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May 21, 2005:
This morning Wilbur and I agreed to meet and exchange email addresses. Soon he will be off to Tampa for another adventure and my mother-in-law lives in Plant City - so a possibility of tracking another project. Wilbur and Leon were working on another stay-cable stabilizer - and fussing with a gas-driven compressor. When I left, the compressor was winning.

Here they were working (and the compressor)

Here is Leon (left) and Wilbur (right)

A digital sketch of Wilbur and Leon

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