I watch a couple different YouTube channels that specialize in repairing old junk. I always joke that the cleaning phase is the one where they make all their money.
My neighbor was talking about getting a new lawn tractor. Last spring I changed the oil in his for him, he's a good neighbor so I wanted to help him out. While I was at it I washed the thing. He just leaves it out in the weather and the plastic was all coated with black "stuff". It washed up pretty nice considering I only spent a few minutes at it. When I gave it back he couldn't believe it was the same mower and quit thinking about a new one. -Curt On Wednesday, November 2, 2022 at 04:04:21 PM EDT, dan penoff.com via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: Even better, Randy, are the ads you see of a fairly nice car yet they haven’t gone to the trouble of vacuuming off the carpet or picking up the trash that’s been tossed i the back seat/trunk, wherever. Such a minor effort that makes a big difference. I’ve never understood this myself, either. -D > On Nov 2, 2022, at 1:00 PM, Randy Bennell via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > On 02/11/2022 1:08 PM, Allan Streib via Mercedes wrote: >> Looks like parts at best. And whatever it is, I don't think it's a diesel. >> >> https://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/cto/d/chicago-for-sale-65-mercedes-benz/7552666220.html >> >> >> >> _______________________________________ > > People are truly lazy. > > Think how much better that car would look in the photos if they had cleaned > it. > > I bought a boat a couple of years ago that had been sitting outside with moss > and algae growing on it. It looked pretty ratty. I used a pressure washer and > when I was done it looked a whole lot better. It had some shine to it. I had > already bought another newer boat so I sold this one and got 3X what I paid > for it, mostly because it looked so much better. I had intended to do some > work on it but the first fellow who came to look at it decided he wanted > right then and was willing to take it as it was so I didn't end up doing > anything to it apart from washing it. I was prepared to get it running to > prove that it ran but never had to do so. > > Randy > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
