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From: vancleef@netcom.com (Henry van Cleef)
Subject: Re: Flathead V8 temperature
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 92 04:22:34 GMT
Organization: Netcom--posted from Andover, Mass.

In article <1992Aug18.153059.1028@msus1.msus.edu> fuchs@local.host writes:
>
>Its also possible that the temperature gauge is not accurate.  You can check
>that by using a candy therometer in the radiator.  There are 2 sending units
>one on each head and one of them could be bad.

'49-53 flatheads use a sending unit on the lift bank and a unit that has
only a switch in it (to make the gauge read off-the-dial hot) on the
right bank.  If I recall correctly, the gauge is a King-Seely setup, and
there are notorious for going out of calibration.

Ford flathead cooling systems are independent right and left bank.
Check both thermostats.  Also, when the car is hot, check the water temp
in the radiator top tank while the engine is running.  

You can check on the cooling reserve by giving the car a hard run, then
immediately checking to see what the temperature is across the radiator
core.  The bottom tank should be fairly close to ambient temp, and the
temperature gradient should be even across the core---a cold spot means
plugged tubes.  

One suggestion with a flathead, if you are going to run it in hot
country, watch out for vapor lock.  An electric fuel pump was a pretty
standard mod on these cars when they were new.  
-- 
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Newsgroups: alt.autos.antique
From: jws@billy.mlb.semi.harris.com (James W. Swonger)
Subject: Re: MGB Trouble
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 19:11:49 GMT
Organization: Harris Semiconductor, Melbourne FL

 Could be that the accelerator pump is misadjusted (being unfamiliar with 
Webers in general except for swapping one from a Pinto onto a Fiat, I am
assuming there is one). Some carbs allow for adjustment of volume, 
duration and profile of the pump shot in various combinations or all of 
the above.

 An overzealous accelerator pump will produce a little fart of soot when
you stomp on it. Have an assistant follow you and observe for this. If the
stumbling is not accompanied by a puff of soot, the accelerator pump is
likely on the lean side.

 Accelerator pump adjustments may be used to compensate for other factors
which should have been addressed directly. For example a vacuum advance
which does not release quickly or at all may induce a knocking stumble.
Sometimes nonfunctional vacuum advance is remedied by adding initial 
advance and pump shot (wrongly).

 An excessively lean main jetting may also aggravate things. But if steady-
state mixture and timing are acceptable then you must look to the dynamics.

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From: adh@cbnewsi.cb.att.com (andrew.d.hay)
Subject: Re: 1968 Camaro/1964 chevelle info.
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 10:53:40 GMT

In article <1992Aug19.120803.11684@cbfsb.cb.att.com> mxl@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (marc.a.levy) writes:
[]
"                                                 It is a small
"block (2hundred and somthing) with all new accesories to match
		283
"the 1964 1/2 car (Power steering, starter, altenator, etc..)

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From: jws@billy.mlb.semi.harris.com (James W. Swonger)
Subject: Re: Brazing up sheet metal
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 12:42:07 GMT
Organization: Harris Semiconductor, Melbourne FL

 I have been using a cold-galv epoxy primer as I progress around the body
core. I have seen only one rust pinhole. This is the car that rusts in one
day if the metal is bare... It works much better than plain gray primer.
I tried that stuff early on, red rustoleum too, and both broke out badly.
The stuff I use is 93% zinc and cheap too. Duplicolor cold galv primer.
Can I say that on TV?

 Cathodic protection works if the sacrificial anode (zinc) is in electrical
and chemical contact with the metal to be protected. That is, in the same
electrolyte "cell". Galvanized metal will protect nongalvanized metal in the
vicinity if both are exposed to the same trapped moisture (which shouldn't
be there of course).

 I did a bondo-over-lead experiment this weekend and it looks promising. I
roughed the lead surface with a quick sandblast and worked the Bondo into
it (making sure the surface was well wetted). After curing the interface
was stronger than the bulk Bondo; I tried to pry it up with a knife and
the Bondo broke in the middle but did not separate from the lead. In areas
where the Bondo was casually lying on the surface, i.e. wasn't wetted well
the Bondo peeled right off but stopped at the point where the good interface
began.

 So based on this my plan is now to use lead at the actual seam to fill the 
really low areas and hide any stress/movement, and to lead the entire repair
area lightly to encapsulate the steel, and to use Bondo to build up the low
areas within the leaded region. Bondo will be restricted to within the
confines of the steel-lead boundary.

 I've been taking pictures as I work through this wheel-well repair. Maybe I
can get published... 
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From: dee@ldgo.columbia.edu (carolyn peppin)
Newsgroups: alt.autos.antique
Subject: MG car clubs/magazines?
Keywords: 1955 MG for sale
Date: 19 Aug 92 19:21:03 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory


   Could anybody possibly provide me with addresses of MG car owners' clubs?
   Or of the MG magazine?

   (I am looking for places to advertise the sale of my 1955 MG TF-1500,
    in case anyone has any other suggestions..)

   Many thanks... 
Newsgroups: alt.autos.antique
From: spf@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (Steve Frysinger of Blue Feather Farm)
Subject: '73 Cougar for sale by original owner
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Distribution: nj
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 21:16:00 GMT

(I'm posting this for Cally Oglesby, 908/582-7070 weekdays.)

1973 Cougar for sale, last year with sequential taillights.
351 with auto, leather interior.  Been sitting, needs TLC.
Reasonable.
From: james@cadillac.Eng.Sun.COM (James Mangin)
Newsgroups: alt.autos.antique
Subject: Re: MGB Trouble
Date: 14 Aug 1992 15:15:13 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems
Distribution: world
Reply-To: james@cadillac.Eng.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: cadillac

Also, you may have a blown power-valve (if your carb *has* one).   I had the exact same problem
with my Holley 650 and finally had it rebuilt for me, the power valve was leaking and was the cause
of the hesitation problem.

Cheers...
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Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation  	|I can't count the falling stars
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Newsgroups: alt.cable-tv.re-regulate
From: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott)
Subject: Cable "technology" (was Re: TCI)
Organization: Sony Microsystems, San Jose, CA
Distribution: alt
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 18:17:57 GMT


In article <1992Aug13.224136.13959@gagme.chi.il.us>, wdp@gagme.chi.il.us (Bill Pfeiffer) writes:
|> There are interactive cable boxes, that can be polled by the head end,
|> as to what channel they are on, but they are few and far between.

And I, for one, hope they stay that way, at least until they are
improved enough to integrate programmed viewing.

I like to watch some TV programs, but I can't always be around when they
are on.  For example, I enjoy some late-night talk shows, but I go to
bed around 10PM, and I enjoy a number of Saturday night shows, but I'm
always out running whitewater on the weekends.  The programmable VCR
has made it possible for me to watch shows I wouldn't otherwise see.

But, cable TV companies have turned it around and made it harder for
me to tape shows.

In Longmont, Colorado, the cable company scrambles some basic channels
(or at least they did 3 years ago), and seems to randomly change which
of these are scrambled every week.  I spent 3 months without being able
to watch CBS without a descrambler (not a major loss), and several other
channels came and went on an irregular basis.

In San Jose, California, the cable company uses 2 cables, requiring
either a descrambler, a manual switch, or two VCRs (or a nice VCR
with multiple inputs that can be programmed) to do programmed recording.

I expect that as interactivity and special "pay per" services become
more common, it will become more difficult to "time shift" with a
programmable VCR.  If we could get the descrambler folks to integrate
programmability into their systems, this would help.  Without this,
the gap between "normal folks" and "people who make use of technology"
will continue to widen.

-- 
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...(408)944-4073
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From: molin@crs.cl.msu.edu (Michael Olin)
Subject: Re: satellight dish
Organization: Michigan State University
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 04:34:01 GMT

rhatch@bestsd.sdsu.edu (RICHARD HATCH) writes:

>Is the guy still around who sits on a stool and rambles all day about
>vaguely religious stuff and tells you to send money? His was one of the
>unscrambled channels, and he was oddly entertaining, in a vacuous sort of
>way.

You've just described about 300 different people, so the odds are pretty
good that the answer is 'Yes.'


    -MOlin
From: winter@Apple.COM (Patty Winter)
Newsgroups: alt.cable-tv.re-regulate
Subject: Re: CSPAN schedule--Here's the number
Date: 13 Aug 92 05:57:26 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA

>In article <SLEATOR.92Aug6184505@SPADE.PC.CS.CMU.EDU>
>sleator@CS.CMU.EDU (Daniel Sleator) writes:
>>...
>> By the way, does anybody know how to get a schedule for CSPAN?


Here are three ways to find out what's coming up:

1. Watch the promos at :15 and :45 after the hour. (More or less. 
   Except when they forget to run them.)

2. Catch the end of a program. They usually list the next several 
   upcoming programs before they start the next one.

3. Call the C-SPAN Schedule Hotline: 202-628-2205.


Patty
(a person on the verge of becoming a C-SPAN addict :-) )

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From: rhatch@bestsd.sdsu.edu (RICHARD HATCH)
Subject: Re: Is your cable company interested in the channels you are ?
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1  
Organization: San Diego State University - Dept. of Redundancy Dept.
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 04:18:00 GMT

In article <1992Aug13.135515.23256@iti.org>, smj@iti.org (Seth Johnson)             writes...
>If we replace the existing CATV monopolies with a new provider with
>80 to 90 percent share, we are just getting another monopoly.  
>THAT is the business way!
> 
Hah.  Good point!

rHatch
Newsgroups: alt.cable-tv.re-regulate
From: wdp@gagme.chi.il.us (Bill Pfeiffer)
Subject: Re: TCI
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: Gagme Public Access UNIX, Chicago, Illinois.
Distribution: alt
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 22:41:36 GMT

In article <3529@faatcrl.UUCP> jprad@faatcrl.UUCP (Jack Radigan) writes:
>rwh@CS.CMU.EDU (Robert Harper) writes:

>>because most people were't
>>watching it (how do they know? It was part of the basic subscription package,
>>so no differential selection information is possible.  They refused
to tell me how they know, they just know.
>
>  Sadly, they do know which channels are watched.  All you have to do is check
>the amplitude level of a given channel, it drops as more boxes are
>tuned to it.

Sorry, Jack, not true.  

Unlike extention telephones, speakers and such, there is absolutely no
measurable change in amplitude as channels are changed.  All cable
installations are isolated with distribution amplifiers and one-way
splitters.

While level does drop as one adds splitters and additional outlets to
ones home installation, there is absolutely no truth to the statement
that that loss is system wide or even measurable outside the house.
Even with the loss I described, it is dependent on resistance in the
line, not whether a channel selector is in a given position.

There are interactive cable boxes, that can be polled by the head end,
as to what channel they are on, but they are few and far between.

Nice argument, but false.

William Pfeiffer
 





>
>  -jack-


Newsgroups: alt.cable-tv.re-regulate
From: rhatch@bestsd.sdsu.edu (RICHARD HATCH)
Subject: Re: Telcos in the cable business
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1  
Organization: San Diego State University - Dept. of Redundancy Dept.
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 06:58:00 GMT

In article <1992Aug11.214253.1998@nynexst.com>, em@nynexst.com (Edward Man)            writes...
>In your research, did you find that AT&T's profits were limited by law?
>If AT&T had made more money than allowed, it had to given everything
>back. Did you know that?

If AT&T hired accountants so incompetent that they let the company make 
more money than allowed, then the company would have justifiably fired them 
and hired some who would play the game better. There was little danger that 
AT&T would make more than allowed. They had no incentive to do so. 
Investors were holding an extremely profitable stock as it was; why should 
company managers risk bothersome governmental intervention and possible 
loss of their jobs to make another couple of percent in dividends for the 
stockholders? To do so would not have even occurred to them.

rHatch
San Diego State University
From: smj@iti.org (Seth Johnson)
Subject: Re: Is your cable company interested in the channels you are ?
Organization: Industrial Technology Institute
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 13:55:15 GMT

In article <12AUG199223101918@bestsd.sdsu.edu> rhatch@bestsd.sdsu.edu (RICHARD HATCH) writes:
>
>If I were designing a business plan to go into competition with my local 
>cable supplier, I certainly would not expect to split the market evenly. I 
>think it is reasonable to assume that anyone with some business savvy ought 
>to be able to do better than the folks running the franchise here. Giving 
>minimal attention to the subscribers would go far toward an 80-90% market 
>share, I would think, since our local CATV supplier doesn't do that.
>
If we replace the existing CATV monopolies with a new provider with
80 to 90 percent share, we are just getting another monopoly.  
THAT is the business way!

Newsgroups: alt.cable-tv.re-regulate
From: root@sanger.chem.nd.edu (Doctor Math)
Subject: Re: TCI
Organization: University of Notre Dame
Distribution: alt
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 20:04:20 GMT

In article <1992Aug13.224136.13959@gagme.chi.il.us> wdp@gagme.chi.il.us (Bill Pfeiffer) writes:
>There are interactive cable boxes, that can be polled by the head end,
>as to what channel they are on, but they are few and far between.

Few and far between? Hardly. Every paying customer in our local branch of
the Cable Monopoly has one. They can be polled, they can be instructed to
descramble various channels at will, and they can be instructed to render
themselves useless if the bill is not paid.
The alternative?   I hear rumors about some guy in town who sells cracked,
non-addressable boxes for a couple hundred bucks. No, I don't know who it
is nor do I have one of them. Who needs TV when you have the Net? ;-)
Newsgroups: alt.cable-tv.re-regulate
From: garyp@gvls2.gvl.unisys.com (Gary Palangian)
Subject: Re: Cable as an option (was Re: TCI)
Organization: Unisys Defense Systems, Great Valley Labs, Paoli, Pa
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 21:01:13 GMT

An extract from Patty:

In article <1992Aug7.035757.2042@leela.cs.orst.edu> bob@atlantis.CS.ORST.EDU (robert s. richardson) writes:
>
>Finally, I am concerned that cable TV is almost being perceived as a "right".
>The airwaves are public property and regulated by the FCC.  The cables
>running to your home were installed and paid for by the cable companies.  If
>you don't like what they charge, don't buy it.  Get a satellite dish.  Is
>cable so necessary?  


More and more these days, the answer, unfortunately, is "yes". Antenna
restrictions are becoming the exception rather than the rule in new
subdivisions. That leaves a choice between cable and indoor antennas...  :-(

Some antenna regulations also ban satellite dishes. Even when they don't, 
how would a dish help you get the local stations?


Patty

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Why Patty, I'm surprised with you.  If you don't like the restrictions
in your local subdivisions, don't live there.  You should move to
the great plains of Wyoming.  Such silly talk from an intelligent
person.  :)

Gary
From: mwilson@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Mark Wilson)
Newsgroups: alt.cable-tv.re-regulate
Subject: Re: Telcos in the cable business
Date: 14 Aug 92 15:58:35 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: NCR Engineering and Manufacturing Atlanta -- Atlanta, GA

In <1992Aug11.214253.1998@nynexst.com> em@nynexst.com (Edward Man) writes:

>In your research, did you find that AT&T's profits were limited by law?
>If AT&T had made more money than allowed, it had to given everything
>back. Did you know that?

Trivial problem to get around.  The power companies around here have
been charged with doing this all of the time.

Profit is determined as a percentage of revenue.  The trick therefore
is to maximize your revenue stream.

For example you have a job to do.  Two companies have bid for the job.
Company one will do the job for $1000.  Company 2 will do the job for
$2000.  As the head of a regulated utility, which company do you choose.
The obvious answer is company two.  The reason for this, is that since
you are going to be able to charge the amount of the contract to your
base anyway, it doesn't matter what you pay for a job.  At a profit of
5% the $1000 dollar contractor nets you a profit of $50,  the second
company will net you a profit of $100.

Now this example is simplistic and should be caught by most competent
(HA) regulators.  But there are many of other, much more devious
methods of applying this method.

Given that the budget of the regulated company's accounting department
is usually several thousand times larger than the budget of the
regulating agency, who do you think will usually win this battle.

Profit regulation is a loosing battle.
>Ed
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From: mwilson@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Mark Wilson)
Newsgroups: alt.cable-tv.re-regulate
Subject: Re: Is your cable company interested in the channels you are ?
Date: 14 Aug 92 16:08:08 GMT
Organization: NCR Engineering and Manufacturing Atlanta -- Atlanta, GA

>Possibly a good idea, except for the cost.  The installation and maintenance
>of the coaxial cable plant is roughly half the budget of an average CATV
>company.  Three cable companys, each serving 1/3 of the original cable 
>company's subscriber base (a little math...) requires everyone's bill to
>exactly double.  Thus swamping any cost reductions due to competition...

>CATV (and already regulated utilities) are inherently one-supplier systems.
>There are severe financial considerations from the huge investment in 
>hardware that make direct competition unfeasable.

The newer cable systems have room for several hundred channels, the fiber
optic systems have been rated at close to a 1000.

The system I envision is one where a single company owns the cable, but it
is required to lease access to other program provision services.

As a consumer, you pick the company you want, buy or rent the proper
converter box, and away we go.

There are still details to work out like access fees and whether the
company that owns the cable should also be allowed to sell programming,
but I don't feel like getting into that just now.

This scheme will also work, and has been proposed, for electricity and
natural gas.  One company ones the wires or pipes, but you buy your
power or gas from whomever you want.


>Kurt Richter
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--Mark

Newsgroups: alt.cable-tv.re-regulate
From: richter@fraser.sfu.ca (Kurt Joseph Richter)
Subject: Re: Cable "technology" (was Re: TCI)
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Distribution: alt
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 05:39:45 GMT

In article <1992Aug17.181757.21731@smsc.sony.com> dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott) writes:
>
>I expect that as interactivity and special "pay per" services become
>more common, it will become more difficult to "time shift" with a
>programmable VCR.  If we could get the descrambler folks to integrate
>programmability into their systems, this would help.  Without this,
>the gap between "normal folks" and "people who make use of technology"
>will continue to widen.
>

There has been considerable effort by the cable TV folks (represented
by the Denver-based "CableLabs", which most MSO and hardware manufacturers
support) to push a standard interface between the descramblers, the TVs, and
the VCRs.  It's called "multiport", and it's fully defined and proven. It
allows for all the features you can imagine (and then a few) with regard
to the home electronics of all manufacturers working together.

The technology works, now, how to distribute it?  It's become a chicken and
egg question.  The makers of CATV converters and descramblers can put a 
multiport interface on the new boxes, but who has a multiport compatible
TV?  (answer, no one).  The TV and VCR makers, for their part, are reluctant
to include an expensive interface on new TVs, because the majority of 
CATV boxes in use don't have the interface yet either.  Cable companies don't
want to go to the hassle and expense of swapping perfectly useable non-
multiport boxes for new ones with expensive technology.... (Can you imagine
the complaints this group would get?  "My #$%&* cable company came tromping
in and took away my perfectly good converter, and now they want to charge
an extra $2 a month for the new one with a feature I can't use?")  In
short, until EVERYONE (makers of TVs and VCRs, makers of converters, local
cable TV companies, and consumers) agrees to take the plunge simultaneously,
nothing can happen.

I'm not holding my breath. 

Kurt Richter
 
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