SeaCat
Hey, my Halo is smoking
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Sometimes a simple solution works best.
I was up visiting my parents today when my father and I went for a walk around their park. Along the way we saw several of his neighbors clustered around a kids bike with the kid standing there more than upset. We walked over to see what was going on.
The kids father had been putting a new seat support on the bike when he dropped the support, (a pipe) into the bike's frame. They had been working on this for a bit and were stumped on how to get the pipe back out.
Now these guys weren't stupid. A couple of them were engineers and others were fabricators for N.A.S.A. Still they were stumped. They were almost at the point of trying to cut the frame down to get at the pipe.
I looked at the bike and told them for a case of beer I would get the pipe out. They all smiled and then agreed. If I could get that short section of pipe out of the bikes frame they would buy me a case of beer. My father grinned while looking askance at me. I told them to get me a wire Coat Hanger and send someone off to get the beer. They all smiled but one of them ran and found a coat hanger.
They watched as I cut and straightened the heavy guage wire. Then I put a bend in the end of the wire making the end into a reverse hook that was just a hair smaller than the inside diameter of the pipe. I fed this down inside the frame then shoved it inside the seat support pipe which was necked down a bit at the top. When it was moving freely again I eased it back up until it caught then I drew the section of pipe out of the frame. (It's an old bar trick, you can pick up a Wine or Beer Bottle with a straw this way.)
A half hour later they delivered not one but two cases of beer to my fathers place. (Good beer to.)
Cat
I was up visiting my parents today when my father and I went for a walk around their park. Along the way we saw several of his neighbors clustered around a kids bike with the kid standing there more than upset. We walked over to see what was going on.
The kids father had been putting a new seat support on the bike when he dropped the support, (a pipe) into the bike's frame. They had been working on this for a bit and were stumped on how to get the pipe back out.
Now these guys weren't stupid. A couple of them were engineers and others were fabricators for N.A.S.A. Still they were stumped. They were almost at the point of trying to cut the frame down to get at the pipe.
I looked at the bike and told them for a case of beer I would get the pipe out. They all smiled and then agreed. If I could get that short section of pipe out of the bikes frame they would buy me a case of beer. My father grinned while looking askance at me. I told them to get me a wire Coat Hanger and send someone off to get the beer. They all smiled but one of them ran and found a coat hanger.
They watched as I cut and straightened the heavy guage wire. Then I put a bend in the end of the wire making the end into a reverse hook that was just a hair smaller than the inside diameter of the pipe. I fed this down inside the frame then shoved it inside the seat support pipe which was necked down a bit at the top. When it was moving freely again I eased it back up until it caught then I drew the section of pipe out of the frame. (It's an old bar trick, you can pick up a Wine or Beer Bottle with a straw this way.)
A half hour later they delivered not one but two cases of beer to my fathers place. (Good beer to.)
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