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VETE76

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I just used my 1st cleco clamps! removed one and grabed it like you would a 1/8" cleco, except this one BITES! the wifes runs out in the garage wondering what all the screaming is about! looks at me and just starts laughing! now, my wife only laughs once a year or so. she is a very serious type lady. so when she starts she goes overboard! I start laughing at her/crying from the pain, and have trouble picking up the cleco tool. she laughs harder, grabs the cleco tool and says something that sounds like, "do you want this?!" then she runs to the bathroom, you get the picture! blood blister! i wondered how strong they are. now I know.
It won't be the last time, I am very sure of that! darn!

any one else have a humerous happening while building their RV
working on wing kit RV7A
fred
 
Hookers?

My wife was looking at the history on my internet browser. She saw several listings for 'Hookers' and got really worried. She assumed it was one of the kids, but realized they have all left. Yes, we are now empty nesters. Anyway, she was worried I was getting into internet porn or worse... Hookers!

She followed the site history links and realized I was shopping for my seat belts on the RV9A. She was really embarrassed, but I thought it was funny. Good laugh.

So watch out when you start shopping for Hooker Harnesses!:)
 
Gotta watch out for those Hookers . . .

My (married) son sent us his Christmas wish list - which includes a set of Hookers for his 7A. My wife wondered about that too - until she followed the link he provided. She told him we'd consider the Hookers, but no brass poles :rolleyes:
 
Hookers

I told everyone at work my Wife got me two Hookers for Christmas 2006, and left it at that!! Then said I would bring pictures the next day. You should have seen the heads turn at work when I started that conversation. I went home and took pictures of my Hooker harnesses in a chair. The wife did the group buy last year.
 
Really Funny!!

"they will bite the snot out of you." Is not at first so funny, but when you start to visualize ...... rotfl.:D
 
I managed to get two on on me at once trying to get a clamp on!

OOOW!

never do that again
 
This Hooker thing brought back one of my fondest memories. When my son was about 3 years old all of his toy trucks or cars had to have a trailer and a boat that he could pull around. At the time we were boating every weekend and he loved the trips. Anyway, his vocabulary didn't include trailer hitch, but it did have "Hooker" so that is what he used when talking about a hitch. In a room full of people at three years old he told everybody "When I grow up I'm going to have a motorcycle with a hooker on the back." Some laughed and some were shocked, but me, well I thought "That's my boy."

Best,
 
Back in the 80's I was a roadracer, on bikes. Of course that meant we had plenty of video tapes, mostly crash footage, and my wife just loved them. Same for live action at the track. I've been married to the woman for 27 years now, and I still don't understand why she bursts into uncontrollable laughter at the sight of some poor slob on a ballistic path to pain. Maybe it's some kind warped self-defense mechanism since she was playing pit mom to all her loved ones; me and a bunch of close friends ......aspirin, bandages, and worse.

Fred, what I'm trying to say here is that your wife loves you very much, and only laughed because she really hated to see you in pain and it's her way of keeping the horror at arm's length. Of course I could be wrong. We both might be living with closet sadists <g>
 
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Rumor Has it...

Rumor has the 1" cleco clamps were actually designed by a University medical professor doing research into blood blisters. No better or faster method of creating them was ever discovered. Lucky thing one of the medical test subjects also built airplanes ... found another use for them. :D
 
Pull-Riveted Nipple

Once, when I was really bearing down hard to hold a part still and squeeze the pull-riveter, I got my chest too close. Pop! And my nipple got caught between the riveter handles - and jammed! I had to pry the handles apart, re-squishing my poor nipple in the process. YeeOuch! I still have the scar... looks like a #7 :)
 
Cleco clamps?

My contention has always been that cleco clamps are sentient, meaning they have a mind of their own. One actually jumped off an aleron hinge one day traveled through thin air and grabbed the inside of my left thumb. Through thin air mind you! Took less than a millisecond. Lancing it was the only solution. :eek:
 
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