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D.Reid wrote:
> "Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired" <B2431@aol.com> wrote in message
> news:MBRtf.70548$sg5.20117@dukeread12...
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>>Roger wrote:
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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:
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>>>>>>"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
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> in
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>>>>the headlight look. However, third drawer down on the right is my CLECO
>>>>pliers. Oh yeah, 23 years in the NAVY.
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>>>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
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>>>
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>> They make terrific heat sinks.
>>
>>Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired
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> Right you are Dan...I use them for just that purpose quite often...as long
> as I am soldering. If I am Oxy/Acy welding they dont work so "hot" !
> Dave...down in Florida.
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>
Ah yes, the plywood state, land of the blue roofs :) I am near Eglin AFB.
Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired
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Re: The Man Who Couldn't Cleco
