rfm3
Super Handyman
Reged: 05/30/04
Posts: 16965
Loc: Western NY-Guarding the Border
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are a few tacos short of a combo plate. Like, it never occurred to them to try before now????
When the new millennium was marked by bells ringing in other cities, Mayor Thomas M. Menino had nothing to offer. And while bells around Boston rang to mark the Fourth of July or the Red Sox and Patriots championships, the mayor couldn't contribute.
t's not that he didn't have a bell -- there's a historic one atop city-owned Faneuil Hall, in clear view of Menino's City Hall office -- but for as long as anyone can remember, it was inoperable, its striker rusted and frozen in place.
Tired of sitting out solemn and happy occasions when bells are called for, Boston has finally restored the ringing mechanism of the 1866 British-forged bell. The fix: a can of WD-40. Officials said they repeatedly sprayed the lubricant on the rusted striker over the course of a week. Now, it works like a charm.
LINKY RINGY DINKY
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Ray
A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion
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FranS
The Boss Mare
Reged: 01/21/02
Posts: 39578
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took em that long, in the meantime they damaged the bell. due to the dents it will not sound the same as when it was made. prolly go "thunk".
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JimTheTinkerer
Humming Bulb
Reged: 03/24/03
Posts: 16276
Loc: US
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Definitely inappropriate for New England.
The WD-40 would have been whipped out decades ago
in Manchester or Portland.
Too much the slickers they are, in Boston. 
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