[SEL] Parts available at Portland & Mt Pleasant OT

[Reg Ingold]

Peter, On one trip in the USA, I was sitting at the rear of the plane and, 
looking out the window, saw my bag on the conveyer. It came to the end, 5 
feet off the ground and, THUD!! Yup, nobody to take it off. When I got it 
from the baggage spinaround, it was split and ruined.
I took it to the airline front counter and told them my baggage was damaged. 
Reply?
"How do you know WE did it?
Reply, "Cos I watched it exit the plane!" (LOTS of people getting tickets)
I then got a voucher for the cost of  new luggage.(To MY evaluation of the 
cost of the original!)
Ya gotta play the game THEY set the rules for!! Grin.
Travelling around the globe does give you a few clues.
Reg & Marg Ingold
Newcastle.NSW  Australia
randmingold at hotkey.net.au
http://www.oldengine.org/members/randmingold

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <plowe at exemail.com.au>
To: <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 1:05 PM
Subject: Re: [SEL] Parts available at Portland & Mt Pleasant OT


I think it basically falls into two catagories.
1. You pay peanuts - you get monkeys, or in this case Gorillas
2. You give a Gorilla a uniform and it goes to his/her head.

There amount of interest in the job is ZERO.

Last time in the US I bought a nice Wizard Rotary low tension generator
from Ron Haskell. I packed it nice and tightly amoungst my clothes to help
preserve it from the Gorilla treament at the airport. Of course it rang
bells and sirens on x-ray and I was asked for my key to the pad lock. I
told them what it was and to be carefull, I got a stare and told to stand
behind the line. He pulled it out and then threw it back in my suitcase, I
refused to accept the way it was packed and told them to pack it as I had.
We had three goes at this until I asked to speak to a supervisor. This of
course added another Gorilla to the equation and finally it was packed as I
had done it. On arriving home in Sydney I noticed the suitcase was scuffed
a little and on opening it, my generator had the horse shoe magnets almost
dislodged from the body of the generator. I guess after I put in onto the
conveyor at LAX it was dropped the tree levels of the building in one go
and hit the ground with a thud. ;-))

I was hoping to only take a back pack and my laptop in August, but I have a
fair bit of R&V literature to bring so I will have to take a small suitcase.
I guess we wait in anticipation to see what awaits us this time when we fly
across that big pond.

Peter, Oz



Ha! is he in for a shock! I am returning in August!!
Reg & Marg Ingold
Newcastle.NSW  Australia
randmingold at hotkey.net.au
http://www.oldengine.org/members/randmingold



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