>The circumstances under which someone wants some of our stuff is usually >unorthodox if not downright strange. My last request for piano wire was >from a guy who wanted a foot of very small gauge. Turns out he wanted to >drill the edge of a quarter, affix the piano wire, then proceed to chump >the phoneco for LD charges by repeatedly dropping and retrieving the >quarter from pay phones. I got out of that one by telling him that he >needed the cheese slicer gauge, and that all my stuff was too big! > >At the other end of the spectrum, I found that K through grammar school >teachers love used, clean action parts. It's amazing the projects they can >come up with by using all or parts of various components. > I still get an occasional call from someone at Boeing (Wichita, yes... there is one here too) wanting a pound of something in the .030" range (their spec) to use as a half mile straightedge to align jigs and/or machinery. When I open one of the (new) smaller gauge pounds and find the rusty hand prints on the coil, I save it for the next Boeing call. It's the other five or six pounds of larger gauge rusty stuff lying around that I'm not sure what to do with. Ron N
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