Blue collar skills seem to be in short supply in Seattle. A local
construction union chief was quoted in the newspaper saying they were having
serious trouble recruiting apprentices ($45K/yr after 1 year). Guys would
show up on the job site and quit before noon, found out they had to dig holes,
stand in mud, lift stuff, etc. Although my boys will attend college, for many
reasons I also want them to have experience in a blue collar trade.
Now for MB content: Are any of the Prestone products acceptable for Benz?
Getting hard to find the Zerex G-05.
Thanks,
Bruce
Tom Scordato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This ASIC engineer has been out of
work since May. No sign
of hiring in my field, or in related ones I'm probably still
qualified in. One complication: I will not relocate to some
wretched hell-on-earth like Silicon Valley. We have acreage,
something you cannot find in a whole lot of places. _This_
is where we are going to raise our son.
Again my theory about having a white collar skill and a blue collar skill
such as heavy equipment operator or welding certificate. Especially us
rural folks, have to be survivors, like our fore parents. Ditto on not every
moving to the viper pit areas some
wretched hell-on-earth like, New York, LA, SF, Boston. If you do have to
go there do the weekend warrior thing, leave the kids in a safe spot.
Remember we own diesels, they love those 600 mile one way trips./ Tom
Bruce
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Now what sort of fun will that be!?!=A0 Think of the jolly good time the=20
local firefighters will have when the accumulated layers of oil and muck go=20=
up in=20
flames. =A0 You would deprive them of the enjoyment of hosing off my car?
You miss the point entirely. Anyone putting a torch to a closed container=20
containing oil residue and fumes from same is a fool. It's what's inside, no=
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outside.=20
Lo, these many years ago I owned an Alfa Giulietta Spyder. Red. A mistake in=
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more than one way. One day while pootling along in the four month old car, I=
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drove across a section of road that had dropped six inches at an angle acros=
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the road. The idiots who repaired it simply slopped some asphalt over the=20
exposed dirt which created a six-inch diagonal cliff. While passing over thi=
s=20
fault, the steel oil pan of the aforementioned car contacted the pavement,=20
cracking it and causing a bit of a seepage. I took the car to a local Alfa g=
uy for=20
repair and he decided to weld up the little crack after draining the oil. So=
on=20
after commencing the repair, as he was lying under the elevated machine, a=20
small bang was heard followed by the fastest exit from under a car I had eve=
r=20
seen by a man in coveralls with no eyebrows. The oil fumes in the pan had of=
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course exploded, blowing out the pan gasket pretty much all around. Not to m=
ention=20
the gasket under the U-shaped cam cover on top of the four-cylinder twin-cam=
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engine. He said then he thought it might be an idea to remove the oil pan an=
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repair it on the bench.
Get it now?
RLE/Seattle
