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I went with a couple of club members today to a swap meet about 70 miles away.
You learn a lot about guys when you take a ride with them for a couple of hours.
They crammed me into the middle of a Chevrolet Trailblazer and stopped for breakfast and asked everyone to chip in $10 each towards the gasoline for the vehicle.
No big deal, but I could have drove my own car for $20 odd dollars and rode in style.
Then paid $5.00 to get in.
There wasn't nothing but junk there.
I ended up buying some used connectors - since they were $1.50 each and I needed to justify spending all that money - just to come home empty handed.
On the way going home, there was a real nice bbq place along the road where I wanted to stop and get some lunch - and they refused to stop and eat.
It was kind of like a dictatorship.
Now my legs ache and my back is sore from sitting on the hump in the middle of the back seat for a couple of hours.
I think that the next time, unless it is a big ham fest - I am just going to stay home!
One guy had some old used BIRD meters there and he wanted $350.00 for them.
When I told him that I could buy them brand new for $350.00 he got mad and asked me where.
Anybody with a AES catalog can buy one.
http://www.nm3e.com/prod01a.htm#01a
You learn a lot about guys when you take a ride with them for a couple of hours.
They crammed me into the middle of a Chevrolet Trailblazer and stopped for breakfast and asked everyone to chip in $10 each towards the gasoline for the vehicle.
No big deal, but I could have drove my own car for $20 odd dollars and rode in style.
Then paid $5.00 to get in.
There wasn't nothing but junk there.
I ended up buying some used connectors - since they were $1.50 each and I needed to justify spending all that money - just to come home empty handed.
On the way going home, there was a real nice bbq place along the road where I wanted to stop and get some lunch - and they refused to stop and eat.
It was kind of like a dictatorship.
Now my legs ache and my back is sore from sitting on the hump in the middle of the back seat for a couple of hours.
I think that the next time, unless it is a big ham fest - I am just going to stay home!
One guy had some old used BIRD meters there and he wanted $350.00 for them.
When I told him that I could buy them brand new for $350.00 he got mad and asked me where.
Anybody with a AES catalog can buy one.
http://www.nm3e.com/prod01a.htm#01a
