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"Roger" <Delete-Invallid.stuff.groups@tm.net> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 13:10:43 GMT, "LP" <lbp1963@nospam.hotmail.com>
> wrote:
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> ><DanielBK@unitedstates.com> wrote in message
> >news:1135914687.365597.160110@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
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> >> D.Reid wrote:
> >> > "Forceps"???...what the hell are "FORCEPS"???
> >> > I been in the "trade" for 30 years and I never heard of nuttin called
> >> > forceps!!!...that had anything to do with cleco's...
> >>
> >>
> >> I am willing to wager that you were never in the Navy. I know Bob was &
> >> I've heard other Navy guys call them forceps. Different lingo in
> >> different circles. Given theat the tool is not used to ply anything,
> >> forceps might even be a more accurate term. Sorry that the world
> >> doesn't conform to your expectations.
> >>
> >> Daniel
> >>
> > If someone at work ask to borrow my forceps, he or she would get a deer
in
> >the headlight look. However, third drawer down on the right is my CLECO
> >pliers. Oh yeah, 23 years in the NAVY.
> >
> I have worked with and around electronics most of my life and computers
> since they came on the scene. If you ask for my forceps that is
> exactly what is in the second drawer down in the smaller tool box,
> right along with a bunch of dentists tools. I think there are probably
> a couple of scalpels in there too.
>
> Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
> (N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
> www.rogerhalstead.com
Now Roger...we're talkin' a different kinda "animule" here...You're
absolutly right. In Electronics and "Delicate" instrument work "Forceps"
certainly have there place...but...They were talkin about "Cleco pliers".
(Big Grin)
Dave
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Re: The Man Who Couldn't Cleco
