Hi Gang

Yes us Aussies are a resourceful lot.  Does anyone remember the Vegemite
posts some time back.  Well another bush remedy concerns vegemite and
splinters that one gets as a timbercutter or fence builder.  Just spread it
on the wound where the splinter is and by morning it has been drawn out.  Go
figure.

Absolutely no vanagon content  and I hang my head in shame.

Ray Hunnam

-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Adams <keith_adams@TRANSCANADA.COM>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Date: Wednesday, 31 May 2000 1:00
Subject: Re: emergency--gasoline leak

>I've seen bubblegum done (and work).  The best though was on an Australian
show
>called "Bush Tuckerman" about this guy who roams around the outback telling
>stories of survival and how to get on in the woods, etc.  Anyways, one of
the
>jerry cans (not sure if it held water or petrol) on his Land Rover sprung a
leak
>and he plugged it with tree gum.  I saw a later show (2 years later) and he
>showed the patch - still holding, baked from the Aussie sun.
>
>Keith Adams
>Calgary, Alberta, Canada
>1986 Vanagon GL Westfalia
>
>Sean Garrett wrote:
>
>> Here a real funny story but very true. One night in a parking lot on
campus
>> (very young and stupid) we drove over some curbs to get out of the lot.
>> Why?, we drove around in circles but could not find the way out but could
>> see an exit across the way. The next morning my freind called me and told
me
>> he was out of gas. I fetched a can of gas and met him and we proceeded to
>> fill the tank. Gas leaked out everywhere. We found the leak and I
remembered
>> seeing in a cartoon or 3 stooges show using bubblegum to clog it. We
bought
>> some super bubblegum and chewed it up good, cleaned the area around the
>> holes with a dirty rag and stuck it into the holes. That patch held for
over
>> two months (till it was fixed). The person who fixed the tank told us
that
>> he had to scrape it off and was impressed with its tenacity. I know that
it
>> might not be approved or accepted for this type of use, BUT IT WORKED
REALLY
>> WELL!
>