John:
On Tuesday, 16 September 1997, at 08:41 John J. Peloquin wrote:
>Dear Richard,
Such formality -- please, call me Rich....
>I think your measurements are neither metric nor Imperial!
>> ... at four pints to a quart ...
>One quart= 32 fl oz.
>1 Pint= 16 Fl. oz.
>2 pints per quart, at least in California! :)
This is why (a) I have always had a secretary, and (b) I let my GF do all
the hard thinking (and most of the cooking). ; ) Must be an an aversion
to maintaining a file of useless trivia...
My error was in calling the smaller size a pint, when it was actually a
half-pint or 8 oz. size. I blame my third grade teacher, who insisted on
calling those little cardboard containers of milk a pint when they were
actually a half-pint. Incidentally, she used cats to clean chalkboards.
>Even I, a simple Youper...
Now that explains it -- there you were, close to Iowa (God's country and
the center of the universe), and you ended up moving to Iowa's west
coast. ; ) Say, wasn't UCI the site of the US Supreme Court _Bakke_
decision?
>FWIW, I use Castrol LMA because Silicone doesn't adsorb water- thus
>any that gets into your system will sit at a low point in the system and
>eat a hole in it. If you use Dot4 LMA, you can just change the fluid
once in
>a while and get the gunk out.
My concern with water in the system is more along the line of worrying
about it 'boiling' and introducing air in the system, than with causing
corrosion. I do, however, purge my system every two years, and bleed it
pre and post storage to avoid allowing water to sit at any low point.
Luck,
Rich Arnold
Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA
richard.arnold@juno.com
"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."
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