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From: "Bill Lais" <billlais@mp*.ne*>
To: "William Allen" <william@ca*.co*>
Cc: <cavers@cavers.com>
Subject: A simple question: was: Re: Blades for scooter
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 18:45:15 -0000
....please tell me what you're going to do when your tekna sticks "on", and
you have a rough road out of the cave, i.e., silty restrictions??

There's at least one person on this list that I know for sure had this very
situation happen.  Albeit they weren't riding a tekna, but nonetheless.

-----Original Message-----
From: William Allen <william@ca*.co*>
To: Lais, Bill <BLais@ha*.co*>
Cc: cavers@cavers.com <cavers@cavers.com>
Date: Friday, January 29, 1999 11:08 PM
Subject: Re: Blades for scooter


>I had two teknas with alum. blades, have two AUL 2000 and one 3000 AUL
>scooters with alumimun blades i've never had a problem, although i've never
>sharpened the blades to turn them into a vegamatic. I also have an apollo
>that we use for digging it does have plastic blades but they are the
>toughest plastic blade i've ever had. The tekna seem to break as soon as
>they hit something i real see no problem with an aluminum blade.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Lais, Bill <BLais@ha*.co*>
>To: 'William Allen' <william@ca*.co*>
>Cc: 'cavers@cavers.com' <cavers@cavers.com>
>Date: Friday, January 29, 1999 4:57 PM
>Subject: RE: Blades for scooter
>
>
>>*BIGGER* scooters??  I've never seen a Gavin with Aluminum blades.
>>
>>Bill Lais, E.I. -  Engineer  II
>>Handex of Florida - Mt. Dora, Fl.
>>352/735-1800  ext. 166
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: William Allen [SMTP:william@ca*.co*]
>> Sent: Saturday, January 30, 1999 3:38 AM
>> To: John R. Rose; Alan Green
>> Cc: cavers@cavers.com
>> Subject: Re: Blades for scooter
>>
>> What bs, it's a tekna not a chevy. The bigger scooters have
>>aluminum blades
>> and there is a clutch on all the scooters I've ever ridden,
>>unless you
>> modify the clutch it slips suprisingly easy.
>>
>> rom: John R. Rose <rose@CS*.Sc*.ED*>
>> To: Alan Green <greencave17@ho*.co*>
>> Cc: cavers@cavers.com <cavers@cavers.com>
>> Date: Friday, January 29, 1999 3:25 PM
>> Subject: Re: Blades for scooter
>>
>>
>> >Alan,
>> >
>> >I'm sure that this is not the answer you want but:
>> >
>> >Before you do this, take a picture of your hands.
>> >That way you can remember what they looked like
>> >before you put them through a meat grinder.
>> >
>> >If you are having touble breaking blades, the answer
>> >is to have them pinned. Aluminum should only be used
>> >if self-mutilation appeals to you.
>> >
>> >-John
>> >
>> >>
>> >>     I want to replace the blades
>> >> on my Tekna scooter with Aluminum
>> >> blades . Is there more than one
>> >> source ? Who would you recommend
>> >> buying them from ?  Thanks   Alan
>> >>
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>> >
>

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