From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:201805202340368910-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > I spent the day repairing the exhaust on wife's car.   
      
   Is that the little high mpg car with the big high prices for everything for   
   I t?   
      
   > It all started out simple enough.  There was a missing hanger on the   
   > muffler.  Not an important part, there were two other hangers on the   
   > muffler, but this one was missing. So unimportant that even the muffler   
   > shop who worked on this last, didn't care enough to replace the thing.   
      
   Sounds like it might be the pricey one at that.   
      
   > So, what the heck, it'll be easy, an hour or so. Make an new hanger by   
   > bending and welding some brackets rod.   
      
   > And so it began. The hanger was easy.  Finding a problem with the front   
   > connection of the muffler proved a much bigger issue to deal with. A small   
   > connector pipe rusted about half thru. In Ohio, cars fail from corrosion   
   > caused by salt applied to the roads in the winter. It's absloutely deady   
   > to metal. So no matter how nice a car around here looks, if it's more than   
   > a few years old, it's absolutely a disaster underneath.   
      
   It's no better in ILL-NOISE either!   
      
   Of course, the SMART thing would be to use stainless steel or maybe a high   
   temperature nonmetallic material.   
      
   > Worked on the tailpipe all the rest of the day.  Couldn't get the old   
   > clamps off, finally did, then horrors, a new connecting pipe wouldn't fit.   
   > It is just ever so slightly too small to slide over the necessary   
   > connection.   
      
   > Solution, I know now, thanks to YouTube,  is a pipe expander. They make   
   > 'em, they are cheap.  I don't have one.   
      
   I've heard of those but I don't understand why they don't simply make   
   everything in STANDARD sizes instead.   
      
   > It was so close to going on :-)   
      
   Almost seems like it  was Planned that way.   
      
   > In the end, I forced it partially back together, will probably survive a   
   > few days until I can get the tool and have time to go at it again.   
      
   I wonder if there are still ANY *ethical* cars around ANYwhere...like the   
   Ford Model A.   
      
   > Musically, nothing today.  I'm watching lots of interesting videos about   
   > music and the business in generall. Mostly things that reaffirm what I   
   > already know. No point passing them on the band, they wouldn't care,   
   > probably wouldn't even watch them.   
      
   Seems mostly what they don't care about is being serious...and I tend to   
   believe, at least in part, that that's because they're not  sufficiently   
   'vested', or Invested in that field, or 'business'...by having Original   
   material for the world waiting to hear, and thus higher stakes for what   
   they're 'into'.   
      
   > I see the band in my rear view mirror ( car metaphore ) these days. Don't   
   > care, I'm just going along now until it folds.   
      
   I wonder what they see...anywhere ;)   
      
   > Played a nice duo gig yesterday.  Band girl and I.  No volume issues at   
   > all.  Weird, huh ?   
      
   You could always ask her why ;) I think I would particularly in view of what   
   you'd mentioned about volume levels previously.   
      
   > She sings a song, I sing a song, and so one for an hour.  No live drummer.   
   > No floor wedges.  Just us, my little computer setup, guitar, two mics.   
   > Doing that again in two days.  It's a busy week coming up actually.  I   
   > think there's even a band gig on the horizon.  Not gonna let that stress   
   > me.   
      
      
   Jim   
      
   Stress and Music, what a combination :(   
   It shouldn't be that way - only a Love Vibe should  be there!!!   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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