On 24/09/2011 10:22 PM, Chas wrote:

> "Dennis"<jon.dough_at_ithemorgue.com>  wrote in message

> news:G5WdneSlnp4VEeDTnZ2dnUVZ_rWdnZ2d_at_westnet.com.au...

>>

>> "who where"<noone_at_home.net>  wrote in message

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>>> On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 15:02:38 +1000, Adrian Jansen<adrian_at_qq.vv.net>

>>> wrote:

>>>

>>>>

>>>> On 24/9/2011 1:38 PM, RMD wrote:

>>>>> Hi All,

>>>>>

>>>>> I had an old friend whose favourite saying was, "If you can't fix it

>>>>> with a sledge hammer and an oxy torch it ain't worth fixing".

>>>>>

>>>>

>>>> The common name for an oxy torch in agricultural engineering is the

>>>> 'blue spanner'.

>>>

>>> Where I was brung up it was a red-and-black spanner (hose colours).

>>

>>

>> And for the rev heads lowering their cars it was the "CIG lowering kit"

>>

>>

> Where I worked it was either called the "hot spanner" or else the "gas axe".

Oxy Spanner or Gas Axe in my neck of the woods. The sledge hammer was 

either a "Persuader" or a "Knockometer"..

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Krypsis