Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:41:37 -0700
Reply-To: Tom Buese <tombuese@COMCAST.NET>
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From: Tom Buese <tombuese@COMCAST.NET>
Subject: Re: uh-oh
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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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