On 4 Nov 2004 15:35:36 -0800, (John Galban) wrote:

"Rich S." wrote in message ...

Whatever you do... don't tell them it's for an airplane...

Learned that lesson well when I was building. Example - an automotive spring
shop refused to sell me some leaf spring stock until I came back the next
day and told them it was for an invention for the handicapped and NOT for an
airplane. Spring stock fer Pete's sake!

I like to tell them I'm building a variable oscillating frambulator.
That pretty much results in a blank stare from the other side of the
counter, and an end to the questions.

I tell 'em, "An Off-Road Vehicle." It's the truth, too...:-)

Ron Wanttaja