At 01:41 PM 2/21/99 -0800, Joe Curry wrote:
>Come on you guys (and gals). I have been anxiously awaiting all the
>raspberries and flames over my posting this rather interesting but
>somewhat innocuous piece of useless information.
>
>Did this go completely over everybody's heads? 8^)
No, but I just had an uncontrollable urge to have a chocolate ice cream
sundae (Hershey's of course). Anything that thick _has_ to be satisfying!
P.S. 'Centerpoise', that isn't one of them Metric things, is it?
Atwell "my brain is a cinder on Sundays"Haines
'79 Spit (all SAE except for the fittings on the [new] rear brake lines)
>Joe Curry wrote:
>>
>> I ran across this little tidbit in one of my books. I thought it might
>> provide a little "Light" reading for the list. Here goes:
>>
>> Listing viscosities by centerpoise is sometimes confusing unless one is
>> thoroughly familiar with this particular system. The following
>> practical interpretation will be of assistance. The viscosity readings
>> are for mixed compounds.
>>
>> The readings were taken at 25 degrees C with a Brookfield viscometer.
>>
>> 1 CENTIPOISE (C.P)....WATER
>> 4000 CENTIPOISE (C.P)....#10 MOTOR OIL
>> 3,500 CENTIPOISE (C.P)....CASTOR OIL
>> 4,500 CENTIPOISE (C.P)....KARO SYRUP
>> 25,000 CENTIPOISE (C.P)....HERSHEY CHOC. SYRUP
>>
>> OIL VISCOSITY
>> _________________________________________
>> | | Saybolt Universal Seconds |
>> | |_______________________________|
>> | SAE | 130 o F | 210 o F |
>> | | Min. | Max. | Min. | Max. |
>> |_________|_______|_______|_______|_______|
>> | 10 | 90 | 120 | | |
>> | 20 | 120 | 185 | | |
>> | 30 | 185 | 255 | | |
>> | 40 | 255 | | | 80 |
>> | 50 | | | 80 | 105 |
>> | 60 | | | 105 | 125 |
>> | 70 | | | 125 | 150 |
>> |_________|_______|_______|_______|_______|
>>
>> Happy reading,
>> Joe
>>
>> --
>> "If you can't excel with talent, triumph with effort."
>> -- Dave Weinbaum in National Enquirer
>
>--
>"If you can't excel with talent, triumph with effort."
> -- Dave Weinbaum in National Enquirer
>
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