[SunRescue] "Hooking up" at TCF this weekend...

[Joshua D. Boyd]

Grr, I wanted to go that this weekend, but ended up spending the day
working on fixing my car's brakes (the rear ones which are drum brakes).
The first one went horribly while I tried to figure out what I was doing.
The second started out better, but when even worse when I poped one of the
pistons out of the brake cylinder.  All told, the job took 7 hours and
required purchasing a regular set of brake pads($22), a bottle of brake
fluid($2), and a thirteen dollar spring which broke (and was the whole
reason I needed to fix things).

A day looking at cool computer parts would have been so much more fun.

--
Joshua Boyd

On Fri, 4 May 2001, Ken Hansen wrote:

> Were you part of David S.'s group - I think we had a van, (it left with more
> than it came in with, IIRC), I just remember one of Dave's frineds from
> Rochester that was *real* fond of his few PC parts, peiced at about 65% of
> their new prices, two years previous!
> 
> I also remember during the tail end of our collective "UnixPC/7300/3b1"
> phase, dave had a friend that *flew in* from the midwest (well, maybe it was
> Ohio) to shop - it was funny, he not only had to rationalize the purchaseof
> the useless hulks discarded by others, "...all part of some eventual master
> plan *not quite* worked out full yet, but I'm quite sure this will be
> needed - and at this price I can't pass it up!"
> 
> I believe he got Dave to go to UPS the next day and ship some of his larger
> "treasures" back home...
> 
> I often think back to the ones that *should* have been rained out, but
> weren't...
> 
> Sadly, last year I was able to traverse the entire flea market in under 3
> hours, and then just hung around, not quite believing that was "all there
> was." ;^)
> 
> If you are in any way serious, you need to get a flea market spot, then you
> simply park the car and cart your treasures back to your space, and at the
> end of th eday, you simply drive home! Once the show went "corporate" the
> spaces got too expensive (for me)...
> 
> Ken
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave McGuire" <mcguire at neurotica.com>
> To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
> Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 10:02 PM
> Subject: Re: [SunRescue] "Hooking up" at TCF this weekend...
> 
> 
> <snip>
> 
> >   Indeed.  I fondly remember TCF of '84 and '85...I was still in high
> > school at the time...more stuff was sold before the show opened for
> > buyers than after! :)
> 
> 
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