Jon: gotta have that tank anyway: trucks got AIR brakes. Even way up
north ;-)
your'e learnin' ;-) LOL
cheers, "Dirt Track Doug" CDL Driver, in exile in So. New York,
-22 miles from Square Deal Raceway,
-21 miles east of Action Park Speedway,
-63 miles northeast of Champion Speedway
-105 miles south of "the Syracuse Mile" ...
-265 miles north of Williams Grove Speedway
-2325 miles due east of the Bonneville Salt Flats
and never more than a few feet from a cold one
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> From: jon@infodestruction.com
> Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 13:49:45 -0500
> To: jauguston@msn.com
> CC: land-speed@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Land-speed] Non-LSR Air Starter
>
> On Jan 6, 2008, at 1:17 PM, Jim Auguston wrote:
>
> Slim,
>
> The air start on trucks was done to reduce weight. They had one car
> size 12v
> battery for lighting instead of the 24v 4-6v battery system, a small
> alternator and the air starter was light. Consolidated Freight Lines had
> hundreds of tractors with that system. If the air was low they could
> jump
> start them with the trailer air hose from another tractor.
>
> Jim
>
>
>
> See why I like this list? I learn stuff. Thanks, Jim.
>
> But -- you mean to say that that big tank weighed less than three
> batteries? Today's truck batteries are about 60# or so, and I'd
> think that the 6V ones were similar. So all that big tank weighed
> less than 150# or so? Hmmmm...
>
> Jon Wennerberg
> Seldom Seen Slim Land Speed Racing
> Marquette, Michigan
> (that's 'way up north)
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