More grist for the mill !!
-- dwf
V-17 #36
M-15 #189 -- I haven't lived with her long enough yet to have learned her
name --
P-15 #1086 "PELICAN" -- 'Tis better to putter with a Potter than potter
with a putter !
Ridgecrest, CA
-----Original Message-----
From: Steven W. Barnes <Oldsurfdude@worldnet.att.net>
To: MR MICHAEL A CANOVA <XKTS62A@prodigy.com>
Cc: wwpotter@tscnet.com <wwpotter@tscnet.com>
Date: Thursday, November 12, 1998 18:04
Subject: Re: More Receiver hitches
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> West Wight Potter Website at URL
> http://www.lesbois.com/wwpotter/
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>MR MICHAEL A CANOVA wrote:
>>
>> -- [ From: Mike Canova * EMC.Ver #2.5.3 ] --
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>> Okay,
>>
>> We now know that hitches can rust in the receiver.
>>
>> And we also know how to prevent hitches from rusting in the reciever.
>>
>> Can anyone tell me what to do now that my hitch IS rusted in the
>> reciever? It's stuck pretty tight! HELP!
>
>You can do what I did to get the trailer extension tongue out of the
>Capri's trailer. Couldn't budge it, even with a block a tackle and
>winch. So I tied the back of the trailer to a light post in the parking
>of the launching ramp. To protect it from vehicles and trailers, the
>light post, for the lower 4 feet, was concrete and about 3' in
>diameter. The trailer was hooked up to the VW bus, so then I got in it
>and drove away. I did remember to remove the pin in the
>extension/trailer.
>
>After several tries of slamming forward and backing up, I had about 4
>feet of line between the pole and trailer, we finally slammed forward
>several more feet and the extension ripped out of the trailer and
>dragged along the asphault a few feet before I brought us all to a halt.
>Then it was several hours of scraping rust off the inside sleeve and
>outside extension with a crow bar. Now she slides in and out like a
>... Well you know.
>
>You should have seen the expressions on my audiences' faces while all
>this was going on.
>
>--
>Steve Barnes sailing a Capri 16, #74,
>and saleing a Potter 14, #561, in San Diego.
>OLDSURFDUDE
>