ..
>>
>> "maxpower" > wrote in message
>> ...
>> >
>> > "Denny" <wddodge@woh Sounds like a sour-grapes attitude from someone
>with
>> > a
>> > big, BIG chip on
>> >> his
>> >> shoulder as well as a BIG ax to grind..
>> >
>> > Sorry pal you took that wrong
>>
>> Hey maxpower, I didn't say that. That came from the phillips poster..
>>
>> Denny

No, I posted correctly as that is how I interpreted the original statement.
Whether you meant it that way or not, that is how it was interpreted. What you
fail to realize is that the written word will not always be interpreted by the
reader in the same context in which it was written.

"the phillips poster"

"maxpower" responded:

>I no, i was just reading it and posted to what he said, it isnt no big deal,
>"Denny" > wrote in message
. ..
>>
>> "maxpower" > wrote in message
>> ...
>> >
>> > "Denny" <wddodge@woh Sounds like a sour-grapes attitude from someone
>with
>> > a
>> > big, BIG chip on
>> >> his
>> >> shoulder as well as a BIG ax to grind..
>> >
>> > Sorry pal you took that wrong
>>
>> Hey maxpower, I didn't say that. That came from the phillips poster..
>>
>> Denny

No, I posted correctly as that is how I interpreted the original statement.
Whether you meant it that way or not, that is how it was interpreted. What you
fail to realize is that the written word will not always be interpreted by the
reader in the same context in which it was written.

"the phillips poster"

perhaps you should get a life and stop worrying over this, people are just
so lame...
"RPhillips47" > wrote in message
...
> "Denny" wrote:
>
> >Hey maxpower, I didn't say that. That came from the phillips poster..
> >
> >Denny
>
> Perhaps you should post the proper technique one shold use when quoting
another
> post?????
>
> "the phillips poster"