[R-390] One of my other, unrelated, boatanchor hobbies.

[Les Locklear]

My Grandfather would have loved that!!!

As my Paternal Grandfather from Norway used to say.....

"Ya Sure You Betcha"

Olaf Tonder Johan Benjaminsen Nelson
1877 - 1949


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bruce MacLellan" <brumac at peoplepc.com>
To: "Barry Hauser" <barry at hausernet.com>
Cc: <r-390 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 1:36 PM
Subject: Re: [R-390] One of my other, unrelated, boatanchor hobbies.


> Ah, Barry that isn't too far fetched although it would work better with 
> Lutfisk as a dampening agent.    Kielbasa could be utilized as a retaining 
> wall to keep the Lutfusk contained should enough heat was generated to 
> make the Lutfisk too viscous .....yummmmmmm   just imagine the aroma after 
> several hours of operation!!!!
>
> Bruce
>
> -----Original Message-----
>>From: Barry Hauser <barry at hausernet.com>
>>Sent: Dec 17, 2007 2:22 PM
>>To: Joe Foley <redmenaced at yahoo.com>
>>Cc: r-390 at mailman.qth.net
>>Subject: Re: [R-390] One of my other, unrelated, boatanchor hobbies.
>>
>>Joe Foley wrote:
>>> Yes, it is off-the-topic of this list.
>>>
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Anb43CObtCQ
>>>
>>> Joe
>>>
>>>
>>> 
>>> ___________________________________________________________________________________
>>>
>>
>>Nope, not off-topic after all.  That spinning centrifugal governor gave
>>me an idea, for .... brace yourselves -- yet ANOTHER ballast tube
>>replacement.
>>
>>Basically, you connect one of those centrifugal thing-a-ma-bobs to a
>>suitable potentiometer.  (No, not so it spins around like that -- to the
>>other linkage of the thing-a-ma-bob that correlates to, uh,
>>centrifugal-ness.)  A motor, running off the normally ballast-tubed
>>current, spins faster when there's too much juice, then the dingus on
>>the thing-a-ma-bob turns the pot down.  Juice too low, slows down much
>>and it turns the pot up.
>>
>>It probably could be made to work -- but keep a kielbasa on hand in case
>>of emergencies.
>>
>>(runnin' + duckin')
>>Barry
>>
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