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Re: WTB Various obscure bits
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Tue, 8 Aug 2000 01:27:15 GMT
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coachie@=antispam=excite.com
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Ran Talbott wrote:
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> In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Mark Morgan writes:
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> > I need an extension spring for a fork lift truck 924
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> Check your local hardware store: many of them have those little bin-drawer
> cabinets full of obscure fasteners, and some have one full of springs.
Unfortunately we don't have hardware stores in the UK any more, just DIY
super stores where you can buy all sorts of delicious sounding coloured
emulsion paints, gas barbecues and pot plants, but nothing useful.
> > and a rubber hose
> > (more flexible than pod race types) for a 926.
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> Aquazone sets?
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> If you're talking about the kind with ribbed hose, and a female stud
> connector on each end, try Brickbay: I think I've seen some there.
It's a plain tubular black hose, and fits over the 2x1 taps (faucets?)
on the rocket gantry.
> Ran
Mark
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 | | Re: WTB Various obscure bits
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| Spring - hobby shops Tubing - sounds like pneumatic tubing to me, they still sell a pack of grey and black tubing at US S@H, so maybe they do over there, too. (...) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (24 years ago, 8-Aug-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
| | | Re: WTB Various obscure bits
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| (...) Try the spring inside an old click-top ballpoint writing pen. There are also smaller pens that have smaller springs. I no longer have a forklift to look at, but I believe it will work. (...) Strip an electrical wire of the right colour & keep (...) (24 years ago, 9-Aug-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: WTB Various obscure bits
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| (...) Check your local hardware store: many of them have those little bin-drawer cabinets full of obscure fasteners, and some have one full of springs. (...) Aquazone sets? If you're talking about the kind with ribbed hose, and a female stud (...) (24 years ago, 8-Aug-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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