- 1. Re: Horsepower ? (score: 1)
- Author: berry@hawking.pei.com (Berry Kercheval)
- Date: Fri, 1 May 92 16:05:41 -0700
- Budding History of Science types might be interested to know that the experiment referred to is called "The Magdeburg Hemispheres". --berry
- /html/british-cars/1992-05/msg00031.html (6,924 bytes)
- 2. Sybil rides again (score: 1)
- Author: berry@hawking.pei.com (Berry Kercheval)
- Date: Tue, 5 May 92 11:36:51 -0700
- Finally, last Sunday I took Sybil, my Fawlty TR-6 out for a drive. It had been quite a few weeks since last I drove her, but Chris Kantarjiev's visit to inspect the Bentley drove me over the edge of
- /html/british-cars/1992-05/msg00077.html (8,131 bytes)
- 3. Whitworth tools (score: 1)
- Author: berry@hawking.pei.com (Berry Kercheval)
- Date: Wed, 6 May 92 10:55:31 -0700
- Anyone know of a source for Whitworth tools and parts? I have some wrenches and sockets; I'd especially like to be able to get the odd nuts and bolts, as well as some taps and dies to clean up some o
- /html/british-cars/1992-05/msg00102.html (6,689 bytes)
- 4. Re: RE>deck the block on Scotts (score: 1)
- Author: berry@hawking.pei.com (Berry Kercheval)
- Date: Thu, 7 May 92 14:44:04 -0700
- One trouble with this, as I rememeber from my telescope-making days, is that you DON'T get a flat surface this way, you get a spherical one. That's how you make a spherical telescope mirror -- grind
- /html/british-cars/1992-05/msg00166.html (8,164 bytes)
- 5. Re: rambling stuff (score: 1)
- Author: berry@hawking.pei.com (Berry Kercheval)
- Date: Tue, 12 May 92 09:29:21 -0700
- Well, er, um, I've done some modeling on this and actually it's just the stochastic behavior of large particles with a poisson velocity distribution in a uniform flow field. Which means that things
- /html/british-cars/1992-05/msg00238.html (7,880 bytes)
- 6. Thoughts on Master Cylinders and Spring Compressors (score: 1)
- Author: berry@hawking.pei.com (Berry Kercheval)
- Date: Mon, 27 Apr 92 09:29:00 -0700
- job. Actually, even though I posted the "No compressor" jack method, I'd like to say it made me nervous and I don't think I'll ever do it again. Remember, boys and girls, "Safety Fast" whatever your
- /html/british-cars/1992-04/msg00629.html (7,024 bytes)
- 7. Re: "Sworking" and a lesson learned (score: 1)
- Author: berry@hawking.pei.com (Berry Kercheval)
- Date: Wed, 29 Apr 92 14:01:41 -0700
- I have a friend who used to say that you could never finish a job on a car unless you appeased the gods of car repair by consuming prayer fluid. You know, prayer fluid, comes in 12 oz. bottles and c
- /html/british-cars/1992-04/msg00698.html (7,604 bytes)
- 8. Re: Near Side (score: 1)
- Author: berry@hawking.pei.com (Berry Kercheval)
- Date: Thu, 30 Apr 92 15:13:02 -0700
- Nearside is toward the kerb; offside is away. This means that it changes between RHD and LHD cars. Sybil's nearside is the right, but the Bentley's is on the left. --berry (.... I *think* that's rig
- /html/british-cars/1992-04/msg00728.html (6,909 bytes)
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