Hillman Breaks Down, Gets Fixed

Here I was, happily finishing up the shopping after lunch with friends when the phone in my pocket rings.  It's HH, he's wondering if I can stop by the parking lot he's broken down in on my way home.

 I discovered he wanted me to tow him home.  Since the car'd been giving him trouble, he was prepared with a big heavy-duty tow rope.  The rope was so big and strong, and very very long, that it came undone twice on the way home.  I don't understand why it is so long.

He ordered parts to rebuild the carburetor, and declared a diaphragm in the carburetor had been installed upside down, though it still seemed to work, but he turned it over.  The new parts didn't fix the stall problem, so he rebuilt the distributor with parts he already had.  Here's the lighting system he set up using his handy dandy cymbal stand.  Now it works and we've been running all our errands all week in it for testing purposes.

                                                                         A cymbal stand is a very useful and versatile tool for a mechanic. The rest of his drum kit is out of the closet now, since I got rid of my mom's pump organ.