TheBanyanTree: The years go by ...

[Pam James]

your 'fixer' and 'fixer-upper' skills continue to amaze me!!!

On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 4:21 PM, paul <paul at remsset.com> wrote:

> 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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