[T3] John Jaranson Visit

["Jim Adney" <jadney@vwtype3.org>]

I had a visit from John Jaranson yesterday. This is getting to be an 
annual event and this time he brought a friend, Chad, to help him 
carry off all the "loot." He picked up the brake parts he had sent for 
rebuilding, an almost complete '66 dual carb square, and the very 
good condition 73 pan that I had.

We loaded the square onto his borrowed trailer in a light rain and 
the 2 of them drove off with smiles on their faces as the rain slowly 
washed away the 8-10 years of accumulated raccoon dung from 
the hood and roof.

Talking to John is always a treat, as he seems to have boundless 
enthusiasm for his work at Ford, trying to get them to consider 
construction methods for the cars we will drive 10 years from now. 
[Well, maybe not ALL of us; I'll still be driving my squareback!] If 
John is representative of Ford's next generation of designers, they 
are in good hands. Chad also works at Ford and his job is to help 
the tech people make better presentations of their proposals. As 
John put it, when you just use duct tape to stick your proposed 
new instrument on the dash, management is not likely to jump for 
it.

Anyway, it's always nice to see John, and I'm glad the 66 is finally 
in good hands.

...

On another note, I just made a hand pump that helps me get frozen 
brake calipers apart. This is just the Mark I version and it needs 
work to make it really useful, but it has already helped me get 
apart 4 calipers that would have been difficult before this; one of 
these 4 had resisted 3 previous determined attempts!

I plan to make a couple of improvements to the pump, and then I 
hope I can dive into some of the backlog of rusty calipers that I 
have lying around here.

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Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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