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Old November 10th 14, 09:27 PM posted to alt.windows7.general,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
John Doe[_9_]
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"Gene E. Bloch" not-me other.invalid wrote:

Paul wrote:
Gene E. Bloch wrote:

OK, then there might be a problem with the old suggestion for an
electric car that could go hundreds of miles on electricity, as long
as the extension cord was long enough.


We'll just have to try it. Here, let me get my car out of the garage.
I have a 240km cord around here somewhere...


Come on, Paul, one model of the Tesla has a 300 mi (almost 500 km)
range and it doesn't even need an extension cord :-)


Bull****.









--

After yesterday's posts, I got to thinking about street cars and what I
call trackless trolleys. I realized that the overhead wires really
function just like an extension cord.

Kind of ruins the old joke :-)

Trackless trolleys was the term when I was a kid in Philadelphia for
electric buses that were powered like streetcars (called trolley cars in
Phillie) by overhead wires. I mention that because all of those things
had different names in the different cities I grew up in.

I did actually build an electric car as a kid. It used
a washing machine motor. The pulleys weren't geared right,
so I couldn't use it regularly. But I did get it to go
about 20 or 30 feet around the side of the house. I can
see me driving that baby to work now. And having the
rubber belt snap halfway through the trip (because it
wasn't geared right). I would have needed another pair of
pulleys to get the ratio into the right range.

Paul


That's really impressive, even if it didn't go far. Creative.

Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)


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Old November 10th 14, 10:22 PM posted to alt.windows7.general,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Jerry Peters
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In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Gene E. Bloch wrote:
On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 00:16:09 -0500, Paul wrote:

Gene E. Bloch wrote:


OK, then there might be a problem with the old suggestion for an
electric car that could go hundreds of miles on electricity, as long as
the extension cord was long enough.


We'll just have to try it. Here, let me get my car
out of the garage. I have a 240km cord around here
somewhere...


Come on, Paul, one model of the Tesla has a 300 mi (almost 500 km) range
and it doesn't even need an extension cord :-)


With the heater on? I seem to remember a less than enthusiastic review
of the Tesla, specifically the milage claims, where Tesla's response
was something like the reviewer didn't follow instructions -- poor guy
used the heater.

  #43  
Old November 11th 14, 04:20 AM posted to alt.windows7.general,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Char Jackson
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On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 00:16:09 -0500, Paul wrote:

Gene E. Bloch wrote:


OK, then there might be a problem with the old suggestion for an
electric car that could go hundreds of miles on electricity, as long as
the extension cord was long enough.


We'll just have to try it. Here, let me get my car
out of the garage. I have a 240km cord around here
somewhere...

I did actually build an electric car as a kid. It used
a washing machine motor. The pulleys weren't geared right,
so I couldn't use it regularly. But I did get it to go
about 20 or 30 feet around the side of the house. I can
see me driving that baby to work now. And having the
rubber belt snap halfway through the trip (because it
wasn't geared right). I would have needed another pair of
pulleys to get the ratio into the right range.


My brother and I built an electric 'car' when we were kids, using modified
plans from Popular Mechanics. The drive motor was an electric starter from
an early 1960's Dodge and was powered by 4 used car batteries wired in
parallel. The concept was probably a lot better than our execution, but it
was fun while it lasted.

--

Char Jackson
  #44  
Old November 11th 14, 04:54 AM posted to alt.windows7.general,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Paul
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Char Jackson wrote:
On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 00:16:09 -0500, Paul wrote:

Gene E. Bloch wrote:

OK, then there might be a problem with the old suggestion for an
electric car that could go hundreds of miles on electricity, as long as
the extension cord was long enough.

We'll just have to try it. Here, let me get my car
out of the garage. I have a 240km cord around here
somewhere...

I did actually build an electric car as a kid. It used
a washing machine motor. The pulleys weren't geared right,
so I couldn't use it regularly. But I did get it to go
about 20 or 30 feet around the side of the house. I can
see me driving that baby to work now. And having the
rubber belt snap halfway through the trip (because it
wasn't geared right). I would have needed another pair of
pulleys to get the ratio into the right range.


My brother and I built an electric 'car' when we were kids, using modified
plans from Popular Mechanics. The drive motor was an electric starter from
an early 1960's Dodge and was powered by 4 used car batteries wired in
parallel. The concept was probably a lot better than our execution, but it
was fun while it lasted.


Sounds like you had a better junk yard than I did :-)

Mine didn't involve nearly as much planning. It started
with a go-kart type project. And then I spotted the washing
machine motor... So there was no plan from day one to make
it electric. Just an opportunity presented itself in the
form of a surplus motor. We went through a fair number
of washers at our house, and at its peak, there were
three washers downstairs. Two wringer washers, and a washer
with spin dry.

Many people aren't familiar with those things. The
wringer was the kind that could crush your fingers.
The rollers up top, you put wet wash through them,
and it "squashes" out the water for you. Funny thing
is, we never had any finger crushing accidents at home.
When these would rust out, that's where your surplus
electric motor would come from.

http://atthemanse.files.wordpress.co...ger-washer.jpg

Paul
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Old November 11th 14, 05:30 AM posted to alt.windows7.general,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Gene E. Bloch[_3_]
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On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 21:22:57 +0000 (UTC), Jerry Peters wrote:

In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Gene E. Bloch wrote:
On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 00:16:09 -0500, Paul wrote:

Gene E. Bloch wrote:


OK, then there might be a problem with the old suggestion for an
electric car that could go hundreds of miles on electricity, as long as
the extension cord was long enough.

We'll just have to try it. Here, let me get my car
out of the garage. I have a 240km cord around here
somewhere...


Come on, Paul, one model of the Tesla has a 300 mi (almost 500 km) range
and it doesn't even need an extension cord :-)


With the heater on? I seem to remember a less than enthusiastic review
of the Tesla, specifically the milage claims, where Tesla's response
was something like the reviewer didn't follow instructions -- poor guy
used the heater.


That's cool...

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)
  #46  
Old November 12th 14, 02:09 AM posted to alt.windows7.general,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Char Jackson
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On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 22:54:16 -0500, Paul wrote:

Char Jackson wrote:
On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 00:16:09 -0500, Paul wrote:

Gene E. Bloch wrote:

OK, then there might be a problem with the old suggestion for an
electric car that could go hundreds of miles on electricity, as long as
the extension cord was long enough.
We'll just have to try it. Here, let me get my car
out of the garage. I have a 240km cord around here
somewhere...

I did actually build an electric car as a kid. It used
a washing machine motor. The pulleys weren't geared right,
so I couldn't use it regularly. But I did get it to go
about 20 or 30 feet around the side of the house. I can
see me driving that baby to work now. And having the
rubber belt snap halfway through the trip (because it
wasn't geared right). I would have needed another pair of
pulleys to get the ratio into the right range.


My brother and I built an electric 'car' when we were kids, using modified
plans from Popular Mechanics. The drive motor was an electric starter from
an early 1960's Dodge and was powered by 4 used car batteries wired in
parallel. The concept was probably a lot better than our execution, but it
was fun while it lasted.


Sounds like you had a better junk yard than I did :-)


In those days, the city dump was wide open and less than a half mile away,
and it included everything from common kitchen food waste to entire cars. We
spent an awful lot of time out there, finding and bringing stuff home that
was still 'good'. Partway through the 70's the town built a fence around the
area and declared it a no play area, but I was ready to leave home by then.

Mine didn't involve nearly as much planning. It started
with a go-kart type project. And then I spotted the washing
machine motor... So there was no plan from day one to make
it electric. Just an opportunity presented itself in the
form of a surplus motor. We went through a fair number
of washers at our house, and at its peak, there were
three washers downstairs. Two wringer washers, and a washer
with spin dry.

Many people aren't familiar with those things. The
wringer was the kind that could crush your fingers.
The rollers up top, you put wet wash through them,
and it "squashes" out the water for you. Funny thing
is, we never had any finger crushing accidents at home.
When these would rust out, that's where your surplus
electric motor would come from.

http://atthemanse.files.wordpress.co...ger-washer.jpg


We had that kind. My job, for a time, was to stand on the receiving end and
grab things as they came through so they wouldn't try to wrap around and get
caught inside. Mom would sometimes get a bit eager and feed too much in at
once, which would cause the top wringer to pop up and disengage.

Before that generation of washing machines, they were powered by small 1 HP
gas-powered motors. My older brother had a half dozen of those motors that
he'd reclaimed from the city dump. We used to run them in a closed shed
until it was so smoky inside that we couldn't see our hand in front of our
face. That seems unhealthy now, but it was fun back then. Anyway, a family
friend with a welder helped to mount one of those little gas motors onto a
bike frame. That was the first 'motorcycle' I ever rode. I was way too small
to reach the ground, so I had to start and stop from a 'leaning against a
wall' position.


--

Char Jackson
 




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