Yeah, I know that.  The bravado is an essential part of the rant.

I did fix our little sumbitch, by the way.  Thinwall 3/16" tubing from the hobby shop JB Welded as an inner sleeve and a sliver of nylon no-see-um netting wrapping the outside and further JB-ed.  Whether it actually holds or not remains to be seen.

Stephen

--- On Mon, 7/28/08, Stuart MacMillan <macgroup@COMCAST.NET> wrote:

> From: Stuart MacMillan <macgroup@COMCAST.NET>
> Subject: Re: Broke it better
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Date: Monday, July 28, 2008, 1:17 AM
> David is right.  Just be glad it didn't break off when
> you were in the
> middle of nowhere, or worse, in the middle of traffic.
> Karma, just replace
> the whole sumbitch and get over it.
>
> Stuart
> BTDT