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DrEntropy

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Silverghost has had his '68 MGB iggy key break off in the switch... At a shopping plaza.

I hope I gave him the right info to get him home. Awaiting anxiously for news.
 
DrEntropy said:
Silverghost has had his '68 MGB iggy key break off in the switch... At a shopping plaza.

I hope I gave him the right info to get him home. Awaiting anxiously for news.
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I did that once in my sister's 66 VW Bug. Maybe he can extract with pair of needle nose.
 
No news yet, he said the steering wasn't locked. Gave him the way I thought he could start and drive the thing home.

Still waiting for news.
 
Maybe a strong magnet might extract it.
 
Key is brass... Tweezers!
 
freaking heart attack. Like "Broken Arrow".
Grey Lady Down my hindquarters.
Not Funny.
Just sayin'.
 
Sorry about the angst, Dave. Shoulda used Broken Arrow instead.
 
There ya go. Get the skimmers all hot and bothered.
 
For the wife's Toyota, I just called a locksmith. Cost some money, but got it fixed right. He showed up in about 20 minutes with parts on the truck and fixed it right there in the parking lot at her school.
 
DrEntropy said:
mehheh. You know I'm a prior airdale... :smirk:
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and you know I am the other...two kinds of ships, submarines and targets. Done on purpose!

There are more airplanes in the water than submarines in the sky.

The only GOOD Marine is a SUBmarine!
 
TOC said:
and you know I am the other...two kinds of ships, submarines and targets. Done on purpose!

There are more airplanes in the water than submarines in the sky.

The only GOOD Marine is a SUBmarine!
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You made me laugh, Dave. Yep, I know.

I'm fortunate. Shot at plenty as one of those 'targets'. Somehow never hit. Others of my same AFSC not so lucky.

High respect to you and yours, my psych profile would have NEVER allowed me on a boat!
 
I fooled them. But, you had to be certifiably NUTZOID to seal it up and open the vents.

Stories abound....first hand.
Fresh out of shipyard overhaul....sea trials....come back and somebody finds a hole in the hull (water in the people part) where the shipyard cut out a through hull fitting....and covered said hole with EB Green.

EB green is a sort of superman green duct tape used by Electric Boat (hence the "EB").

Or the boomer sealing up, and somebody sees daylight off beside the inner access hatch....and gets the dive stopped before serious consequences ensue.

You've never lived until the boat gets shoved down by a rogue wave while on the surface, with folks on the bridge....to 125' depth...and bridge hatches open..and 110VAC in the water running out of the light fixtures.....if I wasn't nutzoid before that, I was afterwards.
 
Horror comes in many different forms. I would certainly choose to face my finality in my sleep rather than what you've described. Been certain it would come as an HH-53 took fire over jungle, and again when sliding sideways at an intersection on ice in a western Pennsylvania winter in an MGB. Still here and pleased as a result. We're in what my Ol' Fela called "overtime"... he lived after a German 88 round didn't quite kill him when his AA crew crossed the Ruhr.

In private, which boat?

I've some connection with EB and the materials shipped to Groton.
 
anarchy99 said:
I could have fun with this group and good ole military s**t talking.
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You're livin' in the area of my ol' stompin' grounds! Across the Bay, lived a couple blocks from the Chesapeake, on Buckroe Ave.
 
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