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Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 4:56 pm
by windshieldbug
An electric train don't make much smoke, unless it's on fire. Even
if it was, as long as the smoke is hotter than the surrounding air, it would just go up, and be subject to the prevailing air currents.
Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 5:06 pm
by trseaman
Is this a
real electric train or one of those model ones???
Tim
Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 6:10 pm
by XtremeEuph
trseaman wrote:Is this a
real electric train or one of those model ones???
Tim
lol..wait , they have electric trains?
Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 6:45 pm
by windshieldbug
Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 8:32 pm
by trseaman
Come to think of it...
He never stated if the airplane was real either...
I think I'm missing something with both questions!
If I only had one of those "easy buttons"
Tim
Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 1:10 am
by Chuck(G)
Shucks, Wayne, what's the 'lectricity for? The TV set?
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Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 9:00 am
by Daryl Fletcher
Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 10:16 am
by windshieldbug
schlepporello wrote:TV's run on 'lectricity now?
Our first one was key-wind and the one we have now runs on gas.
3000140 Solar powered or wind-up
Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 10:56 am
by tubatooter1940
Schlepporello's question was a good one to throw out at us blowhards after the plane/conveyor thread.
We sometimes are so anxious to drop pearls on the group from our "vast" experience that we fail to see the problem or learn from it. I am one of the worst.
Failing, at first to realize that an electric train doesn't make much smoke, what smoke there is would hang in place over the train until some outside force moves it. Would the smoke rise? Maybe not on a really hot day.
My best buddy was in a hurry to arrive at a Florida campground before dark so he threw a towline to me on my little sailboat and dragged us at 10 knots down the ditch (intercoastal waterway) with his powerboat.
Two problems, 10 knots wasn't much to him but it was a wild ride on my little wooden 19 footer. My boat was shaking, rattling and rolling and steering required my full attention.
Problem number two, our 10 knot forward speed was equal to a 10 knot tailwind so the smoke from his outboard hung over us and stayed over us for 15 miles in 100 degree weather until we reached the campground.
My wife is still shaking her fist at me over that one.
This has little to do with Schlepp's premise but I'm an old blowhard tuba player and I thought I'd share.
