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On Mon, 2 Jan 2006 00:25:14 -0500, "D.Reid" <dreidjax@alltel.net>
wrote:
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>"Roger" <Delete-Invallid.stuff.groups@tm.net> wrote in message
>news:g6oer11l693sfjij10kgudb1jdeefpok2g@4ax.com...
>> 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...
>> >>
>> >> 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
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>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".
KleeeKoooo.... I know there must be some place on the G-III where I am
supposed to use something like that. <:-))
Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com
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>(Big Grin)
>Dave
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>> >
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Re: The Man Who Couldn't Cleco
