Date:         Fri, 23 Aug 2002 00:38:07 -0500
Reply-To:     minor35@JUNO.COM
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From:         Bill Minor <minor35@JUNO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Custom Scoop Update - Friday Edition
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One addition:
I discovered that 65 to 70 mile an hour grasshoppers will bruise your
ears and irritate your neck.
I added a piece of fiber glass screen to stop this crap.

Stan

On Fri, 23 Aug 2002 00:34:49 -0500 minor35@juno.com writes:
> OK here we go again!
> I worked for Triangle Engineering in 1975 as a marketing manager.
> Triangle engineering was, at the time the worlds largest
> manufacturer of Roof Top Turbine Ventilators.
> After exhaustive testing at Texas A&M university with about ten
> varieties of ventilators that were designed to suck.
> None of them sucked, they all drafted exactly in proportion to the
> size of the hole in the roof.
> Since heat rises and the wind blows when it rains it makes them
> twirl.
> Its apparent to me that we need a twirling scoop. That way it would
> perform exactly like the hole it covers.
> All of you folks have seen my half assed wind ram at
> http://williamwareagency.com/forsale/stanvan/vent.htm
> Now this thing blows your sun glasses off at 60 mph as well as
> dehydrating any fruit you happen to have in the van.
> So a ram vent is a real help if you stick an oil cooler behind it.
> Granted you're going to get a fair amount of dirt, insects, rain in
> your cooler and in your engine compartment but wow! its great to be
> cool.
> Not me bubba, I just stop and turn it around facing backwards and it
> becomes an exhaust vent on rainy days.
>
> Stan Wilder
>
>
> On Fri, 23 Aug 2002 01:04:36 EDT Ben T <BenTbtstr8@AOL.COM> writes:
> > Why don't you all just say scoops suck because they don't suck?
> Put a
> > damned
> > exhaust fan in the rear and ground touching skirts on your damned
>
> > vans and
> > let's move on. You are all neglecting the fact that some folks
> want
> > scoops
> > because they don't suck in the looks department though they suck
> in
> > the
> > function department.
> >
> > BenT
> > out of shape
> >

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