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[Tex]

Well, I am throwing in the towel on this project.
I really hate to be a quitter, but there is NO way I can get a piece of aluminum bent into the right shape. 

Susan - !!!

The aluminum stock I suggested is 5054 marine-grade aluminum. It's as soft as butter and bends like foil. Did you get it at Ace Hardware like I said? Those yard-sticks are probably made of 2024 or 7075 aircraft aluminum - very hard stuff.

"When all else fails, read the bleepin' directions!"

[SusanJoM]

Oh shut up !!!!

It has nothing to do with how easily it bends.
It has to do with making a perfect circle....

Anyway, I lied about not going shopping today.
I just went to Target and got a springform pan.

I'll try that....
At this rate I coulda bought a.......
Okay, right, I'm still only into it for about an extra $15...

Susan (talking to herself)

[Tex]

At this rate I coulda bought a.......
Okay, right, I'm still only into it for about an extra $15...

Heck, I have an extra if you want to buy it.

[peter]

The extra bends are there to act as a chaff collector. When the top is on it diverts the chaff down into a colander - makes for a happier wife when I roast on her patio.

Admit it Tex, you're an engineer who can't resist over-designing something.      Poor Susan, look what you've done to her.

[SusanJoM]

Okay, you should all know how proud I am to be part of a group one of whose members just offered to send me a riser for my UFO.
I'm not telling you who because I haven't checked to find out if s/he wants that information shared....or not.

But....I'm hornswoggled.....
And very very grateful !!!!

Maybe whining does pay?

Anyway.....

THANK YOU ! ! ! ! ! ! !

[Tex]

Poor Susan, look what you've done to her.

Excusez-moi? Or as Sister Twisted, of Our Lady of Fatima infamy, used to have us repeat thousands of times a day, "Mia Culpa, Mia Maxima Culpa!"

[Tex]

Maybe whining does pay?

I don't know why that brings to mind the hand-lettered sign in the back window of a Chevy van at a Dead concert back in the late 60's, "Gas, Grass, or A**. nobody rides for free!"

[Tex]

I'm not telling you who because I haven't checked to find out if s/he wants that information shared....or not.

Oh, I know who it is Susan. Some bleepin' do gooder trying to deprive us of our fair share of laughs at your expense!

  :bootyshake:

[SusanJoM]

Aw, Tex, you know by now that I will continue to provide this group with lots of opportunities to get a laugh....
How many years have you been laughing at me now???

Susan

[peter]

Just so you know... it wasn't me that offered the spacer, but I'd be happy to make one like mine and send it to you Susan.  (Hoping to prod Tex into being the better friend)

[dmankin]

Aw crap - just take my roaster, Susan. Someone already deemed it "butt ugly" a page or two back!   :BangHead:

[Tex]

Dang it!

You're all a bunch of bleepin' do gooder Boy Scouts. Where's the fun in helping folks like that?

[SusanJoM]

Just so you know... it wasn't me that offered the spacer, but I'd be happy to make one like mine and send it to you Susan.  (Hoping to prod Tex into being the better friend)

Thanks, Peter, but one's enuf.
And, forget tryin' to fix Tex.....he's almost as old as I am and twice as stubborn....

Susan

[dmankin]

Dang it!

You're all a bunch of bleepin' do gooder Boy Scouts. Where's the fun in helping folks like that?

[dmankin]

Oooops - who needs a boy scout when you can have 2?