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Posted: **Wed Mar 30, 2016 2:48 pm**

Well it's interesting I'll give them that much. Found in a VV-VI I just bought at auction.

Posted: **Wed Mar 30, 2016 3:52 pm**

"Crude but effective" illustrated

Posted: **Wed Mar 30, 2016 3:52 pm**

Did it run?

Jim

Posted: **Wed Mar 30, 2016 4:26 pm**

I've seen some crude repairs but that takes the cake!

Posted: **Wed Mar 30, 2016 7:17 pm**

"Crude, but defecive..."

Posted: **Thu Mar 31, 2016 1:04 am**

Or, as the Doctor put it once:

"Effective, but crude."

Bill

Posted: **Thu Mar 31, 2016 10:13 am**

phonojim wrote:Did it run?

Jim

I don't know. The spring was broken in two other places so perhaps it did, for a while.

Posted: **Thu Mar 31, 2016 9:54 pm**

I'd say "redneck ingenuity" at its finest.

How not to repair a spring