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MEXICOWANDERER
May 10, 2016Explorer
I have a measly 1.5 meter length of hexagon shaped chain that has defied everything thrown at it since I got it at the Lockheed Orbiter liquidation sale in Palmdale. It destroyed a jeweler's diamond cutting wheel in seconds. Forty bucks down the old -------.
Pat Tuminaro, the Snap-On tool dealer could not believe it. The wheel went shrapnel. About a month later we went to lunch again, and he remarked "I checked with one of my friends (Lockheed) and he said the steel alloy had bits of tungsten embedded in it."
Well, that settled that...
I can't even imagine how much that chain cost the government. Way out of reach. But I did see the locks. Look like a fat U with the bolt hidden.
But I'll save my money. When I go to load the toad roof rack I'll thread 1/8" marine stainless cable into a spiderweb and secure it inside a welded on three sided box.
Crooks are not very high tech down here.
Pat Tuminaro, the Snap-On tool dealer could not believe it. The wheel went shrapnel. About a month later we went to lunch again, and he remarked "I checked with one of my friends (Lockheed) and he said the steel alloy had bits of tungsten embedded in it."
Well, that settled that...
I can't even imagine how much that chain cost the government. Way out of reach. But I did see the locks. Look like a fat U with the bolt hidden.
But I'll save my money. When I go to load the toad roof rack I'll thread 1/8" marine stainless cable into a spiderweb and secure it inside a welded on three sided box.
Crooks are not very high tech down here.
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