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Date:    Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:03:34 -0700
From:    "Mike \"Rocket J Squirrel\" Elliott" <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: re. Gary Lee curtain rod?

DANG! Another "I just welded them on" answer. I can't weld, I don't own
welding gear. I know that any man that can't weld isn't really a man,
but I work with what I got.
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Yep, most welders can't bake bread.  There is another method too.  You know
those knobby things that look like coat holders around where the seatbelt
and grab straps are?  Easy to salvage from a vanagon carcass.  A penknife
like the one you use to sharpen the Condor Quill pen will lift out the
little centerpiece revealing a phillips type sheet metal screw.  Set the
drill to reverse and out it comes.  With two of these or several around you
can rig all sorts of interesting cordage.  Or just get eight or ten of those
niobium magnets and use em to secure a pareo in flamboyant or muted colors
to the metal.  Easy on Easy off.  Leave the maggies where the are, they
won't move much.

You could trade a few boules to a welder at Francois' Tri-Color Citroen shop
to have the work done too.  Jack at BRU in El Cajon could do the welding but
I don't know if he fancies Alaskan Sourdough Heritage Boules.