Guys,
I'm sorry!!!! No more long or unusual words....it was taught to me by my
high school English teacher, so in todays PC thought- it was HER fault that
I used it.
BTW, the original meaning of the F word was "to plant- as in a seed".
Apt, eh? <- see, short words!
Ray
At 05:29 PM 12/4/97 EST, ROBERT G. HOWARD wrote:
>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!
>>
>>| Phil Vanner
>>| '61 Midget
>>| _____
>>| /_____\
>>| !o=====o!
>>| U U
>>
>>
>>-----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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