Stump Shenk, win memory!
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Topic: Stump Shenk, win memory!
Posted By: Enos Shenk
Subject: Stump Shenk, win memory!
Date Posted: 13 July 2007 at 11:35pm
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Havent had a giveaway on here for a while. So lets play a game! The goal: Stump me on any mechanical or engineering question. The first person to do it wins a 1GB PNY USB2.0 memory stick thingy. The memory stick is thoughfully loaded with a bunch of old forum images, sigs, pictures, and other neat stuff. Sorry, no copyright-infringing goodies! The rules for you: It has to be a vaguely mechanical or engineering question. No "Whats in my pockets", no "Who hit 5 home runs in the world series" stuff. Anything goes, use whatever resources you have, including the interwebs. As for math stuff, if you ask me to calculate some ungodly thing, and I can produce the formula to calculate it, I win. Sorry, Im not doing 3 hours of math to answer someones question. The rules for me: Im disallowing myself from using google or any websites to look up answers. Obviously this is an honor-system thing, but anyone who doesnt trust me to play fair probably has issues with the 4 stars by my name. However, any other material goes for me, including books and asking people I know. Im also imposing a 1 day limit on any answer on my part, so if I cant answer a question in 24 hours time, that person wins. If I answer a question, and you know my answer is wrong and can prove it, you (The provee) win! Have at it. ------------- 
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Posted By: brihard
Date Posted: 13 July 2007 at 11:38pm
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What's the average flying velocity of a mechanical swallow?
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Posted By: Ghost-Rider
Date Posted: 13 July 2007 at 11:40pm
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How long would it take a swallow to fly a coconut across the ocean?
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Posted By: WGP guy2
Date Posted: 13 July 2007 at 11:44pm
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What is the primary way to affect the speed of an aircraft? (as in what mainly controls the speed) |
Posted By: The Guy
Date Posted: 13 July 2007 at 11:45pm
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Why can't a 98 custom be anodized? What is the specific reason.
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Posted By: Funky
Date Posted: 13 July 2007 at 11:46pm
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When we were a couple, why did we never go out in public? ------------- 
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Posted By: Darur
Date Posted: 13 July 2007 at 11:46pm
Find the curl of the vector field F(x,y,z) = (e^-xyz)(i+j+k) at point (3,2,0) ------------- Real Men play Tuba [IMG]http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/1859/newsmall6xz.jpg"> PH33R TEH 1337 Dwarf! http://www.tippmann.com/forum/wwf77a/log_off_user.asp" rel="nofollow - DONT CLICK ME!!1 |
Posted By: RoboCop
Date Posted: 13 July 2007 at 11:49pm
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How much power does a flux capacitor need to send a delorean back in time? |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 13 July 2007 at 11:51pm
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What's the boiling point of water on top of mt. everest?
I need to think of some questions.... |
Posted By: Susan Storm
Date Posted: 13 July 2007 at 11:53pm
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What are the principal differences between a PWR and BWR design in a nuclear power plant? ------------- "No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable." |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 13 July 2007 at 11:55pm
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Posted By: procarbinefreak
Date Posted: 13 July 2007 at 11:56pm
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too bad i don't still have my statics book... |
Posted By: Dye Playa
Date Posted: 13 July 2007 at 11:57pm
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how does an mpfi system work?
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Posted By: cdacda13
Date Posted: 13 July 2007 at 11:58pm
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Posted By: *Stealth*
Date Posted: 13 July 2007 at 11:59pm
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How exactly does a camera lens shutter operate, and what is its' main functions?
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Posted By: Funky
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 12:00am
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cdacda13 wrote:Posted By: __sneaky__
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 12:03am
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Other than adding a supercharger/NOS/turbo Whats the best 3 things on a car to get maximum preformance? (without using Google) ------------- "I AM a crossdresser." -Reb Cpl Forum Vice President RIP T&O Forum |
Posted By: Mehs
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 12:09am
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What is the pattern of placement paper of bpcl? Explain the concept of integral and its role in mechanical engineering. ------------- [IMG]http://i27.tinypic.com/1538fbc.jpg"> Squeeze Box ☣ |
Posted By: Enos Shenk
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 12:24am
Cast aluminum is too porous. Or rather I should say, low-cost cast aluminum like the 98C body wont. An alloy with a higher concentration of aluminum would work better (But still difficult) -------------
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Posted By: Enos Shenk
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 12:31am
If I remember rightly: One circulates water into the reactor itself, which boils into steam. One circulates a seperate water circuit into the reactor, then uses a boiler to boil a seperate circuit of water to produce the steam. -------------
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Posted By: BARREL BREAK
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 12:35am
| Explain how a modern autofocus drive determines the correct distance to focus in a camera. |
Posted By: pntbl freak
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 12:36am
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What is the tolerance in inches for a class X
Ø1.510 in. fixed functional gage?
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Posted By: Enos Shenk
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 12:41am
Well, the only things that can affect speed are the propulsion force, the drag, and the force of gravity. The easiest to alter would be gravity. Drop the angle of attack, and gravity is on your side, increasing the speed. Put it in a dive and go REALLY fast! -------------
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Posted By: Enos Shenk
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 12:43am
A variant of sonar. The camera issues an ultrasonic sound, and measures the time for the sound to bounce off whatever you happen to be aiming at. Some fancy math later, and the camera knows the distance to the target, more fancy math to determine the focal point. -------------
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Posted By: __sneaky__
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 12:44am
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What was the original purpose that Roots style Superchargers where built for? ------------- "I AM a crossdresser." -Reb Cpl Forum Vice President RIP T&O Forum |
Posted By: Enos Shenk
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 12:47am
Well, camera shutters come in a few different flavors, unless Im mistaken. You could have a diaphragm type shutter in the lens assembly, or blinds in the film compartment. The purpose is the same though, to only allow light to strike the film for the perfect period of time, otherwise youd get a really crappy picture. -------------
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Posted By: BARREL BREAK
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 12:52am
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Posted By: *Stealth*
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 12:52am
hmmmmm ... That's not how my canon works. ------------- |
Posted By: BARREL BREAK
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 12:55am
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Posted By: __sneaky__
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 12:56am
------------- "I AM a crossdresser." -Reb Cpl Forum Vice President RIP T&O Forum |
Posted By: BARREL BREAK
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 12:57am
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Posted By: Enos Shenk
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 1:02am
A diameter 1.51 cylindrical gage, class X, has a tolerance of .00006 -------------
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Posted By: Evil Elvis
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 1:09am
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with how many aliens did Captain Kirk Scored in the original Star Trek? ------------- 
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Posted By: *Stealth*
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 1:12am
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Describe the means by which professional camera flash units calculate the distance at which their intended target is, as well as how they focus the beam in order to achieve the desired light. Also, on the subject of lights, and a likely situation - What is the common means by which the master strobe communicates when to fire to the Slave strobe? I dare you to accurately answer that question, Mechanical man. ------------- |
Posted By: 636andy636.
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 1:16am
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Why?
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Posted By: Project Irene
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 1:17am
| I'd go crazy with center of gravity (by integration), moment of inertia, modulus of elasticity, computational fluid dynamics, lift coeffecient/drag profiles, thermodyn, orbital mechanics, and a plethora of stress, torsion, strain, and yielding questions in general if only I had the will to type them. |
Posted By: Mehs
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 2:11am
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Explain the workings of a boiler.
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Posted By: karll
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 2:14am
22 ------------- PlentifulBalls "It's cool, I'll be dead before I'm not pretty." Gatyr "Stupid things exist." 
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Posted By: Da Hui
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 2:16am
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All motor vs. turbo
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Posted By: bishopisback
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 2:48am
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You say you're allowed to asked friends of yours? How do we know they wont use google? ------------- 
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Posted By: Shub
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 2:53am
1.21 gigawatts. |
Posted By: Jack Carver
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 3:05am
| I think it was jiga-watts, which is a made up SI prefix right? gigawatts would be pronounced like a gig of ram or whatever. |
Posted By: Shub
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 3:14am
| I think Christopher Lloyd was simply pronouncing the giga with a hard G sound, sounding like J. |
Posted By: Enos Shenk
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 6:01am
Trying to catch up on some of these here. Stealth's uber-specific question is definately out of range of my personal knowledge, but Im sure I can find out. Anyway, a boiler. Theres been quite a few different variants, but at its core a boiler needs 2 chambers, one to burn some combustible stuff like coal, and one to hold water to heat to steam. The most effecient, the type used in steam locomotives at their peak, used a series of pipes running horizontally along the length of the boiler. The hot air and gasses from the firebox would go through these tubes on the way to the smokestack, and the water chamber that the tubes passed through meant the water had tons of surface area contacting the "heat", making for very effecient boiling. -------------
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Posted By: Enos Shenk
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 6:12am
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Anyway, obscure acronyms dont count. So please define MPFI and BCPL, at least give the words
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Posted By: The Guy
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 6:35am
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What is the Square Root of Awesome?
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Posted By: The Guy
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 6:40am
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What is the J dimension on a boat?
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Posted By: WGP guy2
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 8:23am
Props to you, Mr. Shenk. I half expected the typical MOAR POWA response. |
Posted By: Skillet42565
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 8:56am
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Isn't Stealth's question more on electricity than mechanics?
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Posted By: sporx
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 9:09am
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What is it called when there is a bowling pin stuck on top of the rack, the rack is stuck halfway down, and it looks like there is a bowling pin stuck in the gutter?
(these are simple bowling mechanic terms) ------------- 
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Posted By: travis75
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 9:17am
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Shenk: What is Net Positive Suction Head? ------------- Hey MPAA, Guess what? 09 f9 11 02 9d 74 e3 5b d8 41 56 c5 63 56 88 c0! |
Posted By: Enos Shenk
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 11:00am
Its a ridiculously complicated measurement for pumping liquids. According to my bible, its basically how much stuff your pump can pump, factoring in damn near everything someone could think of. Atmospheric pressure, specific gravity of the fluid, specs of your pump, and how high you want to pump the stuff. -------------
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Posted By: Dye Playa
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 11:13am
mpfi=multi port fuel injection -------------
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Posted By: High Voltage
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 11:30am
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What exactly did the little hole under the trigger frame of my spyder do in terms of blowback gas management?
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Posted By: *Stealth*
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 12:17pm
A mix of both. ------------- |
Posted By: Enos Shenk
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 12:21pm
The hole in the reciever? I asked the same question, mainly when I plugged the thing up and it didnt work. It lets the air trapped between the hammer and the valve out, otherwise its like an air shock absorber, the hammer wont hit the valve correctly. -------------
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Posted By: travis75
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 12:46pm
Now I know what i'm up against. ------------- Hey MPAA, Guess what? 09 f9 11 02 9d 74 e3 5b d8 41 56 c5 63 56 88 c0! |
Posted By: travis75
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 1:02pm
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Master Shenk: 1: Explain the difference between reaction and impulse turbines. 2: Explain the theory-of-operation of a Stirling-cycle engine. 3: Explain the ToO of a Tesla Coil (for funzies) 4: What is a pulsejet and how does it work? 5: What is a Rhombic drive used for? ------------- Hey MPAA, Guess what? 09 f9 11 02 9d 74 e3 5b d8 41 56 c5 63 56 88 c0! |
Posted By: travis75
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 1:19pm
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6: How does VTEC work? (Automotive, not college) 7: How does an Automatic Transmission's hydraulic control system work? I'm referring to http://www.thedieselgarage.com/projects/e4od/96.jpg - this number . I just want you to explain the various valves their input/output. 8: You might as well explain the operation of the planetary gearset as well. I won't insult your intelligence by asking you how a torque converter works. http://www.thedieselgarage.com/projects/e4od/96.jpg - ------------- Hey MPAA, Guess what? 09 f9 11 02 9d 74 e3 5b d8 41 56 c5 63 56 88 c0! |
Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 1:33pm
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What does one need to do to make a lawnmower pop a wheelie? ------------- 
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Posted By: BooksAndLeaves
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 4:06pm
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What is love?
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Posted By: travis75
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 4:14pm
It has to be about Engineering. Engineers never have girlfriends, thus know nothing of love. Irrelevant question. ------------- Hey MPAA, Guess what? 09 f9 11 02 9d 74 e3 5b d8 41 56 c5 63 56 88 c0! |
Posted By: impulse!
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 4:39pm
Porting,polishing, MSD ignition? ------------- 
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Posted By: Skillet42565
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 4:40pm
Actually, Shenk had a girl that used to post on here, I think. -------------
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Posted By: travis75
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 4:52pm
------------- Hey MPAA, Guess what? 09 f9 11 02 9d 74 e3 5b d8 41 56 c5 63 56 88 c0! |
Posted By: Skillet42565
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 4:56pm
Oh, shush you. -------------
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Posted By: travis75
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 5:16pm
Wait, did you forget the /joke tag too? ------------- Hey MPAA, Guess what? 09 f9 11 02 9d 74 e3 5b d8 41 56 c5 63 56 88 c0! |
Posted By: benttwig33
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 7:24pm
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Why won't Travis stop?
If a tree falls in a forest and nobody is around to hear it, DOES IT MAKE A NOISE?!?! ....... ------------- Sig is WAY too big. |
Posted By: BooksAndLeaves
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 8:16pm
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HOW MANY LICKS DOES IT TAKE TO GET TO THE CENTER OF THE WORLD
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Posted By: Ticalxx421
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 8:21pm
982,122,435,321 and 3/4's ------------- [IMG]http://i14.tinypic.com/73e0l8j.jpg"> Represent! |
Posted By: RoboCop
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 8:45pm
| What is the difference between ABEC and skate-rated bearings? |
Posted By: Ticalxx421
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 8:56pm
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Im pretty sure ABEC are Skate rated berrings Abec 3,5,7 and 10 ------------- [IMG]http://i14.tinypic.com/73e0l8j.jpg"> Represent! |
Posted By: RoboCop
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 9:14pm
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Posted By: sporx
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 10:05pm
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Hey! Enos, you haven't answered my question yet. Where's my memory? -------------
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Posted By: procarbinefreak
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 10:12pm
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screw this... i'll give you $5 for it. |
Posted By: Cedric
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 10:27pm
Allow me to field this one: OH SHI- VTEC JUST KICKED IN ------------- 
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Posted By: GI JOES SON
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 10:45pm
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isnt it within 24 hours? wouldnt it be funny if his comp blew up or something? |
Posted By: RoboCop
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 10:53pm
| He's probably calling up friends constantly or cheating, but I don't think he would cheat. |
Posted By: Ticalxx421
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 11:17pm
Then how come when you go to a skate shop to buy berrings you they are divided into diffrent catagorys(sp?) Abec 3's 5's 7s' 10's ------------- [IMG]http://i14.tinypic.com/73e0l8j.jpg"> Represent! |
Posted By: travis75
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 11:19pm
 ------------- Hey MPAA, Guess what? 09 f9 11 02 9d 74 e3 5b d8 41 56 c5 63 56 88 c0! |
Posted By: RoboCop
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 11:30pm
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Posted By: *Stealth*
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 11:46pm
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I'll pay 5.50$.
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Posted By: Skillet42565
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 11:52pm
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6 dollars.
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Posted By: whack-a-mole
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 11:53pm
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$6.50 ------------- NASA and the Americans spent millions of dollars and hundreds of hours to develop a pen that would write in space.....The Russians used a pencil. |
Posted By: *Stealth*
Date Posted: 14 July 2007 at 11:54pm
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6.75$.
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Posted By: sporx
Date Posted: 15 July 2007 at 12:24am
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$6.76 -------------
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Posted By: *Stealth*
Date Posted: 15 July 2007 at 12:28am
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6.77$
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Posted By: RoboCop
Date Posted: 15 July 2007 at 12:34am
| $10 shipped!! |
Posted By: procarbinefreak
Date Posted: 15 July 2007 at 1:58am
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guys... no selling on the forum |
Posted By: ANARCHY_SCOUT
Date Posted: 15 July 2007 at 2:01am
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Average MPG on a jeep Cherokee?
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Posted By: RoboCop
Date Posted: 15 July 2007 at 2:21am
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Posted By: procarbinefreak
Date Posted: 15 July 2007 at 2:22am
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no buying or selling... kthnxbye |
Posted By: Darur
Date Posted: 15 July 2007 at 2:24am
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So, is it 24 hours from when he starts working on your problem or 24 hours after you post it?
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Posted By: RoboCop
Date Posted: 15 July 2007 at 2:25am
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Posted By: Enos Shenk
Date Posted: 15 July 2007 at 3:27am
Going by memory here. A reaction turbine in essence uses thrust, some type of propulsion is expelled from the turbine itself, equal and opposite reaction and all that and the thing spins. An impulse turbine, the propulsive force is directed at the vanes of the turbine, pushing on it and causing it to turn.
Which configuration, alpha beta or gamma? Just kidding. I love stirling engines. Air in a chamber is totally sealed up, a heat source is applied to one side heating the air in the chamber. As air heats, it expands, so it pushes on a piston that starts a crankshaft moving. The crankshaft also drives another larger piston called a displacer that squeezes the air from the "hot" end of the chamber to a "cold" end, where the heat is drawn off of the air, cooling it. Since air contracts when it cools, it sucks the piston back in. Repeat ad infinitum.
I love these things too. One day I want to build one. Anyway, in essence a tesla coil is a high-frequency transformer that takes advantage of resonance to achieve enormous voltage. The primary side of the transformer is cycling at a frequency that when it induces a current in the secondary, they amplify each other like if you gave someone a huge push on a swing every time they swang back twords you. Tesla was a genius about resonance, alot of his stuff has still never been scientifically studied.
If I remember rightly, a pulse jet sucks in air, mixes it with fuel, then seals the intake before ignition and releases the exploding gasses.
Its a mechanical linkage to convert push-pull motion into rotary motion. Bunch of levers, neat to watch it run. -------------
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Posted By: __sneaky__
Date Posted: 15 July 2007 at 3:48am
and as for preformance parts, heads, exhaust, stroking are the best 3 ways. exhaust probly suprises many of you, but if you cant get rid of those excess gasses, your not gunna run right... ------------- "I AM a crossdresser." -Reb Cpl Forum Vice President RIP T&O Forum |
Posted By: Styro Folme
Date Posted: 15 July 2007 at 5:20am
3 first most basic upgrades on a car would be: ECU upgrade, Up-pipe, and a Downpipe, for modern applications, however, this question is too general, seeing as certain upgrades can do different amounts of effect depending on the car. But the three most maximum upgrades? Engine swap, tranny swap, suspension work. I think i just beat you at your own game. ------------- X |
Posted By: travis75
Date Posted: 15 July 2007 at 9:34am
This is going to be tough. I take it you will breeze through my automotive questions, so I give another question, one that has stumped many dozens of my friends and colleagues. 9: Define a magnetohydrodynamic drive and give an example of where it has been used, as well as the pros and cons of such a system. ------------- Hey MPAA, Guess what? 09 f9 11 02 9d 74 e3 5b d8 41 56 c5 63 56 88 c0! |
Posted By: The Guy
Date Posted: 15 July 2007 at 10:01am
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Because the alloy Tippmann uses contains iron in it. If you try to anodize anything with iron in it, it will instantly rust and ruin the entire electrolyte solution. ------------- http://www.anomationanodizing.com - My Site
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Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 15 July 2007 at 11:36am
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Those of you argueing about ABEC/Skate bearings, they are different. I dont know how though.
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