I just gotta put this out there...

[Busted Knuckle]

As said "some of us started with nothing"

I resemble that remark. I too started with nothing and still have most of it left!

I have learned as much or more than I ever could have helped here on the board, and just knowing that no matter where my coaches or freinds are there is a nut somewhere near willing to help! Thanks to all y'all for all you do! And thank you Chaz fer start'n this thread!
  BK 

[Chaz]

Hey guys,
  Thanx for the nice replies. I appreciate all the kind words and am also glad I am still in this demented hobby!!    I just love it and the idea of having a "home on wheels".  But sometimes, as you well know, it can be veeeeery trying.

  JC, I can't imagine you like reading my posts. If I have to write something that is, well, "important" shall we say, I have my secretary proof it and she just shakes her head. (I think she calls it "coloquial" or something like that.) I think I write as scattered as I talk and that will never make me a "Great Literary Figure". 

Chris4905 and Paso One,
  NO way have I even rubbed the surface of paying back what I have gotten from here. I doubt I ever will......... even if I live as long as some of you old farts. (names withheld in fear of future litigation)  I'm "half a Centurian now and am surprised I've made it here.
But, if I can help in some way, I love to. Blacksmiths, I have found, tend to be that way. Or maybe it's just guys who like to help are Blacksmith's. 
                     (Kinda like one of my Dad's favorite poem's:
                             I ask a simple question,
                             The truth I only wish,
                             Are all Fisherman Liars,
                             Or do Liars only fish? )   

Anyway, Thanx again to all of you "sharers of the sacred bus knowledge" and even all you "Gleaner's of the knowledge".  I guess at some point we all do get something, at different times, from different people. It's just great to be involved where people actually still do that. (Blacksmithing really does rank up there too!) Too bad there isn't more of it in the country nowadays.

Sincerely,
  Just
    Chaz

p.s. Hope you didn't hurt your brain too bad, Dave.