Date:         Wed, 9 May 2012 13:04:35 -0400
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: Temp Gauge -- why did this happen?
Comments: To: Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@gmail.com>
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At 11:44 AM 5/9/2012, Rocket J Squirrel wrote:
>Yeah, I don't know who that David "Bereil" fellow is. Probably
>related to the various poeple who pose as me but invariably drop
>either an "l" or a "t," or both, from my last name.

I know one of those guys.  Two ells, one tee. He's a shrink, and a
good one.  He looks about sixteen and the ladies swoon when they see
him coming.  Your cousin maybe?

>And I bet the controller lives buried deep within the dash.

Ah, it's over on the left side above the star grounds.  Would have
been easier with the dash off, but you can manage by some combination
of dropping the relay panel (don't pinch that big red wire when you
put it back), and/or pulling the instrument panel.  It's rather stiff
in the socket, you'll have to wiggle it back and forth to work it loose.

>  The very dash that I pulled and re-installed this weekend and said
> I would /never/ do again without a really good reason. No sir, I
> ain't gonna do it. Besides, I bet a blinker light PLUS a
> skyrocketing gauge will increase the odds I will spot it.

When the Navy found that fighter pilots would sometimes land with the
gear up they installed a nasty loud warning horn.  Pilots would still
sometimes land with the gear up, so eventually they ditched the horn
and installed a sexy female voice instead.  Pilots still sometimes
land with the gear up.  Not sure what Boeing would do about that, but
Airbus Industrie would simply have the plane take over command and go
up instead of down in that case.

>Sigh. Well, pulling the instrument cluster isn't nearly as difficult
>as the dash.

Well said. ;-)  I do hope you remember that said gauge contains a
thiotimoline* cascade which activated on 8 September 2011, showing
that you installed the gauge and added the water on 8 May 2012.  I
need hardly remind you that if you fail to do this the entire causal
structure of the universe will be radically altered, likely including
significant effects on Planck's Constant and the binding force of the electron.

*See Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline, Asimov, I, 1948

Yours,
David