I’m in the junkyard. The hook on the Jeep’s winch is giving me grief. I wanted to attach the winch’s hook to the gate to break it, so I could switch the power from the gate to the bunker, but I can’t attach the hook to anything. The walkthough suggests attaching the hook to Joe (for some reason) but I can’t do that either. Is this a bug or am I misunderstanding something?
@paulseawa see above 
Not a bug – some hints in ascending order of hintiness:
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If attaching the hook to Joe doesn’t make sense to you now, that probably means you haven’t run across the reason why it might be useful to do that.
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You’re on the right track with wanting to keep the gate open even when it’s powered off, though.
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The hook isn’t important to the solution to this bit.
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Have you tried looking at the gate to figure out how it locks?
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Is there anything you’ve found that could help you prevent that from happening?
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Have you fully explored the rest of the gas station area?
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There are two ways that might come to mind to keep the gate open, but the one that (in my opinion) is more obvious unfortunately won’t work.
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That is, propping open the door. So what else might work?
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Is there a way to prevent the latch from catching?
And last two basically give the game away:
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Do you have the duct tape?
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TAPE GATE
Wow, thanks for the awesome invisaclues Mike!
Walter, hopefully that should help with unlocking the gate. But I also want to make sure you haven’t run into a missing verb or something like that. Can you provide me a transcript or maybe tell me how you are trying to hook joe and what the response is?
I’ve sent you a partial transcript by PM, covering this section of the game. The version of the game I have is “Release 9 / Serial number 201004 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib 6/12N).”