When I talked to a guy that was referred to me by a shop, it struck me that he didn’t understand what my problem was or where I was located. When he didn’t show up anywhere near the time we talked about I was coming up with a new plan. He was an astonishingly old and slight man, nearly completely deaf. He complained he didn’t have enough tools. He went straight to work.<\/p>\n
The job involves laying on your back on coarse gravel\/rock in the dark, while manually moving the slide 1\/16th inch with each pull on the wrench. I expected a much younger person.<\/p>\n
After a couple of hours the slide was working, I think. It will take many cycles before I feel confidant again, and I don’t know what caused it to fail in the first place.<\/p>\n
When it came for payment (I hate this part) he asked for what I thought it was worth. I came up with a number based on typical shop charges plus travel time, and he took it.<\/p>\n
So now I can resume moving north, except the weather forecast is quite unsatisfactory. Rain, and moving with a questionable slide is not feeling good to me. That’ll be tomorrow’s problem to solve. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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