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Blind Squirrel Finds Nut

I had been a member of the Delta Toolmaker Yahoo group. I guess it folded . In searching for Toolmaker repair hints I joined a Toolmaker Facebook page. After one very innocuous post saying how happy I was having a Toolmaker grinder, even got three likes for that, I got banned. They wanted a video of me no less to get back in. I had already read through a few years worth of posts looking for teflon tape replacement, it's used on the ways, without any luck. That page had no value. But still looking, another small group showed up on my Google search. One thread had a link to Kieth Rucker's site and a five page thread on just that and second generation machines overhaul. . It's better to be lucky than good looking as the saying goes.
 
I'm banned from Facebook because I refused to send them a video " with clear views of your face from all angles" for identification purposes. They can go F them selves as far as I'm concerned.
 
I love this "even a blind squirrel finds a nut sometimes" wisdom. The truth is that the wisdom is wrong. Blind squirrels don't have any trouble finding nuts. They don't see them, they smell them. A squirrel can smell nuts buried 6 inches under the dirt or under a foot of snow. A blind squirrel would probably be even more successful at it than a normal squirrel. It's just plain wrong. .

A much better analogy would be "Even a blind squirrel can jump to another tree sometimes".
 
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