>Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 23:56:47 -0500
>To:TR6Massey@aol.com
>From:geithner@infi.net (Paul H. Geithner)
>Subject:SU, plumbing, carbs (Re: SU carbs for GT6)
>
>>In a message dated 96-12-06 14:19:16 EST, gpetrola@prairienet.org (Gregory
>>Petrolati) writes:
>>
>>> O.K.... From what i've heard the bespoke "Skinners Union" related
>>> to the materials many early carbs were made from... namely leather...
>>>
>>> I could be wrong, tho...
>>
>>I heard the same thing. So we both might be wrong. And I can't think of
>>anyone I would rather be wrong with. Well, maybe Lonnie Anderson. Or Albert
>>Einstein.
>>
>>Dave (the medication hasn't taken effect yet) Massey, St. Louis, MO USA
>>TR6Massey@aol.com
>
>I thought Skinners Union were plumbers. As such, they thought differently,
>about flow and pressure, and came up with the elegant constant depression
>approach to carburetion.
>
>Now as far as the correlation between Skinners Union and plumbing, maybe they
>used leather gaskets? What the hell, I'm really out on a limb altogether on
>this stuff.
>
>-Paul
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. Arnold, Maryland, USA . '78 Spitfire .
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