LAC Rant

[Rich Beebe]

i picked up my 17mm wrench at my local sears - just finished the
same repair.

rich

> From: "Lyle" <lws at o-o.yi.org>
> Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 13:18:53 -0400
> To: <quattro at audifans.com>
> Subject: LAC Rant
> 
> I've got a torn CV joint boot, and I can't find a single goddamn retailer in
> Pittsburgh who has a 17mm hex socket or an Allen wrench in stock.  Not even
> the SnapOn dealer!  Grainger has about three different kinds in stock.  I
> walked a mile and a half in the rain to the nearest branch in a lousy
> industrial park (and a mile and half home, natch) and the motherfuckers
> wouldn't sell me one despite my pleading,  because I didn't have two forms
> of "business id".  Four staffers, sitting there with their thumbs up their
> asses, and they can't take my money because I'm just a citizen, not a
> corporation.  Maybe all of a sudden four big accounts might walk in and need
> immediate simultaneous service?
> 
> If I walk back a half mile, set up a "business checking account" and get a
> "business credit card", and come back in two weeks after I get those
> credentials of worthiness, then they'll gladly sell me the same fourteen
> dollar tool.  WTF?
> 
> (PS.  the Snap-On tool
> http://buy1.snapon.com/catalog/item.asp?P65=&tool=shop&item_ID=12032&group_I
> D=1611&store=snapon-store&dir=catalog is not 17mm.  It's 17.15 or
> thereabouts, according to my cheap Chinese vernier caliper, and I don't want
> to grind the chrome plating off it. I haven't tried it on a transmission
> plug yet, but it definitely won't fit my axle nut.)