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Date:         Tue, 16 Jul 2002 01:31:18 +0100
Reply-To:     Clive Smith <clive.harman-smith@NTLWORLD.COM>
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From:         Clive Smith <clive.harman-smith@NTLWORLD.COM>
Subject:      Re: Windage, Ullage and so on
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Aha! As we say in the aircraft industry (or used to, when we had one)... 'add lightness and simplify'

I do like 'ullage', sounds very nautical, and maybe Scandinavian too.

cloive harman-symthesquith esq. (Rev on high)

----- Original Message ----- From: "pensioner" <al_knoll@PACBELL.NET> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 7:39 PM Subject: Windage, Ullage and so on

> Ever notice in a crosswind how you have to steer into the wind a bit to stay > on the straight and narrow. A windage tray is used to store the windage > that you accumulate from this manuever so you can use it when the wind is > from the other direction and thus avoid this countersteering. Check the > recent thread on electrolysis for parallel thinking. > > An ullage baffle is even more baffling. It helps to keep the crankycase > contents from sloshing about more than is necessary. Or during those 2.0G > chicanes, it keeps oil near the pump scavenging apparatus so the pump has > oil to send to the oil pressure sender and beyond... > > Advanced baffling can reduce the frothing-at-the-mouth characteristics of > oil starvation and provide additional horsepower formerly dissipated as heat > through the thrashing of the various mechanicals by keeping most of the oil > in the sump bottom. > > Check the archives for "ullage". > > p


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