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To: Ilaine who wrote (50901)	5/21/2000 10:33:00 PM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

There are two things I know how to do really well that almost no one else knows how to do. That's leaving out the things I know how to do that a lot of people know how to do, like chop onions, or make a roux. That's the way that I am about automotive parts (and repairing car radiators too for that matter)... Can't seem to empty the numbers out of my head...hundreds and hundreds of the "basic" Ford part numbers... Each part on a car has a basic number... let's say a front fender... a 16005 or 16006 depending on which side... Then the "prefix" which precedes that tells you what year and model of car the fender will fit, and the suffix might differentiate between particular lines of a model.... Memory is filled with hundreds of basic numbers like 2B120 front calipers, or 2261 rear brake cylinders, or 3A674 power steering pumps, or 4236 differential gear sets, or 6584 valve cover gaskets, or 6051 head gaskets, or 7C054 transmission governors... arrrrgggghhhh... No matter how many years go by, the numbers are all just "there"... But the best partspeople just "know" those numbers... they are like a whole language of their own... You don't ever say "rear emergency brake cable" when you have the right "word" for it in your "language"... a 2A635... I was very good at it. But I hated it. How well I know...

To: Ilaine who wrote (50901)	5/21/2000 10:41:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 71178

I forgot to mention the camera's lights are incredibly bright, and hot, there are three or four in a row on either side of the copy board, and when you push the exposure button, the lens opens and the lights come on. A line shot might take 20 seconds, and a halftone might take a minute, because the halftone screen cuts down the light hitting the film. It's actually very rhythmic, and soothing, the sounds, click shut the glass door over the copy, slam the copy board upright (bam!), close the door to the darkroom, slam the film board down, whoosh goes the vacuum, slam the film board up, click goes the lens opening, hummmmm go the lights, click goes the lens closing, slam the film board down, hummmmm goes the film processor, close the door to the darkroom, slam the copy board down (bam!), and repeat. Always keep the darkroom closed because someone else might be in there. The darkroom is usually three or four rooms, all connected by doors with black curtains that hang over them, and you never know who's in the next room, it could be a stripper or another cameraman, making spreads or chokes, or proofs. I used to work the graveyard shift all by myself, I'd shoot, and strip, and plate, newspapers when I was the only one in the plant, and the only problem was that around three or four in the morning I'd start seeing things out of the corner of my eye.