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stux weekender saturday december 6 1997 p 5 we dont throw things out in home of handyman anyone of my vintage who was brought up in the uk will be well versed in the sentiment make do and mend mr wallethead being even older than i am has long been a proponent of this sensible homily as a glance around le chateau will reveal the most obvious example is the portable phone in his home office which had previously languished in the cupboardon the upstairs landing buried among a mound of tiedyed sweatshirts oversized jeans with rips in the knees and foreign gar ments left by those just passing through even in my house a clothes closet is a strange place for tele phone storage but the reason this set had been relegated to such dim recesses was that the little button designed to turn it from standby to on had snapped off for most people that would be rea son enough to con sign it to the rub bish bin but mr wallethead is not most people when he indicat ed we should keep it i did what i always do and put it in a safe place kates corner kate gilderdale munication can be conducted with perfect aplomb a certain dexterity is required in answer ing however since the tweezers have a ten dency to whip around and smack you in the eye if you raise the set to your ear with excessive enthusiasm not only did our own heath robinson sal vage a perfectly good phone he also sup plied us with a unique conversation piece second only to the radio aerial he rigged up for the taurus the original powered by some kind of microchip downed tools one day and refused to rise to the occasion a check of replacement prices called for more creative thinking on the part of him self and for several months we drove about the highways and byways with a wire coat hanger jauntily sprouting from the hood and a perfectly passable sound system within alas even mr wallethead was unable to devise a way of keeping this interesting appendage in situ during stormy weather or in an automatic car wash and he eventually had to bow to the inevitable by investing in a more conventional surrogate as for the float chamber cover he fash ioned from a button and wire for basil my late lamented mini i cannot begin to explain its workings all i know is that for several years until basil bit the dust it replaced the missing original part and fulfilled its function splendidly where theres mr wallethead theres a way musical instruments factory direct prices open to the public gigantic selection lease to own gift certificates yamaha portable keyboards accessories 9201 yonge street richmond hill 905 8896382 4544 sheppard ave east scarborough 4162937739 l tvffltfr i i 1 1 h i a 1 1 a m lauiiiwm hhhbbiiinbw vwm9mm merry chribtmas low low low up to 48mths yamaha brass woodwind instruments accessories all chevy astros air auto cassette 8 passengerjinted glass deluxe grill much more stk 80208 chevy venture air auto abscassette air bags tinted glass 3 door 7 passenger much more stk 80156 it was several weeks after he 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