Re: ShopTalk: Time out

[Bernie Baymiller]

Tom,   Shoot, this isn't nearly as critical as what you went through. It gets your attention, though, when you've been hiking 24 miles a day in the mountains and suddenly (over a year's time) can't make it up a little hill on the street anymore. They've made a lot of progress in dialysis lately. My son has a 68 year old guy working for him who feels so good on peritoneal dialysis (plugs in every night at home) that he took up jogging. If I can walk the course and pull my cart again, I'll be happy...assuming I don't strangle myself on all the plumbing some night. Then, there's always a good chance for a kidney transplant within a year or two. What's amazing to me is that all through this loss of endurance, I could still play golf OK...with the help of a cart and a day between rounds to recover. They were right when they said you could play this game all your life. But, of course, I'm too weak to trim the bushes, or mow the lawn, or weed the garden :-) Better heal up fast...son has me entered in a scramble with him and his brother on the 19th.   Bernie Writeto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: tflan To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 10:04 PM Subject: Re: ShopTalk: Time out and a new way to match shafts Geez Bernie!   We've not met but as fellow "Chicopee/Springfieldians," man . . . I hope things work out. I did the open heart thing a few years ago. It made me a better person(  . . . I don't give a shit what people think ;-) Our email arguments, agreements, and discussions are most enjoyable, enlightening and ultimately  pointless when compared with this malady.    Hang in pal. We're all with you.   TFlan   ----- Original Message ----- From: Bernie Baymiller To: Shoptalk Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 6:19 PM Subject: ShopTalk: Time out and a new way to match shafts ST'ers,   Won't be playing any golf for a while...had my catheter implant surgery for peritoneal dialysis last Friday...two sore holes in the abdomen and a 4" tube hanging out. Can use it in two weeks and get my strength back, I hope. Funny that the last two weeks before the surgery, when I had almost no leg strength or endurance, I played some of my best golf in a couple of years... a 69, 72 and 73 in six rounds (with a couple of 80-somethings).   But...in the meantime, I have a bunch of clubs to make for friends, so I'm certainly not bored. And...I have Dan's NF2 shaft matching machine to play with. What a neat device! So simple to use once I saw how it works. Set beam length, measure deflection per inch, figure target deflections, snap in a shaft, mark NBP, slide shaft to target deflection, mark tip and cut...viola! A perfectly matched set of shafts with your choice of alignment to boot. Did some fairway wood shafts with it today. Well, maybe that's simplified a bit, but no clamping and unclamping to find the exact frequency is needed. Just slide the shaft in the bearings until it hits the required target deflection on the dial. Much faster to use to match a shaft set than a frequency analyzer. Have two sets of iron shafts to match as soon as they arrive. Will report how they go. (There must be SOMETHING difficult about using this thing.)   Bernie Writeto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]