Date:         Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:01:04 -0700
Reply-To:     Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Science of Washboarding
Comments: To: Roger Whittaker <rogerwhitt1@GMAIL.COM>
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No, no, no -- "Washboarding" is an entirely different activity mainly
confined to jug bands.
--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.)
Bend, OR
KG6RCR



On 9/27/2009 9:59 PM Roger Whittaker wrote:

> dear van
> i thought wash-boarding was determined to be illegal
> or certainly in contravention of several conventions
> no matter how fast you go at it ...wash-boarding is illegal
> please tell your children
> Just Say No to wash-boarding
>
>
> yours
>
> On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 2:34 PM, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote:
>
>> At 03:48 PM 9/27/2009, Rocket J Squirrel wrote:
>>
>>> The shock absorbers must be doing a lot of in and out travel, continuously
>>> and rapidly when floating the body over washboard. Friction at the seals
>>> where the smaller diameter portion of the shock goes into the larger
>>> diameter bit could cause them to get mighty warm. A little KY perhaps?
>>>
>> They get hot because they're converting mechanical energy into heat
>> -- that's their job and their nature.
>>
>> :-)
>> D
>>
>
>
>
> --
> roger w
>>From Proverbs:
> Under three things the earth trembles, under four it cannot bear up: a
> servant who becomes king ...
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