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I'm sitting here, counting my pills with one eye on the clock and I
get this message from a guy who is having some trouble with a piece of
aluminum. Flat piece. 60 inches wide, 180 inches long, .032 inches
thick. So I tell him what to do and he comes back saying he tried
that an it didn't work. Which sorta blows my dander up. Of course it
works! Always has and it always will.

Try it with a piece of paper, I tellz him.

Nope, paper ain't aluminum -- he's not going to let me trick him like
that.

So I tell him to go get a beer can. No, an EMPTY beer can. (He tells
me to wait a minute... glug, glug, glug...)

Okay, not cut off the top & bottom of the beer can. (I can do that,
he sez and asks if I don't need some more empty cans, cuz he's willing
to help. Shushes his wife up; he has been ORDERED to empty them cans.

Empty beer can. No top. No bottom. Use scissors to get it kinda
square. Comes out 3-3/4" wide, 8-1/8" long and .003 inches thick.

NOW we're getting somewheres! (Empties another can for me.)


Thanks for the Jasco tip. And I have several places where the aluminum
can trick will come in handy. But what was the guy doing with the .035
that he didn't think he could do.

the rest snipped because aioe.org made me. It apparently has a limit
on quoted lines