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| Thread ID: 105625 | 2009-12-08 22:53:00 | The world's worst thing about PressF1 Chat persona... | Greg (193) | PC World Chat |
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| 837935 | 2009-12-10 03:51:00 | R2x1: Always takes me double the time to understand his statements compared to others :p Yes, I have to admit that I have to read his posts twice to get the meaning sometimes. :blush: :p (Just to get the thread back on topic and bust up the boring talk about engines. :p) |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 837936 | 2009-12-10 04:03:00 | Yes, I have to admit that I have to read his posts twice to get the meaning sometimes. :blush: :p (Just to get the thread back on topic and bust up the boring talk about engines. :p) Boring? Moi? |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 837937 | 2009-12-10 04:31:00 | Commando had LUCAS zener diode on the aluminuim bracket which held the foot rest I suppose as a heat sink. That's right, Lucas had a semiconductor division, their diodes and zener diodes were quite good. I made an experimental crystal slicer when with Group Research using hydrostatic water bearings to support a very thin diamond cutting disc that cut on the outer periphery, thus reducing waste, ie more crystal slices out of a given length of silicon rod. Most cutting wheels at that time were radially tensioned and the diamond coating was around the periphery of a central hole. Wentworth? That is not British...Joseph Whitworth ..please |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 837938 | 2009-12-10 04:38:00 | R2x1: Always takes me double the time to understand his statements compared to others :p Agreed. :p |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 837939 | 2009-12-10 04:48:00 | That is not British...Joseph Whit worth ..please The first man to standardise threads I believe. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 837940 | 2009-12-10 04:49:00 | That's right, Lucas had a semiconductor division, their diodes and zener diodes were quite good. I made an experimental crystal slicer when with Group Research using hydrostatic water bearings to support a very thin diamond cutting disc that cut on the outer periphery, thus reducing waste, ie more crystal slices out of a given length of silicon rod. Most cutting wheels at that time were radially tensioned and the diamond coating was around the periphery of a central hole. That is not British...Joseph Whitworth ..please Diodes that were good compared to ? ? Elf droppings? Hydrostatic bearings? Why not? Static was something Lucas were good at. They were better than any other manufacturer before or since at keeping electrons stationary. Only at Lucas (Lights U Could Almost See) could stationary water be used in bearings - all those other poor fools thought bearings implied the possibility of movement ;) Whitworth had some good ideas. His thread is still the finest ever made for cast iron bolts. |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 837941 | 2009-12-10 08:33:00 | Boring? Moi? Very much so. |
roddy_boy (4115) | ||
| 837942 | 2009-12-10 08:50:00 | Very much so. always doom and gloom... |
GameJunkie (72) | ||
| 837943 | 2009-12-10 09:15:00 | . . . but precisely punctuated . | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 837944 | 2009-12-10 16:59:00 | Whitworth had some good ideas. His thread is still the finest ever made for cast iron bolts. We always just giggled at the feeble attempt by the Brits to manufacture anything out of metal. Threads by Whitworth/Wentworth aside - the materials into which they were cut was not better than congealed Londonderry Fog as the threads failed and fell off the base of whatever they were cut into. Britain should have stayed with iron men and wooden ships and stuck with wood for their internal combustion modes of transportation. The manufacturing of steel and steel alloys is rumored to be a cottage industry in Britain that stay at home mums had going in a pit in their back yard, tossing coal and coke into a hole with rocks containing iron alloy and skimming off they slurry and calling that "Fine English Sheffield Steel". Gack! It was not uncommon - nay, it was a GIVEN that any time you took a bolt out of a Limey import, to see the threads came out WITH the bolts and would require a Heli-Col to make the unit serviceable again unless the bolts themselves just twisted off like warm putty. Ever take a head off an E-Jaguar straight six? The head material is called "aluminimum" - since it was a minimally poor substitute for real bauxite-based alloys - and it always reformed itself around the block studs and you have to carve the bolts periphery free just to remove the head. What junk. Let's not EVEN talk about the quality of Rootes-Group transmission steel alloys either and the fact that there were no real blueprints and specs for bearings, shafts and gears. They were all 'one-off' designs, and the dimensions changed at will according to the mood and abilities of the machinist who made the parts at home after dinner. There are no such things as common dimensions on most Lime-parts, and I bet it's because they cannot understand each other with their accents. If I had - say, a four speed from a TR to rebuild - it was better to fire up the lathe and make the parts I needed, since I at least, had the old part and could copy it for dimensions and length, etc. :lol: But that's OK since the Germans cannot make anything out of plastic that doesn't ooze, crack or crumble. The Japanese, however can make steel better than anybody - they should since they have all the Bessemer Converters from the US since the end of WW-2 and all the chopped up Plymouths, Cadillacs and DeSotos from junkyards for pre-purified raw materials from the US too. Japan was the precursor to the Asian Tigers (en.wikipedia.org) that the US built - and now regrets - since it took the US from THE industrial giant to the same value as a service and cottage industry that the UK had been since their discovery of fire, the round wheel and coke for heating and cooking and fermentation of Meade. It's a good thing that youse guys shook off the British mammary and struck off on your own - moving far away to another galaxy. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
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