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Date:         Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:41:37 -0700
Reply-To:     Tom Buese <tombuese@COMCAST.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Tom Buese <tombuese@COMCAST.NET>
Subject:      Re: uh-oh
Comments: To: Scott Daniel - Shazam <scottdaniel@turbovans.com>
In-Reply-To:  <013301c86387$c0102f00$6501a8c0@TOSHIBALAP>
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On Jan 30, 2008, at 2:33 PM, Scott Daniel - Shazam wrote:

> Oh I like that a lot ! > But...........of course..........regardless of how creative or > artistic > architecture is, the purpose of a roof is to keep out the elements, > particularly water.

You are not thinking outside the box? grin

> So given leaks, the architect was too much artist and not enough > practical > designer.

Frank would have said w/o innovation/risk taking why bother? > > It's 40 + years old by now, but the roof of the very exotic chapel > at the > Air Force Academy near Colorado Springs , Co. , always leaked I've > read.

Yep, & Frank wasn't even involved(Skidmore, Owings & Merrill) > > Hey ! maybe Frank was involved with the adapting of water cooling > to the air > cooled vw opposed four ( which is what a waterboxer is ) and that's > why they > leak easily !!!

Unfortunately Frank died in 1957+-.

Mr. BZ-could have worked w/ Ferdinand P. on the orig. ac boxer tho?

> Scott > www.turbovans.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tom Buese [mailto:tombuese@comcast.net] > Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 12:59 PM > To: Scott Daniel - Shazam > Cc: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > Subject: Re: uh-oh > > > On Jan 30, 2008, at 1:48 PM, Scott Daniel - Shazam wrote: > >> Of course the famous phrase, first uttered by an engineer, and so >> true, is >> recalled : >> >> "It is the nature of fluids to leak." > > & Architect Frank Lloyd Wright famously said: "If the roof doesn't > leak, the architect has not been creative enough" +- > > Mr. BZ-thats why we carry professional liability insurance >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On >> Behalf Of >> Allan Streib >> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 11:34 AM >> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM >> Subject: Re: uh-oh >> >> Roger Sisler <rogersisler2000@YAHOO.COM> writes: >> >>> Owners often report a drop or two overnite in cold weather. Dont >>> think this happens with new gaskets, though. Are you sure the >>> coolant is not coming from some other place than the head gaskets? >> >> Pretty sure, unless it's seeping onto the top of the cylinder and >> migrating down along the gasket edge by capilary action. The drop I >> saw was still hanging from the cylinder, right at the gasket on the >> head side. It has been cold, below freezing when I've noticed this. >> >> Allan >> -- >> 1991 Vanagon GL >


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