The winch saga continues in Episode 15, Good & Bad Winches. For a boat so well maintained, it was a surprise to see the winches had been so neglected. But it's all part of my Winded Voyage to get familiar with winches and their functionality. I took some time to go and see the winded nieghborhood. It seems the wind in Port Leucate is always blowing and makes for some beautiful sights.

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Boat shop and naval yard:

Technique Plaisance
440 Quai du Pla de l’entrée
Zone technique du port
11 370 Port-Leucate
Du mardi au samedi
De 9h à 12h30 et de 14h à 18h
techniqueplaisance.fr

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this wicked wench is stressing me out a
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little bit to the point where and give
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me smoke I had good intentions to try to
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isolate myself on got a pie and take a
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break from smoking but broken screw and
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broken bearing hopefully the other three
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will be better the first of four cheat
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winches so so far I'm having some
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difficulty to halyard winters here on
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the cabin top are ok one of them on the
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mast has given me problems I can't take
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it apart and put the Paul's back in
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that's why you have to go to technique
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let's get some help and the other ones
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kind of hard to spin its spinning tight
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so so far not so good and this is really
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the wicked winch episode so here we go
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Lincoln witches
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inside it's pretty cool it is kind of
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wicked when I was a kid my grandfather
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used to keep me entertained by yummy old
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alarm clocks and take apart try to put
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back together well I took him apart I
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never was able to put him back together
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so I'm putting this back together with
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my can with the parts that are good
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should I be using gloves to put apply
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this grease maybe but loves are kind of
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annoying that's feeling looking a lot
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better feeling a lot better it's been
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navigating with that broken screw yeah
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you can tell that's been like that for a
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while because it's rusted in there so I
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didn't do that
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well there cross our fingers that this
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is not a wicked Lynch and that all the
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pieces are intact on it nothing's broken
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can only hope Neptune please win shut
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the up salt sand everywhere so you
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won't have to go through to clean these
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out this helmet
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clean everything out in these day Kadets
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Iran metal which is a metal degreaser
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special stuff it's like gasoline but
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doesn't smell gonna bathe everything in
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this bearings look look pretty pretty
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dried up so that's how you clean these
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out and okay here we go
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so what I realize has happened with the
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other bearings the reason why they broke
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is because there's some where the lip of
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the metal tubing there it's pretty sharp
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and when I pushed it out with the
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screwdriver
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got stuck and broke it so I think that I
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did know what I'm gonna do there is try
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to get in there with a dremel tool and
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smooth it out it seems from the spinning
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or whatever it's created ten of this
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sharp little edge and it's keeping the
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bearings from coming out and it's
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fortunately broke the other ones so that
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I hope I can get a up a replacement on
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that one but I'm gonna try to save this
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one because this one seems good God
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chill nasty nasty little thing I don't
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think this has been taking apart for
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years decades trial and error they don't
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teach this in sailing school I'm telling
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you if a winch falls apart on you while
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you're sailing doesn't matter how much
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navigational wisdom you have no winch
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you could be really screwed so holy
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this was completely frozen you're not
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working at all yeah Sam it was the same
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with the other one my goodness
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you poured a little winch's no wonder
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you're so wicked Wow well this is uh
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anyway pretty satisfying clean us up to
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do this I put this back together and
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this wicked wench becomes a good winch
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jeez I'm be very pleased
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Jesus God I did it
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you got one done right one wicked winch
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is no longer a wicked winch it is a good
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winch yes I did it I did one I don't
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have a perfect score yet but I'm so
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pleased with what I've done so far true
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and I know this win that's just insane I
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can't be out there anymore just like oh
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wow all right Sunday afternoon I'm gonna
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end this day of wicked lynching with a
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little Jack Daniels what a chaser of
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coke oh my goodness oh well I cannot
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deserve this because I did accomplish
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quite a bit I still got two winches here
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to deal with in order to unscrew the
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bolt or the Ellen screw that's inside
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here I can't undo it because the whole
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winch spins so I had to block down the
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winch and I did it with this winch and
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just a simple line from the Heike to
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this winch and this winch which I
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serviced yesterday successfully mm so
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I'm gonna see if this is gonna work or
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not yeah because these things that
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really tight in there oh all right
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my god just frozen so I'm gonna let this
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soak I think that's the only solution
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looks like I got my cleaning work cut
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out on these ones
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i reassemble the winch and everything
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fell into place as hoped the one
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exception the top Allen screw would not
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bake I had damaged the threads when I
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pounded the shaft with a hammer the
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winch struggle was to continue I would
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need help but it was a lesson line it's
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nearly five o'clock and then totally
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wind it up there with this wind
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man it's incredible here um so now I'm
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just gonna put a windowed voyage episode
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together the wicked one the wicked wind
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now so it just begins you had to do all
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this editing stuff but this I like this
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part it's fun and I master editing and
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moviemaking a bit better than we could
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winches so but I will learn and I will
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succeed
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I took a break from the winch's doing
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the workout in the wind was like
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fingernails on the chalkboard so I went
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for a winded look around
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poor laqad is known for its wind
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conditions if it isn't the trommel tan
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from the land it's the maja from the sea
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they say it calms down during the summer
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well we shall eventually see
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in between the winds it rains and I
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couldn't do much work outside so I took
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advantage to go to technique fly zones
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for some help or borrow their
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workbenches owner Jacques was all to
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kind of help he's retired but seems like
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he's still added
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he's got the right tools makes all the
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difference
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mr. Jacques la Pieta totally fixed my
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screw guys are awesome Virginian
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it's a wonder how he's still so sharp
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he's had recent health problems and lost
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sight in one eye she can you can picture
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Vita a young poet afar Oh officer Lopez
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uncle Khan was a pet jacked up your
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night oh yeah this is really cool could
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not have done that alone so this is
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great mr. Jacques was able to remove the
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other half of this screw that was broken
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and we threaded it and what do I have
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now is check this out
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cup brand-new for against cruel that
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works
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Hugo's helping me out here finding this
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stupid bearing that I accidentally broke
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like a stupid idiot
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wait Boadicea CID few more vodka
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asked if I borrow winches are no longer
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in existence anymore in manufacturing
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I can't just easily order peace so he
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has sent me to a ball-bearing
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manufacturing place and he says that
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they have 60,000 odd pieces with parts
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that maybe can find this shut down on
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the bearing so gonna try something else
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in my quest to find this unfindable
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bearing I'm going to use ship another
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marine part store maybe they can help
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let's see here we go
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I was shut down again no replacement
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bearing have to get on a new winch just
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for that stupid very sad dinner
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so anyways it's not the end of the world
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it's just the end of the winch maybe
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looks like I found the bearing I'm
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missing from my barmal winch and I've
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just got an email from Alan that button
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winches and it seems like he's got apart
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so I just got to order it this is
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awesome man
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Thank You Alan thank you very much well
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when I get it and it works really thank
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you that one