The scales person was not an SFR member, but from another state. Please
choose your targets more carefully, Dennis.
--Pat K
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>From: Dennis Hale <dhale_510@yahoo.com>
>To: ba-autox@autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: pros and tours
>Date: Wed, May 8, 2002, 8:04 AM
>
>>The Pro at GGF was in 1990 - right when Chris and I
> started autocrossing. Sherry
>
> Yep, cochaired by Jeff Perkins and Paul Foster, yes
> THAT Paul Foster.... They were mightily disappointed
> by the SFR reception too. Foster seemingly has never
> quite recovered.
>
>> scales
>>Years ago I worked in the auto industry developing
> test instrumentation. In short you'll be lucky to get
> 5% accuracy and repeatability out of portable scales.
>
> Those who know nothing are not interested in such
> arcane stuff. Ever see a "czar" in charge of DQing
> folks in SFR that has even read their GCR rules? Too
> much bother, and no need. The purpose is to DQ their
> friends by whatever means available. Taking out one of
> SFR's most faithful national champions on a trivial
> and inaccurate thing like this is what makes SFR what
> it is!
>
>> I'll bet the scales we use have never been
> recalibrated. The scale accuracy is also subject to
> leveling, crudely done if at all at a divisional.
> Positioning of the wheel on the center of the scale
> effects accuracy. I could go but you get the point.
> You
> are NOT going to get laboratory results with portable
> scales that are handled like hammers, not delicate
> instruments. Larry
>
> Now Larry, don't confuse the folks who are having so
> much fun with simple stuff like this. It is SOOO much
> fun to DQ a much more prepared effort than your own!
> And it is soo easy! That's why these folks do these
> things!
> It's why these "big" events do not appeal to everyone,
> like you and me in particular. And maybe Frank now
> too.
>
>
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> Dennis Hale
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