Gerry Campbell wrote
>Looking forward to all the great information/advice on this
>site as I proceed forward with my hobby
Hobby?
I always thought a hobby was something that could be done in a warm room
while sipping a cold drink, like stamp collecting, or stained glass, or
cataloguing first editions. Something harmless, safe, fun, respectable,
and not too expensive.
Not, an activity that involves gashed knuckles, strained backs, endless
metal confusion over what's British, what's Metric, what's Whitworth, and
what's simply been made up by a lad with a hangover in Solihull.
A hobby does not involve trying to figure out wiring that Michael Faraday
might have designed or mechanical principles that would have buffaloed
James Watt.
A hobby is not something that requires the memorization of Metal Fatigue
and Strength of Materials versus Cold Temperatures graphs when driving
through a Canadian winter. A hobby should not result in a full body
soaking in a mixture of oil, grease, and gasoline as a prerequisite to
indulging in it.
And no hobby requires the adherence to such deeply set rituals that they
might have been drawn up by a college of Cardinals in 1632 or the Aknaten
High Priests of Karnak, as those surrounding the Series
Land-Rover. Buddhist koans, Christian beliefs in a virgin birth, the Hindu
cycles, none of them are as fiercely held as:
oil or grease in the swivels;
to free wheel hub or not;
a hyphen or not in Land (-) Rover
whether any modifications at all affect the nature of a true Land (-) Rover;
which tyre(tire) is best;
what utterly inappropriate motor can be successfully adapted;
and which is better, DOT 3 or 4?
The only one that hasn't made it into the liturgy yet is, and that is only
because no one on this list has the money for such a thing, is; which gas
turbine should I put in my Series? (It will come I am sure -- how about
the Pratt and Whitney PT-6? Surely, run-out versions are cheap on the
scrap market by now.)
So, welcome to the list. By the way, most westerners do indeed dislike
Ottawa, but then again most Calgarians think that people who live in
Edmonton are dangerous socialist fools living in a prison of ice. Not me
though, welcome to the Bloody Knuckles Club. If you need a wrench or
something I'm just three hours dead south, five if you are in a Series.
Rick Grant
1959 SII 88"
VORIZO
Calgary Alberta
www.rickgrant.com
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