How to (Not) Rescue a Failed HST GTi

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SandTEngineer

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How to (Not) Rescue a Failed HST GTi

« on: January 15, 2020, 18:02:12 »

https://youtu.be/Qxyv1wd0KLc


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bobm

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Re: How to (Not) Rescue a Failed HST GTi

« Reply #1 on: January 15, 2020, 18:49:03 »

Not so sure I’d have been as calm if I had been trying to sort things out under the gaze of a camera.


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Oxonhutch

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Re: How to (Not) Rescue a Failed HST GTi

« Reply #2 on: January 15, 2020, 19:12:12 »

As one trained to go 'In between', I now more greatly appreciate: four buffers, two hooks and a three-link chain. Oh for Victorian simplicity


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