TheBanyanTree: The years go by ...

[paul]

Way back in the Stone Age, almost, the electric pencil sharpener in 
the copier room at the Texas Dept. of Banking broke. I told Gary 
because that sort of stuff was his department. The motor ran but not 
the sharpening guts.

Gary bought a new machine and tossed the old one in Margie's trash 
can. This was after Gary's space had moved down to the Print Shop 
area. I asked Margie if I could have it. Uh, "ask Preston". So I did. 
I had to show the poopie one it was not working.

The official story is that I took it home and fixed it. In reality I 
fixed it during my lunch hour. Gave the motor a couple of drops of oil 
on each bearing and put the big plastic/nylon gear back onto the motor 
shaft. Added a smear of fingernail polish on the shaft because I 
didn't have super glue. Walla, fifteen minutes and fixed! Hmm, I 
forget why I had fingernail polish in my desk.

This was about 1990. What? 26 years?

Tried to sharpen a pencil the other day. The machine made a bad noise. 
Opened it and somehow it had striped teeth off of the big gear.

Not much there I can fix.

Junk, that's all you can buy anymore. Oh, and get off of my lawn. Damn 
whippersnappers.

paul

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