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Angleae

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47. Think 10 years from now. How many of those connections will still be tight?

Thu Dec 13, 2012, 12:44 AM

Dec 2012

We'll be expected to get into places that no human was ment to get into with a bonding meter too big to fit in the hole to check every single connection.

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