My friends consider the plight of the poor cleco. It works and slaves for you day after day, month after month, year after year. Despite the abuse of being thrown in a dark bucket with others of its kind, despite the abuse of being sprayed with primer, despite the abuse of being stuck in pro-seal - it toils away to do its master’s bidding. It lives a hard and difficult life, asking only that it be used again and again – yet when it happens to tire and slip just a bit, what happens? It is thrown into a dark corner of the workshop to roll under a bench or chest. It lives in the darkness, surrounded by spiders, dirt, and aluminum shavings. Abandoned by its master, it dwells in the eternal shadow world between life and death – a tool purgatory, forgotten by all…..
I say, gentlemen that we can do better by these hardy servants! I say that we can take the time to rehabilitate our sorry Clecos! Those that have given so much of themselves, those that have toiled and held through thick and thin! Those few, those poor wounded Clecos – they can be SAVED!!!
A drop of oil can go a very long way towards saving the life of a cleco – just a drop, a little mist, a tiny spritz down its throat can free a corroded mechanism. A little exercise can knock of that hardened epoxy. Even the dreaded pro-seal can be cut free with a razor blade so that the cleco can go back to a life of useful work!
We can no longer ignore the squalor in which the aged and infirm Clecos live I tell you – we simply must make an effort to save these, our most humble (yet essential and maybe even noblest) little friends! Why, just today I saved ten Clecos that would otherwise have been discarded – ten of our little helpers that will see yet another bulkhead through fabrication, another longeron held in place. All it took was a little TLC and a few moments of time…
Save the Clecos I say – save them all so they may clamp again, and help to build another day…..
Paul
I say, gentlemen that we can do better by these hardy servants! I say that we can take the time to rehabilitate our sorry Clecos! Those that have given so much of themselves, those that have toiled and held through thick and thin! Those few, those poor wounded Clecos – they can be SAVED!!!
A drop of oil can go a very long way towards saving the life of a cleco – just a drop, a little mist, a tiny spritz down its throat can free a corroded mechanism. A little exercise can knock of that hardened epoxy. Even the dreaded pro-seal can be cut free with a razor blade so that the cleco can go back to a life of useful work!
We can no longer ignore the squalor in which the aged and infirm Clecos live I tell you – we simply must make an effort to save these, our most humble (yet essential and maybe even noblest) little friends! Why, just today I saved ten Clecos that would otherwise have been discarded – ten of our little helpers that will see yet another bulkhead through fabrication, another longeron held in place. All it took was a little TLC and a few moments of time…
Save the Clecos I say – save them all so they may clamp again, and help to build another day…..
Paul
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