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    7/17/2021 5:31 PM  #1

    MS
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    MustangSteve’s LAW remains in effect

    Today I went to install my new LED taillights on my 66.  Simple thirty minute job since I already had an earlier version of LEDs on it.
    The LAW kicked in when I somehow lost one of the short phillips screws that holds the chrome bezel to the taillight panel.  I could not find it anywhere, but am 99% certain it is in the trunk, under the spare or down in the trunk dropoff area.   It was too hot to disassemble everything to look for it so I now have one missing screw.  Of course, they are a screw specific to that application and I don’t have one laying around.

    Stuff like that really hacks me off!

    The lights came from Steve’s Mustang.  Glen knew exactly what to send when I ordered the bright-assed LEDs

    Money you enjoy wasting is NOT wasted money... unless your wife finds out.
     

    7/17/2021 8:21 PM  #2

    Chaplin
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    Re: MustangSteve’s LAW remains in effect

    Stuff like that drives me mad!

     

    7/17/2021 10:36 PM  #3

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    Re: MustangSteve’s LAW remains in effect

    I made four custom Holley idle feed restrictors earlier today.

    Dropped one that transported itself to an alternative universe.

    Made a fifth one so I could have four!

     

    7/18/2021 12:20 AM  #4

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    Re: MustangSteve’s LAW remains in effect

    MS wrote:

    Today I went to install my new LED taillights on my 66. Simple thirty minute job since I already had an earlier version of LEDs on it.
    The LAW kicked in when I somehow lost one of the short phillips screws that holds the chrome bezel to the taillight panel. I could not find it anywhere, but am 99% certain it is in the trunk, under the spare or down in the trunk dropoff area. It was too hot to disassemble everything to look for it so I now have one missing screw. Of course, they are a screw specific to that application and I don’t have one laying around.

    Stuff like that really hacks me off!


    The lights came from Steve’s Mustang. Glen knew exactly what to send when I ordered the bright-assed LEDs

    Many years ago, I was installing the compressor halves on a little  Allison 250 C20 turbine engine for a Hughes 500 helicopter. The halves were held on by a whole mess of small special screws and nuts. I dropped one of the screws and it simply disappeared. I spent an hour looking for that screw, swept the shop floor, etc, etc. I finally had to get a new one from another helicopter operator.
    When I got home that night after a long frustrating day, I was getting undressed for bed.  As I took off my pants, the screw hit the floor. The pants were working uniform pants, with a cuff at the bottom of the legs. The damned screw had landed in my pants cuff and stayed there all day! I hate it when that happens!!!!
     

    68 coupe - 351W, 4R70W, 9" 3.25 -- 65 convertible - 289 4v, C4, 8" 3.00
     

    7/18/2021 7:04 AM  #5

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    Re: MustangSteve’s LAW remains in effect

    At the Joe Martin Craftsmanship Museum in Carlsbad CA they have a steam engine that must be viewed through a large magnifier.  That's because it is only slightly larger that a BB (not Bullet Bob).  The story the docent told me is that the builder dropped the first one...never found it, and had to build a second one.  Now that would REALLY be a PIA.

    Incidentally, if you have never been to that museum and you have a chance to go...DO IT.  You absolutely will not believe the volume and quality of the work.  Ask our Barry, I didn't think I'd ever get him to leave.

    Last edited by Bullet Bob (7/18/2021 7:07 AM)

    "you get what you pay for, good work isn't cheap, and there are NO free lunches...PERIOD!"
     

    7/18/2021 11:23 AM  #6

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    Re: MustangSteve’s LAW remains in effect

    You know the big bolt that holds the balancer in place on a SBF????.......Yep!

    It NEVER did show up!  I searched for months in my garage..........
    6sally6

    Get busy Liv'in or get busy Die'n....Host of the 2020 Bash at the Beach/The only Bash that got cancelled  )8
     

    7/18/2021 1:04 PM  #7

    josh-kebob
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    Re: MustangSteve’s LAW remains in effect

    MS wrote:

    Today I went to install my new LED taillights on my 66.  Simple thirty minute job since I already had an earlier version of LEDs on it.
    The LAW kicked in when I somehow lost one of the short phillips screws that holds the chrome bezel to the taillight panel.  I could not find it anywhere, but am 99% certain it is in the trunk, under the spare or down in the trunk dropoff area.   It was too hot to disassemble everything to look for it so I now have one missing screw.  Of course, they are a screw specific to that application and I don’t have one laying around.

    Stuff like that really hacks me off!

    The lights came from Steve’s Mustang.  Glen knew exactly what to send when I ordered the bright-assed LEDs

    Sent you a text message today...

     

    7/18/2021 2:27 PM  #8

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    Re: MustangSteve’s LAW remains in effect

    Sounds too much like the time portal in the back of the dryer that all those all those missing socks go through.

     

    7/18/2021 4:37 PM  #9

    rpm
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    Re: MustangSteve’s LAW remains in effect

    6sally6 wrote:

    You know the big bolt that holds the balancer in place on a SBF????.......Yep!

    It NEVER did show up!  I searched for months in my garage..........
    6sally6

    You need one? Gotta couple extra.

    Bob. 69 Mach 1, 393W, SMOD Toploader, Armstrong  steering, factory AC.
     

    7/18/2021 4:48 PM  #10

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    Re: MustangSteve’s LAW remains in effect

    Bearing Bob wrote:

    6sally6 wrote:

    You know the big bolt that holds the balancer in place on a SBF????.......Yep!

    It NEVER did show up!  I searched for months in my garage..........
    6sally6

    You need one? Gotta couple extra.

    I offered but, he had one in his secret stash

     

    7/18/2021 4:59 PM  #11

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    Thankee.............no butt..........thankee!
    6s6

    Get busy Liv'in or get busy Die'n....Host of the 2020 Bash at the Beach/The only Bash that got cancelled  )8
     

    7/18/2021 8:44 PM  #12

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    All these FOD stories make me cringe.  Spent my career in Aerospace Quality....

     

     

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