[TheForge] a lot of unimpressive BS

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It took on the current tone when someone decided to change the thread 
name to " a lot of unimpressive BS"  which was a lot less diplomatic and 
helpful than your (Dave) comment about "details details...."   The issue 
is the limits of language as always.  Saying hot air tends to rise is 
correct in all senses, simple as well as technical since it is an 
observation of effect and does not speak to mechanism.   A more precise 
description would be to say hot gases float maybe, although that is weak 
as well since it describes mechanism without capturing the effect ( they 
could float next to the floor).     A lot of people could probably use 
some exposure to the details since I know I have read thread here more 
than once where people were having trouble getting their hood to draft 
and someone suggested opening a door and that solved the problem.   Same 
with the people that build sidearm burner forges and fancy doors to hold 
the heat and fail to comprehend that all of the gas and air you entrain 
in the burner assembly have to go somewhere.

As far as leaving the list because one out of 500 subscribers fires back 
a dipshit response, well I gotta say thats probably a little thin 
skinned for someone that works with hot iron.  Blow off the reply and 
think through your own post.  Was your original post too pendantic?  
Could someone take it as condesending?  Tune the next one based on 
that.  That is, if you are interested in communicating with other smiths 
on this list( too many people aren't, they are just looking for an 
audience).

Charles


Dave Brown wrote:

> At 08:49 01/04/04, you wrote:
>
>> Ok I missed all of this.... I have no posts referring to this 
>> "discussion". I
>> wonder if it was in response to my suggestion that CO and CO2 do not 
>> rise.
>
> Somewhere along the line the "who said what" has undergone the typical 
> e-mail discussion route.  That is, since one can't hear or see "tone 
> of voice" in e-mail, some things get misinterpreted and spiral off in 
> unwanted and unwarranted directions.  Heck, even this post will 
> probably be taken other than with a grain or two of salt.
>
>