[TheForge] Re: trade secrets

[Ron Childers]

That is a good one. An old man came in the shop on day as I was restoring a
classic with lead- he said "Please let me do that! It's been so long since I
done that; they ain't used much lead since Bondo come out". I handed him the
wooden paddle and the torch and observed poetry in motion. Lead was all
there was when he started...  

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[mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of terry l. ridder
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 4:04 AM
To: Sponsored by ABANA
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Re: trade secrets

hello;

comments below;

On Sun, 26 Nov 2006, Larry Brown wrote:

>
>> 
>> Many years ago (Early 70's) I was cutting out of school and working in a 
>> body shop, mainly sanding cars, and I used to watch this old guy who came

>> to do the lead work on the old classic cars. I watched him a couple of 
>> times and he came over and yelled at me in broken Italian/English that I 
>> was a thief  and should be thrown off the job. I told him I never touched

>> his stuff and I wouldn't take any of it but he kept on yelling. The boss 
>> came out and then found someone who could understand him to translate. He

>> was mad because I was stealing with my eyes. I still couldn't do what he 
>> did then if I had tried and even know with 30 yrs of metal behind me I
know 
>> I could never have stolen enough to compete with him, even miserably. 
>> Unfortunately I got caught playing hookey and had to go back to school
and 
>> never got another chance to steal more..
>

okay, i really have to ask; who wrote the above?
i do not find the above message in theforge archives on mailman.qth.net.

>
> I thought wiping molten metal on the side of a car and having it be
perfect 
> in no time was amazing. I couldn't do as well with bondo
>
> Larry Brown
>

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terry l. ridder ><>
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