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The Older Gentleman

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(Msg. 16) Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 12:45 pm
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steve auvache wrote:

> Like anything else practice makes it easier and when I have had the
> chance to practice and then measure I have done both and now I would be
> confident of getting 4 on a cage as near as makes no odds by ear and
> spot on with gauges.

Cool. There's not that many people with that sort of skill -not these
days.


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(Msg. 17) Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 12:45 pm
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In article <1i5khwo.yr06lao1u54oN%chateau.murray.takethisout@dsl.pipex.c
om>, The Older Gentleman
writes
>steve auvache wrote:
>
>> Like anything else practice makes it easier and when I have had the
>> chance to practice and then measure I have done both and now I would be
>> confident of getting 4 on a cage as near as makes no odds by ear and
>> spot on with gauges.
>
>Cool. There's not that many people with that sort of skill

There may not be many who do but there are zillions who could if they
only bothered to listen.


> -not these
>days.

Kids not listening applies equally well to what engines are telling them
as their parents so I am not at all surprised.

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platypus2

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(Msg. 18) Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 4:45 pm
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The Older Gentleman wrote:
> steve auvache wrote:
>
>> Like anything else practice makes it easier and when I have had the
>> chance to practice and then measure I have done both and now I would
>> be confident of getting 4 on a cage as near as makes no odds by ear
>> and spot on with gauges.
>
> Cool. There's not that many people with that sort of skill -not these
> days.

And those that have are all old and deaf and can't do it any more anyway.
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