From: Ron on
Jamie wrote:

> The way I see it, you're not able to comprehend the vast complexity of
> the intellectually enhanced American!
>
> Did that just about sum it up?

An Oxymoron shirley?

;)

Dives for cover
Ron (Merry Christmas)
From: Spehro Pefhany on
On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 04:07:32 +0000, Eeyore
<rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)notcoldmail.com> wrote:

>
>
>Fred Abse wrote:
>
>> Eeyore wrote:
>> > DaveC wrote:
>>
>> >> The coil in an industrial electromagnetic clutch (connecting the flywheel to
>> >> the drive mechanism) has gone open-circuit. So it is being rewound by a motor
>> >> rewind shop.
>> >>
>> >> I was just informed that the original wire was about 12 ga. (maybe slightly
>> >> larger; original was metric) but it was rewound using 10 ga.
>> >
>> > Why do Americans persist in using stupid AWG that no-one else in the
>> > world uses except to entertain you ?
>> >
>> > Have you never heard of mm^2 ?
>>
>> Metric magnet wire (enameled copper wire to you)
>
>Well, it IS used for things other than magnets. To be pedantic it's *enamelled* btw.
>
>http://wires.co.uk/acatalog/cu_enam.html

You're being more provincial than pedantic there. ;-)

>> is usually specced in diameter, rather than cross sectional area.
>
>Or both.
>
>Graham

From: daestrom on
Michael A. Terrell wrote:
> krw wrote:
>> On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:34:42 -0500, "Michael A. Terrell"
>> <mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> wrote:
>>
>>> John Fields wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:06:47 -0700, "bg" <bg(a)nospam.com> wrote:
>>>>> Metric is for people that have to count on their fingers !
>>>> I prefer base 21.
>> The subject excites you?
>>
>>> Only because 42 is the second number in that base. :)
>> Everyone knows that 42 is in base 13. ;-)
>
>
> You're wayyyy off base...
>
>
No, the answer to "Life, the Universe and Everything" is 42.

If that doesn't make sense to you, it's because you don't understand the
question. The question is "What is six times nine?"

The only way any of this works out is if '42' is in base 13. (4*13+2=6*9)

daestrom
In memory of Douglas Adams
From: lurch on
On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:51:56 -0500, Jamie
<jamie_ka1lpa_not_valid_after_ka1lpa_(a)charter.net> wrote:

>Ron wrote:
>
>> Jamie wrote:
>>
>>> The way I see it, you're not able to comprehend the vast complexity of
>>> the intellectually enhanced American!
>>>
>>> Did that just about sum it up?
>>
>>
>> An Oxymoron shirley?
>>
>> ;)
>>
>> Dives for cover
>> Ron (Merry Christmas)
>Yeah.
> Hail Marry!
>

On the Toad again...
From: lurch on
On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:35:16 -0800, Fred Abse
<excretatauris(a)invalid.invalid> wrote:

>On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 03:54:32 +0000, Eeyore wrote:
>
>> It is indeed. AWG does not specify an explicit conductor CSA.
>
>AWG does not specify conductors. It specifies *wires*. There are other
>types of wire than electrical.

You can tune a piano and even suspend a bridge!