- 101. Re: air cleaner yes or no answer please (score: 1)
- Author: DANMAS <DANMAS@aol.com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 11:19:54 EST
- This reminds me of the old adage - give a man a fish and he will eat for a day, teach him how to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. As long as you seek only yes/no answers, you will always be askin
- /html/mgs/1998-01/msg01452.html (8,986 bytes)
- 102. Re: air cleaner yes or no answer please (score: 1)
- Author: DANMAS <DANMAS@aol.com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 20:52:36 EST
- David, Point well taken! Sometimes, the discussions do go beyond being educational, and get into being either argumentative or off-the-wall. Off-the-wall I can live with, and often enjoy. Argumentati
- /html/mgs/1998-01/msg01483.html (8,121 bytes)
- 103. Re: Crane Allison and static timing (score: 1)
- Author: DANMAS <DANMAS@aol.com>
- Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 18:33:49 EST
- Trevor, Yes, it is possible. In fact, the instructions that came with mine said to do it that way on the initial setup. Dan Masters, Alcoa, TN '71 TR6--3000mile/year driver, fully restored '71 TR6--u
- /html/mgs/1998-01/msg01548.html (7,203 bytes)
- 104. Re: Another physics question (Help me out on this one...) (score: 1)
- Author: DANMAS <DANMAS@aol.com>
- Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 10:29:03 EST
- Scott, I just happen to know the answer to this one! Several years ago ('57 -- '58), Hot Rod magazine, much to their later embarrassment, did an article in which they calculated the maximum speed pos
- /html/mgs/1998-01/msg01804.html (9,547 bytes)
- 105. Re: Thanks for the memories (score: 1)
- Author: DANMAS <DANMAS@aol.com>
- Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 01:41:07 EST
- Vince, Best of luck in your new venture. We wish you the best. You will be missed. Come back as soon as you can. Dan Masters, Alcoa, TN '71 TR6--3000mile/year driver, fully restored '71 TR6--undergoi
- /html/mgs/1998-01/msg02013.html (7,470 bytes)
- 106. Re: Another physics question (now fat tires) (score: 1)
- Author: DANMAS <DANMAS@aol.com>
- Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 01:45:58 EST
- improve But Bob, Wide tires do indeed improve the handling ability of the cars, very much indeed! It all has to do with the shape of the footprint. As someone else noted on this thread, the number of
- /html/mgs/1998-01/msg02014.html (9,904 bytes)
- 107. Re: driving questions (score: 1)
- Author: DANMAS@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 11:10:40 -0500 (EST)
- Michael: If material gets smaller when it gets cold - and it does - how can a hole get larger? Since the interior of a hole is lined with material, and the material gets smaller, how can the hole the
- /html/mgs/1997-12/msg00008.html (8,560 bytes)
- 108. Re: No LBC content/ was: driving questions / now: ice gets bigger than water (score: 1)
- Author: DANMAS@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 15:20:33 -0500 (EST)
- Larry: The key to this cunundrum is your statement "When water freezes and *turns* to ice..." (emphasis mine). Water and ice are two different things. When water, a liquid, freezes, the molecules re-
- /html/mgs/1997-12/msg00028.html (9,734 bytes)
- 109. Re: No LBC content/ was: driving questions / now: ice gets bigger than water (score: 1)
- Author: DANMAS@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 16:53:14 -0500 (EST)
- Neil: I must admit, I didn't know that bit about the temperature range around 4 degrees (but then I'm an electrical, so I can be excused!). I wonder why that is? Did your friend offer any explainatio
- /html/mgs/1997-12/msg00035.html (8,645 bytes)
- 110. Cold holes are small holes! (score: 1)
- Author: DANMAS@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 21:12:48 -0500 (EST)
- Mike & Chris: Since this discussion has exceeded my limits of knowledge, I decided to do an experiment. I found a piece of 3/8 inch steel plate that I had drilled a hole into with a 1/2 inch bit. I m
- /html/mgs/1997-12/msg00065.html (7,994 bytes)
- 111. Re: No LBC content/ was: driving questions / now: ice gets bigger than water (score: 1)
- Author: DANMAS@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 01:44:47 -0500 (EST)
- Bob: If the clock is on this list, it is right about as often as I am! Left on my own, I would never be right (I run minutes per day slow!), but the members of this list "reset" me every now and then
- /html/mgs/1997-12/msg00100.html (8,353 bytes)
- 112. Re: Cold holes are small holes! (score: 1)
- Author: DANMAS@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 02:25:33 -0500 (EST)
- Thanks for that input, David. I believe that confirms my experimental data. Cold holes are small holes, and conversley, hot holes are big holes! When material shrinks due to cold, holes in the materi
- /html/mgs/1997-12/msg00102.html (7,916 bytes)
- 113. Time tolerance: was a bunch of other stuff! (score: 1)
- Author: DANMAS@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 03:26:36 -0500 (EST)
- looking Greg: Since I retired three years ago, my tolerance for time accuracy has loosened considerably. I'm generally only concerned with whether it's daylight or dark! A clock for me doesn't even h
- /html/mgs/1997-12/msg00106.html (7,239 bytes)
- 114. Re: Driving Questions (score: 1)
- Author: DANMAS@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 16:51:29 -0500 (EST)
- ring right? Chris: That somebody was me, and while I can't take credit for the analogy - I read it in a magazine - a hole in a piece of material does indeed get smaller as it gets colder. If you don'
- /html/mgs/1997-12/msg00154.html (10,506 bytes)
- 115. Re: Distributor (score: 1)
- Author: DANMAS <DANMAS@aol.com>
- Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 13:31:46 EST
- Jed: I would agree with you wholeheartedly - in order to benefit from the dual points in a Mallory, you would have to have two coils, which would be overkill for a street driven MG. A stock ignition
- /html/mgs/1997-12/msg01294.html (9,123 bytes)
- 116. Re: Distributor (score: 1)
- Author: DANMAS <DANMAS@aol.com>
- Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 19:05:50 EST
- so Chris: I got the idea from the hundreds of dual point/dual coil installations I've seen in the last fourty years or so (mostly in the first half of those fourty years - advances in ignition techno
- /html/mgs/1997-12/msg01317.html (11,689 bytes)
- 117. Re: Distributor (score: 1)
- Author: DANMAS <DANMAS@aol.com>
- Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 22:43:55 EST
- John: Thanks for the input. I'm still curious as to why, though. And how they were wired. Dan Masters, Alcoa, TN '71 TR6--3000mile/year driver, fully restored '71 TR6--undergoing full restoration and
- /html/mgs/1997-12/msg01340.html (8,604 bytes)
- 118. Re: Distributor (score: 1)
- Author: DANMAS <DANMAS@aol.com>
- Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 22:50:12 EST
- "charge" Leigh: This has me puzzled. If they are wired in series, then as soon as one opens, they might as well both be open. If they are out of phase, then one would close slightly later than the ot
- /html/mgs/1997-12/msg01342.html (8,818 bytes)
- 119. dual point distributors (score: 1)
- Author: DANMAS <DANMAS@aol.com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 12:56:50 EST
- Fellow listers: The fog has lifted, and a picture is beginning to form! Thanks to all the input from all you experts, I now know how, and I think I know why, dual point distributors function. Let me
- /html/mgs/1997-12/msg01436.html (9,577 bytes)
- 120. Re: Compression test (score: 1)
- Author: DANMAS <DANMAS@aol.com>
- Date: Sun, 21 Dec 1997 17:10:46 EST
- Skye: I don't think it makes any difference at all as far as the actual test itself, but it is a lot easier on the battery and starter if you remove all the plugs first. Since you have to remove them
- /html/mgs/1997-12/msg01562.html (7,241 bytes)
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