Yes, we must certainly do that! I looked it up in my Webster's Ninth New
Collegiate Dictionary (the one that has recently gained some notariety
for having the "F" word) and found that rhadamanthine was first used in
1840. Although a superb word, it hasn't been used again until today.
And we thought our MGs were obsolete.
Bob
On Thu, 4 Dec 1997 14:41:07 -0600 Phil Vanner <pvanner@pclink.com>
writes:
>rhadamanthine - strictly and inflexibly honest and just (G)
>
>(as found on http://www-ocean.tamu.edu/~baum/skb_dict.html#R (skb list
>o' nifty words) )
>
>The usage may be a bit of stretch but you gotta give the guy points
>for workin' it in there!
>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ray McCrary [SMTP:spook01@mindspring.com]
>Sent: Thursday, December 04, 1997 1:37 PM
>To: Trevor Boicey; Peter Landy; mgs@autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: "oiled" and driving questions
>
>Guys,
>Leaving your engine running while running into the store isn't likely
>to
>make your engine last any longer.
>BUT....
>Most engine wear DOES occur at startup not because the oil "runs off"
>of
>the bearings, but because without oil pressure, there is no
>hydrostatic
>wave to support the bearings. As many of you know, bearing material
>is
>VERY heat sensitive, and if they bearings rub, they heat.
>At the risk of sounding rhadamanthine, I would forget all the wierd
>theories of why engines wear, and buy one of the small electric oil
>pumps,
>sold by stores such as Summit Racing, to pre-pressurize your oil
>system.
>No more zero OP starts= less wear on the engine.
>Regards,
>Ray At 04:23 AM 11/29/97 -0500, Trevor Boicey wrote:
>>Peter Landy wrote:
>>> I agree that most of the wear occurs during engine startups.
>During
>>> shopping or other stop'n'go errands I leave the car running
>>
>> I don't think that makes sense.
>>
>> The wear occurs at startup because the engine isn't
>>lubricated. All the sitting has let the oil run off the
>>cylinder walls and out of the bearings.
>>
>> If you are only stopped for a few minutes, the oil doesn't
>>run anywhere, and the starting is not particularily harmful.
>>
>> I'd be willing to bet that the thousands of extra revs would
>>do a lot more wear from all that needless idling.
>>
>>--
>>Trevor Boicey
>>Ottawa, Canada
>>tboicey@brit.ca
>>http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/
>>
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