At 11:26 AM 7/24/2013, OlRivrRat wrote:
>        Why didn't you return them?

By the time you get underneath and are trying to fit them up you tend
to have an awful lot invested in the status quo...my experience anyway.

I got some 1.9l exhaust stuff from Bus Depot many years ago that
needed surgery.  Come to think of it I rather believe it was
Dansk.  It was a rush order, I was headed to Nova Scotia the next
day, and I spent the night doing whatever it was.  I wasn't extra
happy, and after the trip I asked to swap them for proper ones.  Ron
wasn't particularly receptive, and I understood -- he couldn't really
give them back to Dansk after I'd hacked on them.  In a better world
etc, but this is the world we have.  It certainly wouldn't have made
sense to blow the trip for this.

Perhaps this is how we absorb some of the life-pain of people who
have to spend their lives welding flanges on the ends of odd-looking
bent tubes times infinity.

Yours,
David