Date:         Wed, 8 Aug 2001 13:49:05 -0700
Reply-To:     Aristotle Sagan <killer_jupiter@HOTMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Aristotle Sagan <killer_jupiter@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Electronic Rust Protection?
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I went to school at a pretty good engineering school  (UMASS N.Dartmouth).
Had to take thermodynamics class. The soon to be retired guy teaching the
class looked at us EE and CPE (Computer Engineers) students... and told us
if he could keep from letting us get swindled in a free refrigeration scam,
he had probably done his job. It worked. I passed the class, need to know
nothing about thermodynamics, and have never been interested in schemes to
produce carnot engines that require no power...
I suspect the Electrical Engineering Professors looked at their Mechanical
Engineering students and said the same thing... "Keep these guys from
investing in electrical rust preventers, and I'll have done my job." They
weren't smart enough to keep us from investing in VW's though. (RVC)

tim o'brien (class of '92)



>Hi David,
>
>Let me try to add this up:
>
>* gobbledygook psuedo-scientific lingo
>
>* stronger attempts to get us to market the product than to buy the product
>
>* no pricing information (Counteract) or wide diversity in pricing
>(jcwhitney vs. others)
>
>If it looks like a duck, sounds like a duck & smells like a duck...
>
>Are you trying to ruin my wife's anniversary present???? (g)
>
>-Paul
>
>
>>At 03:56 PM 8/8/2001, Paul Cavanaugh wrote:
>>>"The CounterAct technology because it relies upon electrostatic
>>>fields rather than current electricity, is the only system that can
>>>effectively deal with the problem of open-air corrosion. In our
>>>system the electrostatic field we create on the motor vehicles body
>>>slows down the rate of charge transport in the moisture layer on
>>>the vehicles body thus reducing the rate at which the normal
>>>oxidation reaction can take place. In other words the CounterAct
>>>system acts like a catalyst altering the rate of the reaction
>>>without actually affecting any change in the thermodynamics of the
>>>reaction. What this all boils down to is that we offer the most
>>>effective electronic system for addressing the problem of open air
>>>corrosion"
>>
>>
>>What that boils down to for me is gobbledygook.  The Whipme possibly
>>conductive paint *might* have some possibilities -- or it might just
>>keep the water off your nice shiny iron, thus eliminating rust...
>>
>>:)
>>david
>>
>>
>>David Beierl - dbeierl@attglobal.net


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