I'm just making a failed attempt at satire.  I eat this stuff up and I can
hardly wait until the weekend so I can replace the rear wheel bearings on
both of the vans I maintain!  Maybe I'll finish the other 20 things that
need to be done first though.

Stuart

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
David Beierl
Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2015 8:01 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Rear axle torque specs?

At 10:24 PM 6/3/2015, Stuart MacMillan wrote:
>Alistair,
>
>Yes, no doubt. We are probably the last three members left--only David,
>you and me now.  Maybe BenT to make four.  Call this the "last straw
thread."
>
>Pictures? Who needs stinkin' pictures when you can read text and
>visualize complex mechanical systems and concepts!!! Or not.

Stuart, what is wrong?  Have you got a toothache?  If you're not interested
in a thread, don't read it!  Things grow and things shrink.  This list still
serves the same needs it always has, and it would be a great shame to bend
it out of shape in chasing a demographic.  If Facebook serves the social
part better, fine, that's why it's there.  Pictures are neat, pictures are
useful, and when there's a need for a picture we point to a picture, it's
not as though it's hard to get a photo on the 'Net.

As of the last message I sent the list was being distributed to 398 members
(i.e. that many were actually getting mail, not just subscribed).  As a side
note, it lost over half its circulation between 20 and 24 April of this year
-- I suspect that those were dead subscriptions weeded out by the CONFIRM
request that went out about that time.  It has gained back since then, going
from 355 receiving mail to 398.

Yours,
David