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Date:         Mon, 23 Aug 1999 22:11:27 -0700
Reply-To:     Ari Ollikainen <Ari@OLTECO.COM>
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From:         Ari Ollikainen <Ari@OLTECO.COM>
Subject:      Re: loud fuel pump
Comments: To: Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
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At 8:41 PM -0700 8/23/99, Karl Wolz wrote: >Being picky here, but . . > >Cavitating is what happens when a bearing wears out and a spindle is no >longer rotating around a single axis. > >In other words the pump's spindle is kind of rumbling around a wallered out >hole instead of simply spinning. Really has nothing to do with pumping air; >it's just not pumping much of anything.

I ... don't ...think ... so...

In simplest terms, cavitation is the process in which a liquid changes to a vapor due to a reduction in pressure. This can occur in a pump downstream of a below-design restriction in flow.

>My apologies for the poor description.

Try again, perhaps we'll all understand what you're trying to say if you say it again differently.

OLTECO Ari Ollikainen P.O. BOX 3688 Networking Architecture and Technology Stanford, CA Ari@OLTECO.com 94309-3688 415.517.3519


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