Date:         Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:08:04 -0700
Reply-To:     Courtney Hook <courtneyhook@SHAW.CA>
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From:         Courtney Hook <courtneyhook@SHAW.CA>
Subject:      Re: Cold steering wheel
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I just went on that big auction site, and found one of the old "simulated
leather" wheel wraps. You know, the kind you stretch over the wheel, then
wind the piece of vinyl leather around and around then tie off. It worked
great!, and it cost a whopping 2 dollars, shipping excluded. Takes the cold
right out of the wheel. Make sure you find a truck size one though!
HTH,
Courtney

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Beierl" <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 8:34 AM
Subject: Re: Cold steering wheel


> At 10:45 AM 3/19/2009, Rocket J Squirrel wrote:
>>its composition, I still think that it is composed of an
>>intentionally evil heat-sucking plastic. A creation of Nazi
>>research. Probably a side-product developed at IG Farben under the
>>direction of Dr. Laszlo Jamf during his development of the aromatic
>>heterocyclic polymer, Imipolex-G.
>
> <ROFL>
>
> You may be right -- after all, that Saran wrap we use in the kitchen
> is only one letter away from nerve gas.  And that could be a typo...
>
> And indeed I once worked for a branch (we made 2/3-height 5 1/4"
> floppy drives) of the Badische Anilin und Soda Fabrik, which was one
> of the components of Intereissen Grupp(en?) Farbenindustrie -- and
> the ability of our drives to clamp a disk so far off-center that it
> went shlump shlump shlump and came out crumpled transcended
> incompetence and could only be attributed to evil genius.  Whereas of
> course the division head's insistence to customers that we didn't
> have a clamping problem was just silly, since they had samples.  The
> whole industry at that point had clamping problems, but ours was ten
> times worse than anyone else's (because in order to shave the drive
> height we used a very shallow puck).  We also used a $12
> ironless-core unstoppable drive motor with no tachometer output and a
> $5 single-source control chip from Thompson CSF, and had trouble
> keeping +/-3% speed regulation.  Our competition used a $1.80 motor
> designed for 8-track players and a 39-cent Cherry control chip, and
> could do +/-2% or better.  Our parent also designed a home VCR that
> ran at 72 ips for three minutes before banging off the end of the
> cartridge.  It then stepped down a track, reversed, and did it again,
> for a total capacity of maybe 45 minutes.  Turnover time was supposed
> to be about a tenth of a second.  They probably used some of that
> heat-sucking plastic to cool the drive motors.
>
>
>  --
> David Beierl - Providence RI USA -- http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
> '89 Po' White Star "Scamp"