Bad Aussie! Bad!

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Karl Wolz

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray Hunnam" <hunnam@PNC.COM.AU>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 12:46 AM
Subject: Re: emergency--gasoline leak

> 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!
> >