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Re: Co I really have to take off the display, the lid?

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On 2020-10-12 8:33 p.m., micky wrote:
> In comp.sys.laptops, on Mon, 12 Oct 2020 12:54:27 -0500, Rene Lamontagne
> <rlamont@shaw.ca> wrote:
> 
>> On 2020-10-12 12:16 a.m., micky wrote:
>>> In comp.sys.laptops, on Sun, 11 Oct 2020 10:24:52 -0400, micky
>>> <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> **I once had surgery in December, and it snowed and tthe snow was more
>>>> than half-way up my car's wheels, and I wasn't supposed to go out for
>>>> several weeks until my shoulder healed.  One of my wheels didn't have
>>>> its wheel cover on (I don't know what happens now that so many cars
>>>> have no wheel covers or hubcaps) and in the spring I took my brother to
>>>> Newark airport.  When I got back to the car, that tire was flat, and I
>>>> coudln't get the lug nuts off.
>>>
>>> This was a rear tire, iirc.  RWD car.   I think.  The studs came out of
>>> a thick disk at the end of the axle, not out of the brake drum.
>>>>
>>>> Finally, by standing on, jumping up and down on, the lugwrench, I got it
>>>> off but broke 3 of the 5 studs.  Or maybe 4.   I lived in Brooklyn
>>>> What a responsible adult would do is find a garage in Newark to tow my
>>>> car in (on Sunday) and fix it on Monday, and I would talke public
>>>> transportation to Manhattan, and the subway to Brooklyn, then come back
>>>> the same way when the car was fixed.
>>>
>>> There was no web so I'd have to try to glean who to call and how to get
>>> home and back.
>>>
>>> It would have taken over an hour, to find a repair shop on the phone and
>>> wait for his tow truck to arrive, then over an hour to get home from the
>>> airport.   Maybe more than 4 altogether.  It was 7PM on Sunday.
>>>
>>> The next day, I guess it would take 2 to 4 hours to get to the shop,
>>> probably have to take a cab from the airport or train station.
>>>>
>>>> OR, I could drive home.
>>>>
>>>> When I went straight or turned left, the car was okay, but when I turned
>>>> right the wheel went clunk, clunk, clunk.
>>>>
>>>> If I still had 2 good studs when I left hte airport, at some point I
>>>> broke one.   Then I got to the Holland Tunnel.  If you break down there
>>>> they charge you a lot to take you out.   They have a tow truck that sits
>>>> there 24/7 waiting for people to break down, so they have to pay for the
>>>> tow truck with the fees they charge, plus they're annoyed, so they
>>>> charge more.
>>>>
>>>> But I decided I'd drive through the Holland Tunnel.   That went okay,
>>>> and I turned east on Walker St.   NYC downtown is very quiet on Sunday
>>>> evening.  Just before I got to Broadway,
>>>
>>> Only a quarter mile from the tunnel exit.
>>>
>>>> the last stud broke and the
>>>> wheel fell off the car.   Phone call, I'll finish later.
>>>
>>> So the wheel fell off the car but the tire didn't go far.   I walked up
>>> to Broadway, which is one-way south, and looked around.  I found a
>>> little parking lot only 50 yards north of Walker St.   It was empty
>>> because it was Sunday evening
>>>
>>> I must be an idiot but I jacked up the car and put the wheel back on,
>>> with NO lug nuts.  Lowered the jack and drove and I got no more than 6
>>> inches and the wheel fell off again.
>>>      Jacked it up again, put the wheel on, lowered the jack, drove and I
>>> got about 6 feet!!
>>>      Jacked it up again, put the wheel on, lowered the jack, drove and I
>>> made it 30 feet to Broadway, turned left, 150 feet to the parking lot,
>>> turned left, drove over the curb and into the lot.
>>>
>>> I couldnt' believe it.  I still can't.  And I guess I'm not an idiot.
>>>
>>> No cars on that part of Broadway on Sunday evening so I was able to go
>>> north on the south-bound street
>>>
>>> Took the subway home, read the shop manual about using a hydraulic press
>>> to take out the broken studs, and to insert new studs.    Next  morning
>>> road my bicycle to Atlantic Wheel and Rim, only a mile away..  I
>>> commented on my problem and the parts guy said, "No one does it that
>>> way.  Use a punch and a hammer to take them out. Then put the stud
>>> through the hole and  tighten the lug nuts until the studs are in."
>>> (then take off the nuts and put the wheel on.)
>>>
>>> Went home, gathered up a few tools, took the train to my car, and did
>>> what he said.   Took maybe 30 minutes.    Cost me 40 years ago about
>>> $10, a dollar for each stud and each nut.    Plus  1 1/2 x the cost of
>>> parking all day in the lot.   I parked sideways and went over 3 spots,
>>> and he asked for 3x, but easily settled for 1.5.  He could have parked 1
>>> car next to me and it was only about 10AM. He could probably fill all 3
>>> spots.    --- There is an office building there now.
>>>
>>> You all know this already from your own experience, but this was the
>>> most outstanding example in my experience of often able to do things
>>> quicker and better than the book instructions.
>>>
>>
>> What make of car?   Were they right  or left hand threads? Curious  is
>> all, I'm remembering the first time I ran into left hand lugnuts.
>>
>> Rene
> 
> It was a '73 Buick Centurion, (or maybe a '67 Pontiac Catalina, but I
> don't think so.)   Either way, they were right-hand threads.   I did
> have left hand on the left side of my '50 Olds, so I knew the
> possibility, but they had an L stamped into the end of each stud.
> 
> I did unscrew one or two of them so I know I was going in the right
> direction.
> 
> The Centurion had terrible gas mileage. I think it was 12 on the highway
> and 8 in the city.   I think they had just imposed air pollution laws
> and they didn't know how to do both yet.  When I got it, it had cow
> magnets taped to t he fuel line above the engine.   I didn't know why,
> but I'd looked all over the NY area and this was the only car for sale
> that I want ed.   They had just started a computer-car-shopping system,
> but not like now.  Instead you called a phone for each county, or two or
> three, and told them what you wanted and they looked it up in their
> computer.   No inter-location networking yet for an enterprise this
> small, around 1980.   I called all of NYC, Long Island, Westchester,
> Rockland counties, norther half of New Jersey, and this was the only big
> convertible I could find.
> 
> It also had a different style top, a scissors top.   GM had the
> impression that the govt. was going to impose safety regulations for
> cars that flipped over, even convertibles, and the usual design would
> not hold up.  This one would, but it was difficult to adjust, and when
> mine eventually got out pf adjustment, first it broke the rear window,
> and a few weeks later, it tore the top.   The plan to require stronger
> tops never took place, but makers design cars years in advance
>>
> Despite all this I had the car for 5 or 7 years and I liked it.
> 

Thanks for the reply Micky.  :-)

Rene

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