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03-27-2012, 04:18 PM | #61 |
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Ken, I'm with 37coupe on that one. We know you want to make 'em look purdy, but... ......Clearcoat?
forgive me, I recently got hung up on these stupid emoticons!
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Uncle Max puts a nice finish on his rebuilt 97's and it's not painted or sprayed on.
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03-27-2012, 06:49 PM | #63 |
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The acid I use creates a barrier coating, impervious to fuel and mineral deposits.
Kind of a grey-green-pewter color and should last another 70 years.
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OK guys, let's get the history straight. In 1947 I wouldn't have heard the news of the attack on Pearl Harbor which was 6 years earlier in 1941. Neither would I have heard news about the Korean War which didn't begin until 1950. What I might have heard in 1947 were: "Chuck" Yeager pushing his Bell X-1 past "Mach 1" to break the sound barrier Howard Hughes perfoming the maiden (and only) flight of the "Spruce Goose", the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built And, of course, the death and funeral of our founder, Henry Ford. Oh, and what about the movies? "Miracle on 34th Street", "Gentlemen's Agreement", "Life with Father", "The Fugitive", "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty", and "The Bishop's Wife". Now there's some real news.
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03-28-2012, 08:01 AM | #68 |
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My reference to Korea on the '47's radio was because December 7, 1941 was prior to the '47 being built. Anything that happened after the car was built, right up to and including today, could have been listened to on the '47's radio. As another point of interest, '47 was also the year the microwave oven was introduced, and the first food cooked in it was popcorn...
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03-28-2012, 08:18 AM | #69 |
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Actually it was a chocolate bar that melted in an engineers shirt pocket,this was when microwaves were accidently founded to be usefull for cooking.
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And, how about the transistor? There's another biggie for 1947.
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What was the engineer doing inside the microwave, eating popcorn perhaps?LOL
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I got the impression the entire laboratory room was one big microwave oven,lucky his eyes didn't pop out. He didn't like popcorn,he was a chocoholic.
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Are you sure it wasn't caramel... that goes better with popcorn...
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You guys are cracking me up ....and having been an engineer and working for 'Corporate America' my entire career makes it even funnier. I can actually invision the chocolate bar melting in the pocket scenario. I have seen similar funny things happen during my days of working on product development projects
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Good illustration of the difference between scientists and normal human beings, too! The guy realized he had stumbled into something of possible utility...I would have just been annoyed at having chocolate all over my pen and shirt.
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It got my curiosity going so I Googled it and found this:
A Brief History of the Microwave Oven Like many of today's great inventions, the microwave oven was a by-product of another technology. It was during a radar-related research project around 1946 that Dr. Percy Spencer, a self-taught engineer with the Raytheon Corporation, noticed something very unusual. He was testing a new vacuum tube called a magnetron (we are searching for a picture of an actual 1946 magnetron), when he discovered that the candy bar in his pocket had melted. This intrigued Dr. Spencer, so he tried another experiment. This time he placed some popcorn kernels near the tube and, perhaps standing a little farther away, he watched with an inventive sparkle in his eye as the popcorn sputtered, cracked and popped all over his lab. According to this information it took place in '46, not '47... Maybe the guy that wrote this also published Ford Parts Catalogs...
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His young lab assistant was named Redenbacher ,Orval Redenbacher I believe.
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On the magnetron...search books on WWII involving the development of electronic warfare and physics. The magnetron was the basis of radar as well as the "Radar Range"!
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Yeah, his wife’s name was Betty Croker and their dogs name was Jiffy Pop
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In the early 60s a manufacture of fans and small appliances asked me to take a prototype micro oven home for the weekend to evaluate it and see what I thought about it. Saturday morning I decided I would make some soft boiled eggs. I put a couple in the micro wave and pushed the button and in 2 seconds they exploded. There wasn't anything that looked like an egg and no trace of shells. This oven had a small mesh stainless steel screen over the glass and took 2 or 3 hours with a tooth brush to clean it. G.M.
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